Water Drops

Omega1 · November 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">Yes, those little wet thingies that fall</div> Yeah, well, I can't really find anywhere that tells how to get water drops to fall from the ceiling.
If anyone can give me a description of what I need to do to get my lil water drops to fall from the ceiling, please tell me.

Sycophant · November 2002

I'm pretty sure that's handled through the particle system.

<a href='http://pstutorial.tripod.com/' target='_blank'>Click here for a particle system tutorial.</a>

Maveric · November 2002

1a- create a func_illusionary with the null texture the shape and size of the area you want the drops to fall from. as thick as you wish, but not too thick. (32 units is good)

1b- make it invisible from above and ground (tick all in "Flags")

1c- Give it a unique name. "waterdrop1" is good. make it additive.

2- create a env_particles_custom and set it up like so:

Name: waterdropper1
Generation entity: waterdrop1
Generation Shape: box
Particle Sprite: sprites/raindrop.spr
Particle size: 8-25 (anything in that range. its in *map* units)

Flags:
Start on
Fade out
World Grav
Tri, not quads
Collide
constrain pitch

anything that isn't mentioned just leave alone.

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ok, that should make it work. look on the net for some NS particle effects tutorials, so you can understand what the other things do.

hope it helped. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Omega1 · November 2002

For some reason, it wasn't working.

I'm also having trouble with sounds. When i try to get ambiences to work, i never get any sounds. The only one I've gotten to work was "Wind2.wav". All the sounds I'm trying to use are in my NS folder... So maybe...hammer is just being dumb? =P

ChromeAngel · November 2002

Ambient sound paths are assumed to be relative to the ns/sound/ or valve/sound/ folders.

It should be noted that particles system don't start imediatly when the map starts. It takes something like 10 seconds for my water hive to start dripping when my map starts.

chubbysteve · November 2002

Yeah I've noticed the delay with ps systems too.

Omega1 · November 2002

Ok, I'll make sure to wait awhile <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

Thanks for the info

Omega1 · November 2002

Ok, well, I got it to work, but the only time I can see the sprites is when looking up or down. I want it so I ca nsee them fall around me when I look forward. How would I do that?

Omega1 · November 2002

The realy problem is that once I get out of the box from where the sprites spawn, I can't see them fall, and I can only see them when I look up or down, and I really need help with this <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='confused.gif'>

bicball · November 2002

You can use this method:

<a href='http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?doc=1037633927-89598500' target='_blank'>http://collective.valve-erc.com/index.php?...633927-89598500</a>

BiTMAP · November 2002

I would like to get the particles working too though ... GRRR I am gonna read through a tut to try and get it working (becuase I can't use env_bubble cuase the bubbles arn't transparent :O!)

ChromeAngel · December 2002

Omega requested the PS settings I used for the water hive in Eleventh Hour. It's easier to show you than tell you so i've created a sample MAP file to demonstrate (attached).

chubbysteve · December 2002

Bitmap - I'm still suck at the starting blocks to ps effects too. They don't seem to be visible in NSTR2 (no matter what team), but I can edit the values. It doesn't change much <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

BiTMAP · December 2002

K i got mine working, I copied over a part from the NSTR2 Sample map, something in createing your own entity doesn't work, I hope the Dev Team looks into this.

chubbysteve · December 2002

I haven't seen any indication they are <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'>

Omega1 · December 2002

Thanks, Chrome <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'>

BiTMAP · December 2002

we - should _SPAM_ them! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'> lol, or everyone of us "withhold" our maps or something... I dunno it is a serious problem and should be fixed. (it may just be an FDG thing though so anyone who understands that should look into it??)

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