Particle effects

[StubbleHopper 0]

Anyone know where I should start looking for altering rifle fire and smoke particle effects, need it for a mod I'm working on, any help much appreciated.

[ProfTournesol 956]

If the mod is the one i think about, try this sqf script that you must add to units through an eventhandler fired. It'll generate "old rifle" smoke :

Comment {
Smoke script by MrZig and Korax, Call via eventhandler (this addeventhandler ["FIRED",{_this call loadfile "smoke.sqf"}])
};
Private ["_X","_Y","_dir","_unit","_bullet","_pos","_max","_dist","_vel","_drop","_colorpool","_color","_vel","_newpos","_size1","_size2","_size","_randomdirintens"];
_unit = _this select 0;
_gun = _this select 1;
_bullet = nearestobject [_this select 0,_this select 4];
_dist = 0.2;
_vel = [0,0,-0.1];
_drop = (-0.05) + (random 0.1);
_colorpool = [[[0.8,0.8,0.8,0.5],[0.8,0.8,0.8,0.8],[0.8,0.8,0.8,0.5],[0.8,0.8,0.8,0]],[[0.9,0.9,0.9,0.5],[0.9,0.9,0.9,0.8],[0.9,0.9,0.9,0.5],[0.9,0.9,0.9,0]],[[0.85,0.85,0.85,0.5],[0.85,0.85,0.85,0.8],[0.85,0.85,0.85,0.5],[0.85,0.85,0.85,0]]];
_vel = [0,0,(_drop)];
_Newpos2 = [0,0,0];
_max = 15;
_speed = 400;
Comment {
_speed MUST be set to the exact speed of the bullet, a simple (speed _bullet) WILL NOT WORK in the sqf and it MUST be changed here. you can change it according to different guns with a line below (IF (_gun == "") then {_speed = 1000};)
};
_negdist = -0.5;
Comment {
_negdist is how far back the "chamber" smoke backblast appears, adjust accordingly for the size of the gun
};

_dir = getdir _bullet;
_pos = getpos _bullet;
_x = _pos select 0;
_y = _pos select 1;
WHILE "_max > 0" DO {
_Newpos = [(getpos _bullet select 0)+(((velocity _bullet select 0)/_speed)*_dist),(getpos _bullet select 1)+(((velocity _bullet select 1)/_speed)*_dist),(getpos _bullet select 2)+(((velocity _bullet select 2)/_speed)*_dist)];
_Newpos2 = [(getpos _bullet select 0)+(((velocity _bullet select 0)/_speed)*_negdist),(getpos _bullet select 1)+(((velocity _bullet select 1)/_speed)*_negdist),(getpos _bullet select 2)+(((velocity _bullet select 2)/_speed)*_negdist)];
_size1 = [0.5 + random (_dist/3)];_size2 = [(_size1 select 0) + ((_dist/2) + random (_dist/2))];_size = _size1 + _size2;_randomdirintens = random 0.03;
_color = _colorpool select (random ((count _colorpool)-1));
drop ["cl_basic" , "" , "Billboard" , 2 , (4+random 1) , _newpos , _vel , 1 , 0.197 , 0.155 , 0 , _size ,_color , [0] , 0.2 , _randomdirintens , "" , "" , ""];
drop ["cl_basic" , "" , "Billboard" , 2 , (4+random 1) , _newpos2 , [random 0.05,random 0.05,random 0.25] , 1 , 0.197 , 0.155 , 0 , [random 0.4,0.5+random 1] ,_color , [0] , 0.2 , _randomdirintens , "" , "" , ""];
_dist = _dist + 0.25;_max = _max - 1};

It was created for OFP but it should work for ArmA/ArmA2, if the particles names haven't changed.

[StubbleHopper 0]

Thanks ProfT, that's a great helping hand

cheers mate

[cervantes 330]

hi i have test this script :) no error when script has launched with fired event handler

but no smoke ^^