Particles on Death

[donnelly517]

I made a car and I want to have it explode on death. Is this possible in rpg mode?

[chocolatepie33]

I hate to do this, but I'm going to suggest you look into either Sauerbraten or Red Eclipse, as both have weapon-based explosions, which could help you in your search. Last I checked, Sandbox doesn't have support for triggering particles. You could edit the source code that controls the death sequence to do something, but I don't know what else you could do.

[jSoftApps]

Well, you CAN trigger the particles, but it has to be in C++. I recommend looking at the lava code because sandbox has flame particles emit when you contact lava.

[Mike]

Yeah I believe the death code is in that area too so it should be pretty easy I'd just do a text search for the lava code, or death, and go from there since I can't remember offhand which file it is in. Chocolate please don't say something isn't possible if you are unsure. Take care.
-mike

[chocolatepie33]

@mike: sorry about that, I was referring to using FPS level triggers to somehow make it, say, start raining when you walk out of a building or something. Which would be cool, but I was told it wasn't possible in the current Sandbox version.

@jSoft: completely forgot about the fire.

[donnelly517]

I'll try it. Need some c++ practice anyway.

[Mike]

I might be doing some splash effects for when someone goes down in Watergun Wars so you can use that if you are unable to figure it out yourself