muzzleflash

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:00 am

is there a tut or site with free muzzleflashes

SithMaster · Post by **SithMaster** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:33 am

there was a tut from the old forum but i dont think it has been added yet. pm quest and ask if would be able to find and add them.

what i have saved concerning muzzle flash is to either make a model for the flash, use flipbooks, or a sprite. I remember looking at something like this not that long ago. i thought it was posted on the home page but the tuts that were there are gone. ive been gone to long.

theres a wiki http://gpwiki.org/index.php/Reality_Factory which i have idea was made try looking there. and if you search for "accidently found" here then you will find pdf files from a school teaching rf which includes muzzle flash, i believe.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:05 am

those accidently found tuts are sticked, and dont think thers a muzzleflash one

Juutis · Post by **Juutis** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 7:34 pm

I usually just model the weapon, put it into RF and into its place. Just where I want it to be on the screen. Then I take a screenshot of the game and paste it into PhotoShop and then just paint a flash that I think would be cool with the weapon. Then I save the bitmap and use it as a sprite, and finally tweak the offsets so that it looks good.

SithMaster · Post by **SithMaster** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 11:03 pm

those accidently found tuts are sticked, and dont think thers a muzzleflash one

I know there was a tut by (i think) pickles a long time ago. Yes, do what juutis does. Thats pretty much what i remember reading, to use photoshop to draw them in. Though you want something more detailed than that of course. Ill try and see if i saved the one i remember on my hd.

GD1 · Post by **GD1** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 9:00 pm

i did a tut when i first joined the community about 3-4 years ago about how to do Half-Life 2 style 3d muzzle-flashes. i had a free one in there, and Gekido used it in the last version of RF that he worked on. If u search the forums you MIGHT find it, but i doubt it. i dont even think i have it anymore.

really, its simple. you just make a series of bitmaps with alpha channels. there are instructions on how to use these in RF manual i believe. just look at pics of real muzzleflashes and use those to figure out what u should draw.

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 9:08 pm

a little offtopic,but can rf use 3d explosions,or does it have to be a 2d pic?

Post by **Jay** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:47 pm

You could do this, just make a pawn and then when it explodes you shoot projectiles in every thinkable direction. This way you can also hit other thinghs and do damage there.

You can also add a 2d explosion to cover that you are fading out the corpse of the pawn.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:59 pm

dats perfect for nades cuz the explosions were a little too unrealistic

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:15 pm

couldnt you have the death animation of the shell include an explosion?or is there no death animation for shells.

darksmaster923 · Post by **darksmaster923** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:28 pm

no death anim

zany_001 · Post by **zany_001** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 1:00 am

Sad.Ill go request it now.