Feral Heart

Help & Guidance => Game Help => Topic started by: Char on July 27, 2011, 03:01:06 am

Title: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Char on July 27, 2011, 03:01:06 am

Okay... so..
I really need help. My friend had the idea of making stars rain from the sky, as you can choose different sorts of things to put in the weather other than snow and rain. She copied the Aura.material, Aura.particle, and star.png all to the Sky folder, and of course got the Ogre message that they already existed somewhere.

I know that you have to change the names to something else, but beinga derp, I somehow forgot what. I do know that you have to change the names of the files themselves, but what do you change in the coding of the .material and .particle?

Oh... And I always post for my bud 'cause she hisses at me when I tell her to post instead. owo"

Halp? :C

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Jayfeather55 on July 27, 2011, 03:47:29 am

You can change the .particle material in the top line:

Code: [Select]

particle_system StarAura
{
Change the "StarAura" to "StarAura1" :)
The material should be fine, the particle just has to change. OGRE gets confused when one particle is in more than one place, and it goes FTW by showing an "OGRE Exception". The particle exceptions are usually a exception #4.

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Jayfeather55 on July 27, 2011, 03:58:43 am

Andd, I would copy/paste the rain or snow particle into the aura particle, so that the stars are falling down. Just select the whole particle {From "particle_system StarAura1 to the last "}" } and erase it. Paste the rain or snow particle into the aura one. Change the material and the particle name to whatever you have for the aura. The width and the height of the star might need to be changed though {The star looks a bit squished.}

If you are confused, I'll just post the particle here :)

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Char on July 27, 2011, 04:27:23 am

Wow, thank you so much for the help! 8D *nuzzles, +1 karma* xD
My friend is a little confused, though. I'll post again if it's not working.

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Char on July 27, 2011, 04:43:20 am

Alright, so now it's saying 'StarAura1' doesn't exist.. D:

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Jayfeather55 on July 27, 2011, 04:52:15 am

Did you put the particle and material and .png files into the "sky" folder?

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Char on July 27, 2011, 05:38:02 pm

Yes.

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Jayfeather55 on July 27, 2011, 06:17:27 pm

Ok. Going to back-track a bit. Did you change the particle name that IN the sky folder to "StarAura1"?

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Char on July 28, 2011, 06:07:03 pm

Ohhh! I get it now. 8D Thanks, it's working.

Title: Re: I must make stars rain from the sky! D:
Post by: Jayfeather55 on July 28, 2011, 06:13:24 pm

Yup :)