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lil marioman
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Posted: 2nd Aug 2009 23:30
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I'm making a simple FPS, and I can't get the muzzle flash to work correctly. (See Screen Shot) I'm using a sprite for the Muzzle flash if that helps...

Any help is appreciated!


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lucifer 1101
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 06:43
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ok you arent explaining what you want it to do, remember that from now on.

If you are trying to get it to go behind the gun then you would need to turn that sprite into an image and then texture it to a plain that you place in front of the camera, us hide object when theres no flash and show object when there a flash...

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lil marioman
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 17:50
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I tried that, but I can't get the transparent parts of the texture to actually become transparent.

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Use "SET OBJECT TRANSPARENCY PlainNum,1"

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lil marioman
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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 18:24
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OK, now I can't get the muzzleflash to the right position...

It appears under/behind the player with this code:



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Posted: 3rd Aug 2009 18:50 Edited at: 3rd Aug 2009 18:52
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You may need to play around with the positions a bit to get it in the right spot. Also, I would point the object at the camera's position:



``could also do this perhaps:


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lil marioman
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Testing that now...

Would it be possible by any chance to set the Muzzleflash Position to the gun position instead? (I tried, can't get it to work...)

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I'm not sure about that. Since the gun is probably animated inside the model file you would probably have to do it through limbs, but I am not fluent in their use yet so I don't know. If you are animating the gun with DBPro commands, however, you could glue the object to the end of the gun once you have its position figured out.

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OK, I almost got it working.

But it doesn't flash.
It's solid when I'm clicking, and not there when I'm not.

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Hmm... You will probably need to build some timer events so that it randomly appears and disappears while you are holding down the mouseclick. I'm at work, so if someone doesn't get to this before me, I'll test it when I get home and maybe type up some examples.

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OK, thanks.

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Posted: 4th Aug 2009 00:26 Edited at: 4th Aug 2009 00:27
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You might try something like this in your mouse click code in the main loop:



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Thanks, it worked.

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