Interlopers Particle Effect Thread

[Jangalomph]

Rotates a little fast, but there you go, some nice fogishness that rotates to a central point (specifically the mind sphere for visual purposes). You'll notice clipping and what not with the floor and ceiling but that can be fixed with a few soft particle blending settings.

[Armageddon]

Hot stuff there man. The refracting texture thing around the ball is additive which looks kind of weird.

[Plague]

Rotates a little fast, but there you go, some nice fogishness that rotates to a central point (specifically the mind sphere for visual purposes). You'll notice clipping and what not with the floor and ceiling but that can be fixed with a few soft particle blending settings.

Oh man, ok now make it shoot lasers from the orb, and have the fog go in reverse from the center of the orb

[Jangalomph]

Yeah it doesnt render right, any how thurs the video. Oh and i may do that eventually for you

[Jangalomph]

[fishshapedfish]

Very nice

[Jangalomph]

I revisited the nuclear bomb effect from long ago.. Not really exaggerated on this one, this is more for an ending scene in no more room in hell i presume.

[Armageddon]

It's pretty weak looking.

[MaK]

Its hard to get a good scale for that. I'd suggest maybe a lighter grey cloud pushing outwards from the base. Add in some temporary color correction and an env_shake and we're talking business.

[Jangalomph]

I wasn't going for the whole this is super powerful looking kinda thing. Hence no shake or anything. Just a bare particle, there is stuff that could be added. Its just a basic mushroom cloud.

[Epifire]

Reminds me of the nuke particle effect for the Cod Zombies nuke you can get in-game. Not powerful and epic blast everything away kind of look, but you definitely know it's a nuke.

[Jangalomph]

INFRA: Transformer explosion

Pretty wip, but just something for here.

[MaK]

That's hot.

[Mehis]

Any tips for creating map specific particle effects that really needs to fit perfectly? Certain length beams, for an example.

[Jangalomph]

In that image, you can see I have light beam particles a certain length and then the width and height fit the windows perfectly. Only thing i can really tip on is if you want to make a particle fit a 64w x 128l window in hammer you'd say 32 64 0 for max and -32 -64 0 for min and then you'd place it in the center of the window in hammer, and the particle would fit. You would change the zeros to something like 4 and -4 if you wanted to add depth, maybe not even that much.

But do realize, that you would use position within a sphere and then use position modify offset to make it a box shape. Then you check use local space so that its rotatable. The light beams also use a separate modifier for the lengths.