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Particle Editor - where is it to be found?

by Colin Richardson · in Torque Game Builder · 03/19/2010 (5:35 am) · 6 replies

Hello and apologies for a dumb question.

I have a full working demo level with the player moving about, shooting, being shot, healing and so forth, so i'm looking at using Particle effects for when he shoots, get's shot, hits various scenery.

And so with this in mind i've looked up the documentation but simply cannot find the editor itself.

I've looked across the menus i can see Animation Builder, GUI Editor etc, i've added particles to my project, clicked them, nothing.

Can someone please point me in the direction of where to find it.

Thanks
Colin
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Torque Owner Shaderman
#1
03/19/2010 (6:00 am)
I don't have TGB in front of me right now, but IIRC there's a particle editor rollout when you've selected the create pane in the editor.

Hope this helps.

Torque 3D Owner Colin Richardson
Monsters Games Studio
#2
03/19/2010 (6:07 am)
Hi Stefan,

There is a roll-out pane, i can see the example particle effects that i have copied from the demos.

But still no sign of any editor button/menu option.

Cheers

Torque Owner Shaderman
#3
03/19/2010 (7:25 am)
Now I have a running TGB in front of me, so here's the missing part:

You need to drag an emitter into the scene and select the edit pane afterwards :)

Associate David Montgomery-Blake
David MontgomeryBlake
#4
03/19/2010 (7:41 am)
There's not a menu. It is a rollout under the Create Tab. You can then drag the New Particle to your canvas and edit its settings under the edit tab (similar to other objects).

Associate Mike Lilligreen
Retired T2Der
#5
03/19/2010 (9:18 am)
If it helps, here is a video tutorial which details using the particle editor to make effects from scratch.


Torque 3D Owner Colin Richardson
Monsters Games Studio
#6
03/20/2010 (8:11 am)
Hello,

Many thanks for all of your replies.

I am happy to report i have something (need to spend a bit of time with these particles) that does what i want.

So as they say here, Jobs a good 'un.

Cheers
Colin