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A few questions .

by Ian Roach · in Torque Game Engine · 07/10/2002 (6:49 pm) · 1 replies

Hi everyone. I currently have a few questions i would like answered :)

1) How are special effects done/made in the engine. Is it better to do an effect in an animation and trigger it or is there some other way ? For example things like explosions, or little electrival shields around a player e.t.c

2) Currently i have a weapon model exported in game but the problem is in first person view i cant see the weapon model at all. In Third person view its fine. I believe this has soemthing to do with mountpoints right ? If so how do you fix em ?
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Associate Anthony Rosenbaum
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07/10/2002 (6:57 pm)
1)special effect like explosions should be .dts file, particle effects are made with the games' particle engine, that is for smoke, fire stuff like that
here is an example snipet from the rifle.cs so you know what to look for 
// Projectile trail emitter
datablock ParticleData(RifleSmokeParticle)
{
   textureName          = "~/data/shapes/rifle/smokeParticle";

   dragCoeffiecient     = 0.0;
   gravityCoefficient   = -0.2;  // rises
   inheritedVelFactor   = 0.00;

   lifetimeMS           = 300;   // time in ms
   lifetimeVarianceMS   = 150;   // ...more or less

   useInvAlpha = false;
   spinRandomMin = -30.0;
   spinRandomMax = 30.0;

   colors[0]     = "0 0.2 1 1.0";
   colors[1]     = "0 0.2 1 1.0";
   colors[2]     = "0 0 0 0";

   sizes[0]      = 0.25;
   sizes[1]      = 0.4;
   sizes[2]      = 0.6;

   times[0]      = 0.0;
   times[1]      = 0.3;
   times[2]      = 1.0;
};

datablock ParticleEmitterData(RifleSmokeEmitter)
{
   ejectionPeriodMS = 10;
   periodVarianceMS = 5;

   ejectionVelocity = 0.25;
   velocityVariance = 0.10;

   thetaMin         = 0.0;
   thetaMax         = 90.0;  

   particles = RifleSmokeParticle;
};
2)to fix change the offset in the
ShapeBaseImageData dataBlock look for the variable
// Left/Right,Forward/Back ,Up/Down
  [b] eyeOffset[/b] = "0.2 0.20 -0.25";