RMMV Fun Little Particle Problem

[Alador]

Hey there. fellow game devs! I was wondering yet again if you could assist me like you have so many times before.

So, I have downloaded the Particle Emitting Plugin, but I have run into somewhat of a conundrum. I need to anchor the particles to the mouse, but not just that. I also need the particles to appear when you hold the left mouse button but disappear when you release it. It would work somewhat like a drawing-esque program, but you're drawing with particles. The particle emitter plugin does not seem to be very Javascript implementation-friendly, so I was wondering if there was any way to attach the particles to the mouse in the way aforementioned.

Thank you for your time and effort!

 

[Alador]

bUmP!!!1

 

[caethyril]

So, I have downloaded the Particle Emitter plugin

...what's that?

 

[Dopan]

...what's that?

I guess this is the Plugin.

Particle Emitter - easy making particle effects in MV!

ParticleEmitter.js v0.1.2 Tsukimi Last updated: 2018/07/29: add demo sample project Introduction PIXI has particles inside but hard to use in RMMV interface. This plugin provide a simple interface to make particle systems. Features - Simple Creating and setting parameters of...

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However @Alador
If i am wrong pls give a link to the Plugin which you mean, probably that was the reason nobody answerd earlier..
(not enough Informations about your Question)

 

[Alador]

ah, sorry, @Dopan! Yes, that is the particle emitter plugin I was talking about, I'll edit my original post to have the link in it, again, sorry!

 

[caethyril]

OK, by default that plugin seems to anchor particle effects to tiles/events, so I think you'd need an add-on or a Parallel event to keep the emitter synced to the cursor position...

I'd suggest assigning the emitter to the player to start with. Looks like you can change the position of an existing emitter with the setPEmitterPos plugin command. The corresponding script call seems to be:

$gameMap.setPEmitterPos(id, x, y);

So I'm guessing you could have a Parallel [common] event with a Script command something like this:

$gameMap.setPEmitterPos('cursorParticles', TouchInput.x, TouchInput.y);

Remember to substitute your emitter id here. Also bear in mind that Parallel events automatically trigger while active and not already running, so there's no need for a loop.

 

[Alador]

Ah, yes, thank you ever so much, @caethyril! This is exactly what I need!

 

[caethyril]

Hope it works!

 

[Alador]

yeah, me too, @caethyril!