What can i do with the particle editor/how brig in the game

Battlefiler · Post by **Battlefiler** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:02 pm

What can i do with the particle editor

can anybody help me

mswf · Post by **mswf** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:08 pm

Make new/edit effects. (almost) All the explosions, laser collission etc. can possibly be changed.

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:18 pm

Any effect can be altered and new effects can be created. I'm not sure what mswf means by "almost".

mswf · Post by **mswf** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 4:55 pm

Fiodis wrote:Any effect can be altered and new effects can be created. I'm not sure what mswf means by "almost".

Well, since Battlefiler seems pretty new at this, I used "almost" because he may misunderstand me.
To give a proper definition;
With particleeditor, you can edit all .fx files
Not all effects ingame are .fx, some effects are hardcoded, like some shield effects.

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 6:37 pm

I don't know of any shield effects that are hard-coded.

RogueKnight · Post by **RogueKnight** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:16 pm

Fiodis wrote:I don't know of any shield effects that are hard-coded.

Starship shield.

There's no .fx file for it.

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 7:52 pm

It doesn't have any shield effect, just a shield without an effect. The impacts do have effect files.

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:01 pm

mswf wrote:
Fiodis wrote:Any effect can be altered and new effects can be created. I'm not sure what mswf means by "almost".
Well, since Battlefiler seems pretty new at this, I used "almost" because he may misunderstand me.
To give a proper definition;
With particleeditor, you can edit all .fx files
Not all effects ingame are .fx, some effects are hardcoded, like some shield effects.

No you can't edit all .fx files. Various ones won't work (ie nothing will show up in PE) almost all of them are ones found in world assets folders. Others will crash PE unless you put the munged files for certain models in the Munged Folder where all the other fx related files go.
But most fx like explosions, impacts, trails, etc etc do work.

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Sun Jan 24, 2010 8:33 pm

All right, all right! I stand corrected. PE can't handle "contrail" type effects. All right. The others work. Even if you need to put munged stuff in the munged folder, they work.

Sky_216 · Post by **Sky_216** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:50 am

Fiodis wrote:All right, all right! I stand corrected. PE can't handle "contrail" type effects. All right. The others work. Even if you need to put munged stuff in the munged folder, they work.

Yes it can. Set the emitter type to moving rather than stationary. The fx i'm talking about are some of the environment ones from various world files and the "worldwhatever.fx" files.

Battlefiler · Post by **Battlefiler** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:51 am

how can i export in fx

sampip · Post by **sampip** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:52 am

How do you mean? It saves as .fx by default, if you're editing a game effect.

Battlefiler · Post by **Battlefiler** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 11:56 am

how bring i that in the game

sampip · Post by **sampip** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:02 pm

Save it in your sides\common\effects folder (not in Data_***\Common\effects, the one in your sides folder), then open the odf of the weapon you are using. Normally the effects are in the ordnance and explosion files (ones that end in _ord or _exp). Replace whatever effect you want replacing with your custom effect name. Munge that side. I think this is correct.

Battlefiler · Post by **Battlefiler** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 1:24 pm

its a PARTICLE-Datei
here is the Datei

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{

	quota	500

	material	PE/lensflare

	particle_width	5.304

	particle_height	7.75

	cull_each	false

	renderer	billboard

	billboard_type	point

	emitter Box

	{

		angle	11.74

		colour	1 0.189474 0.0631577 1

		colour_range_start	1 0.189474 0.0631577 1

		colour_range_end	1 0.189474 0.0631577 1

		direction	0 -1 0

		emission_rate	43.48

		position	0 20 0

		velocity	39.13

		velocity_min	39.13

		velocity_max	39.13

		time_to_live	2.439

		time_to_live_min	2.439

		time_to_live_max	2.439

		duration	7.391

		duration_min	7.391

		duration_max	6.829

		repeat_delay	0

		repeat_delay_min	0

		repeat_delay_max	0

		width	0

		height	0

		depth	0

	}

	affector Scaler

	{

		rate	3.415

	}

	affector ColourFader2

	{

		red1	0

		green1	0.05

		blue1	0.01

		alpha1	0

		red2	0

		green2	1

		blue2	1

		alpha2	0

		state_change	0.8

	}

}

Fiodis · Post by **Fiodis** » Mon Jan 25, 2010 4:37 pm

What about it? Just follow what sampip said if you're looking to replace a unit/weapon/vehicle effect from a side. Or you could put it in your world folder and attach it to an odf to put it in-game as a prop. Or you could do multiple other things with it.

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