Lol, I love the part where you jump on the dummy, and ninja-flip off his head.

I would welcome an effects library on it's own. Included with D9 would be fine as well.

For what it's worth, I think you should post it in a separate thread if you want to post it as a modding aid for people who are incapable of making it themselves (like me) or here if you want it to be a part of D9 exclusively.

And as I promised here is the beta version of particle effects library.
Warning! Wall of text and code.
What it dose is basically reduce Lua coding of various particle streams, effects and traces to something like this (this is the actual listing of all lua code of D9 Arc Gun):

Step by step what this code dose:

• 1.Gets the actor, who shot the projectile. Projectile must form inside the gun for this to work. It is best to set MuzzleOffset in ini file to (0,0) we'll add offset later in this script.
• 2.Checks if actor is OK
• 3.Gets actor's aim angle
• 4.Moves the projectile to a new position where muzzle should be
• 5.The most interesting part: Uses function from the library to create particle stream with predefined settings. tarting at self.Pos, aiming along AimVector with length of 350, ignoring actor who created it.
• 6. Destroys the projectile

So creating similar effects becomes more like ini moding.
The actual CastParticleStream function with all parameters (lots of them ):

Most parameter's names are self-explanatory so for now I'll focus only on some of them but if there would ever be proper release I'll write a detailed manual.

Minimum/MaximumDrawLengthMultiplier - Length Multiplier range for individual lines in resulting effect. This is responsible for these neat little branches of lightning. Set to 0+. If Min = Max the length would always be the same. If Min,Max=1 Lines would strictly fit into stream path.

DrawingQuality - How smooth the effect will be .Reasonable values 0 .. 1. 1 - draw 1 particle for each pixel. 2 - Skip every second particle and so on. One of the main ways of reducing lag is to tinker with this value and adjust particles lifetimes. It IS possible to create effects with almost no lag - just tinker with different settings.

MOPixelToDrawWith - Particle to draw with, yes, for now only MOPixels are allowed.

The things i like most:
FunctionToCallOnHitMO, p1
FunctionToCallOnHitTerrain, p2
FunctionToCallOnHitNothing, p3
PassAllParameters

You can define your own function or use one from the library for CastParticleStream to call on each of this occasions. For example Arc gun is set to ExplosionOnRootMO,nil,DoNothing,nil,DoNothing,nil this means that if it hits MO it calls ExplosionOnRootMO function which creates explosion right on RootMO of whatever it hit, otherwise it do nothing. To each of these functions CastParticleStream passes some variables + optionally p# + optionally all initial parameters of CastParticleStream .

For now apart from base functions library contains
Stream presets and effects:
CastD9Lightning
CastTerrainDamagingLightning
CastDecorativeLightning
CastBeam
CastElectroBeam
LastPositionExplosion
ExplosionOnRootMO
Some exapmples.

If you are interested - download and see for yourself.
I want to tell so much more, describe all the ideas I have, but I think it will be enough for now. Lua to the masses!

P.S. I added the exclamation mark in the mod name to ensure that it loads before any mod that may use it so you don't have to integrate it.

HElooo!

Wooo!!! Pretty nice!
Great Work Sunrise! Thxx!
And A Lot of Thx for the Best CC Lightning Effect!!! *Applause*
P.S.: Now im have a big trouble with Wrap Gun... I cant make a disappearing wrap wave effect in air =(

Video. How it must be. 500kb



And another one... I found an interesting rare weapon pick from a cutted scenes in D9. And i want a weapon from it=) This strange weapon was used by Wikus to crush down the MNU Entrance Door, but in TV version we can see only moment after weapon usege as big BOOM with blue electrified clouds without weapon close-up. But Rare pick is here! And now i drawn a simple scetch for a future sprite! HE-he! No one gone from me!!!

WONDROUS NEWS! The consept artist for the move has released some of the art and now we know the weapons names !
More at his web site - http://gregbroadmore.blogspot.com/

Hehehe
This is old news!=) When i start to work on this mod i already read this =)

Ok! Today is day of first preRelease!
First Betta here to test=)



Im waiting urs words and bug-fix

I cant run it, I get a failed to load D9.rte/ModuleIcon notification


Edit: got it to work, trying out now

Cant wait till this mod comes out! D9 was probably one of my fav movies.
i like the exoskeeton mech suit. sprites are awesome!

MMMm Thx!
Yeah me too! Best mov by P. Jexon after LotR

The smoke trails don't work too well when firing upwards, but the rest of the mod is really quite good.
Also, the Exoskeleton occasionally gets stuck in the ground. At the possible cost of slightly increasing the already wonderfully small amount of terrain eaten by it walking, you might want to increase the push strength a little bit to make it happen less often.

How I love this beta.

Very good work on the weapons. Especially love how the arc weapons adhere towards possible targets. The other weapons are all destructive and fun to use, all with great visual effects. But where's the 'pusher' gun that Wikus used to loot weapons from the gangsters?

Suggestions:
-Juice up the battlesuit, in terms of jump and armor
-Add guided missiles to battlesuit
-better sfx(I'm sure you're on it since it's just a beta)
-Up the throwing power of the gravity manipulator thing

The only thing I think is bad is the prawn. It's huge, when compared to the battlesuit or CC actors it's just HUGE.

Now this is flattering indeed :blushes: I tried hard only because I was inspired by your
magnificent sprites and animation.



Working on it right now, i hope you'll like it:









The effect actualy fades away in the direction of the actor (like in the movie) but it may be too fast right now to notice this straight away.

Holy Crack!!! Awesome!
Sun, ur skills are amazing! Top-score work!