enfusion_particles

[amber arrow]

I still think that there just collision is off with dynamic objects/vehicles for blast triggers or spawning trigger via particle is the problem

[true bear]

Can you do me a favour and see if it’s connecting with players and terrain

That will confirm both our suspicions

Additionally you should also try to hit a vehicle tire if that makes a difference

[amber arrow]

trigger blast doesnt interact with players/bots

tire also doesnt work

I made a lot of tests but let me check again with video

[floral ocean]

This also has to do with the shear amount of spalling the rpg heat shell has

I know the tracless explosion mod is just a ticked box in a conf file can’t remember what one

[amber arrow]

https://youtu.be/H4zZxU0xW2w here is full test with some kind of explanations

[true bear]

Couldn’t have explained it any better. This sums it up very well!.

This has been an issue for a bit now. I’m going to do some research when I’m home and root the issue completely

[amber arrow]

I somehow was able to fix particle oriented setting with chatgpt in my BetterHitsEffects mod lol

[true bear]

Define what you mean by this

Unless you’re talking about the “.ptc” which in that case Chat GPT can edit them and create yes. As far as enforce no. Well to an extent the scripter has to have knowledge for it to even work in some favourable manner.

[amber arrow]

So a long time ago (since particle update ever was published by Bi) settings in blast triggers "Particle oriented" and "First contact only" didnt work (so they do now in vanilla), so I made a ticket like a year ago about this problem (https://feedback.bistudio.com/T180643, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxNgU-DwnRg) and it problem still there. Yesterday I was upset that effects on rpg explosion was looking bad on buildings (since effect always spawn upward) and tried to fix it via AI and I just sent code from "SCR_ParticleOnContactComponent" to deepseek with mega prompt "why eoncontact doesnt work" and with some miracle it was able to identify problem with 3d matrix in code and sent me WORKING code - but since I dont understand anything about scripting, I didnt know how to put code in workbench so I asked deepseek how to make it and it gave me working instruction and now blasts in BHE spawns surface related lol

[true bear]

Ohhhhhhhhh yes I looked at that a while ago

[mint night]

is there a bootcamp vid that could allow me to learn how to take such pictures ?

I... want to do similar things... but my dumb ass is really dumb when it comes to cinematics / photography

[true bear]

My YouTube account will have a video posted on this soon. Once I fully cover world editor I will move on to the particle editor

[mint night]

Thanks, if you remember me please let me know then you legend

[north forum]

https://youtu.be/gm2NjrWQWpY?si=TDk6wKqbeLl4MKtu

[true bear]

This does not help with explaining the process of particle creation just modification of a few things. I will be creating an in depth video for all players explaining it soon. Following the series on my YouTube.

[silver schooner]

Some, have a look at the effect manager component

[north surge]

Does anyone know how to stop the "effect", e.g. I want to have only the particle effect but frozen in time, one frame only

[silver schooner]

Would need to pause the game/simulation

[north surge]

so no :D, thanks anyway 😉

[silver schooner]

What do you mean? If you want to pause particle effect then pause the simulation

[north surge]

this is because I don't know how to stop the simulation, I'm trying to figure out the "bullet time" effect in cinematic where everything is frozen in place but the camera works normally

[silver schooner]

You can check how the game master pause button works

[north surge]

I don't even know how to check it, but I don't want to bother you with explaining it to me, so let's leave it at that. but thanks anyway

[true bear]

Use frame event on particle effect entity

Otherwise it runs indefinitely regardless of pausing

@north surge

[north surge]

nice workaround, thank you 😉

[true bear]

work around? No. Correct use of particle Entity. Yes.

a .PTC file on its own placed in a world should become a ParticleEffectEntity. Bypassing this using triggers or using a scripted method to place in world results in a off frame particle.

[north surge]

still iam too green to execute something like "stop simulation" script like you or bacon suggested its out of my reach, but thanks anyway, too bad bohemia cinematic tutorial is already very out of date, but big thanks for helping

[true bear]

No Problem!

[true bear]

@north surge additionally you can do stuff like this.

[true bear]

Almost near the start of the particle editor video a few more things I want to run by world editor first before I dive into that section

[jovial owl]

Is there a way to prevent particles from showing beneath water, having a hard time figuring it out.

[true bear]

Technically no. Particles and post processing do not mix. Particles tweak out underwater

(Underwater is a PPE)

What are you trying to achieve

[jovial owl]

Thanks man, I have some waterfalls but my work around this issue is just to have rocks at the bottom and water "bouncing" into a lake/pond

[true bear]

Your restitution on your particle creates that bounce

Your collision. Is what controls all of that when enabled but if you’re trying to cut off the water change your alpha on the lifetime curve to cut before the particle can make its full range

That should fix your issue. I recommend going in the particle editor moving your particle to the height of your water fall.

Also you can Use your measure 📏 tool to calculate your height from water to top where it’s placed and then off set the particle by that height if needs be that way you can accurately get a height.

[jovial owl]

Alright I'll check this out later. Thank you for the info

[coral star]

Is a semi invisible shockwave possible to make with the current vanilla particles?

[silver schooner]

Depends how you define shockwave

A realistic one probably not

Since there's no way to do that air density and pressure change visually very well

Because particles are not rendered behind glass material (once refraction is enabled) that I'd need to use to refract the shockwave sphere

[true bear]

Yeah increasing the size of a sphere would really be the best way to do this like in other games

But I agree this whole refraction stuff ruins these effects

Wish the engine handled it differently

[jovial owl]

@true bear sorry for the @, do you know a way to add a damage entity to particle effects? I know vehicles have secondary damage options but you cannot add vehicle damage to non vehicle prefabs.

[true bear]

What kind of damage do you want

Like an explosion

[jovial owl]

Flames burning you

Persistent damage or damage over time

[true bear]

You can create a particle that uses a prefab trigger entity in its place after an explosion to create a thermite effect. Then have it set to clean up itself.

Kinda neat

[jovial owl]

Thank you!

[true bear]

It’s gonna require some script work however

Disappointment commence

https://tenor.com/view/trombone-pusheen-musician-instrument-gif-11434220432919976776

[jovial owl]

Dang🤣 🤣 🤣

Incendiary

[true bear]

Currently what I do for my fireworks. They have an auto clean up script I made on em. That way the gm doesn’t need to worry,

[jovial owl]

Nice! I appreciate your help!

[jovial owl]

Are you open to dm?

[true bear]

Yeah

[soft ember]

dude that looks awesome ! any chance for some yt tutorial ? there is practically none about doing stuff like this in workshop

[true bear]

yes'

[urban blade]

how can i add some water particles on the ship hull when i contacts the water

[small hinge]

Im new with particles, but i think you can make a particle with a splash or something that imitates the normal wave contact and just attach it with Hierarchy then you can link it to a bone and move it where you want it to be so its set to be always on there and give you a movement effect in case it moves. For sure someone will have a better solution,at least with this you can start to try out the effect and how it looks

[silver schooner]

It should be fun to script something to change how it behaves based on speed of the ship

[true bear]

I’m unsure if PTC can be referenced and altered in game on runtime

I’ll try it out I know emats can which is very nice

[plush lake]

there is a "wheeldust" componant thats mentioned in this vfx bootcamp. Maybe that could be used? "creat particals around the wheel basedo nthe terrain"https://youtu.be/gm2NjrWQWpY?t=696

[urban blade]

tbh i was thinking the same thing glad im not the only one ❤️

[urban blade]

This whole project has been loads of fun tbh

[urban blade]

Thanks for the suggestion ❤️

[small hinge]

Hey guys i need some help, my head is booming, im trying to finish a thing and i got pretty much 4 more days left, im trying to have a particle effect that simulates a shockwave, wich settings should i adjust or at least wich settings to tweak to get that result if anyone has figured it out already. because i cant seem to understand how to make the particle get pushed away. The general idea is like an implosion(if thats english) so something that pushes out and goes back to its origin, that part is good is just the pushing shockwave that i cant find a solution. Thanks

[true bear]

You can have the size decrease over liftetime and have It look as if it shrinks. So you could make a curve like this.

Something of that shape will get you a small to big to small.

What you need to do next is gauge your speed withe the lifetime time itself normally I use 0.100 as a strong explosion reference as this plays perfectly on time for an explosion or quick burst

Emitting time should be 0.010

Should only emit once

[silver schooner]

So like a spring

[true bear]

Sort of. There’s no real expand and contract it’s just scaling. You could also modify the birth rate along side to make this look wider I guess

As far as the actual spring option goes (I’d avoid using it unless you’re working with something specific)

[small hinge]

managed to get a similar effect tho thanks, not as i wish but will do the work

[dense flume]

is there a way to copy/paste multiple particle emitters?

[amber arrow]

you can "save as" and choose another ptc file, it will be like ctrl-c + ctrl-v

[dense flume]

but that would be all

for example i made a gas effect for a rifle and want to copy that over to other rifles

[dense flume]

also, how do Blast prefabs work?

like, what exactly does all of this do under scr_particlecontactcomponent?

[dense flume]

mmm yum

dust kick up from nearby stuff

also new ak74 muzzleflashes because uhm.

same for aks74u.. since it apparently had basically no actual visual muzzleflash for 1p

[dense flume]

Sorry to bump but I'm still having issues with this... what does Game Material Effect mean? What's the Effect Index?

[dense flume]

so the way ashyl did his ak74 effect is to use multiple sprites that always look towards the camera for the muzzleflash

the same technique that smoke uses

instead of using axis locked billboards, that face the camera but also have a axis theyre locked to, making them seem more 3d as they dont rotate to look at you in a weird way

the reason why this is pretty hm :/ for muzzleflashes is that

it will usually leave gaps between the seperate little particles for the flash

[ripe tangle]

Ah yes that makes complete sense, axis locked is 100% the way to go

[dense flume]

this

compareed to

[ripe tangle]

Having it locked to camera makes it look completely out of whack, so agreed

[dense flume]

something like this

since its a texture sheet with a detailed muzzleflash

i use 2 of them per side to give the flame closer to the muzzle a thicker appearance while making some flame shoot out quite arrow like

at the end its all just personal preference at which is used but i really believe the texture he used makes the gaps lok VERY out of place

[ripe tangle]

I dont use particle effect mods, or any of the "better XXX" mods, they usually ruin either performance, visual/audio quality or both, vanilla stuff is peak

[dense flume]

welll...

muzzleflashes, vanilla is pretty good

i want to def keep vanilla style but make them a bit more realistic

[dense flume]

mmm yummmm

occasional supressor sparks

same for the flashhider

like 1 spark sheet makes it look so nice already

[dense flume]

this is what dday felt like

[true bear]

cricket noises

[true bear]

PPE/Particles

[low mango]

Anyone have any insight on creating I guess best way to describe it is a laser bolt or beam shoot out of a gun

Also hopefully this is the right channel to ask

[silver schooner]

You can't do that with particles, but you can draw a beam from point A to point B with script or a dynamically scaled beam mesh

[true bear]

You can it would just be very expensive

The beam drawing is definitely a better way to go about it.

You can use light and streak the flare as well.

[low mango]

Any guides to this I’m coming from SDK which runs off UE4 and having hard time with enfusion tools however what your saying does make sense and definitely would use the “drawing a beam” feel free to DM also! Don’t want to flood the wrong channel with my nonsense

[true bear]

Mm actually that’s got me thinking you could probably use a spotlight cone with a mask and probably resemble the same effect. Now you’ve got me interested since I do need lasers for something,

Mesh like tracers work too if you technically want to be really cheap

[true bear]

Hmm I think tonight I may make that video depends on how my day at work goes if it’s not too busy

I’m also likely going to cover scenario framework basics and a few other things. Hopefully seeing some new missions be created down the road from users.

We shall see

[sharp trellis]

What controls the distance between particles and character camera? Trying to make smoke completely engulf a players field of view instead of being a couple feet away (i know my pc will probably blow up)

[silver schooner]

material of the particle

[sharp trellis]

https://tenor.com/view/genius-shit-snoop-dogg-phat-tuesdays-thats-genius-its-genius-gif-24914106

[amber arrow]

Currently, I am working on new impact particle system that will be more physics-based. The vector of the particles is based on the impact angle. Particle size, velocity and other parameter of emitter changed (multiplied) depending on the energy of the projectile and the impact angle. For example, larger calibers produce larger hit effects, and the opposite is true for smaller calibers and as the projectile loses speed and energy, the effect will become smaller.

The current version of mod is already working well, and I have been able to optimize it significantly. It works well even with my shrapnel mod, which produces around 300 physical effects per explosion - however it is a compatibility issue that I will address when I publish the new Better Hits effects (I will make compat for shrapnel and BHE). The particles are local to the client, making it MP-ready

[true bear]

Good well needed

I’ve thought about this but never got around to it. Very very very very very very nice

[mint night]

Hello.

I was wondering if it is possible to freeze particles in the timeline this way the smoke don't propagate too much or we can make sure the explosions are properly display on the screenshot

(i don't do cinematics(yet), just set up a scene and take a screenshot)

Thanks in advance.

What i mean by this is that this particle stay this way regardless of what time it is and that it stays display this way on screen

[amber arrow]

You can disable particle update in debug menu when effect is in right state

[mint night]

I'll try to do that then.. will be harder to make bullet impacts then but this should be pretty useful.
Thank you

[mint night]

Got the job done btw.

Thanks a lot ^^

[coral wave]

How would I block some of the light in this particle effect? It is still showing the full orb of light even when looking at the pipe from underneath

[safe saffron]

Hi any ideas why the muzzle Effect (Backblast) is not working? the Rocket is fired by script, its working but these Effect dont trigger or so?

[hazy lynx]

If they are fired from script then you probably have to manually trigger their effects from script too.

[restive forge]

Hi, i can't find any method to trigger a MuzzleEffectComp 🙁

[wild wave]

Hi, I would like to know what the particle count limit is in the Arma Reforger engine, and if this limit is exceeded, will the engine forcibly remove the extra particles like in Arma 3?

[true bear]

1300 stability issues start. 1600-1800 Performance tank issues and render self destruction (particles being invisible or clipping, i can never tell if they are actually deleting or just going out of render because they re appear.). [measured from normal non emissive] this is also measured by density in a localized single region not world.

Particles are on CPU for collision reasons and simulation i assume. regarless please take my answer with some salt as this is what ive "personally" went by not what is official. always shoot for 1-180 for optmization 250-600 if you need to push it. Emissives will heavily tank performance and decrease that number. emitter count isnt the worry its the particles being emitted.

you should realisticly never be exceeding what bohemia is already doing unless you need a bit of push rule of thumb is always see how the developers did theirs in terms of size they have more familiarity.

also due to rendering layers particles do not show behind post process layers like chormatic abberation on glass for example so PPE + Particles arent exactly hand shaking.

[proper nymph]

thats pretty low, wasnt a3 like 20 thousand or sth

[wild wave]

Have you seen this video? After watching it, I thought the new engine had greatly increased the particle limit and that particles would no longer disappear. In the video, you can clearly see a huge number of particles being generated, and I didn’t notice any disappearing issues. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATBChqlUiJA

[wild wave]

I think the number of particles in the video exceeds the 1600–1800 limit, or is it just that larger particles were used so the actual count didn’t go over that number? Also, I didn’t notice any frame drops in the video (though I don’t know the creator’s PC specs).

[wild wave]

Sorry, I just noticed that the video’s FPS dropped to 25, so never mind what I just said.

[wild wave]

So what you mean is that the particles exceeding the threshold are temporarily stopped from rendering (disappear), but their data isn’t deleted, and when the particle count goes back down, they are rendered again (reappear)? Just like in the game "Call to Arms - Gates of Hell: Ostfront" ?

[silver schooner]

Limit is 10240

Or was last time I messed with it, once I crossed it the subsequent particles were not being rendered

One smoke particle occupying half of the screen has much bigger performance cost than 100 smoke particles far away

[true bear]

I only say limit as a safety net anything in a local region exceeding that can cause some performance issues.

[wild wave]

So is 10240 the actual limit enforced by the engine?

[silver schooner]

I know I hit the rendering limit when making my nuke since it creates particles on a quite wide area, if you ping me in the evening I can repro for you, but having 10000 particles in a single system is too many anyway

The only relatively legitimate circumstance where particle limit is an issue is when you start dealing with rocket trails, since for a continuous rocket trail you need to spawn a lot of particles, which is a bigger performance hit than drawing a trail mesh

So something like a GRAD launcher would need a lot of particles to look good

[dense flume]

I dont have shit on this. Holy crap

[dense flume]

This is what Reforger should have been shipped with

[uncut lantern]

Is an engine level mod like this possible? I see there's already support for curves for other properties but not the flipbook animation.

[dim knot]

The industrial lamps used in the Kolguyev coal mine shafts uses a ParticleEffectEntity as it's light source, rather than a LightEntity used in regular streetlamps, etc.
It seems once the lamp has been destroyed the light source remains.
Is it possible to add a damage/destruction component to the ParticleEffectEntity in order to destroy it too? Or is there another way to delete the light source once the parent (lamp) has been destroyed?

[true bear]

Is the particle slotted as a child?

I’ll likely look at this tonight

[dim knot]

It is, however when you try and pass on damage via the parent it still doesn't work.🤷‍♂️

[true bear]

Just the light remains eh?

[dim knot]

Indeed...

https://youtu.be/R6CeCYGHbUg?si=RbUKm85JvM2bgFiL

[small hinge]

I think the only way could be making the light directly a destructible entity so that it swaps completely the prefab with no light, I did that for my portal and worked. Obv is kinda a pain in the ass but at the end I think you will just duplicate them in the world editor and be fine with it.

[forest mesa]

I did the same thing with particel effect to get color-changeing lights.

I simply added SCR_LampComponent and set there the according .ptc

I think the other things i added was only to make it switchable etc., as far as i remember it should work out of the box with only the lampcomponent. Ah, and yes, there is a SCR_DestructionMultiPhaseComponent, delete after final phase checked.

Works fine for me, i can change the light very easy to every color via .ptc (well and let it smooth change through the color range, which is pretty nice). If you shoot it, it gets destroyed, so working as intended.

Only thing a bit suboptimal is you have to be careful not to use it on thin walls etc. since sometimes (yeah, nice to fix.^^) it shines trough (would be glad to fix it, if somebody knows why this is happening?) .

[urban laurel]

Has something changed with the lifetime of tracers in the latest experimental build?

Seems one of our weapons is having the visible tracer appear behind the gun now

[dusky hazel]

the Operation Omega SP campaign trailer should have used more puddle effects with the rain hitting the ground, even if it only becomes an optional feature in the game

[wintry thistle]

If i wanted to change the color of a base game particle, what would be the steps to do so? Ive been looking around in the editor and im a bit lost.

[small hinge]

Duplicate/overwrite depending on what you want to do with the particle and in the editor at the bottom you should check for the color curves

[wintry thistle]

Cool cool ill take a look

[wintry thistle]

Havent been able to find that setting yet unless im blind

[true bear]

Alter the Ematerials albedo colour on the particle class. Or within the lifetime/emitting time curves modify the colour within the Particle editor.

[wintry thistle]

Found it thanks yall

[native zealot]

I just made a (close enough) White Phosphorus particle and incendiary particle for a grenade mod and I used the Trigger entity from Bacon's GMFX mod for the damage. I couldn't figure out a way to do it myself so after days of trying I used GMFX as a dependency.

[true bear]

How many particles does it emit at peak

[native zealot]

Until GMFX is updated I don't know. I know the original particle was bad for performance, I wanted to have the realistic "sprites" with the smoke trail so used another particle prefab to do so. It looked okay. (Image is one of the screenshots taken during my testing)

[native zealot]

Got it loaded up, at peak the current particle was 158 "things". IDK if that's a lot or not.

[true bear]

158 is alright. Check out my smoke particle in Space Core for the Grenade launchers on our tanks you’ll like those same concept

[worn dragon]

Thought I put the qeustion in here as well.
Im working on a new round for my gun it shoots quite few sub pellets I got that part all to work however the base warhead effect kinda breaks my performance.
I like the hit effecht on enemy and objects and like to keep it just not the smoke since with all extra pellets it fire its kinda overwelming.

[silver schooner]

How many pellets are there that it causes lag lol 500?

[worn dragon]

turned out my pellets where hitting the barrel of the gun (:

[silver schooner]

classic

[minor kettle]

Hey guys, its possible to make a particle not move ? like b eing static just there?

The particle im trying to edit has a 10s run time, is it possible to set it to 0 somehow? i just cant find where to do it

[forest mesa]

velocity 0?

[minor kettle]

I had set it to 0 but it still kept moving last night. Just now when i get on, its not moving.. i dont understand lol

Thanks tho

[forest mesa]

check settings for randomness and wind?

[rich compass]

Set everything to 0 unless it’s a prefab. If it is, set the velocity to 0 as well. Also, check if it’s attached to a parent or something, since it’s a prefab.

[coral wave]

Anyone else having crashes as soon as they open their particle effects in the editor or just opening the folder the particle effects are in? It keeps giving me this error:

I remade the particles from scratch and they were fine until I closed the tools and reopened them

[coral wave]

It's not out of bounds though, still sitting at 0,0,0

the only way I can fix this is if I create a new particle from scratch (doesn't have to be anything, just the default smoke) and save it and then I can open the other particles

[true bear]

Your file is likely corrupted because the error is showing your particle quite literally showing at 2.09e+09 which is more than likely the issue with the entity transform. Unsure what you did but the system can’t manage the entity resulting in the crash

Having it be the same on every axis just kinda points at it even more. Realistically you can just copy your emitter and paste it into a new PTC

[coral wave]

I've remade these a few times. A fix for a bit is to create a blank particle effect and then it let's me continue to work on my old ones

Also, specifically started happening after this update

[coral wave]

Ill make a video of it tonight if I can

[hazy lynx]

The issues is that is it outside of the world bounds. Exactly as it says.

[true bear]

Is it possible we could please get a timeline slider for the particle editor to allow us to move between frames whilst viewing the animation?

[north forum]

THey are not frame based like that, so most likely not

They are simulated

Maybe perhaps doing soemthing like the anim editor could work, where you can record the frames

[past iron]

Has anyone managed a second exhaust emitter ? I was having a look and it seems that maybe I have to add a child prefab or something rather than a script to emit a second particle from the motorexhaistcomparrnent ?

[native zealot]

So, I'm working on a Bouncing Betty and I was wondering how I could offset an effect in the particle editor? I have the Betty's prefab spawn as an effect to mimic the bounce and I was wondering how I would get the other effects to trigger after the bounce effect.

[true bear]

Use velocity/angle to spring it upward as you have an use restitution values on collision to control the “bounce/stickyness” of it

[trail nacelle]

hello. how can i manipulate the shape of a particle [ smoke or something ] or create a particle to simulate a vapor cone? ive tried with little progress

[forest mesa]

You could use vanilla assets and play with the angle the particles get spawned to get a cone - be mindful of how many you spawn though.

[silver schooner]

Particles are textures drawn on top of quads

For your use case I'd use a mesh with some funny alpha material, assuming devs fixed z-buffer issues with translucent materials

[north forum]

This functionality has been added to control particles with ease in cinematic editor as per@mint night request on https://feedback.bistudio.com/T196736

[true bear]

[ornate parcel]

How do I get my particle to not stick around for forever? When I edit the existing particles I dont have this issue, but when creating a fresh one from scratch I can't seem to get it to abide by the lifetime I set

It's two emitters, each with the same values.

(After the 30 second mark it's just the particle continuing to be displayed, nothing interesting happens)

[ornate parcel]

It was this being checked that did it 🥲

[dense flume]

sun in a briefcase 😭

[dense flume]

looking back up and we need this BADLY

[dim meteor]

I have the same question

[balmy mist]

hello how am i able to add things like fog to a certain area on a custom map im creating , trying to get this to stay but when i hit play it dissapears

[forest mesa]

fog currently is only global (you can only add ONE per map, if you have a subscene it will pull from original file as soon as you F5), so you would have to do it either per particle or script.

also i think it needs to be in the default layer

[balmy mist]

Yes it does I just figured it out ,it would be awesome if you could place it like an entity

[median thistle]

Is this a thing?

[dense flume]

yea

refx:muzzles

[median thistle]

Very nice

[wide echo]

Hello guys , when i put to zero the air resistance and wind influence, my smoke is still influenced by the wind on the world , what am i doing wrong ?

[past iron]

you want all emitters to be like this ot just the one highlighted ? Smoke Main ?

maybe all emitters need the setting seperately

[native zealot]

Look at how BI does the steam at the hot springs on Koleyguv, or Cain in tools.

[balmy mist]

I figured it out already my g , u can use different particles, hot spring steam and such 👌🏾 appreciate you tho g

[wintry thistle]

Is there a method of importing custom particles?

[silver schooner]

You can import textures. You make particle systems in the particle editor.

[wintry thistle]

Same way I would import a mesh?

[spiral dragon]

does anyone know if you can have more dynamic explosion effects? for example more explosives = bigger explosions

and it not being tied to the specific explosive

[true bear]

Elaborate a little further.

[spiral dragon]

best way id explain it is like in squad, 1 tnt block = small explosion, 10 = medium, 50= sizeable explosion

[true bear]

Like a compacted explosion all together for particles? Hmm you could see how the logi trucks handle the explosion effect or perhaps you may have to script something.

[spiral dragon]

logi trucks have a seperate explosion i believe for each stage of fullness iirc

not opposed to scripting but i am worried of engine limitations lol

[coarse helm]

The fuel depots had it in 1.4, but it looks like BI disabled the destruction component in WB. Not sure if all three containers still blow up or what they went off of but there's probably something in there you can check out -- likewise for the fuel trucks.

[spiral dragon]

once i get around to it i will report my findings

[sly quarry]

Im basicaly zero on particles, but i want recreate something as huge forest fire, maybe someone saw good prefabs/particles for that

[native zealot]

I just figured out a way to do this using Bratemast while making a molotov.

[native zealot]

I am working on a APERS Mine, modeled after the widely known Bouncing Betty, I used the M14 ptc as a base and I was wondering what are the trigger emitters and what do they do?

[median thistle]

Wow this looks great!!

If I’m not mistaken CollisionTriggerComponent (pressure), then the ejected sub-projectile you spawn from it gets either a TimerTriggerComponent (fixed delay after ejection)

[tough cypress]

I'm new to particles, but either blind or doing something stupid... Trying to edit a smoke emitter, but can't seem to change the color. Looking at the .ptc file.

Under 'Particle Lifetime', clicking on 'color' has no effect (doesn't bring up a picker). I can hit 'reset' which takes it to black, but nothing else. Under 'Emitting Time', Color Mast is white, and similarly unresponsive to clicks.

[native zealot]

Look here to change the color of things in the particle editor.

[sharp trellis]

is there a way to get particles to rotate around the center instead of themselves? Bascially need a particle to travel in a revolving circle

[true bear]

3D particles

Just get a particle effect entity turn it into a prefab and use it as 3D

You’ll have to have 2 versions of it one that’s static one that’s on the required axis

[sharp trellis]

Ended up just making particle a prefab and created an animation in blender to move it around how I wanted. Is that what you meant or is there a better way to do it?

[sharp trellis]

If you are using a standard 2d particle then duplicating the material and change the color in the actual emat file is a lot easier than using particle editor to do it imo. You can open the emat file in its own window and have it open while looking at particle editor to see the changes live if you don’t want to use two monitors

[true bear]

You can use the 3D particles in particle editor to move them

It uses a prefab instead of texture.

And then that prefab you use can be a particle

[sharp trellis]

ohhhhhhhh ok I see what you're saying

[true bear]

I mean using animation player is one thing but if it’s a simple animation like rotating it can be done through ptc

[dreamy sinew]

How can I make the particle static after a while? like 10 or 20 sec later

[tranquil geode]

can someone help me start somewhere with my mod?

i am trying to add cloth physics to clothing items that changes based on wind

is this the right channel?

[half minnow]

It’s the wrong channel, but I’m not entirely sure this would be possible anyways. Someone more knowledgeable could comment, but I think trying so would be going down a rabbit hole to nothing.

Right channel would probably be more so #enfusion_model or #enfusion_physics , even

[tranquil geode]

it is possible

but thank you for your help

[half minnow]

No problem, good luck in your journey

[hazy lynx]

No it's not.

There is no cloth physics in this engine

[tranquil geode]

i will make them

[hazy lynx]

You'll fake them, not make them.

[tranquil geode]

i will make them

the doubt fuels me

i dont care if it takes 10 years

[hazy lynx]

It's gonna take longer than that.

[tranquil geode]

so be it

[hazy lynx]

The engine doesn't support soft body physics.

[tranquil geode]

i will find a solution for that

the only thing that can stop me is myself

[hazy lynx]

I hate to say you're wrong but, you're wrong .

The only thing you can do is create fake cloth physics

Which will be unoptimized and expensive.

Unless you do animations.

[tranquil geode]

i hate to say that I cant stop at this point

[tranquil geode]

it might be this

[tranquil geode]

or this

or true cloth physics

regardless i will learn this engine

and implement it

[hazy lynx]

You're not going to create real cloth physics. Sorry to burst your bubble. But good luck.

[tranquil geode]

thank you for the luck and dont apologize you have not bursted my bubble

[hidden tapir]

Possible it cooooould be if you use the PBRTreeMat.. it reacts to wind values.. but if it will look like you want to have it is the other thing

[past iron]

You maybe able to use that treemat data and use baseanimcomponent for a pseudo cloth script

In combination with some spine like anims agr in the way vehicle spine react to speed

[hazy lynx]

Causes crash lol

[hidden tapir]

You tried it?

[hazy lynx]

Of course

[hidden tapir]

Hahaha nice 😂😂 okey then i got no solution so far.. only thing would work a new type of shader 🤔

[hazy lynx]

We can't do custom shaders

[hidden tapir]

I know

[sharp trellis]

Just make every triangle its own dynamic physics object. A single cloth will only cost 99% of your FPS🤣

[silver schooner]

I tried putting a ragdoll entity as a child of a character to have a moving cape but it just instantly crashed

[lilac oriole]

How do i change the color of the particles? I've overidden a particle system in my mod, but clicking on the color box does nothing. Do i have to edit it manually?

[hidden tapir]

Particles have textures, you need to change the color of the texture. But in the particle effect you also need to select your texture

[lilac oriole]

OH MY GOSH

thank you so much!!!!

I was editing the file by opening it in visual studio

and just changing the numbers

[noble copper]

@obsidian garnet - Notice the console optmization and we had been looking at doing somthing similar. Does your addon detect and only apply the changes to the console users locallly?

[native zealot]

Is there a way to make the blue ground square larger? I tried using a flat plane model with a terrain collider but it didn't really work.

[high kestrel]

Why are particles not displayed behind glass 😢 my dreams for a shockwave effect are ruined

@silver schooner have you ever found a solution for this? I see you attempted this as well

[silver schooner]

No, I don't work for Bohemia so I am not able to fix bugs in the game engine

[obsidian garnet]

hi, sorry for slow reply, so currently the mod reduces vanilla particle effects globally for all users, i am currently making a compatability mod that detects all third party particles and effects and reduces them all for all users, irrespective of platform. So although labelled as a console optimiser, it acts more of a global performance optimiser. more updates coming. stay tuned! i may look at making a section in enfuzion showase so you can more easily track progress

[obsidian garnet]

https://discord.com/channels/105462288051380224/1502963717359276092 for any discussion related to the mods 🫡

[sage sleet]

third time lol

[obsidian garnet]

the destroyer of consoles

[sage sleet]

only fires once. witha hundred or so ptc that disappear quickly

[vestal trout]

Reminds me of the combine

[sage sleet]

laser/beam emats

[urban laurel]

Hammer Of Dawn mod wen

[topaz solar]

hi! can i somehow attach this "hot" effect to vehicle? so it wont stay in air when lav will drive

[mental path]

Curious if anyone in this channel knows how to make a convincing waterfall. I've only seen one in game before and it was pretty good but I couldn't replicate it myself.

[arctic wave]

Custom falling water plane w/ stream material?

[silver schooner]

Probably a combination of particles and scrolling texture on a mesh

[chrome pagoda]

https://youtu.be/aUrCfvDXdsM

#enfusion_terrain is a better place to ask for terrain related particles. Lots of wizards

[spare tiger]

One of the EOH maps has a pretty convincing waterfall. Can always check to see how they did it

Wrong user..Sorry. @mental path

[arctic wave]

All good

[amber arrow]

Is there a way to bind hit particles not to a specific weapon, but to all at once?
i want to make mod like "better hit effects"

[lofty sundial]

Check the prefabs the weapons are using, that should point you in the right direction.

[amber arrow]

i found only muzzle flash and smoke component,i need hit particles effects, like when bullet hit concrete

[lofty sundial]

Hmm, @warped oriole?

But I believe these should work in a similar manner, try searching for hitEffect on projectile prefabs 🤔

[warped oriole]

Gamematerials have those hit particles assigned to it

[amber arrow]

yea, i found .ptc files. But i need to replace them with my own .ptc files

and do they work with any weapon

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2190826124 i want to make similar mod for new arma

[warped oriole]

If you search for e.g. concrete.gamemat, it has Particle Effect param, that's the one.

[amber arrow]

Found it, but how i can replace them with my .ptc?

[warped oriole]

You have to overwrite that in your mod

[amber arrow]

just name my .ptc files the same as the original ones?

[amber arrow]

How to overwrite that?

[warped oriole]

Don't ping me, please.

[amber arrow]

ok

[amber arrow]

https://imgur.com/a/3gLL1Ka is that what i need?

[amber arrow]

YEEEEEES I FOUND WAY TO DID IT

[eternal path]

Real question for yall, with this new engine when helicopters comes out (eventually) do any of yall think you can add the Kopp Etchells Effect on rotors when landing in a dusty environment?
https://external-preview.redd.it/3QKlTre4ZJKyZoprC61w40AgctzuQnehrkFfDfWTzJ4.jpg?auto=webp&s=98a56acc1f096b6eed5ccda65013325310b96e71

[amber arrow]

BetterHitsEffects mod finally done, check it out

[raw jay]

Haha it won't be long until we have blastcore

[sudden tartan]

ive been using BetterHitsEffects mod, i like it

did it get updated?

its not as good as Extreme particle settings in Squad, but its better than the default A:R particle effects

[crimson oak]

Would explosions like this be possible in enfusion?

Reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993wlZ6XFSs

Imagine seeing something like that at night time.. at the enemy base. Turning around to your pals and saying "I think... we gottem"

[runic minnow]

If you spend enough time on your particle effects, yes

[alpine tide]

So far best explosions and effects are in squad imo. If we will have something similar it would be neat. Current visual effects in AR is very basic. I hope this engine will surprise us all and show next level of visual effects. Looking forward.

[viscid nymph]

Dose anyone know if your able to connect a light to a particle

[amber arrow]

Yes i think, but we dont have such powerful explosives yet

[amber arrow]

ye, u can see all updates in mod page in workshop

I am planning to add hit effects which depends on the caliber of weapon, like 14,5x114 have same effect like 9x18, is there a way to did it?

[sudden tartan]

imo the best looking explosions in videogames right now is in Squad, they got really impressive columns of smoke coming up wherever artillery hits, and the sparkles of shrapnel getting heating looks amazing

hopefully with modding arma refooreger can surpass that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEZ8VyLThlI

[amber arrow]

i will try to do same effect

i will try to do shrapnel effect (only visual) for grenades

https://imgur.com/a/6p6ZPgU

shrapnel effect for rpg

does anyone know how can i open small world from sample mod? I'm tired of waiting five minutes for the loading to see what my particles look like in the game

[amber arrow]

maybe there are users of my mod here, why such a low rating? Is there a problem with the mod?

[crimson oak]

If someone could make those mortar FX that would be epic

[amber arrow]

If some one wants to work with me, dm me

[alpine tide]

Flash itself looks good, but I not a fan of sparks

[amber arrow]

ok, i will make them less visible

done

[amber arrow]

yes, i know about this map, but i need map with diff materials and buildings to see patricles for concrete, brick and others

[paper frost]

only one way, is to make your own small map with different terrain painted on it

no need to add trees or buildings, just 4 squares of different terrains type

[amber arrow]

thank you

i will try to do something like this https://youtu.be/dXi7orrbOb4

[alpine tide]

Would be neat

[charred tree]

yeah, particles in squad are really impressive

[amber arrow]

a big update for BetterHitsEffects has been released, check it

https://youtu.be/JeYm_qiYSd4 Concrete hits effect

[amber arrow]

https://youtu.be/lelDYFqvaGs Explosion and physical debris

[amber arrow]

I need feedback about betterhitseffects, so, please, leave your opinion and suggestions here

[supple radish]

This is amazing so far! Rpg might be cooler if it had a more noticable flash? Other than that I think more variety is the only thing that can be improved.

[amber arrow]

Thank you! I will do that

[stark crane]

A thing that GTA V does when there's a lot of gunfire or impacts in an area, a cloud forms around the location

So I recommend making the particles like 3-5x larger and see about creating a big dust cloud if you shoot up an area

Same with the smoke cloud if there's a lot of gunfire

@amber arrow

[amber arrow]

yes, this effect is already included in the mod, each hit has an almost transparent large cloud of dust

[stark crane]

In that case I'd just increase the dust cloud size

[amber arrow]

Ok, i will do that in next update

[stark crane]

https://youtu.be/DI2GUmyLGWs

Look how big that cloud is and consider how windy it is in that video

[amber arrow]

yea, i will use this reference

[stark crane]

https://youtu.be/BYjcj_Naruk

Here's more refs if you're interested

Primarily at 11:11

Idk if infusion is capable of going that far, but it would be cool to try

At some point it looks like a smoke grenade lmao

[amber arrow]

yes, thank you

[alpine tide]

https://youtu.be/7VeqqNuQU_4
Different calibres and different walls

[gritty iris]

Squad has the most realistic weapon effects ive seen in a game. They would be great to use as a reference.

[onyx pond]

Shooting sand should kick it up like smoke kinda

[ornate saddle]

cross post from scripting: any ideas on how to get smoke particles emitting between two points in a straight line? Would like to do a steam catapult like effect like on a3 Nimitz - needs to be scripted

[ornate saddle]

is the class the right path? SCR_ParticleEmitter

[sudden tartan]

is this the current version?

because it looks nothing like this for me in-game, which makes me think the automatic update in the workshop is doing something wrong

[alpine tide]

I assume it's old version in video

[amber arrow]

2.0.0 is current version

[amber arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2fdcQqh-vY i just recorded it, it works for me

[alpine tide]

Frag grenade explosions are really good. Maybe a bit bigger than irl, but still good.

IMO lifespan of sparks are too long. Maybe glow should go off before sparks starting to fall down. Also sparks glow too bright.

[amber arrow]

i will do that

[alpine tide]

Tested a bit mote. Sparks are to bright only at close range. At long distance they are fine.

[crimson oak]

I bet it looks good at night

[raw zephyr]

Yo

[supple radish]

Amazing as always, some very nit-picky feedback; frag grenades cloud of smoke could use a little longer duration? And grenade launcher isn't quite as good as frag, again this is very picky. (As late said sparks last a little long.)

[amber arrow]

Thank you, working on that

[raw zephyr]

Someone make blastcore please

[prisma monolith]

this not a request thread mind you

[raw zephyr]

I am aware lol i just saw the video above

[supple radish]

Just remembered, is it possible for the grenade fragmentation effects to have varying sizes and amounts?

[amber arrow]

Yes

[amber arrow]

Does anybody know how to increase the lifetime of decals?

[pallid topaz]

What’s the easiest way to see a particle in world editor? Make a prefab out of the .ptc file?

[amber arrow]

This is my test world for particles

[inland wind]

Has anyone made a flare yet?
I'm absolutely clueless about how to set up lights in this engine 😄

[autumn sigil]

So im finally getting a different error for my tasks when JIP, im now getting this FrameCorruption and RplCorruptionError. The result being I spawn in the ocean with the faction screen flickering in and out.

Anyone knows what those mean, im guessing its to do with my taskData

[lofty sundial]

taskData is an instance of custom class? It needs to have codec defined, I know I wrote one for class SCR_GameModeEndData, check that for reference

[autumn sigil]

ahh I think I see what you mean, the Encode and Decode functions?

[lofty sundial]

Encode, Decode, Extract, Inject.. There is plenty of them

[lofty sundial]

/*
class CustomClass
{
    //! From snapshot to packet.
    static void Encode(SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx, ScriptBitSerializer packet);

    //! From packet to snapshot.
    static bool Decode(ScriptBitSerializer packet, ScriptCtx ctx, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot);

    //! Snapshot to snapshot comparison.
    static bool SnapCompare(SSnapSerializerBase lhs, SSnapSerializerBase rhs, ScriptCtx ctx);

    //! Property mem to snapshot comparison.
    static bool PropCompare(RplTestPropType prop, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx);

    //! Property mem to snapshot extraction.
    static bool Extract(RplTestPropType prop, ScriptCtx ctx, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot);

    //! Snapshot to property memory injection.
    static bool Inject(SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx, RplTestPropType prop);
}
*/```

From `EnNetwork.c`

[autumn sigil]

So I have implemeted the codec methods, like done in the ElminateTask in the coop sample but am still getting that RPLCourruptionError. Using this code ``` static override void Encode(SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx, ScriptBitSerializer packet)
{
snapshot.Serialize(packet, GetDataSize());
}

static override bool Decode(ScriptBitSerializer packet, ScriptCtx ctx, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot) 
{
    return snapshot.Serialize(packet, GetDataSize());
}

static override bool SnapCompare(SSnapSerializerBase lhs, SSnapSerializerBase rhs, ScriptCtx ctx) 
{
    return lhs.CompareSnapshots(rhs, GetDataSize());
}

static bool PropCompare(SCR_GOLKillTaskData prop, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx) 
{
    return snapshot.Compare(prop.m_TargetEntityRplID, 4);
}

static bool Extract(SCR_GOLKillTaskData prop, ScriptCtx ctx, SSnapSerializerBase snapshot) 
{
    snapshot.SerializeBytes(prop.m_TargetEntityRplID, 4);
    
    return true;
}

static bool Inject(SSnapSerializerBase snapshot, ScriptCtx ctx, SCR_GOLKillTaskData prop) 
{
    snapshot.SerializeBytes(prop.m_TargetEntityRplID, 4);
    
    return true;
}```

oops, just realised this isnt the scripting channel

[empty bison]

Hey @tidal leaf did you know how can i make and effect in the camera of the player ?

[tidal leaf]

sorry not really my cup of tea, what effect do you have in mind?

[empty bison]

night vision ? 😄

i've see we can setup post effect materials but I don't know which one to take and how can i apply this to the main camera

[tidal leaf]

I guess that would need a new post process shader, but as far as I know we don't allow to do so...

[empty bison]

internal reason or cause its not possible ?

[tidal leaf]

don't really know what the reason is

[empty bison]

ok thanks 😉

[amber arrow]

https://goo.su/EPSkF here is instruction

fuxk

[empty bison]

...

[tribal mantle]

LMAO

[amber arrow]

what do u think?

[alpine tide]

I think it's great 👍🏻

[amber arrow]

Is it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB7Ob7I0KWw better than it

[amber arrow]

.

[amber arrow]

sand

is it good?

[queen totem]

shouldnt the amount of sparks depend on the hardness of the target? Very hard target and soft projectile -> lot of sparks. Thin and/or soft metal target -> no spark at all, projectile just goes through

[amber arrow]

It is real to make in Enfusion, but it will be a lot of work

[queen totem]

in A3 we had impact sound and stuff defined for different materials, per bullet. So author of building/object defines hard/thick material etc. And bullet chooses based on impact material type the type of impact effect (soft bullet -> sparks for most metals; AP bullet -> sparks for hard/thick metals )

[amber arrow]

Yea, i know about that, but in reforger there are only 1 material for each type, like 1 type of concrete, metal and others

[queen totem]

oof ok...

[amber arrow]

btr can be penetrated from the M60

lol

[queen totem]

its just 5-7mm thick

[amber arrow]

and cant be penetrated from the PKM as i remember, but pkm has 7,62x54 instead 7,62x51

[queen totem]

could it be checked if projectile "dies" on the impact or not? Imagine having 30 Metal "plates" of 0.05mm thickness arranged behind eachother. If it was like your current effect, all of them would display the sparks impact (lag?)

[fathom jackal]

bigger bullets travel slower (not in every case), speed is the key to beating armor. M60 m-velocity is 853m/s, PKM m-velocity is 825 m/s. idk if that's enough of a difference but it would make since.

[amber arrow]

im trying to make an explosion decal now, but i dont know how

Does anyone knows how to place decals?

on trigger

what is "hierargy" component

Hierarchy?

[raw zephyr]

If you want to make a scripted decal, you can call World.CreateDecal()

@amber arrow

look up the documentation on that function by going to its declaration

it accepts a resource name of the material

/*!
    Creates single visual mark, e.g. from shots, version with projection vector and angle
    //when lifetime=0, pointer to decal is returned, that can be removed by RemoveDecal then
    \param entity                entity where the Track should be created
    \param origin                first point of the decal, nothing is done now
    \param project            projection direction (length is far clipping distance)
    \param nearclip            near clipping distance
    \param farclip            far clipping distance
    \param materialName Material used for decal
    \param size                 size of decal
    \param stretch             stretch of decal
    \param lifetime            Lifetime in seconds, if created with zero or negative value it's used as static and the pointer to decal is returned
    \param color                color of decal
    \return Decal pointer for static decals or null if the decal is dynamic or wasn't created for some reason (invalid material, NoDecal flag, ...)
    */
    proto external Decal CreateDecal(notnull IEntity entity, vector origin, vector project, float nearclip, float farclip, float angle, float size, float stretch, string materialName, float lifetime, int color);

here's a snippet of how I create a blood decal in BloodLust2:

auto surfaceTraceParam = BL_Utilities.GetSurfaceIntersection(
            _owner,
            _world,
            hitPosition,
            hitDirection,
            BL_Constants.SURFACE_SPLATTER_INTERSECTION_DISTANCE,
            intersectionPosition
        );
        if (surfaceTraceParam.TraceEnt) // spawn splatter on surface
        {
            _world.CreateDecal(
                surfaceTraceParam.TraceEnt,
                intersectionPosition - hitDirection * (BL_Constants.DECAL_FAR_PLANE / 4),
                hitDirection,
                0,
                BL_Constants.DECAL_FAR_PLANE,
                Math.RandomFloat(0, 360) * Math.DEG2RAD,
                Math.RandomFloat(MIN_DECAL_SIZE, MAX_DECAL_SIZE),
                1,
                GetRandomSplatterMaterialPath(),
                BL_Constants.DECAL_LIFETIME_SECS,
                materialColor
            );
        }

    static TraceParam GetSurfaceIntersection(
        IEntity owner,
        World world,
        vector origin,
        vector direction, 
        float distance, 
        out vector intersectionPosition
    )
    {
        auto param = new TraceParam();
          param.Start = origin;
          param.End = origin + direction * distance;
          param.Flags = TraceFlags.WORLD | TraceFlags.ENTS;
          param.Exclude = owner;
        float intersectionDistance = world.TraceMove(param, NULL) * distance;
        intersectionPosition = origin + (direction * intersectionDistance);
        return param;
    }

hope that helps

[amber arrow]

Thank you!

[amber arrow]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCXE1llS3Ok

[stark crane]

Looking pretty good but the dust cloud should stay in the air for longer

Lifetime should be like 10-15 seconds

I actually played around with one of your particles and got this

https://gyazo.com/6abac4c8984a24f780cc83c4bfed102a

Doesnt exactly look like a dustcloud but it does stay in the air for a good amount of time

[silver schooner]

are the particle systems gpu driven?

[mint ruin]

Individual particles yes, but emitters no, AFAIK

[silver schooner]

is there wiki info on what is an individual particle?

also, any plans on making emitters gpu driven?

[silver schooner]

btw I noticed alpha blending looks better when particle tex is imported as sRGB instead of linear, does this have any repercussions?

[amber arrow]

I will do that in next update

[alpine tide]

I think we need better "better ost" mod )

[gritty iris]

I mean if you are going for realism when shooting sandbags you dont see any dust what so ever.

[silver schooner]

any plans for fixing particle alpha when fog is involved?

[stark crane]

This wasn't intended to be a sandbag impact

[amber arrow]

First try to do shock wawe

[amber arrow]

Wich one is better?

is there any ways to make shrapnel hit effect like this when shell explode on a wall? Like attache these particles to terrain

[fathom jackal]

3 I think

[winged lintel]

They all look really good tbh 🥺

[silver schooner]

if you're working with a shockwave have you tried a transparent particle with a radial gradient as a normal map? would that distort things? it doesnt

[amber arrow]

lol

[loud meteor]

Sound of clip 3 is really good. Visuals of clip 2 are the best. If you put them together, they kinda feel like Squad (Another Realsim Military Simulator).

But why not make the explosions random?

[hushed nova]

these tracers are the best i have seen in any game. Only thing that could make them better is if they could somehow generate a bit of light to objects around them. Also every once in awhile a tracer will get "stuck" in a wall and continue to burn. I think you have that modeled but im not sure

[amber arrow]

Im working om that

[solemn island]

I have an issue where particles don't look the same ingame as they do in particle editor

[amber arrow]

This is due to the lighting in the editor, I do not know how to fix it. You just need to get used to it

[young tree]

How would I go about making a glowstick?

Is it a particle effect that I use for the illumination?

[silver schooner]

me thinks a prefab item that has a light or an emissive texture?

[storm stratus]

Is there a way to get smoke to linger around after each gunshot?
I am firing a large cannon and need smoke to be produced after each shot and stick around for a while but every time I shoot the next shot, the smoke from the first shot disappears

[amber arrow]

I did it quickly, so it's not very high quality, but it's possible

[storm stratus]

How? Is it maybe a function of my particle system?

[storm stratus]

Figured it out

[amber arrow]

Does anyone know how to increase the size (area) of the decal?

[hushed nova]

any updates on the tracers? i love the look. Last you were saying you were trying to get the tracer to get stuck and "burn" any luck doing that?

[mint ruin]

I've seen it public mod already

[hushed nova]

the new ones she posted a few days ago? the ones that are really good?

this one ? https://discordapp.com/channels/105462288051380224/976791301347483709/980097909330673664

[amber arrow]

at the moment we have the effect of hitting the tracer, but this is not what I want, I will definitely finish it soon

[hushed nova]

is the effect randomized and rare? like once every few dozen bullets the tracer will get stuck in something?

[amber arrow]

Now there is no tracer jam at all, when hitting the surface, the tracer "explode" or something effect appears (for example in a wall), and all tracer bullets have a very high chance of ricochet and they slow down after hit by ~ 70 percent

[hushed nova]

shouldnt it be randomized so every once in awhile a tracer get stuck? have you seen combat footage this sometimes happens

[amber arrow]

I'll do it in the best possible way, but I need to figure out how

[ornate saddle]

I'm trying to add a SCR_MotorExhausEffectGeneralComponent to my cube. The component asks for 'RPM Signal' and 'Thrust Signal'. Any ideas how to generate those signals on a static level, e.g. 1000 RPM and 100% Thrust?

alternatively, any scripted approach with CreateDecal that generates a Vehicle_smoke_car_exhaust_normal particle would be great

[mint ruin]

you need to have a script which

• finds SignalsManagerComponent on same entity
• finds signal RPM
• sets value of signal

[severe otter]

Apologies if this is the wrong channel. Could anyone tell me where a the brightness of a weapon's muzzle flash is defined? Not the flare itself, but rather the light that emits around the shooter.

[ornate saddle]

Thanks, I put something together: added a SignalsManagerComponent to the entity. Used a small script and tied the exhaust to RPM and Thrust signal names. Unfortunately no particle effect visible. The mod is up at https://tetet.de/arma/reforger/TeTeTCube.7z . In SCR_MoveCube.c (scripts/Game/scripts) I have the following code now: cs m_SignalsManager = SignalsManagerComponent.Cast(owner.FindComponent(SignalsManagerComponent)); Print("Setting RPM to 1000"); m_SignalsManager.AddOrFindSignal("RPM", 1000.0); m_SignalsManager.AddOrFindSignal("Thrust", 100.0);

[amber arrow]

Its "Glow", to increase brighthness set "Alpha", u can add "Explosion_..." to particle fol light that emits around the shooter.

[tacit zinc]

Hi al. some of the stuff in here is look great. quick question please. where do I save my new effect so it can be used ingame to test? as you cant save over the original .Ptc file what is the process to get a working partical mod

[tacit zinc]

Nvm figured ot out 👍
You need to override the original .ptc file into your own mod folder. By right clicking the original effect and select "override into nameofyourmod"

[ornate saddle]

This more simple script approach seems to work: cs SCR_ParticleAPI.PlayOnObjectPTC(owner, "Particles/Vehicle/Vehicle_smoke_car_exhaust_normal.ptc", vector.Zero, vector.Zero, -1, true);

not clear to me if the PTC should be addressed with the GUID or not, e.g. {E60F6CCD3E871566}Particles/Vehicle/Vehicle_smoke_car_exhaust_normal.ptc or Particles/Vehicle/Vehicle_smoke_car_exhaust_normal.ptc ?

[amber arrow]

i think i lost my BetterHitsEffects mod(

[severe otter]

I had no luck getting what I wanted by editing particles, and I found that the light flash is actually part of the weapon prefab. You can edit "Radius Of Flash" and "LV" under SCR_MuzzleEffectComponent on Rifle_Base and MachineGun_Base to increase flash brightness on almost all guns.

[amber arrow]

Thank you, I will use it

I also figured out how to fix the project in enfusion, if you have problems with the engine, I can help

[hushed nova]

hey i loaded up your tracer mod and its come along nicely. However i noticed some issues.

1. The tracers appear small at some angles and huge at other angles

2. The "burn in effect" on walls and surfaces looks great , however a bit short lived. If you can get it to be a bit more random it would be perfect. maybe add a smoke particle that burns with it for a short time.

3. There isnt any way to get the particles to emit light correct?

[amber arrow]

Thank you for feedback!

1. unfortunately i dont know how fix it
2. Im working on that and i think i can do that
3. Only using scripts, I think I can't implement it yet.

[hushed nova]

1. i dont have much experience in the particle editor but there are tons of options i bet you can fix it.
2. Fantastic!
3. Yes this is what i thought. It would be the icing on the cake for this mod. But not really needed. Just would put it beyond great.

[mint ruin]

Guid is safer because can handle situation when asset is moved to different location

[worthy grail]

Is there any way to make particles collide with the environment?

[silver schooner]

@neon zephyr this ok?

[neon zephyr]

That looks more than ok, it's good 👍

I think it's now worth testing if the lighting from the fires work

[worthy grail]

Is it possible to have particles react to the terrain?

[silver schooner]

dont think they do, but I can add a light

[neon zephyr]

well they only give off a feint light which doesn't effectively affect the environment, so it's not necessary but it is a nice ambient thing to have

[silver schooner]

too late, already added it

also made it damage players/vehicles

@vernal zodiac fire fx progress if you're interested

[neon zephyr]

the fires looks really good though, did you use the fire from the campfire?

[silver schooner]

used existing fire textures with some tweaks, combined campfire and vehicle fire

@neon zephyr I'll tweak it a bit and release tomorrow or sunday

[neon zephyr]

good job 😄 , felt like you needed that

[silver schooner]

[vernal zodiac]

Amazing

[silver schooner]

@supple radish

I herd you wanted a bigger one

whoever did the standard particle textures did an excellent job

[worthy grail]

Alright so how do you have particles to react with the terrain?

Like lets say you wanted leaves to fall and disappear after a bit

Or your rubble from explosions

[silver schooner]

they don't react to terrain, just fire in a specific direction and fall below terrain

[worthy grail]

Well they should, it's basic for particles

How do bullets ricochet, is that not particle reacting with a collider?

[silver schooner]

you can play around with the experimental restitution feature

[worthy grail]

Hmmmmm

[silver schooner]

don't think so, bullets arent particles

collision doesn't really matter for explosion particles

[worthy grail]

It does matter, shrapnel

[silver schooner]

it's nice, but I wouldn't want to waste processing power on collision detection for 150 dirt particles

[worthy grail]

Well you wouldn't but I do.

[silver schooner]

until they are GPU particles

[worthy grail]

Like in Arma 3 when you put a smoke grenade down the smoke reacts with the helicopters and is pushed away along the gorund

[silver schooner]

the wind effect is not collision

I mean, current wind effect is weather controlled

technically it could be a floating volume for helicopters

[worthy grail]

Its restitution!! Thank you so much man!!

[silver schooner]

[worthy grail]

I know its superficial but we're just messing around with rolling fog so this helps a TON

[silver schooner]

show some screenshots when u get it going

[worthy grail]

will do

[supple radish]

Cool! ... Nuke soon?👀

[silver schooner]

it would be the lamest nuke ever since it can't even blow up trees

[amber arrow]

Just updated BetterHitsEffects, added new btr 70 explosion effect and improved sound of cook off

[astral swallow]

Hey, how can I add my particle effect to a static object? Want to play it constantly

[amber arrow]

for emmiter on "repeat" option

[astral swallow]

okay, will try that

[astral swallow]

Which component should I add to my Prefab? I used the "BaseEffectComponent" and set the emitter to "repeat" and added my Particle Effect. But it´s not working.. Sorry for being a little bit dumm on that 😅

[astral swallow]

Okay got it, thank you!

[vernal zodiac]

@silver schooner

Game Master Smoke, the black infinite smoke drops FPS quite heavily on placing it straight away.

Also running both mods on our server we ran into an issue that all the entities in the view were incorrect. Yellow smoke would be a small explosion, purple smoke would be large explosion, green smoke would be white smoke. etc etc

Just thought I should feedback

[silver schooner]

"wrong entities" is a reforger bug https://feedback.bistudio.com/T165829

other smokes dont drop fps?

[vernal zodiac]

no not really

[silver schooner]

hmm ok maybe it's a LOD thing

[vernal zodiac]

but the black one seemed to take off 10 fps instantly

[silver schooner]

it gets better, placing a fire FX from game master FX addon kicks you out of the server

[vernal zodiac]

perfect

[silver schooner]

I'll try to get better fps going with the black smoke

but if I spawn less smoke clouds it doesnt look as dark

[vernal zodiac]

I do love how tall it goes

[silver schooner]

if you want to go into uncharted territory you can replace the smoke + explosion addon with game master fx as it combines the two... but placing fire will kick you out (at least the entities MIGHT not get mixed up)

[silver schooner]

fixed the kick, u should be able to place fire now in latest version

[hushed nova]

check it out. If you use a river on top of a lake you can simulate moving water from a waterfall/water jet https://streamable.com/rqeoej

[silent pawn]

Hello ppl, I've got 2 questions here:

1. How can I make my Particles can be seen even from kms away?
2. How can I add Light to Particles?
   🙄

[silver schooner]

there's probably an upper limit to how far away they are rendered from, for light I guess you could use a literal light entity

[silent pawn]

Alright but how can I make it to its upper limit? 🤔 Is there an option or is it automatic?

[silver schooner]

there are lod levels next to the emitter

0 1 2

[silver schooner]

when gpu particles

[hushed nova]

hey are you going to update the tracer mod again? it still has a bug where tracers become the size of schoolbuses at certain angles. Also the "burn" hole needs tuning

[amber arrow]

yes, i will make it better, but i need time

[amber arrow]

is this better? Sorry for music

[hushed nova]

ya ya ya

that looks awesome

[amber arrow]

i posted new update, i will be glad to get feedback

[hushed nova]

its really good

lighting for the tracers is much better

[silver schooner]

I don't understand angular fade out start/end

[signal ocean]

https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Arma_Reforger:Particle_Editor arrived!

[silver schooner]

o wow

there seems to be an upper limit to how many particles are on screen

also, are particles planned to be running on GPU?

[hushed nova]

one thing i noticed when making my particle for my pipe is that there is definately a limit. If your map was slow it might be because you jacked it up too much. You can do alot with a little if you fiddle

[silver schooner]

I just wanted to see what the number is

[hushed nova]

usually around 300 is when i can achieve any effect i want

1000 is where problems occur

at least for me

[silver schooner]

like, I just want to know what the upper number is before they are culled

[hushed nova]

oh are they putting a hard limit?

[silver schooner]

there is one

but I don't want to calculate it myself

[hushed nova]

well i got a crash from one of mine so i assume it was up there past 1000

but that was one particle

do you think particles are all running rgardless of where you are or are they like LOD and disabled

[silver schooner]

there is a LOD setting per emitter

[hushed nova]

hmm

[silver schooner]

closest, middle, far

[hushed nova]

i cant see them putting a big limit on them then it might be like textures where there is a tile limit

[silver schooner]

LOD 0: < 25m
LOD 1: 25m - 200m
LOD 2: > 200m

[hushed nova]

ya i think a tile is 25-200

[silver schooner]

sure, the limit is actually quite low - but this is understandable since the particles run on CPU and not GPU

[hushed nova]

thats funny

[silver schooner]

or at least so I've been told

if they are running on GPU then they are not optimized well yet

[hushed nova]

i still dont understand the CPU/GPU difference as far as game engines these days i assume the GPU is thousands of times more powerful for stuff like this

[silver schooner]

CPUs being general purpose as opposed to GPUs you can imagine it like CPU being a handyman that can do a lot of different things whereas a GPU would be an electrician that can do electrical very efficiently but not much else

if that makes sense

making some things run on the GPU is also a bit harder

[hushed nova]

ya its a good analogy but i still dont get it

to be they are both "engines" that burn gas "electircity" to do work

[silver schooner]

the only thing a lambo does better than a toyota corolla aside from looks is it's faster

[hushed nova]

i guess , i just dont know anything about code so im sure its about that

[silver schooner]

they both have an actual processor chip, but everything around that chip is designed to handle different things

it's quite hard to explain this without going into the technical stuff so I have to make up analogies

[amber arrow]

is there any way to make decals bigger?

[zenith smelt]

You can change Decal Scale parameter inside game material

[amber arrow]

Yes, but it works a little wrong, I can't override the config, the only thing left is to make a duplicate and override the materials, but this will only work for the ground surfaces

[zenith smelt]

you can do it manually in text editor right. Duplicate gamemat and then edit in text file meta file so GUID of that duplicate matches original file

in future updates overriding of gamemats should be possible without doing such tricks