Adding effects to a character

cloneknight · Post by **cloneknight** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:28 pm

I have a few questions about adding effects

1) how do I make it so it looks like a character is on fire or being shocked all the time? (like a flaming wampa running around also i cant find the burning effect?)
2) how can I make it so these show up at a hp limit? (a droid starts to smoke at 10 hp or something) what’s a good damage smoke effect also?

these will really help my map i have tried but they dont show up?

Caleb1117 · Post by **Caleb1117** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:51 pm

Never thought about it, but I assume you could use the same code which makes vehicles start smoking when damaged, on people.

DamageStartPercent = 80.0 - What percentage of HP that the effect starts so when you get down to 80% it triggers the effect
DamageStopPercent = 50.0 - What percent that it will stop, so you could have it stop at 50%, and have anouthe block of code like this, with a flame effect starting at 50% down to 0
DamageEffect = "com_sfx_vehiclespark" - effect name you can find this and others like it in Data_ABC/common/effects
DamageEffectScale = 1.5 - scale up the effect? not sure
DamageInheritVelocity = 0.5 - no clue
DamageAttachPoint = "hp_damage_4" - where the damage fx is attach, could be a null on a model, or a bone for instance, you could put in bone_pelvis, and his... pelvis would burn/smoke

Try putting this in your unit's ODF, and get the needed effects, that I highlighted, and see what happens.

DamageStartPercent = 80.0
DamageStopPercent = 50.0
DamageEffect = "com_sfx_vehiclespark"
DamageEffectScale = 1.5
DamageInheritVelocity = 0.5
DamageAttachPoint = "bone_head"

DamageStartPercent = 50.0
DamageStopPercent = 10.0
DamageEffect = "com_sfx_vehiclesmoke"
DamageEffectScale = 1.5
DamageInheritVelocity = 0.5
DamageAttachPoint = "bone_head"

DamageStartPercent = 10.0
DamageStopPercent = 0.0
DamageEffect = "com_sfx_vehicleflame"
DamageEffectScale = 1.5
DamageInheritVelocity = 0.5
DamageAttachPoint = "Bone_head"

cloneknight · Post by **cloneknight** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 4:12 pm

to make it so he is always on fire set effect start to 0? also how do i attach it to the whole body, or atleat the chest area.

(whats the burning effect like from a flamethrower?)

Caleb1117 · Post by **Caleb1117** » Wed Apr 16, 2008 9:50 pm

If you want it constant, you need something like this:

DamageStartPercent = 100.0
DamageStopPercent = 0.0 -
DamageEffect = "com_sfx_vehicleflame"
DamageEffectScale = 1.5
DamageInheritVelocity = 0.5
DamageAttachPoint = "eff_ribcage"

I think there is a simpler code, not sure, but you could also try:

AttachEffect = "com_sfx_vehicleflame"
AttachToHardpoint = "eff_ribcage"

The flamethrower effect should be in a side that has one, like the CIS or IMP side's effects folder.

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