Particle styles

Freeform discussion about anything related to modding Transcendence.
Post Reply
User avatar
Arisaya
Fleet Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Posts: 5535
Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:10 am
Location: At the VSS Shipyards in the frontier, designing new ships.

What are the various valid style strings for Particle effects? I have only encountered 'plain' so far.
(shpOrder gPlayership 'barrelRoll)

<New tutorials, modding resources, and official extension stuff coming to this space soon!>
User avatar
Arisaya
Fleet Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Posts: 5535
Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:10 am
Location: At the VSS Shipyards in the frontier, designing new ships.

I got some nice lists of beam & ray effect types though:

Beam types:

Code: Select all

lightning
lightningBolt
heavyblaster
greenparticle
blueparticle
blaster
starblaster
greenlightning
jaggedBolt
Ray types:

Code: Select all

fade
diamond
oval
straight
tapered
cone
wavy
smooth
jagged
grainy
Apparently theres a ray attribute called "animateOpacity" - I should experiment with it
(shpOrder gPlayership 'barrelRoll)

<New tutorials, modding resources, and official extension stuff coming to this space soon!>
RPC
Fleet Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Posts: 2876
Joined: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:21 am
Location: Hmm... I'm confused. Anybody have a starmap to the Core?

Tutorial List on the Wiki and Installing Mods
Get on Discord for mod help and general chat
Image
Image
Der Tod ist der zeitlose Frieden und das leben ist der Krieg
Wir müssen wissen — wir werden wissen!
I don't want any sort of copyright on my Transcendence mods. Feel free to take/modify whatever you want.
Xolarix
Miner
Miner
Posts: 40
Joined: Wed Mar 09, 2011 6:37 am

found one: flame. (can be found in some thermo shell effects in CoreEffects.xml)
But that one doesn't allow you to customise the colors.

I think "plain" is just the normal single particle style you should use.
Image
User avatar
Arisaya
Fleet Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Posts: 5535
Joined: Tue Feb 05, 2008 1:10 am
Location: At the VSS Shipyards in the frontier, designing new ships.

found another: 'line' - it seems to allow for single color 1-px wide lines to be used instead of the round particles from 'plain'
(shpOrder gPlayership 'barrelRoll)

<New tutorials, modding resources, and official extension stuff coming to this space soon!>
User avatar
Song
Fleet Admiral
Fleet Admiral
Posts: 2831
Joined: Mon Aug 17, 2009 4:27 am

From memory, there are three types. One or more may be deprecated however.
Mischievous local moderator. She/Her pronouns.
Post Reply