Adding FX to a spawned weapon in Scripting

Created on: October 04, 2016, 09:40:10 pm

Hi there,

I spawned some weapons on the ground through GSC. Problem is that the weapons are hard to spot on the floor. Is there a way to add something like a lightbeam to the weapon? I found PlayFX, but how do I use it and how do I precache fx's?

Thanks in advance!

Ps. I'd love to use Pandora's Box's light!

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Reply #1 on: October 05, 2016, 05:44:57 am

Look in the entity browser, or even misc/prefabs (in entity browser) could have some stuff to use.

Reply #2 on: October 05, 2016, 06:17:21 am

Precaching fx is simple. Add this to the top of your script under the #using lines.

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#precache("fx", "pathtofx");

then add this to your main/init function

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level._effect["whatevernameyouwant"] = "pathtofx";

an example would be this:

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#using scripts\zm\_zm;

#precache( "fx", "electric/fx_elec_sparks_directional_orange" );

function init()
{

    level._effect["whatevernameyouwant"] = "electric/fx_elec_sparks_directional_orange";

    trig = GetEnt("test_trigger", "targetname");

    PlayFX(level._effect["whatevernameyouwant"], trig.origin);
}

All FX can be found here:
root/raw/fx

If you want the FX to stay on the object make sure the FX is a looping FX otherwise it will only appear once.

I can explain how to setup a PlayFX with your model if you are still unsure what to do.

Last Edit: October 05, 2016, 06:21:57 am by reckfullies

Reply #3 on: October 05, 2016, 08:21:54 am

Thanks for all the information! This is quite helpful!

I've got one little problem that should be easily fixed thou. I create the weapons in another function called SpawnRandomWeapons(). How would I take the weapon' container inside SpawnRandomWeapons() to use in my main or should I move the PlayFX loop to the SpawnRandomWeapons() function?

Thanks in advance

Reply #4 on: October 05, 2016, 08:25:23 am

Uh oh. I tried adding PlayFX to the spawning function of weapons and I got a G_Spawn no free entities error..

Marked as best answer by lvlagiick 8 years ago

Reply #5 on: October 05, 2016, 12:41:36 pm

Quote from: lvlagiick on October 05, 2016, 08:25:23 am

Uh oh. I tried adding PlayFX to the spawning function of weapons and I got a G_Spawn no free entities error..

Probably spawned a ton of fx then, just make a new function like this:

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function randomweaponspawning()
{
    // Whatever code you already had here
    thread spawnFX(weapon);
}

function spawnFX(weapon)
{
    PlayFX(level._effect["fxname"], weapon.origin);
}

weapon would be like the variable where you define which weapon you want to spawn which I assume you are already doing, it should look like this for example:

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weapon = GetWeapon("weapon you are using");

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Adding FX to a spawned weapon