Sprites & Decals

[jheaddon]

Ok i'm having a little trouble working out how the explosions and muzzle flashes work.

Are they animated decals?

I have been able to find the muzzle flash decal in the CSS.GCF but no explosion graphics.

Are they created by the source engine? Got a great decal artist who can make superb explosion graphics, would really like to see them ingame

 

[jheaddon]

Anyone?

 

[The Dark Elf]

those are just sprites/particles (explosions)

http://www.phantomworks.co.uk/tde/art/boom.mpg

quick example.

 

[jheaddon]

So what file would we have to make for animated muzzle flashes or explosions?

e.g. a 10 frame explosion. Not sure where it would go, as i said, haven't been able to find them in any GCF's

 

[The Dark Elf]

i dunno

 

[jheaddon]

Comon art guru

 

[DonMegel]

I need to know this as well, I want to make some new explosions

 

[DonMegel]

bump

 

[Glo-Boy]

It is a very simple particle system. The particles are assigned to different sprites (vtf files) So open up the proper vtfs and replace them with whatever you want. I dont know how you would go about messing with the particles motion paths though.

 

[Dodo]

*revives thread*

Could someone post how they saved there .tga's before converting them to vtf, and also post there .vmt of the particle?
It would help sooo much.

-dodo

 

[63]

Grab the photoshop .vtf plugin.

 

[Dodo]

How do i compile the .tga wuth the vtf plugin, like which option do i check or uncheck? I know the particles are vertex colored, soo they might have to be 8-bit alpha's but im not sure...

-dodo

 

[Dodo]

w000t it worked !!

-dodo