special effects

[maerlyn]

I'm using this in my map:

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of defender_ref[(Player number of (Picked player))]) using Abilities\Weapons\Rifle\RifleImpact.mdl

It's run 25 times a second, and it looks like a pleasant flame jetting out the back of my spaceship. When the animation finishes, is the special effect removed? Or will this cause lag for my map?


On a completely different topic, how do you change the text beside your avatar?

 

[Rad]

A: It depends on the animation time of the model for both if it will lag and if it will go away on its own
B: You need 100 reputation to get your own text near your avatar

 

[UnknowVector]

Isn't it you need to be a special memeber?

 

[Rad]

Uhm. I became a special member right when I got 100 reputation, so I'm not sure... either a mod gave me special member or 100 rep made me special member, whatever it was I got both at once

 

[maerlyn]

Thanks guys. I'm guessing it goes away on its own, because the animation finishes and because I don't experience any lag playing.

 

[Sud]

Any effects you create you must also destroy, otherwise they will exist forever and that's a form of leakage. If you're creating 25 effects a second with no destruction, that's megaleak.

Effects persist too, for example, if you attach an effect to a hero, and that hero dies, your effect will still be there when the hero revives.

 

[Korolen]

I would suggest making your own projectile emmiter, they really arn't hard to do, and then you won't have 250 emitters in 10 seconds. I can show you how if you want

 

[pladams9]

Actually all you have to do is destroy the Effect right after making it. It will play its animation before disappearing. Very handy for non-looping animations.

Like so:

Special Effect - Create a special effect at (Position of defender_ref[(Player number of (Picked player))]) using Abilities\Weapons\Rifle\RifleImpact.mdl
Special Effect - Destroy (Last Created Special Effect)