anyone figure out why this doesnt work?

[AHadley]

Even I should have found that!

[TheJamsh]

lol. well you might be able to help with the next part instead.

for some reason... i cant get it to draw a planar when sniped... im using start delay and a couple of emitters to make it fade in, stay for a while, then fade out.

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particleClass9 = "xsnipe.groundblood"
particleCount9 = 1
particleVeloc9 = "0.0 0.0 0.0"

particleClass10 = "xsnipe.bloodstay"
particleCount10 = 1
particleVeloc10 = "0.0 0.0 0.0"

particleClass11 = "xsnipe.bloodfade"
particleCount11 = 1
particleVeloc11 = "0.0 0.0 0.0"

[groundblood]
simulateBase = "sim_null"
lifeTime = 26.0
renderName = "draw_planar"
textureName = "blood.tga"
textureBlend = "srcalpha invsrcalpha modulatealpha"
startColor = "120 120 120 255"
finishColor = "120 120 120 255"
startRadius = 10.8
finishRadius = 10.0
animateTime = 26.0

[bloodstay]
simulateBase = "sim_null"
lifeTime = 6.1
startDelay = 6.0
renderBase = "draw_emit"
emitName = "xsnipe.bloodstaye"
emitDelay = "0.1"
emitVelocity = "0.0 0.0 0.0"
emitVariance = "0.0 0.0 0.0"
emitLife = 18.0

[bloodstaye]
//simulateBase = "sim_null"
//lifeTime = 18.0
renderName = "draw_planar"
textureName = "blood.tga"
textureBlend = "srcalpha invsrcalpha modulatealpha"
startColor = "120 120 120 175"
finishColor = "120 120 120 175"
startRadius = 5.0
finishRadius = 5.0
animateTime = 18.0

[bloodfade]
simulateBase = "sim_null"
lifeTime = 24.1
startDelay = 24.0
renderBase = "draw_emit"
emitName = "xsnipe.bloodfadee"
emitDelay = "0.1"
emitVelocity = "0.0 0.0 0.0"
emitVariance = "0.0 0.0 0.0"
emitLife = 6.0

[bloodfadee]
//simulateBase = "sim_null"
//lifeTime = 6.0
renderName = "draw_planar"
textureName = "blood.tga"
textureBlend = "srcalpha invsrcalpha modulatealpha"
startColor = "120 120 120 175"
finishColor = "120 120 120 0"
startRadius = 5.0
finishRadius = 5.0
animateTime = 6.0


Strangely, it wont even draw the first one, which ive modified btw to make it easier to see.

[TheJamsh]

Oh and for the hell of it, i uploaded a video of what it looks like so far. Its not perfect... but it looks ok. Will be better when i have an animation to go with, and it leaves the pilot geom in the world without a head and stuff

Shows the "sidearm" weapon as well, kinda.

DL size is 2MB approx 45 secs.

DL Here

[Zero Angel]

I found your problem. the text should read

renderBase = "draw_planar"

NOT

renderName = "draw_planar"

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Oh and as to your 'pilot corpse stays in world' idea. I did the same thing before. What I found to work really well was to make the starting opacity of the pilot extremely high, something like 2550 -- and the ending opacity 0. That way the pilot's corpse would be fully visible until about 90% of the way through its animTime, upon which it would fade to nothing.

I was thinking it might also be possible to have the pilot's corpse sink into the ground before disappearing -- but that would require some trickery with emits.

[TheJamsh]

Ah nice! and thanks for the tip, another dumb error

I was thinking about leaving the corpse in the world as an actual object rather than a draw_geom, the problem is that scrap class doesnt inherit the direction when it is generated, so it wouldnt look right. It would allow me to use a hard effect then to draw the blood still, but NVM to that.

The head flying off as one piece didnt look right, so i decided to split it into bloody chunks . Its such a shame BZ2's cut-off point for some effects is so far from the camera, could have done so much more. Itd make this flamethrower easier as well...

[General BlackDragon]

Whoops