[Mongoose]

Hi Peter,

Is there a way to draw only specific layers within an effect, rather than just spawning whole effects on different particle managers? I noticed particles have a ‘layer’ parameter, or is this merely for Z-sorting within the manager itself? If so, is there a way to pick out which particles are on which layer, and choose which layer you’d like to draw?

For example, in Explosions.eff, there is Mushroom 2 that contains:

Dust – Layer 0
Fire – Layer 0
Collumn – Layer 0
Explosion – Layer 0
Glow1 – Layer 1
Ground Smoke Container – Layer 0

Now, say in the case of my drawing manager- You wanted the explosion to be behind the player (On Layer 0, Background – Player occupies Mid ground), but the glow to be in front (Layer 2, Foreground) –
Think this is possible?

[Mongoose]

Not to hijack the thread, rather build upon the idea; Say you wanted to leave puddles after the drops come to rest (Sort of an On Death of a particle) – How would you go about doing that? I’ve experimented with a child emitter with an alpha/amount of 0 on up until the moment of where the blood drop stops, but it never spawns out of the child emitter at the right moment. Any ideas on how to achieve this?

[Mongoose]

What’s the point? Double Clicking a resource file usually means you want to load that resource into it’s respected editor.

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