Particle Effects
 

I wanted to add particle effects to my gfx. Does anyone know how to do that? Sorry if this is in the wrong section of the forums.

Particle effects is a script i believe?

thats all i know about it

Yea, it isnot GFX, It is scripting

The partical parts are graphics
with a script..

i think anyways, im not sure.. maybe i will learn something here aswell

ok then an admin can close this thread!

Ah, my dear defecater; His answer isn't answered yet! We'll move it to the scripting forum.

heres an overview of how to take advantage of the particle engine, from the wiki:
http://wiki.graal.net/index.php/Particle_Engin

Yes I believe particles are a cross between scripts and graphics.

NPC Code:

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C:\Program Files\Graal\levels\g4particles

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That would so happen to be my particles folder. So I think that's answered the question if particles are graphics or a script. (Answer being: Both)

x_x!!!

Do a forum search for particle effects, and I will add my tutorial on what emitters actually are.

Emitters are a script taking advantage of some predefined objects, namey the TShowImg and TEmitter. Attached is my particle effect tutorial.

particle effects are particles manipulated by script. It's more of scripting than gfx

Keep in mind that the particle engine in GS2 is somewhat limited as far as control. If you want to have particles follow specified paths (other than straight lines), you may be better off with a showimg. Similarly, for truly outlandish movement, such as my wisps that still float around on a few servers, you are going to need to use showimgs again. You could MAYBE replicate it with the particle engine, but it would take so many modifiers it would make your brain hurt.