Final Alert 2 Tutorial - How to make Smoke and Camp fire with light

[YosefAnan]

In this video, I explain how to create fire with surrounding light and smoke coming out of it. I apologize for the video length and for resetting the settings multiple times, as I couldn’t remember the exact configurations and was trying to adjust them to be as perfect as they should be.

 

 

[[CC] RaVaGe]

Too much work for this. 
Better to edit the art.ini 

[YosefAnan]

On 10/27/2024 at 5:37 PM, [CC] RaVaGe said:

Too much work for this. 
Better to edit the art.ini 

How do you edit vanilla art.ini without causing issues?
this is not for mod, is for maps.
also, I don't know how to edit smoke from art in file. ☺️

[[CC] RaVaGe]

On 10/30/2024 at 6:26 AM, YosefAnan said:

How do you edit vanilla art.ini without causing issues?
this is not for mod, is for maps.
also, I don't know how to edit smoke from art in file. ☺️

You need to add an active animation to the object and make it spawn a particle animation.

SpawnsParticle=SmlGryActSmk

NumParticles=4

Edited October 31 by [CC] RaVaGe

[McPwny]

ah, that trick for attaching a smoke like effect wont work in maps because maps only parse rules.ini flags and active anims are art.ini flags.

the simplest trigger setup would be:
trigger 1, set to repeat
event 1: elapsed time (the amount of time that the particle system plays for)
action 1: play particle system at waypoint

trigger 2, one time
event 1: destroyed by anything
action 1: disable trigger 1
action 2: remove particle system at waypoint

real quick and simple but of course not automatic

[YosefAnan]

On 10/31/2024 at 4:00 PM, [CC] RaVaGe said:

You need to add an active animation to the object and make it spawn a particle animation.

SpawnsParticle=SmlGryActSmk

NumParticles=4

I know how to do these things, but this idea never crossed my mind at all, haha! 😄

[YosefAnan]

On 11/2/2024 at 7:51 AM, McPwny said:

ah, that trick for attaching a smoke like effect wont work in maps because maps only parse rules.ini flags and active anims are art.ini flags.

the simplest trigger setup would be:
trigger 1, set to repeat
event 1: elapsed time (the amount of time that the particle system plays for)
action 1: play particle system at waypoint

trigger 2, one time
event 1: destroyed by anything
action 1: disable trigger 1
action 2: remove particle system at waypoint

real quick and simple but of course not automatic

I tried the code, and it worked for me, but the smoke isn’t as dense as it is when triggered through the actual trigger system

[McPwny]

you can also make a new particle system via ini editing to get it to look the way you want

[YosefAnan]

15 hours ago, McPwny said:

you can also make a new particle system via ini editing to get it to look the way you want

that will be awesome but how to do that?

[McPwny]

after making a new particle system and listing it in the particlesystems index in rules.ini, use that number to call it in the fa2 trigger action.
i used to do it to make like red and green drop zone flares. i dont have my main computer so i cant give example code right now.