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Creating fireworks

by Ohio University (#0006) · in Technical Issues · 04/28/2008 (7:47 pm) · 3 replies

I'm trying to implement fireworks into my game as part of some atmospheric effects. I figured the job would be very similar to how lightning is created but i can't seem to get the lightning to stay in the game after it's logged out. any chance anyone could give me some kind of direction as far as how to do this? i'm not at all very skilled at scripting so any info would really help me out (as well as anyone else who might be interested in the feature).

thanks!

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    Torque Owner Mike Rowley
    Mike Rowley
    #1
    04/29/2008 (12:58 pm)
    Making repeating fireworks gave me lots of fits due to the fact I'm not a good coder. With help from the community (thankyou) I was able to get it working.

    What I did was to redo Ed Maurinas fireblocks code from his book, and totally remade it.
    Make your particle datablocks then string them together in your explosion emitter.

    particles = "FireBallExplosionParticle0  FireBallExplosionParticle1  FireBallExplosionParticle2  FireBallExplosionParticle3";

    {"Note, if you are using tgea you need to do this differently. "}

    Then make a function to shoot it and add a scedule to refire every n milliseconds.

    To get it to explode, just place a transperant dts shape above it. ( the crossbow explodes upon impact with an object)

    Torque Owner RollerJesus
    Dream. Build. Repeat.
    #2
    04/29/2008 (1:44 pm)
    Http://www.garagegames.com/blogs/29233/13185

    Torque Owner Mike Rowley
    Mike Rowley
    #3
    04/29/2008 (2:12 pm)
    Now those are what I call fireworks. :)