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Title: Particles not dissolving properly.
Post by: laggy on 20 Jan 2009, 20:47:03

Hello,

I'm working on a script where I use smoke effects coming out of a plane, but the smoke doesn't dissolve the way i want it to. It looks good in the beginning, but when towards the end of the smoke animation the clouds stay sharp and clear before dissapearing. It looks bad. I would like to have the smoke dissolving in the air after let's say 30 sek.

Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Looked at forums, turorials and unPBO'd addons, but couldn't find the solution.

It would be perfect to use the lit fire effect, if it could be uncoded and made bigger.

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_source = _this select 0

_count = 0

#loop

? _count > 1000 : exit

_count = _count + 1

drop [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\FireAndSmokeAnim\SmokeAnim.p3d", 8, 5, 0], "", "Billboard", 3, 30 + random 30, [0,0,0], [random 5,random 5,random 5], random 8, 0.1 + random 0.2, 0.1, 1, [30 + random 20, 40 + random 30, 0], [[0, 0, 0 ,0], [1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1]], [10, 10], 1, 0, "", "", _source];

~ 0.03

goto "loop"


Thanks in advance,

Laggy

Title: Re: Particles not dissolving properly.
Post by: Worldeater on 20 Jan 2009, 22:38:48

One of the problems seems to be that you start with transparent cloudlets and make them more opaque over time:

..., [[0, 0, 0 ,0], [1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1]], [10, 10], 1, 0, "", "", _source];

Title: Re: Particles not dissolving properly.
Post by: Mandoble on 20 Jan 2009, 22:47:19

So you might just make the last component of the color array transparent for that smooth dissolve effect you are looking for:

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..., [[0, 0, 0 ,0], [1, 1, 1, 1], [1, 1, 1, 1],[1, 1, 1, 0]], [10, 10], 1, 0, "", "", _source];

Title: Re: Particles not dissolving properly.
Post by: laggy on 20 Jan 2009, 23:42:18

Thanks a bunch, both of you.

Laggy