[Help] How to create/edit effects for BF2?

[Amok@ndy]

cool, never seen it used in BF2 iirc, at least not in the way I'm thinking so that all the chimney smoke for example all blows in one direction, rather than making the effect blow in a direction then trying to make all the chimney smoke on a map be at the same rotation?

its used in FH2

mostly tmp.con

windmanager.globalWindSpeed 3
windmanager.globalWinddirection 1/0/1

[Mosquill]

Next thing you'll tell me is it can affect projectiles and vehicles too right?

Nope, doesn't affect projectiles or vehicles afaik, but I could be wrong.

[Rudd]

so when you say it can affect overgrowth, in what way? like how the rotorwash does it?

[Mosquill]

so when you say it can affect overgrowth, in what way? like how the rotorwash does it?

Pretty much, yeah.

[Psyko]

So how would one implement swirling smoke/dust/particles when a helicopter/aircraft flies through it?

-not vertically like a tornado, but swirling laterally like a barrel-roll.

[Mora]

There is a force of explosions that can push away the smoke, like wind.

[Ason]

Is there some easy way to edit the size of a static effect in the editor/files, or do I need to do that in 3ds? I would like to add static clouds (ambstat_mist) to a map but they are so small I'm pretty sure it will be too heavy on performance. Right now I need to bunch togheter more than 10 of them to create one small realistic cloud:/

[Rabbit]

e_dAmb_DustCloud_forward_Big isnt big enough?

[Ason]

e_dAmb_DustCloud_forward_Big isnt big enough?

can you give me the path for that?

[Rabbit]

Interesting, seems it is in our repo but not the mod. What about "ambstat_dusttrail_big.con"?

[Ason]

Interesting, seems it is in our repo but not the mod. What about "ambstat_dusttrail_big.con"?

Seems like it's also not in the mod:/

[Rabbit]

Just went through my PR (1.2) folder for that. Go back into your content folder for PR and pull out the staticobjects ambient from both server and client again.

[Ason]

Just went through my PR (1.2) folder for that. Go back into your content folder for PR and pull out the staticobjects ambient from both server and client again.

Alright I found it in there, I extracted the staticobjects/ambienteffects/static folder from the objects_statics_server.zip and the staticobjects/ambienteffects/texture folder from the objects_statics_client.zip into objects/staticobjects/ambienteffects, I can put the effect on my map but it's not showing and I have 'toggle draw particles' on(I can see the other effects from before) :/
Do you know what I'm missing?

[Rabbit]

Open the .tweak scroll down to the bottom find the texture then go to its path in pr_edit and make sure it is there.

[Ason]

Open the .tweak scroll down to the bottom find the texture then go to its path in pr_edit and make sure it is there.

Tweak:

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rem *** Generated with Bf2Editor.exe [created: 2006/5/15 12:52]
ObjectTemplate.activeSafe Bundle ambstat_dusttrail_Big
ObjectTemplate.modifiedByUser "Bruno"
ObjectTemplate.saveInSeparateFile 1
ObjectTemplate.createdInEditor 1
ObjectTemplate.hasMobilePhysics 0
rem -------------------------------------
ObjectTemplate.addTemplate e_dAmb_dusttrail_Big
rem -------------------------------------

Is "e_dAmb_dusttrail_Big" the texture?

[Rabbit]

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ObjectTemplate.textureName objects\effects\textures\animated\Anim_Smoke2ground

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ObjectTemplate.textureName objects\effects\textures\animated\Anim_dirt_bit

[Ason]

Thanks but where did you find those lines? Was it not in the tweak file?

[Rabbit]

I found it in e_dAmb_dusttrail_Big.tweak

[Ason]

Baaah I can't find it... Can you tell me which zip and the path for 'e_dAmb_dusttrail_Big.tweak'?

[Rabbit]

objects_common\effects\ambient