particle engine in a gani?

[ApothiX]

Originally Posted by Malinko

Good way to ruin an idea for Kingdoms.

How is that ruining an idea?

[Yen]

I had been using a gani with a particle effect in a projectile.
However, the particles didn't follow the projectile's z. Is this a bug?
Can anyone check this out for me?

[Admins]

You have set the z value of the showimg/findimg ?

[Yen]

Yes, I tried updating the z with findimg. It still emitted at 0.

[prozac424242]

I have just recently tried using a particle effect in a gani where the player moves, and I have found that the x and y of the gani stay where the player was and do not follow the player. How do I get the particle effect to stay with the gani and the player? A timeout loop kills the particles, and setting the x and y in the gani makes no difference, please help.

[Admins]

Yen/prozac: what is the script that you have used? Remember that you must do "z = playerz"

There is also the new option "attachtoowner" to let the showimg+emitter automatically follow the player/npc/projectile

[Yen]

'attachtoowner' fixed it, thanks!

[prozac424242]

Yes, Thank you again Stefan, here is the code that I put with a text editor after the ANIEND at the end of the file.
It makes little concentric circles around, or following, the player.

PHP Code:

SCRIPT
//#CLIENTSIDE
function onCreated() {
  with (findimg(200)) {
  x=playerx;
  y=playery;
  z=playerz;
  attachtoowner = true;
  attachoffset = {0,0,0};
    layer = 2;
    emitter.continueafterdestroy=true; // looks much better!  thank you!
    emitter.delaymin = 0.05;
    emitter.delaymax = 0.1;
    emitter.nrofparticles = 180;
    emitter.particle.lifetime = 1;
    emitter.particle.image = "icemateria.gif"; //or whatever image you like
    emitter.particle.mode = 1;
    emitter.particle.alpha = .4;
    emitter.particle.red = 1;
    emitter.particle.green = 1;
    emitter.particle.blue = 1;
    emitter.particle.zoom = .5;
    emitter.particle.angle = pi / 2;
    emitter.particle.spin=2.18;
    emitter.particle.speed = 5;
    emitter.addlocalmodifier("once", 0, 0, "angle", "add", -5,5);
    emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 0, 1, "alpha", "replace",.4, .01);
    emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 0, 1, "zoom", "replace",.5, .01);
  }
}
SCRIPTEND 


However, even if I modify the x and y to be the player's x+1.5 and playery+1.5, that makes no difrence. the center of the emitter is still at the player's x and y.

[Admins]

Either you remove the attachoffset = line (it will use the current difference to the player position then), or you set attachoffset to a good value. So either this

PHP Code:

with (findimg(200)) {
  x = playerx + 1.5;
  y = playery + 1.5;
  z = playerz;
  attachtoowner = true;
} 


or this

PHP Code:

with (findimg(200)) {
  attachtoowner = true;
  attachoffset = {1.5,1.5,0}; 
} 


The second is the preferred method.