Particles? not really sure how to use with destroy.

VolontaArts

Good evening!
so i tried playing with particles. i am not successful as i want the particles to appear when it is destroyed. but instead nothing is happening.

i have 1 rule created. 1 that says when actors collide, destroy. Then when actors collide, particles. so the result is only destroyed. thanks for the help guys

VolontaArts

i think i misunderstood particles. i thought it was to destroy something but its looks like its for shooting???

VolontaArts

i was thinking a slash of particles at every direction

quantumsheep

One way to do it would be to have a third non-moveable actor called 'explosion'.

Make a global boolean variable called 'hit'.

Let's say your two actors are called 'Missile' and 'Spaceship'.

Constrain the self.X and self.Y variables in the 'Spaceship' actor to new global variables called 'SpaceshipX' and 'SpaceshipY'.

When the two actors collide, change 'hit' to true. change the self.X and self.Y variables of the 'explosion' actor to 'SpaceshipX' and 'SpaceshipY'

Your particles will be in the explosion actor. The rule here will be 'When hit = true' then spawn the particles.

Remember to reset the 'hit' variable to 0 so that it can be flipped on again with a collision.

Experiment with that and see how you do!

QS =D

VolontaArts

@quantumsheep thank you. i will try this.

VolontaArts

@quantumsheep how can i make the particles shoot out all directions? would i have to make a couple particle rules aiming different ways?

quantumsheep

Hey there,

I'd just experiment lots with the particle behaviour. Just make a new project with one actor in the middle of the screen that creates particles.

Then experiment with all the particle settings and see what happens!

It's fun and you'll learn something

Hope that helps,

QS =D

-Timo-

when you put in the direction random(1,360) the particles will shoot in all ways

VolontaArts

@quantumsheep true! thanks

VolontaArts

@timolapre1998 awesome... will do!

VolontaArts

@timolapre1998 @quantumsheep so i took both of your advices! and heres what i came up with!

oh i used a random downloaded template btw.... i think it was from @socks

VolontaArts

so i created a rule that when its touched, change the alpha color to .9 just as a trigger for the particle can trigger when alpha = .9 and i set the destroy to .2 seconds or .1 i forgot. but that gives time for the particle to show. im happy with it

VolontaArts

thanks again guys

quantumsheep

No worries!

natzuur

when you put in the direction random(1,360) the particles will shoot in all ways

I think GS runs from 0-359, but yes essentially that.

VolontaArts

ok ill change it and see if it makes a difference @natzuur thanks

-Timo-

when you put in the direction random(1,360) the particles will shoot in all ways

I think GS runs from 0-359, but yes essentially that.

0 is the same as 360 so it doesn't matter what you have ^^