Mando Fountain ArmA

[mandoble 1]

Sahrani is too dry, it needs water fountains and waterfalls

Updated to v1.3

- Size and colour arrays now may be passed as parameters to the script.

- Player presence and distance is checked to ensure the water is not active if player is too far from the fountain.

- Now you can also create big waterfalls, waterfall demo included.

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Waterfall example

[colligpip 0]

can we attach this to units for the times when they need to urinate?

[Vultar 0]

can we attach this to units for the times when they need to urinate?

Hahaha xD

Hey it's nice, how about adding it to damaged barrels? For example, to start animation when they got shot.

[Ducatisto 0]

Lol @ colligpip

Still curious as to a fountain out of the traffic cone

Seriously, a nice addon.

Duca

[mandoble 1]

its a plain script, not an addon, you may use any object and "attach" one or more fountains to it.

[eddyd 0]

can you make water fall too with ?

that come out the hill or rock

[mandoble 1]

Yes, but you will need to change the script a bit increasing a lot the size of the particles while trying to keep the maximum number of them, else the FPS would suffer. You may place a gamelogic over the hill and use it as "fountain object".

[miles teg 1]

Now that's a an awesome idea EddyD. There are some mountain areas where a waterfall would look awesome...the only thing is that you need it to be at a spot where there is a river,lake, or ocean at the bottom.

Chris G.

aka-Miles Teg<GD>

[wika_woo 182]

nice addon... would look cool for urban areas too, infact i m ay have seen somewhat water fountains in shahrani that need this sorta thing..

[mandoble 1]

Updated to v1.3

- Size and colour arrays now may be passed as parameters to the script.

- Player presence and distance is checked to ensure the water is not active if player is too far from the fountain.

- Now you can also create big waterfalls, waterfall demo included.

[Daniel 0]

Would be cool for rotating sprinklers like you find on mediterranean farms.

[mandoble 1]

Waterfall example with v1.3

[.kju 3241]

Looks quite nice Mandoble.

[icebreakr 3139]

This could be attached to vehicles for fire deparment addon? We also need spreading fire for forests script

[rundll.exe 12]

Waterfall example with v1.3

Haha, and funny too.

Nice idea. Should be fun to put in some missions/cutscenes.

[Uziyahu--IDF 0]

Can the particles be scripted to seek sea level?

Say particle A splashes at ground level at grid coordinate X-Y.

Code would check X+1, X-1, Y+1, Y-1, all permutations, to see what the elevation was at those grid coordinates. It would then choose the lowest elevation grid coordinate, including where it was already at. If all OTHER grid coordinates were higher, then it would remain in place, at which time a particle accumulation script would add another particle to the count for that pool of water.

Water level in the pool could rise as the volume was filled. Eventually, the elevation checking code would begin a new search at the point where the water overflowed the brim of the pool.

Just brainstorming. You're the wizard who can make it happen, Mando.

[william1 0]

its a plain script, not an addon, you may use any object and "attach" one or more fountains to it.

this makes me think... could you instead of a fountain , attach a ray of light to any weapon to simulate a weapon light, like those used by swat or special forces ? so it would iluminate that part of the screen pointed by the weapon cursor ? no one has achieved this in Arma yet.

[mandoble 1]

Can the particles be scripted to seek sea level?

Yes, this can be done, for example once every 20 particles a particle is dropped with a script associated and a timer period of 0.1 secs. The script would get x,y,z in _this and you may place a gamelogic there and then check its ASL pos (getPosASL select 2) < 0 then sea level boundary crossed.

[Uziyahu--IDF 0]

Great! Then you might be able to provide us with streams and rivers that react dynamically to a given terrain?

[mandoble 1]

Great!  Then you might be able to provide us with streams and rivers that react dynamically to a given terrain?

if you have 8x4Ghz multicore processors running in parallel, then might be  

Seriously, you cannot create a river using particles, might be a very small segment of a river (10m in length or even less), else the performance would suffer really A LOT.

Try to put 10 or 15 waterfalls like that of the demo mission close together and see what happens. And of course to create a river you would need many more particles than these used by 15 waterfalls.