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Flash of light around player when weapon fires

by Jesse P · in Torque Game Engine · 08/01/2008 (1:57 pm) · 7 replies

I would like to add a quick burst of light near the player every time he fires the weapon. I couldn't find any resources on the forum about this and was wondering if anyone has any suggestions. Thanks
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Torque 3D Owner Edward
#1
08/01/2008 (2:15 pm)
A burst of light? I have 2 suggestions. you can have a secondary weapons effect tied into the weapon fire, or you can maybe call a AFX selectron to fire off around the player. Which shouldnt be too difficult if you have the AFX kit.

Torque 3D Owner Max
#2
08/01/2008 (2:15 pm) 
lightType = WeaponFireLight;
lightRadius = 10;
lightTime = 50; // Time in ms
lightColor = "0.9 0.9 0.8";

In your ShapeBaseImage Datablock should do the trick.

Torque 3D Owner Edward
#3
08/01/2008 (2:18 pm)
There you go, wow thats a simple code, its nice to see that its already coded in the engine.

Torque 3D Owner Max
#4
08/01/2008 (2:30 pm)
It even casts shadows in 1.5.*

Torque Owner Jesse P
#5
08/01/2008 (3:03 pm)
Works perfectly! Outstanding. Thanks!

Torque Owner University_Washington (#0009)
#6
03/27/2009 (2:11 pm)
Is this code supposed to go in the weapon or in the datablock that defines the ShapeBaseImage?

Associate Michael Hall
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#7
03/27/2009 (2:19 pm)
The datablock that defines the ShapeBaseImage("Weapon name Image here").