How do I get those cool blend animation sprites to work?
[img]http://upl.vs-hs.com/i/613.jpg[/img]
Arches around then makes tiny electric looking particles randomly on the ground
Small question: can you import those systems in Garry's Mod? Or does Garry need to add support first?
If it was possible to save these, then yeah. It would be very much possible.
Nothing too spectatacular yet. I guess people will ramp it up when we have a working save function.
[QUOTE=Joerdgs]Small question: can you import those systems in Garry's Mod? Or does Garry need to add support first?[/QUOTE]
Once saving particle systems works, you'll be able to use these with the info_particle_system entity, which is workable but less than ideal. Last I talked to Garry, he said he was going to add Lua binds for the new particle engine but he didn't know when.
This will be awesome :uhoh: can't wait to get my good pc fixed :(
Think big explosions, huge smoke trails that can be seen anywhere on the map... the possibilities are endless (or not) It's a damn shame about not being able to save :geno:
I hope they're optimized, particles tend to eat FPS on the lower end systems. But even if they're not, I'll still be loving them. :love:
[QUOTE=nater]I hope they're optimized, particles tend to eat FPS on the lower end systems. But even if they're not, I'll still be loving them. :love:[/QUOTE]
As long as particle systems are under 1000 particles, they're lagless.
More than that, and it gets bad (Rain has 5,000 particles)
Ahh, cool.
Where is this particle editor, it doesn't show up in Source SDK :(
ah something is wrong here!
it keeps saying new posts but is not showing them!
I was wondering, evidentally his post was on a new page, but didn't make a new page.
This somehow broke my steam? It worked fine but now it's stuck on the logging in process :(
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This somehow broke my steam? It worked fine but now it's stuck on the logging in process :( and my internet is slowing to a crawl :(
My attempt at fire.
[img]http://i27.tinypic.com/2uei34h.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=Popper99]My attempt at fire.
Nice?
Well I hope to get better at this. :raise:
I need to upload my new version of the particle stool to allow custom effects.
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Here.
[url=http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=41386][img]http://www.garrysmod.org/img/?t=dll&id=41386[/img][/url]
As it says on the download description, I may have uploaded a broken version. I'm pretty positive it's the right one though, so if there are any errors please tell.
how bad would 2k particles be lag wise?
Oh my god! Finally we can get a good effect for a tornado entity!
[QUOTE=Hellst0ne]Oh my god! Finally we can get a good effect for a tornado entity![/QUOTE]
Yea, I wonder how it is turning out for him? :)
I can't wait to see how this all turns out :D
My mega explosion. Now I am gonna add like Sparks or little flare like things to it as soon as i find a good texture.
[img]http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/7682/exp1tw2.png[/img]
[b] NOTE: these are like zoomed in a bit for a closer look. [/b]
First the fire ball then. 0.1 sec later. smoke :D
[img]http://img248.imageshack.us/img248/7242/exp2uj0.png[/img]
Looks pretty good so far! I'm still trying to figure out how to manipulate a particle's movement path.
Why would you add sparks to an explosion? Because yeah, I'd definitely go with a flare instead of sparks lol.
[QUOTE=CommieTurtle]Why would you add sparks to an explosion? Because yeah, I'd definitely go with a flare instead of sparks lol.[/QUOTE]
I would see no reason for sparks. So its gonna be like a red flare.
[QUOTE=wootmonster]Where is this particle editor, it doesn't show up in Source SDK :([/QUOTE]
Right click on ep2 in steam, go to properties, click "set launch options". Add "-tools" and close. Then launch ep2. You could also edit the shortcut by adding "-tools" after the last quotation mark in the field.
Finally! I have got the hang of this!
I made a simple but pretty cool explosion, pics will come soon. I have saved most of the properties in a word document so that later when I open up the particle editor I will know how to recreate my old particles. :D
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Start
[MEDIA]http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/3451/explode11kv5.jpg[/MEDIA]
Middle
[MEDIA]http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/56/explosion12gd9.jpg[/MEDIA]
End
[MEDIA]http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/5488/explosion13is3.jpg[/MEDIA]
a couple images might be a bit stretched :/
Now that we can save it'd be nice to see some of these ingame.
I am just compiling my map now, so that I can test out my smoke.
I decided just to change some settings on the bonfire particle.
It looks good, but I don't know how a 2000 unit tall pillar of smoke will act on the engine. Especially when it is scaled because it is in the skybox.
I need to find the thing that scales radius as the lifetime increases.
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[media]http://hiddenmyst.pap3rback.com/Images/RMMM/d2_airex_010001.jpg[/media]
That skybox looks epic.
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