Level Design PLZ Help! Triggered Emmiters

[Fel]

OK so i have a cannon, where you find a shell, load the cannon, then that activates the cannon. It then moves into position and fires at a blast door and explodes. I got all that to work. BUT I need to to trigger a smoke emmiter at the cannon barrel, and then create an explosion at the blast door.

I have tried just triggering the emitter with tags, but that doesnt seem to work.

I have also looked in the settings and didnt see any thing like Enable trigger- True.

Anyone?

 

[nath2009uk]

http://forums.tripwireinteractive.com/showthread.php?t=39177

I asked the same question and eventually I got it to work.

When you have the networkEmitter actor selected after you've placed it, you can go to Tools > Particle editor for an easy way of setting it up. Check the effect texture packages for a smoke effect too.

 

[Murphy]

Properties of the Emitter -> Emitter -> Select the Emitter -> huge load of settings that aren't present in the Particle Editor, including "local" and that other stuff you need.

 

[Fel]

heres what i did, for anyone who cares.

I took a regular emmiter. Copy, then i pasted it LITERALLY in notepad.

Changed the 2 line to;

Begin Map
Begin Actor Class=NetworkEmitter Name=ROSatchelExplosion1
Begin Object Class=SpriteEmitter Name=SpriteEmitter54
FadeOut=True
FadeIn=True
RespawnDeadParticles=False
SpinParticles=True
Blah Blah Blah
Then went to each of the emitter properties, (0-6)

Went to Local, triggereddisabled = true

 

[nath2009uk]

you didn't create a NetworkEmitter, use the particle editor to create an emitter for it, then once your done there open the NetworkEmitter properties and do the said things?

 

[Fel]

just take a normal emitter, COPY

Then open notepad and paste the code into there

It will say (well for the ROSatchelExplosion Emitter)

Begin Map
Begin Name=ROSatchelExplosion1 Name=ROSatchelExplosion1
Begin Object Class=SpriteEmitter Name=SpriteEmitter54
FadeOut=True
FadeIn=True
Blahblahblah......

Change the 2nd line of the code to

Begin Map
Begin Actor Class=NetworkEmitter Name=ROSatchelExplosion1
Begin Object Class=SpriteEmitter Name=SpriteEmitter54
FadeOut=True
FadeIn=True
RespawnDeadParticles=False
SpinParticles=True
Blah Blah Blah


Then select all, COPY

Then goto editor,

Paste

There you go. Its a NetworkEmitter, with all the effects of the normal emitter, but you can trigger it on and off

To have it start off disabled, you have to go into every emitter property (0- whatever) goto Local and set disabled to true

the line Actor Class=NetworkEmitter is what is telling the editor what type of emiter/ actor it is.

This way you dont have to go through and select all the properties manually, unless you want to change how it looks as well.

 

[Murphy]

You can trigger normal emitters too. To trigger them in online games use a NetworkTrigger between your trigger and your emitter.

 

[Fel]

basically that is a normal emitter, im just changing the coding to make it a network emitter