Reality Factory

Actor Spray

This is defined by type = actorspray. It is similar to the spray effect except that it uses actors rather than textured polys as its particles. The section definition would look like this:

basename - base name of sequence of actors to use as particles

numberactors - number of actors in sequence

style - style of using actors

alpha - initial alpha value of actors

alpharate - amount per second to decrease actor alpha

baserotation - initial rotation of actors

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The sequence of actors used is similar to the bitmaps in the FlipBook. If you have 3 actors in the sequence then they must be named name0.act, name1.act and name2.act. The basename used would be name. The style can be 0, 1 or 2. A style of 0 uses the actors in increasing order (starting at 0 and going up) and wraps around to 0 at the end. A style of 1 starts in increasing order and switches to decreasing at the end, then increasing again at the beginning. A style of 2 uses them in random order. The baserotation is the initial rotation assigned to all the actors when they are created in the spray. It is in degrees. If minrotationspeed and maxrotationspeed are not zero in all axis then a speed will be randomly chosen for each axis in this range. The actor will rotate at that speed during its life. The speed is in degrees per second. An example of an actorspray effect is as follows. It has 8 actors named con0.act to con7.act. Note that if the actor spray is attached to an actor via a Predefined Explosion, angles is the number of degrees in each direction from the direction the actor is facing.

steven8 wrote:Okay. I have never used those. I will find a way to fit them into my Dungeon demo.

Could I use this to make it where if you shot a ceiling, chunks would fall down?