Reason for red line while filling water

[Tatu]

Sometimes it is so frustrating and exhaustive work to find out why we are not able to fill water in the area. It would be a great help if You could add something that points us to why and what is causing us trouble in filling water so that it could be taken care of.

 

[xesta]

I noticed that I was suddenly getting the red line kind of more frequently than I had been before after an update? maybe they changed something idk

 

[DanL58]

The red line generally means that something is the way to fill it that high. If it is a new construction you really shouldn't get the red line, but I have gotten it several times when changing an existing water hole. I have even had to have the keeper come clean poop at the edge of the water line before I could fill it again. Another time I waited until an animal walked farther away then I could fill it again.

 

[Agathorn]

It helps if you understand HOW the water system in PZ works, because I think many people misunderstand it. There is no water simulation involved, water doesn't flow or seek a level. Instead the game simply spawns in a 3D cube of water material with its top at the point you indicate. Now if you consider the "line" as a plane that is the top of that cube, if at any point that plane would be either sticking out of terrain or sticking out of anything that can't contain water, it won't let you place the water. It would be a heck of a lot better if the game gave water feedback by putting the line around the entire area of that plane, IE outline the ENTIRE top of the water level because then you would be able to more clearly see where it doesn't work, but they don't do that so you kind of have to do the extrapolation yourself.

 

[Firestar97]

I've noticed that it could be not possible to fill to the Height you want if the Game is paused. Once I needed to get rid of the Water in the Trench of my Orangutan-Enclosure. It didn't work to refill it to the Height I wanted until I unpaused the Game.

Also Animals in the Area you want to fill with Water cause the inability to fill it. You can box up all Animals in the Enclosure and then you can fill the Area with Water

 

[Tatu]

I know that there are many reasons I cannot fill water. I just want that some way for identifying them, like highlight them in red, could be added to the game.