Posted by Riven on Sun Dec 21st 2008 at 5:22am
Quoting fishy
I give up. I tried all sorts of ways of posting the link, but even using the 'code' tags, it still doesn't work right. smiley
I think I fixed it. Just use the url tags as normal but make sure that the 'P' in Category:particle isn't capitalized otherwise it will think it's an emoticon and screw up the code.
Quoting Muhnay
There is a way to create your own particle effects.
If I'm not mistaken, I don't think the Goldsource engine has compatibility with the new particle editor introduced with the Orangebox version of the SDK. This is the Half-Life editing forum and not the Half-Life 2 editing forum correct?
I don't know much about how the Goldsource engine goes about emitting particles, but to make a transparent texture work as a particle you must make any completely transparent parts of the texture (particle) completely black.
The new particle editor in Source has systematized the process of creating functional good-looking particles. I haven't been able to make anything worth mentioning yet, but based on my playing around with it, it's somewhat straight-forward. And here is a tutorial for it already! Particle Editor @ Interlopers
Posted by tnkqwe on Sat Dec 20th 2008 at 5:40pm
When adding the link,just add the code for
between the words "Category" and "article"
Posted by fishy on Sat Dec 20th 2008 at 3:11pm
I tried to get my head around the particle editor, but it was like trying to wrestle a large deranged octopuss.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Category:particle_System
Maybe someone with more experience of code can figure it out better than I could.
I give up. I tried all sorts of ways of posting the link, but even using the 'code' tags, it still doesn't work right.
[Edited by Riven =link should work now]
Posted by G4MER on Sat Dec 20th 2008 at 10:32am
There is a way to create your own particle effects. I am having a hard time finding the data on that at the moment. Maybe RIVEN or AARON can clue us in on it a bit more.
Posted by tnkqwe on Sat Dec 20th 2008 at 10:13am
The Fountain can be a func_conveyor moveing up,ending with some smoke.I mean something like this:
Posted by Anomaly on Wed Dec 17th 2008 at 7:58pm
I think I've figured out why the shadow curtain is happening; it seems endemic to the texture, IE it isn't 'true black'. I set the top to the 'black' texture from the HL wad, and that works just fine.
I'd still like suggestions for generating other effects along this line, however.
Posted by Anomaly on Wed Dec 17th 2008 at 4:18pm
The 'shadow curtain' is what is plaguing me, at least on this method of trying to generate a particle fountain.
If anyone has any ideas on creating a particle fountain using the square dots from a grenade explosion, or using the glowing parts from a gauss, I'd much rather use that method.
I tried a env_shooter, but it wouldn't stream continuously.
The settings on it are Additive with 75 as the FX amount. If I go lower, you can't see anything. If I go higher, it makes it more opaque. Am I missing something? The latest ZHLT or something?
Posted by Anomaly on Wed Dec 17th 2008 at 6:03am
It's not producing an actual shadow from a light source. The black part of the brush is still slightly visible, using Additive/100. If I set it too low, the brush disappears entirely, and bringing it up where the 'rain' is visible makes the rest of the black areas appear.
I will try to post a picture if that doesn't explain what I'm talking about.
Posted by G4MER on Tue Dec 16th 2008 at 7:18pm
Can you turn shadows off in properties of the object?
