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Particle Emitter - Couple Issues

by Aaron Scovel · in Torque X 2D · 06/11/2011 (1:31 am) · 4 replies

I've started working with particle effects and ran into a couple problems. Here are my issues during "in game" play.

1) My spinning particles no longer spin (they spin in the editor).

2) Cant emit particles from outside the camera view (would like particles to fall from above the screen).

The project I'm working on is currently not using the CEV.
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    Torque Owner Duncan Colvin
    #1
    06/11/2011 (12:30 pm)
    Not sure about spinning, but to make particles fall from above the screen you'll need to apply the CEV fix for rendering offscreen particles (and for the sake of not using up too much CPU you may want to optimize it to only look for offscreen emitters that are above the screen rather all around it)

    Torque 3D Owner Aaron Scovel
    #2
    06/12/2011 (1:48 am)
    I setup the CEV4 and it fixed the the off screen particle issue, but the spin still does not work "in game".

    Associate Giuseppe De Francesco
    DFT Games Ltd
    #3
    06/21/2011 (7:21 am)
    Hey Aaron,

    not sure what that can be, drop me an email ;)

    Torque 3D Owner Aaron Scovel
    #4
    06/24/2011 (12:29 pm)
    The spin effect made from 3.1.5 builder would not work during game play on 3.1.5 or CEV4. When I re-created the emitter with the CEV4 builder it worked during game play.

    Solution: Re-create the effect from a new particle emitter using the CEV4 builder.