I have just made 2 different types of fountains using particle_shooters neither one of them cause a preformance hit unless you check the "ripple when hit water" flag

If anyone would like to use these let me know and i will email them to you and if anyone wants to host this .rmf for mappers to download that would also be great

Here is a pic (ripple when hit water flag checked)

NOTE: The actual fountains are just lil cheapys i made to show off the particle effects and are supposed to look crappy ;)

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX1.jpg

OK BYE

I wanna this!

ampostata@terra.es

Thx man!

thats pretty cool. but the ripple effect in the water looks a bit heavy... its like someone put giant flashlights in the water

Originally posted by kleinluka
thats pretty cool. but the ripple effect in the water looks a bit heavy... its like someone put giant flashlights in the water

Yea i know... it is the default ripple effect for particle_shooters if you set the "ripple when hit water"

I could replace them with a good looking splash sprite though :rolleyes:

Originally posted by AMpos
I wanna this!

ampostata@terra.es

Thx man!

Ok i will send it in a few mins i am making a few adjustments to the fountains first

Great job NC17! Keep up the good work!

Ok i just fixed the preformance hit and the ugly splash effect caused by checking the "ripple when hit water" flag now there is no preformance hit and the splashes look much better i also made the particle velocity higher on the spouting fountain so it looks more realistic

Here are 2 updated pics

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX2.jpg
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX3.jpg

The fadeoff in http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX2.jpg does not look that great in the picture but it looks perfect ingame but if you want you can change this by setting the fade time in the particle_shooter's properties

Originally posted by Waldo
Great job NC17! Keep up the good work!

Thx i will be making a few different particle systems i am almost done with a chimney smoke system that i will release soon

It looks great! Is there any way to make the water spouts bulkier? (to give the effect that more water is coming out)

Originally posted by chuwawa
It looks great! Is there any way to make the water spouts bulkier? (to give the effect that more water is coming out)

Yea changing the scale is easy you just change the "particle size" in the particle_shooter's properties

New chimney smoke FX and an updated pic of the fountain FX with a bigger particle scale

The chimney smoke might be a little to light for most maps but i made it for my WIP that has rain which makes smoke whiter

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/ChimneyFX1.jpg
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX4.jpg

plz release on the forums

i think you´re a friend of the new partcile system, great work! ;)

Originally posted by Greco
plz release on the forums

Need someone to host it and i cant just post the ent properties because you haveto also know where to place the targets to get the effect to work right

you could just list out all the options you set on your particle shooters for the example.


just a thought :p

Originally posted by izuno
you could just list out all the options you set on your particle shooters for the example.


just a thought :p

Nope because its not just the properties that make the effect work you need to place the entities in just the right positions relative to eachother

Look in my last post i already said this ;)

I might be able to post hammer pics of the positioning and the properties . . .

Originally posted by NC17
New chimney smoke FX and an updated pic of the fountain FX with a bigger particle scale

The chimney smoke might be a little to light for most maps but i made it for my WIP that has rain which makes smoke whiter

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/ChimneyFX1.jpg
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/FountainFX4.jpg

The fountain looks a bit better but I'm taking about BIG gushes of water. Think busted pipe!;)

Originally posted by chuwawa
The fountain looks a bit better but I'm taking about BIG gushes of water. Think busted pipe!;)

Tell me what you want the particle effect for and i can make it ;)

waterfall as seen in dod_forest would be nice

Unless I miss my guess...

dod_forest uses a func_conveyer for the actual waterfall, and then uses particle shooters for the "Mist" at the bottom.... I doubt the whole thing was done with particle shooters alone...

Originally posted by Cyber-Surfer
Unless I miss my guess...

dod_forest uses a func_conveyer for the actual waterfall, and then uses particle shooters for the "Mist" at the bottom.... I doubt the whole thing was done with particle shooters alone...


Conveyor and particle_shooters for the mist is right...

I should try my hand at making awaterfall

you COULD just release a .map file like everyother editor on the planet thats trying to tell people to use particles

and that does bring up something....you shouldn't put Release in your title if your not going to release anything

not bad, the water looks a little too much like smoke though. Maybe it looks better in-game.

Now you need a good fountain model.

Also, you cold just put it in a .map and then zip it up and attach it.

Originally posted by RPGreg2600
Now you need a good fountain model.

Also, you cold just put it in a .map and then zip it up and attach it.

True Dat!

I wish someone would model the fountain in front of the church in Saving Private Ryan. PLEASE!

I can make good brush based fountain i just made a quicky to show the effects

but if anyone knows of a good fountain model that would be great


<QUOTE> True Dat!

I wish someone would model the fountain in front of the church in Saving Private Ryan. PLEASE! <QUOTE>


Post a pic of this fountain

NC17, the .rmf you sent me fails... it dont show any particle falling from the fountain. Also, I can not chose any sprite, when pressing the BROWSE button it only can load .mdl files...

PD: you signature fails because the end has to be [/img] not [img]

Originally posted by AMpos
NC17, the .rmf you sent me fails... it dont show any particle falling from the fountain. Also, I can not chose any sprite, when pressing the BROWSE button it only can load .mdl files...

PD: you signature fails because the end has to be [/img] not [img]

There is an error in the 1.0fdg which doesn't allow you to use the .spr, only .mdl. The easiest way to go around this is to make a env_sprite entity and then search for the file path there. Copy that file path into the particle_shooter and delete that env_sprite entity.