emit sfx bug

[Caydr]

This position:

pos=0, 0, -1.5;

Should logically be directly behind a unit, regardless of the direction it's turning. Instead, it's just that much in that direction... so if you have a unit with a flame that's supposed to go in X direction, say, directly in front of it, it has to be facing that direction for the effect to work... Am I being clear? I'm really tired.

[jcnossen]

Yeha added some new "dir" tag for the explosion generators (as well as a new generic particle with more properties), I think he has some explaining to do...

[rattle]

Noticed that as well, try using r-1.5 instead.

[Argh]

I strongly suspect that "dir" will use the same system as for weapon arcs. But I haven't tested it yet.

[Caydr]

Yeah that's what it uses. Just, it puts the effect that far in the absolute direction, not relative to the unit.

[rattle]

Try "dir = dir;"...

[Caydr]

why? That's completely inconsistent with any spring system.

[rattle]

I have no idea what dir does at the moment, but on this other thing it's "dir=dir;" which makes it keep orientation.

[Argh]

Ehhhh? Has anybody tested this yet? Screens?

I'll have to go read the code here in a bit, I guess. Darn Work

[rattle]

The only thing which used dir (and needed dir=dir;) was CBitmapMuzzleFlame (or I don't know the others ). Screens in the feature forum's emit-sfx flare thread.

[jcnossen]

Just means that the "dir" property takes the value of the direction referenced to by the "dir" keyword. It makes sense, in a slightly confusing way. I don't exactly know Yeha did, but I guess you can also set it to some other vector other than dir.
Or use speed=dir;

[Yeha]

The wiki is updated a little.
http://taspring.clan-sy.com/wiki/Custom ... Generators