[Crybertrance]

N00b question....

How do I install it? *ducks for cover*

[m!m]

The download contains a packaged directory which can be used as a mod or you can just drop the files inside that folder into an existing mod folder.

[Crybertrance]

The download contains a packaged directory which can be used as a mod or you can just drop the files inside that folder into an existing mod folder.

I get this Error

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LUA ERROR: [string "parser.lua"]:80: attempt to perform arithmetic on field 'currentLine' (a nil value)

------------------------------------------------------------------
ADE Debug:
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Name: (null)
Name of: (null)
Function type: (null)
Defined on: 0
Upvalues: 0

Source: (null)
Short source:
Current line: 0
- Function line: 0
------------------------------------------------------------------


------------------------------------------------------------------
LUA Stack:
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[m!m]

Yes, that will work but you will have to modify the existing configuration files as those only contain some testing entries (look at the PDF file inside the docs directory for information on what to do).

[Crybertrance]

Yes, that will work but you will have to modify the existing configuration files as those only contain some testing entries (look at the PDF file inside the docs directory for information on what to do).

Still getting the above error...

[m!m]

I updated the link in the first post. This time I added particle collision detection to particles that are generated from a weapon explosion. Be careful with this option as it might lead to performance issues when to many particles have to be checked. The collision detection is only enabled for the target of the weapon to minimize the performance hit.

[petar91]

@cybertrance : remove the raynor entry in the ships.cfg

it work for me.

[petar91]

Hi,

i'm playing with the configuration file but the "speed" value also modify the expansion size of the effect (higher value, higher is the speed and the expansion size), i want to apply a medium expansion sized effect ( with a more slowly expansion effect. Did i miss an option ?


$Type:                Ship
$Class:             GTC Leviathan
   +Name:            TestEffect
   +Effect:          capflash
   +Time:             1,9
   +Emitstate:          1
   +Number:          30,30
   +Speed:          10,350
   +Size:             7, 8
   +Box Min:          0, 0, 0
   +Box Max:          0, 0, 0
   +Spewcone:          90, 90, 90
   +FPS:            15
   +Trail:          GenericTrail

[m!m]

If I understand you correctly then you want to have fast particles which don't go too far away from the center of the emission?
You can achieve this effect by increasing the "+FPS" value so the particles don't live as long as they do currently.

[petar91]

not exactly :

i want to decrease speed value to make the visual effect longer in time , more i decrease speed value, more the particle are not going as far as i want from the center.

i want : particles going far from the center but at low speed

[m!m]

Then you will need to decrease the "+FPS" value so the particles live for a longer time.

[petar91]

it works ! thanks. Time to modify the trail conf....

[petar91]

Ok there is my first attempt to make the GTC Leviathan explosion more epic :

add this in "ships.cfg"

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$Type: Ship
$Class: GTC Leviathan
+Name: TestEffect
+Effect: capflash
+Time: 3.5
+Emitstate: 1
+Number: 70
+Speed: 50
+Size: 4
+Box Min: 0, 0, 0
+Box Max: 0, 0, 0
+Spewcone: 90, 90, 90
+FPS: 1.1
+Trail: Leviathantrail

and this in "trails.cfg"

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$Type: ParticleTrail
$Name: Leviathantrail
+Effect: Particlesmoke01
+Size: 80
+Time: 11

and play the six wonder...

[Fury]

Has someone actually accomplished good looking particle effects when ships die without it utterly tanking fps?

[Dragon]

I've tried and reached some degree of success. Maybe Nighteyes too. This script isn't really suited to use effects from Mediavps, it needs custom ones.

[m!m]

After a rather long period here is another maintenance update, this time fixing some bugs, improving compatibility with other scripts (thanks Spoon for finding those errors) and this update possibly improves performance but requires a recent trunk build (Not a 3.6.14 build!). I thank Swifty for his profiling efforts here.

[torc]

that's great! (you know what i mean M|M)

[mjn.mixael]

Looks like some files may have been removed or changed names? Any chance for a quick list?

[m!m]

I should have started using GIT earlier...
The best way I see here is that you just post a list of the files in the script folder and the scripting tables (*-sct.tbm) here if you are unsure if the file belongs to the particle script.
I'll start posting differences in the 7z file from now on, that should make it easier to upgrade to a newer version.

[Spoon]

Tracking down redundant files have never given us problems before, right m!m?