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Help & Guidance => Member Made Tutorials => Modding & Meshing Tutorials => Topic started by: Ingredient on January 26, 2012, 09:26:43 am
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Hello and welcome to my 3rd made tutorial :D
I will be using an Impressive World particle as an example in this tutorial.
Dont we all love the lightning aura item? Well search through the particles folder and you see a .particle with lightning in it, dont see one do you. You tried to type in Lightning01, lightning and many others right? Cant get it up in Object Maker though eh? Well no your wrong you still can. Open any .particle file up with Notepad. Might look something like this....
particle_system Lightningaura01
{
quota 10000
material lightnings01
particle_width 25
particle_height 25
cull_each false
renderer billboard
sorted false
local_space false
iteration_interval 0
nonvisible_update_timeout 0
billboard_type oriented_common
billboard_origin center
billboard_rotation_type texcoord
common_direction 0 -1 0
common_up_vector 0 1 0
point_rendering false
accurate_facing false
emitter Ring
{
angle 0
direction 0 1 0
emission_rate 5
position 0 0 0
velocity 0
velocity_min 0
velocity_max 0
time_to_live 0.5
time_to_live_min 0.5
time_to_live_max 1
duration 0
duration_min 0
duration_max 0
repeat_delay 0
repeat_delay_min 0
repeat_delay_max 0
width 17
height 17
depth 0.5
inner_width 1
inner_height 1
}
affector DirectionRandomiser
{
randomness 100
scope 1
keep_velocity true
}
affector LinearForce
{
force_vector 0 0 0
}
}
This is what needs to be typed up in Object Maker in the Particle tab.
Particles need material files too not just meshes. Open up a material file in Notepad as well. Search through material files for that lightnings01 or whatever it is you see.
material lightnings01
{
technique
{
pass
{
lighting off
scene_blend add
depth_write off
fog_override true
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
texture_unit
{
texture Lightning01.png
}
}
}
}
This is what a material file should look like.
Not that you would need to worry about this but this is what you would type in that Material box under the Mesh box in Object Maker to make the image show up on the object.
This is the image the particle needs in order to work.
Now because some .material and .particle files are shared with other particles and materials you can open a new Notepad window then copy and paste part of it into it, basically separating one particle/material from the rest.
So we have found the right particle and material file, right? Well that image we need to find too. Found it yet? Copy and paste the image, .material and .particle file into Feralheart's particle folder.
Now go to Feralheart>>Tools>>Object Maker>>Effect Maker>>Particles and type in the name of that partcile. The top of that particle file said Lightningaura01 so that is what i shall type in. Click "Add New" and there it is, aint it lovely.
(http://i43BannedImageSite/inzkol.png)
Feel free to leave comments or questions below.
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Great tutorial
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Thanks Shanith :)
When i figured out how to do that i just wanted to share it cause i felt proud ^^
I think i should of explained what those codes and stuff do.
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Particle>Particle Template
What should I put there?
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Particle Template is where the particle is typed in ^^
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Nice tutorial. :) Only thing is, Notepad won't open particle files for some reason. When I go to open them, it just says "no items met your match".
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Need to open material file of particle, not the particle itself, i believe.
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No, its the .particle file that needs to be opened to find the name ;)
Kristin, what operating system is your computer using? Like are you using Windows, mac etc.
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Believe we got it to work.
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Hey, Ingredient, got a question.
So I opened the material file for the bonfire particle from IT, got what I had to type in, and put it in the Particle Template box. Is there a reason it's still not popping up?
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For the bonfire particle, if your moving from the IT folder to the FH folder i believe you would need all the files that include the word "bonfire" in it to be moved. "Bonfire" is what should be type into the Particle Template, just remember that its case sensitive.
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Oh, I got it. I didn't know you had to type it in capitalized. Silly me... Sorry!
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Its no problem :)
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How do i open the particles thing in the IW? It doesn't open right.
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Same as i did, right click either a .material or .particle file with Notepad. How does it not open right?
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What i'm saying is, the particles.iwz won't open like you did in the tutorial. I made the lightning particle myself but it didn't come out as good as the IW does come out.
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I was using a previous version of IW, that is how i opened the files because they were not .iwz but just folders. IW files can no longer be opened, i think its so files cannot be stolen or hacked.
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So, there's no way i can open it then? Any chance you could just give me the picture you used in this tutorial then?
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Hey Ingredient, I've been trying to set up a particle for a map of mine that will cause oak leaves to glide down. Sorta like the sakura blossom particle that everyone seems to have lol. It shows that it's there in the folder and when I load it, it somewhat shows up. I oak leaf image just won't appear. Do you know what I might be doing wrong?
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Hey Ingredient, I've been trying to set up a particle for a map of mine that will cause oak leaves to glide down. Sorta like the sakura blossom particle that everyone seems to have lol. It shows that it's there in the folder and when I load it, it somewhat shows up. I oak leaf image just won't appear. Do you know what I might be doing wrong?
You mean Glaves particles, right?: www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=10942.0 (http://www.feral-heart.com/index.php?option=com_jfusion&Itemid=2&jfile=index.php&topic=10942.0)
You could try re-downloading that particle bundle and installing it in the Particles folder again. But if that doesn't work you could try placing it in the my_objects folder.
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Hello! ;D
Wondering if you able to change the color of the particles....
Tried the "Aura" particle, renamed the "Star" image to Aura, and I did get a particle thing to show up, but it's floating blocks. xD
Then I figured, "Oh HEEEY, I should make these black for a Legend of Zelda effect!" (well, from Twilight Princess anyway. xP)