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TGB - Emitters - Straight Line Problems....

by Nicolai Dutka · in Torque Game Engine · 03/28/2008 (1:51 pm) · 5 replies

I would've thought this would be SUPER easy, but alas, I cannot figure it out!

All I want is for my emitter to spit out the particles in a perfectly straight line, nice and slowly and I want to control the angle of the line and speed of the particles.

No matter what I do to any of the settings, the particles come out at random angles. I can force them into the direction I want (generally) but they are still random.

I checked every single option I could find and NOTHING has a value greater than 0 on "variance", so NOTHING should be making the particles come out at random angles.

What do I do?
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Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#1
03/28/2008 (1:55 pm)
Look at the example games that come with TGB. There is one where a flame is mounted to a ship and spits out particles in a straight line.

You should talk about TGB in the TGB private forums and not the TGE by the way.

Torque 3D Owner Nicolai Dutka
#2
03/28/2008 (2:04 pm)
I looked at all 3 examples that came with it and I don't see what you are talking about.

The only 3 "games" I have are "BehaviorPlayground", "FileIOTest", and "TutorialBase". None of them have the flames you speak of.

Associate Phillip O'Shea
Violent Tulip
#3
03/28/2008 (3:10 pm)
ScrollerDemo in TGB 1.1.3, sorry I didn't realise they removed it from the new build.

You have to edit the "Emission Angle Base" in the Emitter Graph window, not the Effect Graph window.

Torque 3D Owner Nicolai Dutka
#4
03/28/2008 (3:14 pm)
The "Emission Angle Base" is not having any effect at all on my particle. It's extremely irritating... I tried it in both the Emitter Graph Window AND the Effect Graph Window.

Torque Owner Mario Di Vece
#5
12/14/2009 (4:54 pm)
I'm having the exact same problem... I've spent hours trying to configure the particle emitter without success. Can somebody help?