Flying particle lights?

Content Development NPCs
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Hi i am sort of new to making levels and i was wondering if any one has a script or can help me write a script that will cause random particle lights to fly around my level. Thank you in advance :slight_smile:

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drawoverplayer;
dontblock;
drawaslight;
setcoloreffect [i]red[/i],[i]green[/i],[i]blue[/i],[i]alpha[/i];
x=random(0,63);
y=random(0,63);
timeout=0.5;

Half-assed code, but it should work. Just give it an image and copy the NPC a few times.

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thanks!

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Forgot that you’ll need to put in the values for RGB and Alpha.

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draw over and draw as lights O:?

I dont mess with light effects or anything so I may be wrong here, doesn’t lights draw over auto ? O:

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Ya spoon I figured that out haha I decided to make an animated gif of particles and use the drawover o have some set lights moving around and I also used your code to have some just flying aroud randomly.

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Didn’t get any sleep last night. My brain is poop. You guys are right though, drawaslight puts it above the drawoverplayer layer.

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This belongs in the NPCs section, IMO.

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i asked it here because i think its more of a level related question.

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But it is NOT level related (tiles, designs, etc.), it IS script related.

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Kind of threw this together. Copy/paste as many times as you’d like in your level. I’ve attached an additional image that you should save and use with it.

[code]//#CLIENTSIDE
if (created) {
this.maxspeed = .5;
Spawn();
timeout = 0.05;
}

function Spawn() {
hideimg 200;
hideimgs 300,300+this.tailcount;

if (this.dead == 1) {
for (this.i=0;this.i<10;this.i++) {
showimg 1000,shiny_special-light4.png,x - 2.5,y - 2.5;
changeimgcolors 1000,1,1,1,.99 - (this.i/10).99;
changeimgzoom 1000,(this.i/10)(this.zoom*4);
changeimgvis 1000,3;
sleep 0.075;
}
hideimg 1000;
}

this.steps = 0;
this.dead = 0;
this.alpha = 0;

sleep random(0,3);

x = random(4,60);
y = random(4,60);
this.zoom = random(.1,.22);
this.angle = random(0,pi*2);
this.speed = random(.1,.3);
this.tailcount = int(random(4,10));
this.tailindex = 0;
}

function Move() {
if (this.dead == 0) {
x += cos(this.angle)*this.speed;
y -= sin(this.angle)*this.speed;

this.r = random(0,100);
if (this.r < 25) this.adir = int(random(-1,2));
this.angle = (this.angle + (this.adir*(pi/25)))%(pi*2);

if (this.alpha < .99) this.alpha += .11;
else this.alpha = .99;

} else if (this.dead == 1) {
if (this.alpha > .25) this.alpha -= .11;
else {
Spawn();
return;
}
}

showimg 200,light4.png,x - 4,y - 4;
changeimgcolors 200,1,1,1,this.alpha;
changeimgzoom 200,this.zoom;
changeimgvis 200,3;

if (this.tailindex == int(this.tailindex)) {
showimg 300 + this.tailindex,light4.png,x - 4,y - 4;

for (this.i=0;this.i<this.tailcount;this.i++) {
  this.img = 300 + ((this.i + this.tailindex)%this.tailcount);
  changeimgcolors this.img,1,1,1,(.11 + (this.i/this.tailcount)*.88)*this.alpha;
  changeimgzoom this.img,.05 + (this.i/this.tailcount)*(this.zoom/2);
  changeimgvis this.img,3;
}

}

this.tailindex = (this.tailindex + .5)%this.tailcount;

if (x < 1) x = 63;
else if (x > 63) x = 1;
if (y < 1) y = 63;
else if (y > 63) y = 1;

/*
if (x < 1 || x > 63 || y < 1 ||y > 63) {
Spawn();
return;
}
/
if (random(0,500) < this.steps.025) this.dead = 1;
this.steps++;
}

if (timeout) {
Move();

timeout = 0.05;
}[/code]

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I don’t see an attachment.

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Dunno what happened to it, but attached now!

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this doesnt work :\ at least it didnt for me…

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bump

This is awesome. Good work.
Thanks for putting this up.