Miscellaneous: Necro epic particles

[Zaela]

I happened to be reminded of this old quote today:

Originally Posted by Telin [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Necromancer particles are also wrong,they should radiate as a sphere instead of a circle. It would be an easy fix once located.

I'm not sure if the particles are indeed supposed to be that way and I don't have any evidence, but considering the source I'll go with it.

A few days ago I made a tool for editing particle effect data for old weapon models (I was bored).

One thing I noticed while playing around is that if a model uses the "sphere" mode for particle motion, but has a zero value in what I called the "sphere radius" field, the particles will radiate along a flat, circular plane, as the necro epic current does, and like so: https://youtu.be/KceGqURJYFw

But, if the "sphere radius" field is set to any non-zero value, they will radiate in a sphere as expected. I used a "sphere radius" of 0.1 here: https://youtu.be/ICoGwcmFZhk


If this were a desired change, getting it out to users might be a challenge. Probably wouldn't want to distribute the file that needs to be edited (gequip.s3d) for legal reasons. It would not be hard for me to develop a one-click tool to make the change, but then each player would need to go out of their way to use it. Too bad P99 doesn't have a patching program...