Hello and welcome to my 3rd made tutorial
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.
Feel free to leave comments or questions below.