Particles.lua???

[Hammerless Penguin]

Does anybody know how to get it? That one lua code that gives you rain,snow ect. I've searched everywhere and had no luck finding it. Is it a built in feature in smbx2?

[Emral]

Yes it is. You can simply load it with local particles = require("particles")

data/scripts/particles has some standard particle systems you can load, too.

[Hammerless Penguin]

Yes it is. You can simply load it with local particles = require("particles")

data/scripts/particles has some standard particle systems you can load, too.

Is this how you are supposed do it?

[Emral]

No.
https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/Particles.lua
Skip the "installation" section.

[Hammerless Penguin]

No.
https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/Particles.lua
Skip the "installation" section.

I finally got it to work now thanks.

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No.
https://wohlsoft.ru/pgewiki/Particles.lua
Skip the "installation" section.

One more question,Is there any more effects other than rain? The website only told how to do the flame and the rain one. Is there anymore like sandstorms,smoke,snow or fog.

[Hoeloe]

Here's a list of all the particle effects that are built into the engine.



You can also make your own using a custom .ini file in your level folder.

[Emral]

data/scripts/particles has some standard particle systems you can load, too.

That's where you can find what Hoeloe just posted.

[Hammerless Penguin]

One more extra question. What if i wanted it to rain in only one section instead of the entire level? How do I do it?

[Emral]

Only run the draw call after a check for player.section

[DrMekar]

Only run the draw call after a check for player.section

I don't fully understand how that's meant. Doing it like this only leads to Error Message and
I can't find anythink about it in the Wiki article.

[Emral]

That's not how if statements work. You're trying to call a function. I'll give you the if statement but I also urge to check out the official lua documentation and learn the fundamentals of the language.
if player.section == 0 then
--do stuff
end

[DrMekar]

That's not how if statements work. You're trying to call a function. I'll give you the if statement but I also urge to check out the official lua documentation and learn the fundamentals of the language.
if player.section == 0 then
--do stuff
end

Thanks, but it's still not working. It says there should be a 'then' near the ',', everytime, not
mattering if I write == 0,1 or == 0

[Emral]

That's not how if statements work. You're trying to call a function. I'll give you the if statement but I also urge to check out the official lua documentation and learn the fundamentals of the language.
if player.section == 0 then
--do stuff
end

Thanks, but it's still not working. It says there should be a 'then' near the ',', everytime, not
mattering if I write == 0,1 or == 0

https://www.lua.org/pil/4.3.1.html
Once you understand this my previous post should make more sense. Then again. Dunno where you put a comma.

[DrMekar]

That's not how if statements work. You're trying to call a function. I'll give you the if statement but I also urge to check out the official lua documentation and learn the fundamentals of the language.
if player.section == 0 then
--do stuff
end

Thanks, but it's still not working. It says there should be a 'then' near the ',', everytime, not
mattering if I write == 0,1 or == 0

https://www.lua.org/pil/4.3.1.html
Once you understand this my previous post should make more sense. Then again. Dunno where you put a comma.

I will defenitly take a look at this though the level it's used in needs to be done until Halloween.



Here's the full code. I don't know what is meant with the comma either or where lua sees one. (The 0,1 is of course a Comma, though
I don't know how to write it else).

only writing 0 leads to a diffrent message telling me to add 'end'

[Emral]

every scope in lua needs to be closed. the end in my post was to close the if statement.
as for the comma, if you don't know logical operators like "and" and "or" and need to get the level done quick, i suggest just making two if statements - one checking for section 0, the other for section 1, cause the code you wrote is utter nonsense.
You also need to eventually uncomment the actual draw call.

[DrMekar]

every scope in lua needs to be closed. the end in my post was to close the if statement.
as for the comma, if you don't know logical operators like "and" and "or" and need to get the level done quick, i suggest just making two if statements - one checking for section 0, the other for section 1, cause the code you wrote is utter nonsense.
You also need to eventually uncomment the actual draw call.

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function onCameraUpdate()
    if player.section == 0 then
    effect:Draw();
end

if player.section == 1 then
   effect:Draw();
end

It still says there needs to be a 'end' somewhere, but I just really don't know
where.

[Hoeloe]

Every time you write "function", "then", or "do", you need to have a corresponding "end" to close it off. Currently you have two "then"s, and one "function", but only two "end"s.

[DrMekar]

Every time you write "function", "then", or "do", you need to have a corresponding "end" to close it off. Currently you have two "then"s, and one "function", but only two "end"s.

Of course. It works now, thanks alot