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Dave J
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 07:48
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Quite a simple question, anyone know how to make some decent explosions? And I don't mean just a couple spheres rotating inside eachother. lol, thanks.
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 09:57
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In Unreal Tournament, the explosions were made of sprites, that play one time through, then disapeer completely. The same goes for Half Life, Quake 3, & others. Its been a while since ive played UT 2k3, so I cant remember if it uses sprites or not, but you can use either sprites or particles (pretty much the same as sprites.) Think of it as an animation that has a one time effect until the next one.

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Dave J
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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 11:32
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Sprites? You're kidding me right? lol, I had no idea.

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Posted: 24th Mar 2003 23:54
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Theres a nice example that comes with DB

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Dave J
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Posted: 25th Mar 2003 07:10
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With classic? If so, where?

Although, I'm already guessing you'd just animate the sprite onto a plane positioned where you want the explosion to be. But it'd still be nice to see an example.

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Posted: 25th Mar 2003 14:05
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Go to your examples in Classic and its called "Particles" lol

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Posted: 25th Mar 2003 14:07
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Yes, I saw that (particle bomb if that's what you mean) but it wasn't really what I was looking for, I guess I could do some major editing though so it will fit better.

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