Spawning effes

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Tue May 23, 2006 7:34 am

Well, I did a search and it came to nothing (search engine here is useless). So here's my question:
How would I go about (the most efficient way) spawning effes? For example, to make a splashing effe like Greennc did in "Lost Temples."
Does it need to be a proj spawned or can I simply spawn the effe itself?

SyrinEldarin · Post by **SyrinEldarin** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:32 pm

I don't think that an effe is an object, is it? It'd be like trying to spawn a mode or a phmo, I think :P

WaywornMmmmm · Post by **WaywornMmmmm** » Tue May 23, 2006 12:50 pm

I would make a grenade that's explosion effect it changed to that effect and spawn the nade proj thru itmc.

SyrinEldarin · Post by **SyrinEldarin** » Tue May 23, 2006 1:02 pm

Eh, that would work, but you should look into, like, fire, or something, y'know? The constant effect. Then just change that to how you want.

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Tue May 23, 2006 5:55 pm

I like the fire idea. I'll look into that. Thanks.

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun May 28, 2006 11:40 am

Yes, I'm double posting. It's been 5 days, so get over it.
So I did the fire thing. Works great. Splash splash. Now I have some more questions.
Is there a way to change the size of an effe? Like, say I want a huge freakin' splash. (I'm using the rocket_explosion_liquid, by the way).
Is there a way to make it a continuous gushing rather than repeated splashes? Kind of like a geyser.
Also, once you get a certain distance from it, it doesn't show up. Any way to fix that?

WaywornMmmmm · Post by **WaywornMmmmm** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:04 pm

Well to make it continus, I would use something like a sentinal beam thing to spawn it off of or make the spawns really short.

Snaku · Post by **Snaku** » Sun May 28, 2006 1:07 pm

It's only one spawn. It's a fire scen with the effe switched out.

[edit] I've completely changed my method now. Instead of spawning a fire and swapping it's effe for a splash, I kept the fire effe and swapped some prt3's and pmov's. Here's the result so far:

So now the question is how do I edit the colors, 'cuz I don't think most of 'em are in the bitmaps. Like they're in the effe or prt3 or something somewhere.