Projectile Gani Script position?

[coreys]

I'm trying to script a smoke trail effect for a projectile that is shot using shoot(). I'm doing this in a gani script for the projectile gani.

Originally I was just using TShowImg's inside the gani script, but those would immediately disappear once the projectile hit, which didn't look pretty. So I handled all the image showing in a WNPC that would fade the images out and handle destroying them, and the gani script would just call a public function in that WNPC.

However, when doing that it would show the images at the projectiles shadow, rather than it's actual position...it wouldn't account for the z-axis and I have yet to find a way to do this. The objects z is always 0, so I can't manually subtract that from the y position. This is made especially strange since when creating the TShowImg's in the gani script and setting the x/y in there would account for the z-axis, but not otherwise.

This is extremely frustrating, as it makes doing this in an acceptable way...impossible.

[DustyPorViva]

player.z should work just fine.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by coreys

I'm trying to script a smoke trail effect for a projectile that is shot using shoot(). I'm doing this in a gani script for the projectile gani.

Originally I was just using TShowImg's inside the gani script, but those would immediately disappear once the projectile hit, which didn't look pretty. So I handled all the image showing in a WNPC that would fade the images out and handle destroying them, and the gani script would just call a public function in that WNPC.

However, when doing that it would show the images at the projectiles shadow, rather than it's actual position...it wouldn't account for the z-axis and I have yet to find a way to do this. The objects z is always 0, so I can't manually subtract that from the y position. This is made especially strange since when creating the TShowImg's in the gani script and setting the x/y in there would account for the z-axis, but not otherwise.

This is extremely frustrating, as it makes doing this in an acceptable way...impossible.

Wouldn't it be possible to accomplish this with the particle system and the 'continueafterdestroy' boolean?

[DrakilorP2P]

Originally Posted by Riot

Wouldn't it be possible to accomplish this with the particle system and the 'continueafterdestroy' boolean?

Yes.

[coreys]

Particle effects are not working well for this, by the time it starts emitting the projectile is about to land.

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

player.z should work just fine.

Why did that work o.O player refers to the projectile in a projectile gani?

[salesman]

Originally Posted by coreys

Why did that work o.O player refers to the projectile in a projectile gani?

When I was using a gani script to display health on an NPC, I had to use player.attr[] instead of this.attr[]

No clue why, but it works

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by coreys

Particle effects are not working well for this, by the time it starts emitting the projectile is about to land.


Why did that work o.O player refers to the projectile in a projectile gani?

In gani scripts, the player object refers to the object that the gani is being set to.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

In gani scripts, the player object refers to the object that the gani is being set to.

Good to know, thanks

[Riot]

Originally Posted by coreys

Particle effects are not working well for this, by the time it starts emitting the projectile is about to land.

Well, you could call emitter.emit() to force an emission right away to see if that helps. You can also set the min/max delay to a really high number and just forcefully call it at the speed you want.

Last time I wanted an effect like this I used particles and even for short-lived ones it worked fairly well.

[coreys]

Originally Posted by Riot

Well, you could call emitter.emit() to force an emission right away to see if that helps. You can also set the min/max delay to a really high number and just forcefully call it at the speed you want.

Last time I wanted an effect like this I used particles and even for short-lived ones it worked fairly well.

Yeah, calling emit() worked about the same.

[DrakilorP2P]

Originally Posted by Riot

You can also set the min/max delay to a really high number

Or set emitautomatically to false.