Adding particle emitters to weapons
by David Dougher · in General Discussion · 06/24/2004 (12:27 pm) · 3 replies
I know that it is routine to add particle emitters to the vehicle class and to the projectile class in torque, but does anyone have a simple example of adding particle emitters to the weapon itself, or do weapons not have the hooks currently to allow emitters to be attached to them from scripts?
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#2
All the examples I have found so far attach the particle effects to the projectile with a short initialtion and run time so they appear to come from the weapon rather than the projectile. Do you have a pointer or an example to any cases where this is not being done?
I am looking for a situation where an object like a sword might have flames or dripping acid falling off it continuously.
06/24/2004 (2:50 pm)
Looks like my reply post didn't get thru. Bad cable provider! No Twinkie!All the examples I have found so far attach the particle effects to the projectile with a short initialtion and run time so they appear to come from the weapon rather than the projectile. Do you have a pointer or an example to any cases where this is not being done?
I am looking for a situation where an object like a sword might have flames or dripping acid falling off it continuously.
#3
AFAIK, when you mount a weapon, you mount an Image, not the weapon (object ) itself. the object goes to the inventory. So you can't add a particle emitter to a weapon ( actually you can, but it will be useless ) because you can't add an object to an image.
In your case, what I suggest you to do is having a special state for flames or dripping acid with animations threads linked to them.
HTH
Bruno
06/24/2004 (7:10 pm)
I'm having a similar problem. Check my latest post about ShapeBaseData vs. ShapeBaseImageData to understand my problem.AFAIK, when you mount a weapon, you mount an Image, not the weapon (object ) itself. the object goes to the inventory. So you can't add a particle emitter to a weapon ( actually you can, but it will be useless ) because you can't add an object to an image.
In your case, what I suggest you to do is having a special state for flames or dripping acid with animations threads linked to them.
HTH
Bruno
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