Laz's FX and Stuff (Rebooted)

[Laz]

It is possible and will not trigger the anticheat. Combat/Projectiles are not as easy to do because movement takes a while to do in THN and each projectile needs its own entry. To simplify, a Make has 8 engines. Each one needs to be given the effect and bound. My Yaren Patrol has 2 makos. Each entry needs a start effect and the effect itself. Those two makos have 16 entries just for the engines.

One effect entry looks something like this:

THN

{
entity_name="Ambient",
type=PSYS,
template_name="gf_volcanicglow",
lt_grp=0, srt_grp=0, usr_flg=0,
flags=LIT_DYNAMIC + LIT_AMBIENT,
spatialprops={
pos = { 0, -72.5, 0 },
orient = { { 1, 0, 0 }, { 0, 1, 0 }, { 0, 0, 1 } }
},
psysprops={
sparam=0
}
},

This doesn't even consider movement or anything else. I once coded a small combat scene but it took several hours just to do a single mortar salvo and give it explosion FX and other things you see within the game.

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