hi all, especially TripleX,

i wanted to create exhaust fumes for my space ship in the wonderful EP3.
lokks good and everything works fine, i just get problems when i move he camera a bit away from the model. the exhaust gets cut off or kinda. look here:


close view, normal, bright green, fading out atr the end



distance, cut off, no fading at all...


every help is appreciated.

seems like clipping

adjust your view clipping settings like clip_far and clip_particles

hmm, a high clip_far value reduced the effect a lil, nevertheless it still exists. but it is hard to reproduce it... it apperars mainly after a camera pan. i am trying to record this phenomenon with fraps and post again.

when you deal with a faiding partical and rotateing the view around it it happens that the faid part gets to be obsucured.

afterall its just a series of sprites and the angle which you view them will deterime which partical sprites are viewed over the rest

just image the lines below are your effect each one a generated partical
(as if a birds eye view)

| | | | | | |

now imagine rotating the view around them

Quote:

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C



C | | | | | | | | C



C

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C being the camera looking at the partials
if the above eample was your effect pictured above and the far left | was the last faided partical visible then as we rotate the camera to the far right C the far right | 's will obscure the far left ones