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Hello, I have the following code to make what looks like a large shockwave for a nuclear explosion effect.....



Now, it looks ok and everything, but it needs some spezazz! I mean some cool particles sounds or something, I tried adding a play sound command into the above code, but it just kept playing over and over again. Any ideas on how to add a bunch of particles that will fly out from the center of the explosion in a sort of radial manner? It is a space game, so I don't need the particles to fall to the ground, I just need them to move out from the explosion and fade away. I also am having problems with the sound, as I said above, when I try to play the sound in that subroutine, it just keeps playing over and over again, even when the subrouting shouldn't be called, it also messes up the explosion effect, as it causes it to start and stop abruptly.

My first attempt at particles, was to create a bunch of ghosted plains, point them in random directions, and then tell them to move in the subroutine above, however they would not move very far if any,and just sort of sat there all in a little area. I was also wondering how you can load a spite sheet, and animate it on a plain, so that you could actually see a fireball in the center of the shockwave!

I know that is alot of questions, but I want to make my game as good as I can, I'n not asking for a bunch of code, however I am looking for an example of how to do the above, so here is a list of the things I'm trying to accomplish...

1) particles that radiate out from the center of the explosion.
2) and explosion sound that plays when the explosion occurs.
3) an animated 2D explosion effect, loaded from a sprite sheet, that plays on a plain in the center of the explosion effect.

Well thats all for now, thanks.

If you use a sprite sheet then you'd still have to cut the image up into several images. Particles are pretty easy. There is a good explosion in the examples that come with DB.

Yeah, but those examples are so over complicated that it makes me gag, I mean half the stuff in there could have been done with the simplist of commands.

So how do I cut the image up into it's individual pieces, and then animate them on a ghosted plain?

And I still have a few other questions above, that need answering.

Thanks.

I'll start with need # 3, since it's the easiest. There are two options for you here, choosing which one you think is most efficient. (1.)Make a bitmap sprite sheet in an external image editing program. In DB use this code, at the start of your program or in a loading scene for the level, to cut up the sheet into seperate images for the animation sequence.
I have to go to work now, but this code will seperate the sheet into individual images that you can then code to place on a plain in 3d space and animate. I will continue on this post when I have the next chance.

Thanks, but how would I animate it now?

And what about 2 adn 3?

Thanks!

Bumpy , na I just wanna give people more of a chance to read the post, and ponder possible suggestians and ideas for a cool explosion.

Bumpy