Yes, I am having problems with playing a fx on entities, structs, origins, etc. Whatever I do, the fx never shows up ingame, and I have the fx included in mapname_patch.csv. But still doesn't shows up ingame. I have tried different solutions, but nothing works. So I decided to ask here. This is the latest and most simply solution I have here. But doesn't work either. I don't know if I have to spawn an origin or something to play the fx. Could someone correct this script for me? Or just help? Code Snippet Plaintext Copy fx() { ent = getent ("ent","targetname"); level._effect["light"] = loadFX("env/light/fx_ray_headlight_truck"); struct_fx = getstructarray("struct_fx","targetname"); for(i=0;i<struct_fx.size;i++) { PlayFxOnTag( level._effect["light"], struct_fx.origin ); struct_fx[i] enablelinkto(); struct_fx[i] linkto (ent); } } Thanks in advance.

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fx() { ent = getent ("ent","targetname"); level._effect["light"] = loadFX("env/light/fx_ray_headlight_truck"); struct_fx = getstructarray("struct_fx","targetname"); for(i=0;i<struct_fx.size;i++) { PlayFxOnTag( level._effect["light"], struct_fx.origin ); struct_fx[i] enablelinkto(); struct_fx[i] linkto (ent); } }

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For playing fx first you need to know what you want to do with it, and what fx it is to determine the best way to play it. some example's:
-play a looping fx on the same place the entire game: --> playfx()
-play a (looping) FX that you want to stop / move around stuff like that --> playfxontag()
-play any looping fx you want to stop sometime --> playfxontag()

A looping FX just keeps playing forever so you useally attach that to a spawned model(tag) and then delete the model when you want the FX to stop playing..
When you want a non-looping fx to play for a longer time, put it in a while loop and just stop the loop..

An very simple example of how to attach a FX to a model and delete it:

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looped_fx()
{
		fx_tag = spawn( "script_model", self.origin );
		fx_tag setmodel( "tag_origin" );
		fx_tag linkto( ENTITY TO LINK TO, "TAG TO LINK TO" );
		PlayFXOnTag( level._effect["light"], fx_tag, "tag_origin" );
 
		self waittill( "kill_looped_fx" );
 
		fx_tag unlink();
		fx_tag delete();
}

NOTE: you spawn the model named "tag_origin" (that is an actual model, look in xmodel-utils) and that model also has a tag named tag_origin.. You could have also spawned a car, and played the fx on any tag but then you would have to delete the entire car to stop the FX playing..

fx() { ent = getent ("ent","targetname"); level._effect["light"] = loadFX("env/light/fx_ray_headlight_truck"); origin_fx = getentarray("origin_fx","targetname"); for(i=0;i<struct_fx.size;i++) { origin = spawn ("script_model", struct_fx[i].origin); origin setmodel ("tag_origin"); PlayFxOnTag( level._effect["light"], origin_fx, "tag_origin"); origin_fx[i] enablelinkto(); origin_fx[i] linkto (ent); } }

main() { level._effect["light"] = loadFX("env/light/fx_ray_headlight_truck"); thread fx(); } fx() { ent = getent ("ent","targetname"); fx_origin = spawn ("script_model", ent.origin); origin setmodel ("tag_origin"); PlayFxOnTag( level._effect["light"], fx_origin, "tag_origin" ); // Here the tag_origin is not a variable so put it in between "" fx_origin linkto(ent); self waittill( "stop_fx"); fx_origin unlink(); fx_origin delete(); }

#include maps\_utility; #include common_scripts\utility; #include maps\_zombiemode_utility; fx() { ents = getentarray("ent","targetname"); for(i=0; i<ents.size; i++ ) { ents[i] thread play_fx(); } } play_fx() { fx_origin = spawn ("script_model",self.origin); fx_origin setmodel ("tag_origin"); PlayFxOnTag( level._effect["light"], fx_origin, "tag_origin" ); // Here the tag_origin is not a variable so put it in between "" fx_origin linkto(ent);//here link fx_origin to the moving ent self waittill( "stop_fx"); fx_origin unlink(); fx_origin delete(); }

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Problems with playing fx's. *Sigh*

Problems with playing fx's. Sigh