Particle Explosions

#1 You should really try using the phi and theta values for that.

Infact, just setting thetamin to 0 and thetamax to 90 should give you half a sphere-cloud, either up or down depending how the explosion is oriented.

#2 i played with them a little but not much because i didnt know what they were for until now =) thank you i will try those out

#3 i been playing with them and cant get the result i want yet, im gonna play arround with the particle editor for a little bit now

#4 i still havnt been able to create what i want to do in the editor, so i will now attempt some ascii art to try and demontrate...

/\          <---- Upward Blast (not working)
       ||          <---- Upward Blast (not working)
   (---||---)      <---- Debris (working)
------------------ <---- ground

i hope this makes sense ill try to explain, when the mortar hits the ground i want a mix or orange and brownish blackish particles to go almost strait up as if it landed in water or soft sand, and then for a cloud of green/brown/black particles to fly outwards as debris the debris part was easy but getting it to go strait up has been a challenge, i can get nodes to go strait up by just giving them negative gravity, but if i do that for the explosion emitter i just get a cloud that flys upwards and looks really dumb haha... if anyone has some ideas on this please share, i am also planning on dynamically creating nodes at explosion sites so that there can be smoke or a small fire where shells have hit, if that has not been submitted as a resource i will submit it...

#5 I'm still saying theta values and initial velocities should do the trick.
either thetamin/max = 0/20 or 160/180
and initial velocity about 20 or so.

Bassically those should look like cones where the tip is at the explosion and the base will be the expanding particles either upward or downward.

#6 Sebastian is right.

A little trick - you can set the gravityCoefficient higher than 1.0 and give it raise the upward blast. This makes the effect faster and more violent looking, if you want it that way.

thetas + velocities can do this though.

#7 Hmm, someone really should write a Particle Editor ^^

#8 There already is a Particle Editor:

www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=3213

#9 I hoped, when I wrote that, that someone would prove me wrong.

Thanks for that Stefan. You da bomb, and all that ^^

--Ed

#10

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Posted: May 01, 2003 14:32 PDT

i been playing with them and cant get the result i want yet, im gonna play arround with the particle editor for a little bit now

lol

#11 ssshhhh! ^^

Actually, I'm having many problems with the particle editor - crashing, colours not working properly etc - but this isn't the place to moan, it's still useful ^^.

--Ed