Trying to attach a particle effect gani to the player.

[Jiroxys7]

I've never been sure how to do this and i cant seem to find answers. I have a particle effect gani and i'm trying to get it to stick to a particular coordinate on the player and move around with them and such. the closest i can seem to get is using attachplayertoobj or something similar, in which case itll only appear at the player's 0,0. then of course it doesnt move around with me.

[cbk1994]

Try adding 'attachtoowner = true;'

[Jiroxys7]

cool thanks!

now i dont suppose there would be any way to treat this as an object and place it in the player's hand so it can move based on where their hands are, would there? :9

[Fulg0reSama]

Uhm... Creative particle scripting might be a way.. Or make graphics that go around the hand for the ganis you are doing and make the illusion of what particles could do (depends how you want to do it)

[Jiroxys7]

i found a solution! i have it so the particle will trail off while you move. so i'm going to see if i can make the offset change based on your direction. this way, it doesnt look like it's not moving with the arm, and it collects back together when the player stops moving.

ok 2 more questions. 1: whats the best way to do a check to see what the player's direction is, in a gani script?
2: it seems my gani disappears once i leave the room. more specifically, it's only visible to other players in the same room that i activated it. why would this be?

[taylor]

How are you displaying the gani?

[cbk1994]

Post the GANI script.

[Jiroxys7]

PHP Code:

GANI0001


DEFAULTATTR1 hat0.png
DEFAULTHEAD head19.gif
DEFAULTBODY body.png

SCRIPT
function onPlayerEnters()
{
  if (!particleeffectsenabled) return;
  with (findimg(200))
  {
    spin = degtorad(0);
    rotation = degtorad(0);

    with (emitter)
    {
      delaymin = 0.1;
      delaymax = 0.3;
      nrofparticles = 1;
      emitautomatically = true;
      autorotation = false;
      firstinfront = false;
      emissionoffset = {1.6,1.5,0};
      attachposition = false;
      checkbelowterrain = false;
      continueafterdestroy = false;
      maxparticles = 100000;
      particleTypes = 1;
      attachtoowner=true;
      // Light
      with (particles[0])
      {
        image = "light2s.png";
        zoom = 1;
        red = random(0,0.1);
        green = 1;
        blue = 1;
        alpha = 0.7;
        mode = 0;
        lifetime = 1;
        angle = degtorad(32);
        zangle = degtorad(0);
        speed = 0.25;
        rotation = degtorad(80);
        spin = degtorad(0);
        partx = 0;
        party = 0;
        partw = 0;
        parth = 0;
        stretchx = 1;
        stretchy = 1;
        sound = "";
        layer = 2;
      }
      
      addlocalmodifier("impulse", 0.05, 0.05, "movey", "add", -0.1, -1); // Wind
      addlocalmodifier("once", 0, 0, "angle", "replace", degtorad(-200), degtorad(200)); // Random Angle
      addlocalmodifier("impulse", 0.2, 0.2, "alpha", "add", -0.2, -0.2); // Dim
      addlocalmodifier("range", 1, 2, "speed", "add", 10, 20); // Spread
      addlocalmodifier("impulse", 20, 20, "red", "replace", 0, 1); // Recolor
    }
  }
}
SCRIPTEND 


I was thinking about putting something in another weapon that generated client.vars that i could place in the offset here that change based on the player's direction. but that feels like it might be unnecessary clutter.

edit: urg. yet another problem =X it seems that when i change levels with this, the local modifiers stop working. What would cause that to happen?

[Admins]

Add a call to removemodifiers(); before adding new modifiers (otherwise it will add all the modifiers again on onPlayerEnters and mess it up).