Chunks of Confusion

[mrtwosheds]

I am starting to do the chunks for my models, and I am confused, with the new settings.
What I am trying to do for one model is have no chunks for the initial explosion and then just a couple of chunks for the body explosion, so I have set it up like this.

HasSeparateChunks = true
chunkEffect1 = "null.msh" 
chunkEffect2 = "null.msh"
chunkEffect3 = "null.msh"
chunkEffect4 = "null.msh"
chunkEffect5 = "null.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect1 = "skuljaw.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect2 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect3 = "null.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect4 = "null.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect5 = "null.msh"

But My exploding skull only produces 1 jawbone, the other chunk never appears, (Its mesh does exist)
I am wondering if this is the best way to do it and/or if the chunk names should be numbered, like iochunk01 iochunk02 etc

[General BlackDragon]

The other seperate chunks are fairly random :-/ i think.

[TheJamsh]

yeh it selects them by random i think, the same way it does with scrapclass.

try getting rid of the other chunk lines, (3+4+5)

numbering shouldnt make a difference though...

[mrtwosheds]

This produces chunkEffect1-5 but only SeparateChunkEffect1, is there a NumSeparateChunks# ?
HasSeparateChunks = true
NumChunks1 = 1
NumChunks2 = 1
NumChunks3 = 1
NumChunks4 = 1
NumChunks5 = 1
chunkEffect1 = "skuljaw.msh" 
chunkEffect2 = "skulchnk.msh"
chunkEffect3 = "skulchnk.msh"
chunkEffect4 = "skulchnk.msh"
chunkEffect5 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect1 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect2 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect3 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect4 = "skulchnk.msh"
SeparateChunkEffect5 = "skulchnk.msh"

[Zero Angel]

Wow man, that really blows chunks! (come on, you knew it was coming)

Is the mesh on the other chunk the root of the heirarchy? I know it works this way with weapon flashes and on draw_geom renders. The mesh must absolutely be on the root or else it won't show.

How do I know this?

xprsxpl.odf -- you CAN make it so that pilot corpses stay in the world for awhile.

[bigbadbogie]

Or you can just give them a longer animation.

[General BlackDragon]

to my knowledge, other then the model, there is no way to control the number of "seperate chunks" Though I wish there was. :-/

[mrtwosheds]

The msh's are all fine I can have the skull produce either the jaw or the side of the head, but not both.
It seems that only separateChunkEffect1 is actually produced.