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Phoenix shooting fireball that explodes on impact
Psyra Extraordinaire
Corra Nacunda Chieftain
Join date: 24 Jul 2004
Posts: 1,533
10-23-2005 23:23
Collission particle explosion.

As part of my phoenix avvie, which can shoot harmless no-damage/no-push temp-on-rez fireballs (a two-prim bullet object emitting a fireball trail of smoke and flame like a comet), I'd like to add a secondary function.... namely, having the fireball explode in a pretty light show when it collides with something.

Right now it bounces off like a pool ball and looks a bit silly.

I'm a scripting idiot, generally, I'd love to know if there;s a script that basically can llDie the object and trigger a harmless particle boom (with a sound) when the fireball strikes a solid object. :)

Any weapons designers got a script for this or a function to add to Ana and Jopsy's particle script that can make this work? Thanks in advance if so. :)


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Solar Ixtab
Seawolf Marine
Join date: 30 Dec 2004
Posts: 94
10-23-2005 23:34
Something to the effect of...

CODE

collision_start(integer num_detected)
{
	particleSpam();
	llTriggerSound("boom", 0.5);
	llDie();
}
land_collision(vector pos)
{
	particleSpam();
	llTriggerSound("boom", 0.5);
	llDie();
}


Where particleSpam() is a function that calls your particle generator. If you need more than this, hit me up in-world and I'll see what I can grind out.
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Jesrad Seraph
Nonsense
Join date: 11 Dec 2004
Posts: 1,463
10-24-2005 01:51
Don't call llDie() right after making the call to llParticleSystem(), doing it this way can cause the particle effects to never be triggered on clients. I generally turn the projectile non-physical and invisible for a second or so after starting particles (with a PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE parameter set), then call llDie().
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Psyra Extraordinaire
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10-24-2005 06:37
*takes notes, having no clue how to incorporate Jesrad's part into it, since as stated before, poor Psyra's a scripting idiot.* :D
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Argent Stonecutter
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Join date: 20 Sep 2005
Posts: 20,263
10-24-2005 12:02
From: Psyra Extraordinaire
*takes notes, having no clue how to incorporate Jesrad's part into it, since as stated before, poor Psyra's a scripting idiot.* :D


CODE

collision_start(integer num_detected)
{
    particleSpam();
    llTriggerSound("boom", 0.5);
    llSetPrimitiveParams([
        PRIM_PHYSICS,FALSE,
        PRIM_PHANTOM,TRUE,
        PRIM_COLOR,ALL_SIDES,<1,1,1>,0.0]);
    llSleep(1.0);
    llDie();
}
land_collision(vector pos)
{
    particleSpam();
    llTriggerSound("boom", 0.5);
    llSetPrimitiveParams([
        PRIM_PHYSICS,FALSE,
        PRIM_PHANTOM,TRUE,
        PRIM_COLOR,ALL_SIDES,<1,1,1>,0.0]);
    llSleep(1.0);
    llDie();
}