Editing an effect's lifetime...

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 2:28 pm

I was hoping to be able to set people on fire on the level Keyes, becasue there is a flame effect that deals damage. I swapped that for the assault rifle impact flood effect, but ingame the flame only lasts a brief second or two. Is there any way to make it last longer?

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 5:30 pm

well the effect has dependency's right? most likely the pctl part will have something to do with it

hehe, that sounds dirty

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Tue Sep 21, 2004 7:11 pm

Interesting if true... usually when I change the pctl, it only looks diffrent

Spammy · Post by **Spammy** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 5:11 am

I think it is called flame life. Its either under the pctl or pphy tags.

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 3:42 pm

Alright, I don't want to sound rude, but that's not it. that will adjust how long the flame particles last. The particles aren't what deal the damage. the actual effect is what damages enemys. If I set the flame life of the \burning flame, all thats going to happen is there would be some wierd ass flame effect slowly moving across trhe screen.

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Wed Sep 22, 2004 8:23 pm

ok i looked in to it and its under [part]

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 4:14 am

*rubs head* Ok then, what exactly do I do?

mrhyperpenguin · Post by **mrhyperpenguin** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 10:55 am

experment, just try like minumum like 50 and max 50

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Thu Sep 23, 2004 2:22 pm

I did this before, the flame will last longer, but the actual effect doesn't. I quits damaging after 1 second no matter how high the lifetime of the particle is

TheTyckoMan · Post by **TheTyckoMan** » Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:31 pm

mrhyperpenguin wrote:ok i looked in to it and its under [part].....experment, just try like minumum like 50 and max 50[part]

do you need a plugin to edit the [part] or are you doing it in hex?

Evil Cortana · Post by **Evil Cortana** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 9:26 am

I have the plugin. The options are:

Minimum Lifespan
Maximum Lifespan
Minimum Size (Pixles)
Rotation Start
Rotation End
Contact Deterioration
Fade Start Size
Fade End Size

TheTyckoMan · Post by **TheTyckoMan** » Sun Oct 10, 2004 7:53 pm

I didn't mean to get your hopes up, sorry if I did, I just wanted to know how to edit [part] time becuz I switched an effect so that when you shot the grunt it catches on fire, but it only last a secand, so I was wondering what program and plugin your using.
sorry I can't answer your question I'm a huge noob