[retsam]

Does anyone have or know of any dods plugins that attach particles to players? I basically copied/pasted my function from tf2 for dods, and it most definitely does not attach it to the player. The particles play from some random map location it seems.

Why wouldnt this work for dods? Anyone have any experience with particles in DODS?

new iparticle = CreateEntityByName("info_particle_system");
    
    
    if (IsValidEdict(iparticle)){
        decl Float:pos[3];

        GetEntPropVector(entity, Prop_Send, "m_vecOrigin", pos);
        
        // Add position offsets
        pos[0] += xOffs;
        pos[1] += yOffs;
        pos[2] += zOffs;
        
       TeleportEntity(iparticle, pos, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);
        DispatchKeyValue(iparticle, "effect_name", type);

        if (attach != NO_ATTACH)
    {
            SetVariantString("!activator");
            AcceptEntityInput(iparticle, "SetParent", entity, iparticle, 0);
        
            if (attach == ATTACH_HEAD)
      {
                SetVariantString("head");
                AcceptEntityInput(iparticle, "SetParentAttachmentMaintainOffset", iparticle, iparticle, 0);
            }
        }
        
        DispatchKeyValue(iparticle, "targetname", "particle");

        DispatchSpawn(iparticle);
        ActivateEntity(iparticle);
        AcceptEntityInput(iparticle, "Start");

[CrimsonGT]

Posting your code would be a good start.

Is the "info_particle_system" an entity in DODS? Are you trying to attach it to an attachment point that doesn't exist? Theres tons of things that could be wrong so speculating isn't very useful.

[retsam]

Ya, I was just trying to find another dods plugin so I could just look for myself but anyways....posted in OP.

The above code works flawlessly in tf2. It outputs the particle in dods, but its not attaching it anywhere remotely close to the client.

[retsam]

No ideas? No dods admins around have any particle plugins? heh.

[strontiumdog]

If you look for my Evil Rocket plugin, it uses particles for the smoke effect for DoDS.

It should work just the same, except they have different names. I have a list somewhere...


Also when attaching, unless you specifically want it to the head, I'd just teleport the particle into position and SetParent it.

When I get home tonight, I'll post some code.

[retsam]

Hum alright. Thx for that idea. I actually use that in my RTD plugin, and I would have thought that is fairly identical code to what im trying. Ill do some comparisons though.

[strontiumdog]

This works for me:

AttachParticle(ent, String:particleType[])
{
    new particle = CreateEntityByName("info_particle_system");
    
    new String:tName[128];
    if (IsValidEdict(particle))
    {
        new Float:pos[3];
        GetEntPropVector(ent, Prop_Send, "m_vecOrigin", pos);
        pos[2] += 10;
        TeleportEntity(particle, pos, NULL_VECTOR, NULL_VECTOR);
        
        Format(tName, sizeof(tName), "target%i", ent);
        DispatchKeyValue(ent, "targetname", tName);
        
        DispatchKeyValue(particle, "targetname", "dodparticle");
        DispatchKeyValue(particle, "effect_name", particleType);
        DispatchSpawn(particle);
        SetVariantString(tName);
        AcceptEntityInput(particle, "SetParent", particle, particle, 0);
        ActivateEntity(particle);
        AcceptEntityInput(particle, "start");
        
        CreateTimer(1.0, DeleteParticle, particle);
    }
}

[retsam]

I just tried your code from the evil rocket. The rockettrail smoke attaches to player fine, but the two particles im trying "mini_fireworks" and "mini_firework_flare" wont attach for anything.

I have now tried 3 different attach particle functions and neither will attach those two particles in dods.

EDIT: Yeah. Im not sure what is wrong here. I just confirmed it. Those two particles cannot be attached to the player. wtf? why? The other particles like rockettrail work fine..... My particle functions are fine, its just those specific particles......