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Control Particles in a Preset

Control Particles in a Preset

Postby Shando » 08 Oct 2017, 00:39

Hi All,

Just a quick question....

How do I turn on/off a SkyParticle that is part of a Preset?

I know that there is this command:
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particle.setEmitting ( particleFX_hnd, 1 )


but it needs the handle of the Particle, which is the bit I'm not sure how to get when not spawning the Particle in.

Thanks in advance

Shando

[edit] Is it something like this?
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entity.paramValue ( objID, "SP Enabled", 0 )
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Re: Control Particles in a Preset

Postby SolarPortal » 08 Oct 2017, 12:50

i would imagine that you would just set the tag of the particle and retrieve that... but there appears to be no command that can get the id of a particle that belongs to an action which would make it quite awkward to control dynamically.

We will have to look into this one and get back to you :)
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