effects on demand

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

How can I play an effect on demand (when triggered I mean, not loop in one place) ?
I tried something with oneshot effect but can't make it work.

[waywaaaard]

precache the effect:

rest

playfx ( <effect id >, <position of effect>, <forward vector>, <up vector> )


Module
Effects


Summary


Play this effect.

Example


fx = playfx (enginesmoke, engine.origin);

Minimum Number of arguments: 2


1 : <effect id> The effect id returned by loadfx

2 : <position of effect> The world position of the effect

Number of optional arguments: 2


1 : <forward vector> The forward vector of the effect

2 : <up vector> The up vector of the effect

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

Ok so I have a trigger which triggers the efect...so it would be like this;

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trigger waittill ("trigger");
playfx ( "teleport_light", (400,300,200))

I want it to be a oneshotfx....just make it playoneshotfx ( "teleport_light", (400,300,200),60); ?
If this is right?...didn't know it was this simple

[Rezil]

The way I do effects:

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ship_smoke()
{
	o1 = getent("cruise_exhaust_1","targetname");
	fx = loadfx("fx/rezil/cruise_exhaust_black_smoke.efx");
	while(1)	
	{
		playfx(fx, o1.origin);
		wait 0.5;
	}
}

This is for a looping effect. For a single one just don't loop it(so no while(1)).

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

Thx guys, I went with this one;

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main()
{
level thread precacheFX();
thread ppsh_spawn();
}
precacheFX()
{
level._effect["teleport_light"] 	= loadfx ("fx/fire/teleport_light.efx");
}
ppsh_spawn()
{
   trigger = getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname");
   {
trigger waittill ("trigger");
maps\mp\_fx::loopfx("teleport_light", (-664,1432,248), 10); 
}
}

Have to tweak it a bit more before it is to my liking.

[Rezil]

Same thing, you only make it a level array and load it seperately. The loopfx function is basically a loop with a wait command.

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

Now I want to remove the effect (play effect...pick up weapon....remove effect), checked mods online and made this script now but it doesn't work;

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main()
{
thread ppsh_spawn();

}

ppsh_spawn()
{
	trigger = getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname");
	fx = loadfx("fx/fire/spawn_light.efx");
	
while (1)
{
playfx(fx, (-664,1432,248));
trigger waittill("trigger");
thread effect_delete();
wait 0.05;
}
}

effect_delete()
{
self.playfx = true;
while(self.playFX)
{
	efx = PlayFX( level._effect["fx"], ( -664, 1432, 248 ));
	wait 0.05;
}

efx Delete();
}

Any ideas ?

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

Is the delete(); command even possible (been trying for over 2 hours now ).

It's the last thing I need for my deck16 map. Can I post the final version in the "post your complete maps here" forum, or is that just for jumpmaps ?

[Drofder2004]

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loopfxDeletion (ent)
{
	self endon ("death");
	ent waittill ("effect deleted");
	self delete();
}

This is the code used in CoD4, but I cannot find it referenced by any other code...

If it doesn't work, it should produce an error, run the map with /developer 1

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

this is the code now;

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main()
{
thread ppsh_spawn();

}

ppsh_spawn()
{
	trigger = getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname");
	fx = loadfx("fx/fire/spawn_light.efx");	

while (1)
{
playfx(fx, (-664,1432,248));
trigger waittill("trigger");
thread loopfxDeletion (ent);
wait 0.05;
}
}
loopfxDeletion (ent)
{
   self endon ("death");
   ent waittill ("effect deleted");
   self delete();
}

Running it with the compiler (or just start a devmap) I get this error;

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uninitialised variable 'ent': (file 'maps/mp/call_spawn_effect.gsc', line 16)
thread loopfxDeletion (ent);

I also added the following line, but that doesn't work;

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ent = playfx(fx, (-664,1432,248));

[Drofder2004]

You havent defined what "ent" is...

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I am confused as to what exactly you are needing to delete?
You are playing FX, to remove the FX, just stop the loop.

If you are using an entity to play the FX on, then you can delete the entity... but in this case, there is no entity involved...

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

You are playing FX, to remove the FX, just stop the loop.

This is what I want....when triggered the loop should stop and start again after 60 seconds. But I don't know how to stop the loop to remove the FX.

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

I have this code now but it doesn't recognize the "stopfx" command (cause it is not correct ) ;

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main()
{
thread ppsh_spawn();

}

ppsh_spawn()
{
	trigger = getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname");
	fx = loadfx("fx/fire/spawn_light.efx");	

while (1)
{
playfx(fx, (-664,1432,248));
trigger waittill("trigger");
stopfx(fx, (-664,1432,248));
wait 60;
}
}

How do I stop it ?

[<LT>YosemiteSam[NL]]

Ok, still working on it but to no avail...this code I'm working with now but how do I get the entity to reappear ?;

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main()
{
thread ppsh_spawn(getent("ppsh_fxorigin","targetname"));
thread deletefx(getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname"),
		      getent("ppsh_fxorigin","targetname"));
}

ppsh_spawn(o1)
{

//o1 = spawn("script_origin",(-664,1432,248));
//trigger = getent("weapon_pickup_ppsh_mp","targetname");
fx = loadfx("fx/fire/spawn_light.efx");

while(1)
{
playfx(fx,o1.origin);
wait 0.5;
}
}
deletefx(trigger,o1)
{
trigger waittill("trigger");
o1 delete();
}

[Rezil]

What exactly do you want? The effect to stop when you trigger it and then to restart after a certain period of time?