maybe you should try to READ thoose letters that appear in crash messages, theese letters make words and words makes sentences.

I could try...

Ok, I made 2 versions of a "Coloumn Grenade", which spawns a stalagmite on the ground. The first version has a rising emitter that shoots dirt particles at the ground to "grow" the coloumn, but isn't very effective. The second version just pops a pre-made coloumn into place.

What I want to know is should I use the first, cooler method that doesn't work too well, or the second which works 100% of the time but looks wierd that it just pops into existance?

Make it fire downwards. That's how the gold seed works. When it's done just pop the remaining dirt into existence around the thinner base of the column.

Actually, the gold seed does have an emmiter, but it doesn't fire downwards. In game, gold has a strange propery where if gold particles are spawned inside a mass terrain that is made of gold, it will move to the outside of the gold mass, giving an appearance of growing gold. Other materials won't do the same thing though, so the emmiter has to be moving or it will get stuck in the pile of what-ever it is spraying and stop spawning particles. And even if I use both techniques mentioed earlier to create a rock coloumn, it will look strange, since the emmiter one currently looks like a thin needle.

Hey guys, what do you think about a Boomerang? I already have a some-what working proto-type, and if that fails, I've thought of another working design. Post your opinions! I need a little motivation.

BTW, I also think I have the record for the most double posts.But that wouldn't be the case if there was a bump button.

It should be a special thermal boomerang that goes through actors then deactivates before returning to the place of origin.

That's what it's going to do. By the way, does anyone know how to make an emitter fire after a certain time?

You could copy, delete, and repost... not that I've ever been that desperate for attention. >.>; <.<;


Emission start/stop time... check out the rocket launcher.

1.EmissionStartTime
2.EmissionStopTime
3.StartTimeMS
4.EffectStartTime
5.EffectStopTime

The above don't seem to effect the start time of emitters. 1 and 2 crash CC, and the rest don't function.

StartTimeMS is what you want, put it in the emission definition, not the emitter definition.
also, to make something work in a similar way to gold, raise the materials priority.
edit: whoops, typo.

Take a look at Coalition.rte/Devices/RPGs/RPGs.ini, they work fine. You have to place them in the emission block, as above, though.
As you said, I don't think EmissionStartTime and EmissionStopTime work, and EffectStartTime and EffectStopTime are for ScreenEffects.

Still doesn't work. Maybe you will have some more luck with it.

I see you used EffectStartTime without defining a glow. I take it you want "Laser-Boomerang Return" to emit a single "Laser-Boomer" after 2000 MS, yes? Then you would probably have more luck making a MOSRotating with an attached emitter. The MOSRotating (with a low GibImpulseLimit) would gib the "Laser-Boomer" when the AEmitter began emitting super heavy particles with StartTimeMS = 2000 on the AddEmission block.

Updated. I added the following:
Compact-RL (Rocket Launcher)
Laser Spinner
C-Frag Grenade

And I tweaked the explosions on the grenade launcher.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, PLEASE CONTRIBUTE IDEAS. I can't think of any thing else to make.