Extending the emitter stool

[Failure]

Hey there. I'm extending the emitter Stool with more particle effects as at the moment it's a bit small.

I've fixed the smoke Garry made, it now correctly fades in and out.

At the moment I have some variations of smoke, fire & sparks and muzzleflashes.

I need ideas and advices if anyone is interested in this.

Changelog

Fixed Garry's generic_smoke - Correctly fades in and out.
Added clean white smoke trail - rockets?
Added tiny smoke trail - Can be used as a cig smoke or a gun barrel smoke.
Added cannon muzzleflash - Can be probably used for cannons/tanks whatever you wish.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4poQFdLq6M[/media]

There's no download at the moment as I need to know if anyone cares :P

[Failure]

Added more particle effects. The density nicely corresponds to the delay slider.
[video=youtube;43xYACMCGus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43xYACMCGus[/video]

[Luke-N]

Cool, release it.

[HiddenMyst]

Does it emit particle system particles?

[Failure]

[QUOTE=HiddenMyst;38221284]Does it emit particle system particles?[/QUOTE]
Yes, you can't customize them through lua, but they look fine.

[dvaderv2]

Nice work so far.

Maybe you could introduce a regular muzzleflash emitter? By regular, I mean a muzzleflash particle emitter of a size that would be suitable for various rifles, SMGs, pistols etc.

[Failure]

Hm I can make more muzzleflash presets, how about that?

[dvaderv2]

[QUOTE=Failure;38238705]Hm I can make more muzzleflash presets, how about that?[/QUOTE]

Well, I only really talked about a muzzleflash that would fit man-portable weaponry, so I guess I wouldn't mind if you were to simply take an existing preset, and alter the size parameters.

[sp]A preset for 'splosions would be nice too[/sp]

[dr.solveberg]

Could come in handy, I like it, gonna keep an eye on this.

[Failure]

Yeah at the moment there is a tank sized muzzle, a medium which would be good for a 20 mm gun? I'll add a small sized muzzle too. As for explosions I'm adding a few too. Any ideas though?

[psycix]

I'd get this, for designing effects for other addons and gamemodes.

[Failure]

[QUOTE=psycix;38261465]I'd get this, for designing effects for other addons and gamemodes.[/QUOTE]
I think you don't understand what it does. It's the normal emitter stool with presets made by me :P
They can be of course editted in an orangebox particle editor, but it'd be easier for you to make them yourself :P

[psycix]

Ahhh ok. Well I'd still get it to look at your effects source and learn a thing or two about creating goodlooking effects :)

[Jotunn]

Would you mind making a kind of chimney smoke particle? The current smoke particles belong in a factory smokestack. A somewhat thin, black and/or white smoke column.

[Piett]

It's a shame that the normal muzzleflashes have been removed. I hope to see a download for this.

For a suggestion, perhaps re-add the blood splat (The particles you see when you hit an npc) to the emitter.

[Piett]

I've currently taken a whack at putting back in the particles that I normally use. Mainly the muzzleflashes and bloodimpact. I've tracked down the original entries in the emitter tool in Gmod 12 and made a sort of hotfix to the emitters that came with the game. It took me a while to figure out the Lua to make the entries that I've added into gmod_emitter while using the original as a reference and translating it to the newer Lua code. Through trial and error, I've managed to get the three emitters that I work with most of the time in working order.

[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/VNAZH.png[/IMG]
(My sample is a bit different since I'm using a different muzzleflash and blood impact textures)

Here is the segment that I've added into my gmod_emitter (Though I had to change some things within emitter.lua just so it can recognize the additions). Feel free to use these or make any needed changes.

list.Set( "EffectType", "muzzle", 
{
	print		=	"Muzzleflash",
	material	=	"gui/effects/muzzleflash.png",
	func		=	function( ent, pos, angle )

		local effectdata = EffectData()
			effectdata:SetOrigin( pos + angle:Forward() * 5 )
			effectdata:SetAngles( angle )
			effectdata:SetScale( 1 )
		util.Effect( "MuzzleEffect", effectdata, true, true )

	end

});

list.Set( "EffectType", "muzzlebig", 
{
	print		=	"Muzzleflash (Big)",
	material	=	"gui/effects/muzzleflashbg.png",
	func		=	function( ent, pos, angle )

		local effectdata = EffectData()
			effectdata:SetOrigin( pos + angle:Forward() * 5 )
			effectdata:SetAngles( angle )
			effectdata:SetScale( 2 )
		util.Effect( "MuzzleEffect", effectdata, true, true )

	end

});

list.Set( "EffectType", "bloodimpact", 
{
	print		=	"Blood Impact",
	material	=	"gui/effects/bloodimpact.png",
	func		=	function( ent, pos, angle )

		local effectdata = EffectData()
			effectdata:SetOrigin( pos )
		util.Effect( "Bloodimpact", effectdata, true, true )

	end

});

[Failure]

Yeah that's what I'm pretty much doing, though I'm using only the particle effects, no lua particles :P

[dvaderv2]

Most people won't care either way, the only thing that matters is this getting released.

[imaletyoufinish]

[QUOTE=Piett;38304052]I've currently taken a whack at putting back in the particles that I normally use. Mainly the muzzleflashes and bloodimpact. I've tracked down the original entries in the emitter tool in Gmod 12 and made a sort of hotfix to the emitters that came with the game. It took me a while to figure out the Lua to make the entries that I've added into gmod_emitter while using the original as a reference and translating it to the newer Lua code. Through trial and error, I've managed to get the three emitters that I work with most of the time in working order.

(My sample is a bit different since I'm using a different muzzleflash and blood impact textures)

Here is the segment that I've added into my gmod_emitter (Though I had to change some things within emitter.lua just so it can recognize the additions). Feel free to use these or make any needed changes.
[/QUOTE] Sorry for the bump but I don't suppose you could post the whole emitter.lua file you use? I don't know much about coding lua and I miss the muzzleflash emitter.

[matt000024]

So I'm slightly unsure. Are these particle effects new additions to Source or ones that are just currently only accessible by using console to edit emitter effects?

[aNoire]

[QUOTE=matt000024;38488452]So I'm slightly unsure. Are these particle effects [b]------->new<-------[/b] additions to Source or ones that are just currently only accessible by using console to edit emitter effects?[/QUOTE]

[Mr.Pilot]

This could be really cool, I would want it.

[Burgervich]

Make a explosion emitter please.