can i trust particles?!

POM

hey all,
i have graphic which i want to appear in the initial X Y values of my actor, and stay there even if
my actor moves from there , i use particles for this, but sometimes ( say about 3% of the times)
the particle dont appear...
the user must see this "particles" otherwise he won't know what to do,
so, can i trust particles to show up?!

reddotinc

I would use spawn actor rather than particles. Spawn actor is reliable and allows you to perform addition rules on that actor if necessary.

// Red Dot Inc

synthesis

reddo is right...
Only use particles for visual FX. They seemingly aren't 100% reliable.

POM

ok thank you guys ,
so what i would do is have an" image changer" actor with a bunch of rule like
when collide with 1
change image to 1
when collide with 2
change image to 2
and so on

so i have another question (i dont want to start a new thread)

which way will give better performance:
way 1 :
when collide with 1
change image to 1
when collide with 2
change image to 2
and so on

or way 2:
have a game attribute- integer called " what image"
in every of my actors have a rule when something happened do:
change "what image" to 1

in other actor when something happened do:
change "what image" to 2
and so on in my actors

and in my image changer actor do:
when "what image" = 1
change image to 1
when "what image" = 2
change image to 2

so basically my question is which detection will provide better performance?
overlapping and collision detection? or attribute detection?

design219

The thread title makes me think of The Golden Compass.

reddotinc

@p-o-m

#2 would be better afaik

POM

@reddotinc
i may not trust particles but i trust you!
back to work then
thanks

reddotinc

p-o-m said:
@reddotinc
i may not trust particles but i trust you!
back to work then
thanks

Glad to help

// Red Dot Inc