DarkPlaces effectinfo covered!

[Urre]

Not directly QC related, but very close. Electro compiled a list of all the properties and fields of the effectinfo.txt file, and here goes, together with comments:

EDIT: Electro put it in a easier to read file

[Chip]

EDIT: Electro put it in a easier to read file

Thank you very much! I'm going to put it to good use.

[haze]

so has anyone ever made new particle effects for DP?

[Teiman]

Quick!

put that info on the DP wiki!

[MauveBib]

so has anyone ever made new particle effects for DP?

Yep. My Squad AI Thing has new dp particle effects for smoke and stuff.

[haze]

so has anyone ever made new particle effects for DP?

Yep. My Squad AI Thing has new dp particle effects for smoke and stuff.

Sweet. can i see em?

funny.. i didnt expect people to reply at 3am lol.

[leileilol]

so has anyone ever made new particle effects for DP?

yeah

[haze]

heyyyyyyyyy thats what im talkin about! those are awesomerist

soo how do i go about replacing the defaults with yours... i dont see effectinfo.txt anywhere


[edit] oh dont tell me i have to download the source, make my changes, then compile???

[MauveBib]

DP has builtin effects which are overridden if you add a file called effectsinfo.txt to the mod directory. It doesn't have a file by default, but download one and stick it in there and it'll work.

[Spirit]

I would really love to have a "Quake" effectinfo.txt that makes especially the explosion and rocket trail particles look like Quake. I am too stupid to make it myself.

[MauveBib]

You can see some custom smoke at work in this shot

[haze]

DP has builtin effects which are overridden if you add a file called effectsinfo.txt to the mod directory. It doesn't have a file by default, but download one and stick it in there and it'll work.

AHh.. now we're getting somewhere.. Any idea where i can Download one, or maybe someone willing to post their custom effectsinfo here? wink wink nudge nudge

[MauveBib]

Get DPMOD from the darkplaces website, I'm 99% sure there's one in there.

[Junrall]

I checked out the effectinfo.txt and it's pretty cool! Does add a nice visual change.

Though, I have looked over Electro's list of properties and fields for the effectinfo.txt file... and it all makes sense to me... I just don't understand why there are three TE_GUNSHOT effects or why there are two TE_SPIKE effects inside of effectinfo.txt.

Also, how many effects can I place into effectinfo.txt?

[Chip]

I checked out the effectinfo.txt and it's pretty cool! Does add a nice visual change.

Though, I have looked over Electro's list of properties and fields for the effectinfo.txt file... and it all makes sense to me... I just don't understand why there are three TE_GUNSHOT effects or why there are two TE_SPIKE effects inside of effectinfo.txt.

Also, how many effects can I place into effectinfo.txt?

Well, I for one, created a new fire effect. The fire had 3 TE_FIRE phases: the fire, the smoke and the sparks.

Look at "type" and you'll see what I mean. You'll see several types for the same effect: smoke, static, snow, spark, etc.

Here's my example of fire as seen in this movie http://vimeo.com/6994514

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// Fire
effect TE_FOC
count 10
type static
tex 11 11
size 6 34
sizeincrease -10
alpha 0 512 300
originoffset 0 0 0
originjitter 30 30 30
//velocityoffset 0 0 5
airfriction 4
bounce 0
velocityjitter 0 0 0
velocitymultiplier 1100.01
gravity -0.5
notunderwater
color 0x6f0f00 0xe3974f
lightradius 205
lightradiusfade 215
//lightcolor 4 2 0.5
lightshadow 100

// Fire Smoke Addon
effect TE_FOC
count 2
type smoke
tex 0 8
color 0x303030 0x303030
size 6 10
sizeincrease 20
alpha 0 256 80
originoffset 0 0 80
originjitter 20 20 20
//velocityoffset 0 0 5
airfriction 5
bounce 0
velocityjitter 0 0 0
//velocitymultiplier 100.01
gravity -0.7
notunderwater

// Fire Sparks Addon
effect TE_FOC
count 400
type snow
color 0x8f4333 0xfced00
size 0.15 0.20
sizeincrease -0.04
alpha 150 256 256
originoffset 0 0 80
originjitter 20 20 20
airfriction 5
bounce 0
velocityjitter 180 180 360
velocitymultiplier 2.2
gravity -0.7
notunderwater


P.S. FOC means FIRE in Romanian.