Glaves Particles and other stuff {Twinkle, Lavadrip, Localdrip Bundle!}

[luckybirdy4]

I had a idea for your particles what about doing a swarm of laucus >:3 like in the plauge thingy in old eygept.

Since laucus travel in swarms and destroy crops that farmers work hard to plant.

I also thought maybe you could make ants crawling around on the ground near a little ant mound.   Just a idea

[copper4me]

I got another Suggestion! how bout some jumping crickets?

[Glave]

Hum, Locusts would be a great weather particle. It would cover the entire sky and would last as long as you wanted. haha! Great idea Lucky. As for the ants, I have thought of that. A mound should be pretty easy to do, but to make the ants walk around the ground may be difficult. I will have to run a few tests with the coding to see how possible I can make that.

Jumping crickets may be possible, but they would be jumping from a very localized spot. Still I may try that one out.

[Thierry]

Because i'm bad drawing, i make the particle script for the jumping crickets (Gift for you), is a jumping from floor particle, you will need to make your image and material script.

Code: [Select]

particle_system ParticleNameHere
{
    material        YourInsectMaterialHere
    particle_width 5
    particle_height 5
    cull_each       false
    quota           1000
    billboard_type  point
    
    // Area emitter
    emitter Box
    {
        angle           60
        emission_rate   10
        time_to_live    2
        direction       0 1 0
        velocity     100
        width           1000
        height          1000
        depth           1
    }

    // Make em fall downwards
    affector LinearForce
    {
        force_vector      0 -500 0
        force_application add
    }
}

Sorry. I made an error, here the good script.
I forgot to say, I put the emission_rate  to 10 but is exagerated, maybe 5 or 3 is good.

[Glave]

actually after testing it <using butterfly material> It looks fantastic and is pretty good at 10 for a more lively bunch of grasshoppers. If someone doesn't much care for too much hoppin' around they can lower it but it looks awesome Thierry thanks!  I am hunting down a good grasshopper material so these should be ready today!

On another note Thierry, do you think you could help me fix my fish? I have been testing and testing and so far I got them to look pretty good when swimming in one direction but when I shift the camera they point sideways or backwards. I have tried changing the billboard to perpendicular self but then they just don't show up. Any theory's as to what I could try?

[copper4me]

Glave if ya ever need more Suggestions I have many, I have one right now, a Nyan cat XD

[Thierry]

Nyan Cat LOL.
I'm thinking in a nyan cat animated billboard with infinite music XD, nightmare!, such nightmare.

About the fish, i don't have idea, i wil try to fix it but later, now i'm at college (my teacher doesn't know what I'm doing right now XD).

[Thierry]

Glave I don't find the fish download, can you send me the link?

Here is a link i want to share to you, is the Ogre3D documentation of particles, it explain what is each parameter with detail.
http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/-Particle

[copper4me]

Nyan Cat LOL.
I'm thinking in a nyan cat animated billboard with infinite music XD, nightmare!, such nightmare.

About the fish, i don't have idea, i wil try to fix it but later, now i'm at college (my teacher doesn't know what I'm doing right now XD).

Haha I just like Nyan cat (NOW XD) and I want one so bad for FH XDDDD

[krxterm1]

those are really nice i love the leaves and hearts