How to change explosions.

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:26 am

Okay Ang88 asked me too...So I will..
P.S. If everyone likes it a sticky would be nice...
First heres what you need:
HMT3
You might need a plugin, but since I feel like being nice...Here is my entire plugin file(I have all of them I think): http://www.angelfire.com/dragon2/templar2/plugins.zip
And thats it. Okay here goes:

We'll mod the tank explosion on Blood Gulch.

1. Open up Bloodgulch.map in HMT3
2. In the Resource Browser scroll down to [pctl] Particle System
3. Open up that little menu and click the first option, vehicles\scorpion\shell explosion.
4. After you have done that you'll see some boxes over on the right side, well lets make the explosion bigger...
5. Change the 'Explosion Size' from 1 to 4.
6. After that is done lets make it flicker different, change 'Smoke Flicker(Slow)' to 10 and leave 'Smoke Flicker(Quick)' alone.
7. After you have done that change 'Rapid Color Changing' to 9.
8. Now lets make it this cool smoke effects last longer, change the 'Smoke Life' from 1.5 to 190.

I hope you guys enjoy this...

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 11:58 am

lol thats a nice tut, altho shouldn't this be in files.halomods.com? (teh tut section)

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:00 pm

Iunno? I just made it when I saw Ang88 said make one...so I just clicked new topic and made it...

staticx57 · Post by **staticx57** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:03 pm

here is the thread with the real plugin download-permenant download. angelfire sucks

http://files.halomods.com/viewtopic.php?t=1430

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:05 pm

It's not really that it sucks, its just they will close your account if you do not have a website...So I made a crappy one, and I'm fine...lol

HunterXI · Post by **HunterXI** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:07 pm

but do they have bandwidth restrictions?

staticx57 · Post by **staticx57** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:09 pm

of course they do.

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:11 pm

Yea, its 1GB/month, and if someone is downloading a little 54kb file...I don't think I'm going to have any problems...

Pwn4g3 · Post by **Pwn4g3** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:11 pm

Dudes, tell you what ... it might not be as fast, but you can just download and install a build of apache, and run your website from your own computer...then you have as much space as your hard drive has, and unlimited bandwidth, although only as fast as your connection.

No ads, no bandwidth restrictions, no problem hotlinking images, custom error pages etc etc

Either that or FTP server running from your machine...

staticx57 · Post by **staticx57** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:13 pm

^or halomods already hosts it check my previous post.

Pwn4g3 · Post by **Pwn4g3** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:15 pm

Yes and gren is really happy about hosting every single thing...lol You guys need to cut his servers some slack, cos he has to pay for all this you know.

Templar · Post by **Templar** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:19 pm

I made the website so I could keep my Angelfire account...lol, btw I'll look into the apache thing...

Pwn4g3 · Post by **Pwn4g3** » Sun Apr 11, 2004 12:25 pm

its a simple webserver program, mostly works on ini config. You can have your own custom error pages, like 403: unauthorised, 500: internal server error etc. If you also install the php and mysql redistributables you can write or install php scripts that do anything from accessing a database to emailing contents of a web form to you.

You'd need an SMTP server for that, which can also be installed on your machine but you need to be careful, some ISP's (like mine, blueyonder) block such software use...it auto gets reported to the ISP's abuse address, but you will see it in the list of emails going off...they do it to cut back on SPAM, cos obviously thats how they do it, cos its really easy to type in a fake email address in the from field...

EDIT: And if you don't know, you can get a free redirect service from www.no-ip.com - it even provides you with a program so that when your ISP changes your IP it auto updates their end, so your computer can be found at the same address everytime.

Even works for things like when you want to run an ftp server, instead of your IP you put in your no-ip.com address..