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 The Flux (again) 
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CaveCricket48
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Try changing

Code:
   ScreenEffect = ContentFile
      FilePath = Flux.rte/WhiteFlux/WhiteFluxGlow.bmp
   EffectAlwaysShows = 1


to

Code:
   ScreenEffect = ContentFile
      FilePath = Flux.rte/WhiteFlux/WhiteFluxGlow.bmp
   EffectStartTime = 0
   EffectStopTime = 1000
   EffectStartStrength = 1.0
   EffectStopStrength = 0
   EffectAlwaysShows = 1


and change those numbers to your liking.
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Messing with the effect variables doesn't do jack, already tried it.
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Try making the glow a flash then.
Sat Sep 26, 2009 9:35 pm
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I think I remember that for some reason, anything greater than MOSParticles (on a scale from MOPixel to Actor) obscures it's own glow. For an experiment, you could try making the SpriteOffset something obscene. Or I could, if I wasn't so lazy.
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CaveCricket48 wrote:
Try making the glow a flash then.

I tried this already. For some damn reason the glow was always offset to the right of the actor regardless of how I set the flash's offsets. The flash itself (as well as the emitter it came from) was a 1x1 sprite of transparent color, though I'm not sure why that would make it so I couldn't move it around.

I don't know why the simple task of making something glow continuously has become so difficult and infuriating. Any suggestions, or known ways of going about this?
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Well, maybe while you're waiting for Data to fix glows, you can substitute the glow for a MOSParticle. You can make it look like a glow and animate it too.

Edit: I just got an idea. See how many pixels the glow is moved over and then edit the glow image itself and moveit over that many times.
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Darlos9D wrote:
For some damn reason the glow was always offset to the right of the actor regardless of how I set the flash's offsets.

Had this problem when I was doing Bbl for the mod contest. I think it sets the glow to be centered vertically and the left edge touching the joint of the flash. You could perhaps attach an AEmitter offset half of the glow's width to the left of your intended point?
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Well, I'd like to try as hard as I can to just lua in a glowing particle that follows the actor, because that gets the look I want. Using a flash, the glow is always blinking.

If this just becomes impossible, I'll go back to flash. I can probably move stuff around enough to get it where I want it if I try.
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Probably pretty easy, if slightly laggy. Create a particle in create(self) and update it's position every frame, possibly check to see if it settled. (not a Lua person)
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It is, as you said, very easy to do.
Just add this to the actor's script:

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function Create(self)
self.glower = CreateMOPixel("Insert Glow Particle Here");
self.glower.Pos = self.Pos;
MovableMan:AddParticle(self.glower);
end

function Update(self)
if MovableMan:IsParticle(self.glower) then
self.glower.Pos = self.Pos;
else
self.glower = CreateMOPixel("Insert Glow Particle Here");
self.glower.Pos = self.Pos;
MovableMan:AddParticle(self.glower);
end
end



Not tested, but should work, unless I made some dumb syntax error. :roll:


EDIT: Actually, I think you might not even need the Create function, so feel free to cut that part off.
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Some code from Mind's orb.
http://pastebin.com/m148bb238
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        if (UInputMan:KeyReleased(85)) then
                moon = CreateMOSRotating("Glow Test");
                moon.Pos.X = self.Pos.X;
                moon.Pos.Y = self.Pos.Y + 50
                moon.Vel = Vector(0,50);
                MovableMan:AddParticle(moon);

So, I'd assume
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        blah = CreateMOSRotating("Glow");
        blah.Pos.X = self.Pos.X;
        blah.Pos.Y = self.Pos.Y
        blah.Vel = Vector(0,0);

Would do the trick.
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CrazyMLC wrote:
So, I'd assume
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 blah = CreateMOSRotating("Glow");
blah.Pos.X = self.Pos.X;
blah.Pos.Y = self.Pos.Y
blah.Vel = Vector(0,0);

Would do the trick.


Sure thing, but it might be unstable. If the glow particle was destroyed or disappeared for any reason, your game would instantly crash.
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Guys, glowing particles spawned with Lua don't glow. Anyway, I tried helping Darlos get glowing AEmitter to work but I needed to make an insane amount of particles for it to be a somewhat solid glow and as a result of this I couldn't have more than 1 white flux at a time.

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glowing particles spawned with lua don't glow
what

gonna just go ahead and point to everything in xextredge right now

oh and warp test
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The lua glows in
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this work perfectly fine.
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