Smoke Help

[HogRoot 0]

I am trying to place smoke plumes inside of the smoke stacks to give them the appearance to operation/occupation. This is going to be vital to my mission. I am using this code:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">

_OBJ = "logic" createvehicle getpos burn;

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#Fire

_PS1 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _OBJ

_PS1 setParticleCircle [0, [0, 0, 0]];

_PS1 setParticleRandom [0.2, [1, 1, 0], [0.5, 0.5, 0], 1, 0.5, [0, 0, 0, 0], 0, 0];

_PS1 setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\FireAndSmokeAnim\SmokeAnim.p3d", 8, 2, 6], "", "Billboard", 1, 1, [0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0.5], 1, 1, 0.9, 0.3, [1.5], [[1, 0.7, 0.7, 0.5]], [1], 0, 0, "", "", _obj];

_PS1 setDropInterval 0.03;

#Smoke Part 1

_PS2 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _OBJ

_PS2 setParticleCircle [0, [0, 0, 0]];

_PS2 setParticleRandom [0, [0, 0, 0], [0.33, 0.33, 0], 0, 0.25, [0.05, 0.05, 0.05, 0.05], 0, 0];

_PS2 setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\FireAndSmokeAnim\SmokeAnim.p3d", 8, 0, 1], "", "Billboard", 1, 10, [0, 0, 0.5], [0, 0, 2.9], 1, 1.275, 1, 0.066, [4, 5, 10, 10], [[0.3, 0.3, 0.3, 0.33], [0.4, 0.4, 0.4, 0.33], [0.2, 0.2, 0, 0]], [0, 1], 1, 0, "", "", _obj];

_PS2 setDropInterval 0.5;

#Smoke Part 2

_PS3 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _OBJ

_PS3 setParticleCircle [0, [0, 0, 0]];

_PS3 setParticleRandom [0, [0, 0, 0], [0.5, 0.5, 0], 0, 0.25, [0.05, 0.05, 0.05, 0.05], 0, 0];

_PS3 setParticleParams [["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\FireAndSmokeAnim\SmokeAnim.p3d", 8, 3, 1], "", "Billboard", 1, 15, [0, 0, 0.5], [0, 0, 2.9], 1, 1.275, 1, 0.066, [4, 5, 10, 10], [[0.1, 0.1, 0.1, 0.75], [0.4, 0.4, 0.4, 0.5], [1, 1, 1, 0.2]], [0], 1, 0, "", "", _obj];

_PS3 setDropInterval 0.25;

#end

exit

It works perfectly...the only problem I have is when I try to place it over a smoke stack or electrical plant silos the fire and smoke always winds up beside the item and not on it or in it. But I need it to spawn right in the center and close to the top of the stack.

Also if anyone can show me how to attach the script to an object...say a backpack "AAMI282"...I would appreciate it.

Thanks

[UNN 0]

Quote[/b] ]It works perfectly...the only problem I have is when I try to place it over a smoke stack or electrical plant silos the fire and smoke always winds up beside the item and not on it or in it. But I need it to spawn right in the center and close to the top of the stack.

You could try replacing this line:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_PS1 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _OBJ

With these lines:

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_PS1 = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getpos _OBJ

_PS1 setPos (getpos _OBJ)

Sometimes Arma automatically tries to positions objects so they don't collide. So you might have to reinforce the act.

But _OBJ probably has to have it’s centre of gravity at the position you want. If it’s a smoke stack with a geometry LOD, then it’s a safe guess to say it doesn’t. If it doesn’t, then you could always adjust it with the modelToWorld command.

[=Odin= 0]

G'day I had this problem aswell and to fix it I added this

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_OBJ = "logic" createvehicle getpos burn;

_OBJ setpos [Getpos burn select 0,(Getpos burn select 1), 2]

The 2 representing meter's above ground, I have not tried to do this on anything as high as a smoke stack so it may take a bit of fiddling to get the correct height

[HogRoot 0]

Thanks guys...I will give it a try tonight.

[HogRoot 0]

@Odin....THANK YOU!!! It worked perfectly!!!

[Wingnut Master 0]

one small question, sry to bring this up, but how can i make it to where i can use this on multiple objects instead of one, b/c it has to be called burn?

[=Odin= 0]

G'day, Change the 1st line to

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">_OBJ = "logic" createvehicle getpos _this;

create your Logics and add to their init

<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">this exec "fire.sqs"

That should work