Anyone ever get the Rain Splashes tutorial to work?

[Gary]

Anyone ever get this tutorial to work? http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Rain_splashes

No madder what my particles, even if I try to use existing ones, end up red "X"s.

[city14]

Must be pointing to it wrong... Make sure you are using the right nomenclature for the particle effect...

Someone should correct me on this, but isn't it the name within the *.pcf not the actual pcf?

[Gary]

Pretty sure you use the particle_manifest.txt to precache the pcf file then you call particle systems within those files.

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

write a ! in front of the *.pcf path in the particles_manifest.txt
somehow DispatchParticleEffect() works properly only server-side, it's better to use

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CNewParticleEffect* pEffect = new CNewParticleEffect()

instead. that will also fix the problem.
and btw, don't forget to Precache the particle first with

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PrecacheParticleSystem()

[Gary]

write a ! in front of the *.pcf path in the particles_manifest.txt

Already tried that, to be safe.

somehow DispatchParticleEffect() works properly only server-side, it's better to use

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CNewParticleEffect* pEffect = new CNewParticleEffect()

instead. that will also fix the problem.

Does

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CNewParticleEffect()

have the same inputs that

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DispatchParticleEffect()

does?

and btw, don't forget to Precache the particle first with

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PrecacheParticleSystem()

Did that already too.

[Jangalomph]

make sure you actually have the rain_splash particle my friend. Obviously it shows up with red x's because the particle isn't found. Make sure when you say "dispatchparticleeffect ( "rain_splash,....) or what ever that thats the correct name. Just because it has that name in the tutorial doesn't mean it exists. Maybe you need to make one. Thats what i did.

[Gary]

I know the particle exists, I set one up, also, weird thing is, it's almost like the particle is invalid or something, because I don't get a "particle not found" error.


Did you get it to work?

[Gary]

I think it might of been a combination of my placement of the precaching call and my crappy particle. I put the precache under the think function and Armageddon made me a new particle.

Also, because I can never fallow a tutorial without editing anything, I made the rain collide with every solid object:

[pfannkuchen_gesicht]

Does

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CNewParticleEffect()

have the same inputs that

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DispatchParticleEffect()

does?

no, works a bit different.

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   PrecacheParticleSystem(particlesystem);
   CNewParticleEffect* pEffect = new CNewParticleEffect( C_BaseEntity, particlesystem );
   pEffect->SetControlPoint( 0, vecOrigin );


and btw spawning particles that way isn't that good if you want to attach it to something, you would need to update the position yourself

[Armageddon]

I think it might of been a combination of my placement of the precaching call and my crappy particle. I put the precache under the think function and Armageddon made me a new particle.

Also, because I can never fallow a tutorial without editing anything, I made the rain collide with every solid object:

Looks better than I expected, where is the rain though? I'd also like to see it hit the ground and not the chopper.

[wickit]

I would be interested in see your final code from this
as i have too tried to add the tutorial but have had a few issues, not with missing particles but amount of them being spawned...

[Gary]

Lowering the splash percentage CVar helps with too much particles.


I could upload the entire cpp file for you, you would need a particle though.

[wickit]

yeah like i said i have the particles working fine, but i would still be interested to see how different your code is and why i have problems

happy for you to email me the cpp
wickit AT gmail.com

[Armageddon]

My final product.

[wickit]

sill like to see others code though....