Need assistance with particle effects.

Garry's Mod coding
#1

I’m making a flamethrower which requires the particles to be attached to the viewmodel, yet if I use ParticleEffectAttach none of the attachments line up correctly to the muzzle and as far as I can see there is no way to allow for an offset. The other issue I have is that the particles I am using do not have any die time/ do not fade out. Therefore I have to run self:StopParticles() every half a second or so which makes the effect look rather ‘patchy’ and is not exactly efficient; if I were not to use Entity:StopParticles() the emitter would emit constantly.

Furthermore, the particle does not even correctly follow the viewmodel, yet seems to snap to every approximately 15 degrees as I turn.
I have tried to open the .pcf file for the particles in the Particle Editor yet will not allow me to with the error: “No particle system loaded”.



ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )
ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower_heat', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )
ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower_smoke_1', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )

The position of the muzzle:


self.Owner:GetShootPos() + self.Owner:EyeAngles():Forward() * 50 + self.Owner:EyeAngles():Right() * 7 - self.Owner:EyeAngles():Up() * 15

And the angle would of course be self.Owner:EyeAngles().

Any help would be greatly appreciated as for this is my first dealing weapon particles, and quite a troublesome one indeed; thanks.

  • [GGS] 92carmnad
#2

I forgot to mention that


ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )
ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower_heat', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )
ParticleEffectAttach( 'flamethrower_smoke_1', PATTACH_POINT_FOLLOW, self, 1 )

looks fine to others and when you use a camera, fire, and resume back to the first person holding the flamethrower - it lines up correctly to the muzzle. It doesn’t work properly when in first person and firing however, and appears to be shooting out of your feet.

#3

Probably a dumb advise, but in E2 when you are creating holo weapon, you have to create 2 weapon models: for your firstperson view and for thirdperson (and other players ofc). Maybe you can detect players view and switch between positions

#4

If that’s the case then the issue is with your viewmodel. You are probably attempting to attach the effect to an attachment that doesn’t exist and/or is misaligned (which in your case is attachment 1). Since the attachment exists in the worldmodel, however, it works fine without problems.