pulsed energy weapons script

Coding Python Support
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Okay, I’m getting really tired of having to create particle emitters for every blaster bolt being fired from say a laser turrent. What I want is a script that will say release 200 particle over x frames, wait y frames, and repeat.

So I’ve got every book the library had on Python (in a nutshell) and I’m going to write a script.

So here is my question: what are some suggestions on the best way to do this?

Have the script automatically create several emittors, basically automate what I do now, or somehow program an interupt into the exiting particle system?

I have extensive PERL, C, and some PHP coding background. First task is to figure out enough Python and gather some ideas…

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Create your own “Laser Weapons Lib”
Append all your created emitters and materials from your previously created scenes into a new (empty) blend.
Then you might want to post it here. :wink:

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dont forget color ramp falloff color changes and alpha…

Oh and displacement maps just incase someone makes sub ploygon displacement mapping,
oh and bump maps

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when I bloody well get done I’m going to have “unimatrix’s space wars in a .blend” ready…

Still if anyone with more experience has some clues on the best angle to approach, that will help cut down on “research time”.

Although expect alpha 1 of the script to just emit bursts of particles…textures will be there about 2.0…

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Steal the code from the acmeExploder script I posted the other week.

lines 81-228

The values are stored in python dicts.
It saves having to distribute a .blend file with the script
and linking with the library module.

Of course if someone wrote a disutils type script
to package scripts and .blend libraries…

I never bothered adding texture support but the
code is lying about at home somewhere…

6

Thanks for the suggestion…I’ll be happy to “BSD” it…

if you don’t get the sarcasm, read the BSD license that can be summed up like this: “Use, do what you want, you can’t use our name to promote it”.

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I just copied and pasted the Acme Airburst Script. I will try it out tonight.