[Noodl]

So I'm trying to alter a particle's colour (blue burning flames etc, type of thing).
I'm pretty new to stuff like entities, properties and offsets etc, in terms of finding an entity's properties and whatnot.

This is what I've got so far to spawn a simple particle at my feet, trying to get the colour (attaching and stuff can come later). A player has this m_clrRender prop, but the particle system I create does not. Is it even possible for us to change a particle system's colour via a plugin, rather than going into PCFs and stuff, and if so, how would I go about that?

int particle = CreateEntityByName("info_particle_system");
		char name[64];
		
		float position[3];
		GetEntPropVector(iClient, Prop_Send, "m_vecOrigin", position);
		TeleportEntity(particle, position, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);
		GetEntPropString(iClient, Prop_Data, "m_iName", name, sizeof(name));
		DispatchKeyValue(particle, "targetname", "tf2particle");
		DispatchKeyValue(particle, "parentname", name);
		DispatchKeyValue(particle, "effect_name", "superrare_greenenergy");
		DispatchSpawn(particle);
		SetVariantString(name);
		AcceptEntityInput(particle, "SetParent", particle, particle, 0);
		ActivateEntity(particle);
		AcceptEntityInput(particle, "start");
		CPrintToChatAll("goofing");
		int r, g, b, a;
		int offset = GetEntSendPropOffs(particle, "m_clrRender");
		if (offset > 0)
		{
			r = GetEntData(particle, offset, 1);
			g = GetEntData(particle, offset + 1, 1);
			b = GetEntData(particle, offset + 2, 1);
			a = GetEntData(particle, offset + 3, 1);
			CPrintToChatAll("goofing");
			CPrintToChatAll("%i %i %i %i", r, g, b, a);
		}

[cravenge]

Try:

PHP Code:

DispatchKeyValue(particle, "rendercolor", color); 


Also, a suggestion for setting parents for entities:

PHP Code:

SetVariantString("!activator");
AcceptEntityInput(particle, "SetParent", iClient, particle); 


Because there are times where it fails.

[Silvers]

Particle colours can't be changed.

[Lux]

You could try these two entities

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Env_smokestack

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/..._particlelight

Be sure to read the docs the entity may be broken for the game your on.
It says it don't work for info_particle_system