Particle Menus | Quadropolis

demosthenes | 2007-12-13 04:29

Particle Menus

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Blurb A menu system to aid the creation and editing of particle entities.

Detailed description

This config file adds a new particle menu and extends the existing entity editing menu (tab, by default) to allow easy editing of particle properties. The menus are different based on the type of particle being edited, and allow separate editing of color channels for particle types which use only a single argument for color.

To use the particle menus, you'll need to add this to the "newent" gui:

guibutton "particles.." "showgui newparticles"

You will also need to remove the initentgui alias and the line starting "newentgui particles" from near the end of your menus.cfg. After that, simply add "exec particlemenus.cfg" to your autoexec.cfg, and you should be good to go.

In-game, you can find the new particles menu under the new entity editing sub-menu; the particles editing menu replaces the entity editing menu's particle attr tab, as well as adding a new tab to change the particle type.

* Update 12/13/07
** Entity editing menu now re-opens automatically when particle type is changed.
** Fixed "Explosing" typo.
** Properly initialized "particlemultiname".

* Update 12/14/07
** Removed auto-re-opening feature in entity editing menu that was causing the menu to need escape to be hit twice to close the menu.

* Update 12/19/07
** Fixed typo in Lens Flare section (RGB maximum value).

* Update 12/20/07
** Added working automatic re-opening feature to quicked menu (thanks, Hirato!)
** Added support for Lightning (type 7) particles (thanks, Hirato!)

* Update 12/24/07
** Added support for Fire, Smoke, Water particles and multi-particles.

* Update 1/10/08
** Fixed error message on first load: "unknown lookup: particlealiases".
** Fixed improper initialization of particlecaptype (Capture Meter bug).

Config file particlemenus.cfg (10.63 KB)

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Comments

MeatROme | 2007-12-13 05:17

yeah ... that's nice CubeScript there, preliminary tests show great usability too!
dunno why but I immediately noticed a typo : "Place Explosing Particle" ;-)

demosthenes | 2007-12-13 19:16

Ironically, I noticed that too, just about as soon as I made that portion of the script. I meant to change it each time I went back to the script to change something, but I guess it never happened. Good thing I didn't mark this as a final release! :)

Hirato | 2007-12-20 09:27

Just thought you should know that I get a lot of error messages about particlemultiname and tmpt not being valid aliases. (I did check, and they are valid in the CFG).
regardless I did create a few particles (not a lot though, those error messages were annoying me) :p

Considering all the effort and time this must've taken, I'll give this a 5/5

Once you fix that up, will you mind if I include this with my menus? Node 975 on quadropolis.

~Hirato Kirata

//Edit 1

No idea why but the errors no longer exist. Anyways, I added them into my menus (a whole 20KB bigger). I modified them a bit, mostly to correct a few typos, and allow editing of type 7's as well (and I copied the type 4's interface for that).

~Hirato Kirata

//Edit 2

I figured out why I got the tmpt error. I did /showgui particles, instead of /showgui quickedit

//Edit 3

I made some pretty big changes to the menus, can you come and see me about them as soon as you can, I think you might like them ;)
I just shrinked it, and made it cater to particles 7 with minimal changes.

~Hirato Kirata

DTurboKiller LT | 2007-12-27 16:10

This is definitely a great script. In fact, I used it to make some awesome effects on my latest map! It made my editing life so much easier :D
I'm planning on adding HK's modified menus, as well as this script, to my mod Sauerbraten Extended. I've already got Hirato's permission. Now I just need yours ;)

Btw 5/5 :P

demosthenes | 2007-12-31 20:27

Yes, you have my permission to use the menus. :)

I'm glad they were helpful to you; I certainly have found particle entities much easier to work with when using the menus.

Quin | 2008-01-06 01:10

Feel free to take parts of SauerMod if you'd like. I think someone should maintain bots for Sauerbraten at least, and I've since discontinued work on it in favour of Blood Frontier.

Let me know if you're interested and/or need anything, and keep up the good work.

DTurboKiller LT | 2008-01-07 16:59

Hmm, thanks for offering. I was actually hoping to see SauerMod flourish. I really liked the bots and the new platform mode, they were really addictive. But unfortunately I don't have SauerMod anymore. Do you have a link for the mod maybe? I'm not exactly good with the scripting but I'll see what I can do.
By the way, this seems to be strange, but there's a project on SourceForge that has SauerMod on it and seems to be for Sauerbraten (note the gun): http://sourceforge.net/projects/sauera/

I really hope you make Blood Frontier into a great mod. If you need some tips, you should see this amazing UT2004 mod, Killing Floor: http://www.killingfloor.freedomsnet.net/2/kf20/index.html
Here's the reasons why I like it:
-Ragdoll physics (they just make the mod purely amazing)
-Great gibbage (like wtf where'd his torso go?)
-Shop system (even with Blood Frontier's infinite ammo, it would make quite a great addition)
-You can easily get overcrowded in a fun, non-frustrating way
-Various types of zombies
-The zombies come in waves, making enough time (or not) to stock up or make defenses
-A welder to weld doors; A med syringe to heal yourself...

And the list goes on. Really an excelent mod. I just hope Blood Frontier gets to be as fun as that mod.

Q009 | 2008-01-04 14:12

Sauerbraten Assassin edition has new, better particle system. Make one for Assassin edition.

demosthenes | 2008-01-05 22:06

I've already updated it with as much as I know about Assassin Edition's particles. If you can point me to some information about what's missing, I'd be glad to update it.

apflstrudl | 2008-01-07 14:46

when i started the script i got an error.
You can try this:
aliasesset = (getalias particlealiases) if (strcmp $aliasesset "") [ particlealiases = 1 ] if (= $particlealiases 1) [ ... alias particlealiases 0 echo set ] []
then it should work.

That's a very nice script.
for me versus capture meter doesn't work. Perhaps you can fix that.

demosthenes | 2008-01-09 22:57

Could I get some details on the kind of error you got? If it was an "unknown lookup: particlealiases", you'll only see it once. Yes, that is once more than you should see it, so I'll see about that chunk of script you posted.

I will look into the capture meter problem.

apflstrudl | 2008-01-10 19:26

Yes that's the error i got.
I think it's better if there aren't any errors, because that could make noobs think about it and then say: oh my good that crap isn't work(not really this, but i hope you see what i mean)

Nice to see that you're working on it :)

demosthenes | 2008-01-10 20:43

The latest version fixes both the capture meter problem (initializing to zero when I should have initialized to 5, silly me) and the error on first run (using a variation of your method which should work just as well as what you posted). :)

Thanks for the feedback!

ewilde101 | 2008-02-28 16:12

where exactly do i put this code to make sure that it runs when i open the game

Hirato | 2008-02-28 21:38

just put it in your main sauerbraten directory (where you'll see folders like packages, bin and src) and add the following line into autoexec.cfg

exec particlemenus.cfg

~Hirato Kirata

ewilde101 | 2008-02-29 15:41

im on a mac idk if the files are named differently because i didnt see autoexec.cfg any where in all of the sauerbraten folders

Hirato | 2008-02-29 21:34

there is no autoexec.cfg by default. you need to create it in the directory you usually see all the config.cfg stuff. and that may be INSIDe the sauerbraten package. so infact it's no different to any other OS.

~Hirato Kirata

AronNWA | 2008-02-28 22:54

don't know where yall have this autoexec.cfg fron, but it isnt anywhere in my sauerbraten files. =) Help...

tyros | 2008-02-28 23:47

If you don't have autoexec.cfg you should create it :) Just make a txt file in the main Suerbraten directory and then rename it to autoexec.cfg - that's how I usually do that. Then you can put whatever you want into that file (in this case exec particlemenus.cfg) Hope that helps!

-|- Tyros -|-

AronNWA | 2008-02-29 00:32

I kinda figured that out, but thank you though. Also, i followed all of these steps, and my quick edit menu does not show up when i have an entity selected. =O

EDIT: Nevermind! Problem solved. =P Ty anyway.

EDIT 2: Darn it! I found a problem with the attr menu in quick edit. It seems to only edit particles, and if you try to use it for say light, it overwrites in into a particle.

demosthenes | 2008-03-18 00:40

I'll try to duplicate and fix the bug, but I've never seen that light attr bug happen.

Zantik | 2008-03-27 04:09

ok im new here i wanna change the particles so that they are all explosionyish but i dont know how to do it do i have to download something
?

Maddog1906 | 2008-04-07 21:49

I like the menus, they make life easy. But when I insert a multi-tape particle, I get lots of messages that say "Unknown Command: settplname". I'm no scripting expert but i think its just small a problem. All the menus work : ) Good job.

5/5

Uberpwn w00t | 2009-10-15 21:21

When I click the 'particles' option, the menu closes and nothing happens. I suspect I did something wrong. Why can't you just upload a package with the .cfgs already edited and stuff? Would make things a lot easier.