[x6herbius]

I'm trying to parent a particle effect to players, which works apart from when I kill it - even though the info_particle_system itself has gone, the particles still hover in the air unanimated. I'm using AcceptEntityInput(ent, "Kill"), should I be doing something else?

[BrianGriffin]

What game/particle effect are you using? I've never had any of this happen in L4D or TF2.

Are you sure you are killing the particle effect and not something else?

AcceptEntityInput should work (works for me in l4d2). Another way can be:

SetVariantString("OnUser1 !self:Kill::0.0:-1");
AcceptEntityInput(entityIndex, "AddOutput");
AcceptEntityInput(entityIndex, "FireUser1");

but I don't see why this would work when "kill" doesn't.

[x6herbius]

At the moment I'm testing with the duel and nemesis icons (for an assassin and target respectively). I had made my own particle effects but couldn't get them to show up in-game through the code (may have been precaching issues?), so I tested with some stock effects first.

[BrianGriffin]

Can't get custom particles into the game via Sourcemod. The client refuses to precache particles not in a proper particle_manifest wich you can't change serverside.

[x6herbius]

Ah. That might become a problem then.

Is it actually possible to parent an env_sprite_oriented to a player? The way I saw used in a donator plugin was to teleport the sprite OnGameFrame to mimic the client's speed and direction, so I assumed (perhaps wrongly) that SetParent wouldn't work. If it does, sprites should be adequate for me since SetParent should stop them from lagging behind the player and getting in the way if they look backwards.

[nxlinux]

i found some particles cant accept kill command like aircraft_landing_light

this particles cant be stop and killed

code 1:

PHP Code:

SetVariantString("OnUser1 !self:Kill::0.5:-1");
AcceptEntityInput(particle, "AddOutput");
AcceptEntityInput(particle, "FireUser1");
AcceptEntityInput(particle, "Start"); 


code 2:

PHP Code:

public Action:DeleteParticles(Handle:timer, any:particle)
{
    /* Delete particle */
    if (IsValidEntity(particle) && IsValidEdict(particle))
    {
        new String:classname[64];
        GetEdictClassname(particle, classname, sizeof(classname));
        if (StrEqual(classname, "info_particle_system", false))
        {
            AcceptEntityInput(particle, "stop");
            AcceptEntityInput(particle, "kill");
            RemoveEdict(particle);
        }
    }
} 


all of that operation not work, why?