User:Smoth

Plans for game developer restructure:
3 sections, beginer, intermediate and advanced.

Beginner:(1 star)

1. focus on how does I get my game in spring
2. how can I alter what is already there
3. stay within knorkes beginner game, we want to have the user in a sort of sandbox.
4. think mutator

Intermediate:(2 stars)

1. focus on creating your own content and using it in game
2. introduce them into existing resources lua/models/art
3. most tutorials will be located here.
4. think mod

Advanced:(3 stars)

1. person is experience programmer or familiar with spring already.
2. no tutorials, just informational links, this person wants information not how tos.

SmothSmoth is Smmmmmmmmmmoooootttthhhhh!!

Notes for SimpleParticleSystem:

• a label

• float3 pos
  Origon point for your particle system.
  
• AtlasedTexture texture
  Texture for the particles, defined in resources.tdf.
  
• float3 emitVector
  Use DIR to have it acquire a direction, this will utilize a poly on your object that you choose as an emitter.
  
  See my notes on vectors to understand how to use the vectors of this:
  i.e. 0,1,0 is straight up
  
• CColorMap colorMap
  This will give your system a range of colors spread over time.
  it has 4 parts:
  RED, GREEN, BLUE, ALPHA
  
  note:
  For additive blend use values that are low like: 0.1 or 0.05
  For overlay use 1.0
  see notes on overlay versus additive blend.
  
• float3 gravity
  Gravity applied along a vector.
  
  For example, if you want your particles to fall after being emmited.
  Emitvector would be: 0,1,0
  and gravity would need to be 0,-1,0
  This would result in particles falling straight down.
  
• float airdrag
  Constant multiplier on the particle each frame, a value of 1.0 means the particles will keep their current momentum, a value bellow 1 and they will slow down each frame.
  
• float particleLife
  Life of the particles in frames.
  
• float particleLifeSpread
  Random number between 0 and particleLifeSpread added to particleLife.
  
• int numParticles
  Number of particles that will be spawned.
  
• float particleSpeed
  Initial speed of the particles.
  
• float particleSpeedSpread
  Random number between 0 and particleSpeedSpread added to particleSpeed.
  
• float particleSize
  Size of the particles.
  
• float particleSizeSpread
  Random number between 0 and particleSizeSpread added to particleSize.
  
• float sizeGrowth
  Size added to particles each frame.
  
• float sizeMod
  Size frame multiplier.
  
• float emitRot
  Rotation in degree from emitVector that particles will be spawned from, a value of 90 will emmit particles in a plane perpendicular to the emitVector.
  
• float emitRotSpread
  Random number between 0 and emitRotSpread added to emitRot, a value of 180 will make the particles spawn in a full sphere.
  
• bool directional
  If the particles should be oriented to point at the direction of their velocity.
  

Notes vectors:

• Vectors are directional systems represented by a 3d graph here:
  See how each vector points along it's own line?
  We have 6 possible directions:
  

X = right
-X = left
Z = Front
-Z = Rear
Y = Up
-Y = Down

WORK IN PROGRESS!

Notes Additive blend versus overlay blend: WORK IN PROGRESS!

• ADDTITIVE
  
• OVERLAY
  

IsShield=1; // if 1 mean the weapon is a shield and not a weapon shieldrepulser=1; // 0=destroy projectile,1=repulse (bounce) projectile smartshield=1; // 1=shield doesnt affect allies weapons exteriorshield=1; // 1=shield doesnt affect weapons fired from within shield visibleshield=1; // 1=see a visible shell representing the shield visibleshieldrepulse=1; // 1=see a beam showing when shield repulses something shieldenergyuse=10; // how much energy the shield use when repulsing/destroying something shieldforce=1000; // how hard shield can accelerate some sort of projectiles away shieldradius=30; // size of shield effect shieldmaxspeed=1100; // maximum speed the shield can push some sort of projectiles away shieldpower=300; // how much power the shield can store, power is drained by the affected weapons damage, 0=infinite shieldpowerregen=5; // how fast the shield regenerates power shieldpowerregenenergy=10; // how much energy the shield uses when regenerating power shieldintercepttype=2; // which types of weapon the shield can affect (bitfield) //interceptedbyshieldtype=; // which types of shields can affect this weapon, if (shieldInterceptType & interceptedByShieldType) is not zero the shield can affect the weapon, default 1 for plasma, 2 for laser, 4 for missiles, 0 for other shieldgoodcolor=0.0 0.05 0.75; // color of shield when power is full shieldbadcolor=0.6 0.05 0.75; // color of shield when power is empty shieldalpha=1; // how visible the shield shell is with visibleshield=1