How to make Blacksmoke
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| How do i make a black smoke partical system? |
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| well in general you wont design the system specifically for black smoke. The best way is to use a white, I repeate WHITE texture with all alpha info etc needed fr the particle. If you use this you can have a particle of any color you desire. By using entitycolor() on your particles you can have smoke, fire, exhaust etc. Eg, smoke particle > EntityColor(Particle, 20,20,20). [Edit] Mind that if you want full control over the particles alpha runtime, you need an "intense" white color in the texture. Eg: 255,255,255 |
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| Just use a solid black texture with the relevent alpha channel for thick oily smoke. |
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| Use png or tga with alpha. The alpha channel dictates the smoke shape, the texture dictates the color in this case. |
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| i never thought id find making smoke difficult.. i will try this when i get home.. Cheers again guys! Grphics design is always been my let down.. I can code most things, but graphics? |
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| I must reiterate what Dev said, and disagree with Rob - make your smoke WHITE and you can then darken it in blitz, or make it any other colour you like. Make it black, and you can't do anything with the colour at all. |
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| if i have white smoke, and colorentity the black area's are alpha's much worse.. it didn't work.. anyone got an example? |
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| Are you actually using the alpha channel on your graphic, and setting the alpha flag on the texture? Perhaps post your code? BTW, I know you've had it for ages, but I finally have ask - what is with that guy, with the world's largest butt and teeth, doing that squatty thing, with ripped clothes? |
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| yupp. it still looks wrong! |
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| It's a bit tricky. First create a Sprite via CreateSprite(). Then load a texture via Loadtexture(). Then apply texture to Sprite. Entitycolor() 199 and more makes white Smoke Entitycolor() 128 and less makes black Smoke Be careful. Loadsprite() !!!DOES NOT WORK!!! (I havent got it since jet) |
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| Vorgotten something. Loadtexture(Path$, 2) |
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| Please tell me about the butt+teeth man. I'll go through your code if you post it... |
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| Anthony Flack.. actualy i got it working! I wasn't saving the PNG file with alpha chanels!! I have PhotoShop6, im used to 7 Thanks you guys! and again. sorry for this stress of something quite simple! haha |
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| Oh. I had this problem long time befor, too. And I hadn't a board to ask it. I thaught weeks after weeks. Then I found a game on Blitzcoder with source which used Black smoke. I haven't understand why it's black because I had the same commands only with Loadsprite(). Then I copyed it and It worked. Then I had the Idea with LoadTexture() aand It worked fine. I think this and the permanent Alpha Level of Sprites are bugs. I don't see any sence in that :-) |
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| hehe.. all i say is, If you dont ask, you wont learn.. I do ask a lot of questions tho.. But it least i know how do them now |
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| Oh, good! Does that mean I don't get to find out about your odd man now, though? He disturbs me. I kind of think of him as being you, too. |
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| Odd man? hehe, way back in the amiga days, i had a Amiga Format Mag on this "Odd man" is actualy called Booger-man, he plays a man who farts to kill things.. and i draw it using a mouse and 16 colours of amiga colours! |
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| Oh, okay - so he was in a game? |
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| yupp. a long time ago.. you can actualy look it up on Google! LOL |
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| It's quite disturbing though.. *Adds www.neomancer.co.uk to his hosts file* :) |
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