Smoking buildings

[Bucket man]

How can I make thick black smoke trail rise from destroyed buildings? Like smoke on fire pit but it should be black and thicker.

I tried fire.sqs script and Rauchfahne.sqs but it didnt look right.

[Chris Death]

place an empty M113 onto the building and dig it in by using
the setpos command in it's init field:

this setpos [(getpos this select 0),(getpos this select 1), -10]

Give it a name by using it's name field (to get a reference to
the m113) - e.g: smokedummy1

Now if you want to get the baby somking, just use:

smokedummy1 setdammage 1

and whooop - dark smoke climbs outta the building

You can play around in the setpos definitios (where it says: -10) to dig it in the more or the less.

Also you can set the ammunition and the fuel to zero by using
by using the ammo-bar and fuel-bar ***in the unit's menu, to avoid an explosion sound.

:edit - ah yeah and you could do a search thru the forum for:
any threads, dealing about the "drop" command, where you can even create more realistic black smoker's.

Or try www.ofpec.com - editors depot

~S~ CD

[Bucket man]

Thanks. I will go and try it out right now.

[Bucket man]

Drop command is all mambo jambo to me. I havent got a clue how it is used.

[jacobaby]

I love the drop command. It is probably one of the most powerful commands in OFP.

heres your black smoke, make sure it is called from a trigger.

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Code Sample </td></tr><tr><td id="CODE">
_pos = &#91;PUT YOUR BUILDING POSITION HERE&#93;
_lifeTime = &#91;SMOKE TIME IN SECONDS GOES HERE&#93;
_delay = 0.3
_lifeTicks = _lifeTime / _delay
_lifeTick = _lifeTicks

#Begin

drop &#91;&#34;cl_basic&#34;, &#34;&#34;, &#34;Billboard&#34;, 1, 55+ &#40;random 15&#41;, _pos,&#91;&#40;random 1 - random 2&#41;,&#40;random 1 - random 2&#41;,random 2&#93;, 1, 0.005, 0.0042, 0.1, &#91;0.2,15,25&#93;, &#91;&#91;0.1,0.1,0.1,0.6&#93;, &#91;0.1,0.1,0.1,0.5 * _lifeTick/_lifeTicks&#93;, &#91;0.1,0.1,0.1,0.4 * _lifeTick/_lifeTicks&#93;, &#91;0.1,0.1,0.1,0.3&#93;, &#91;0.1,0.1,0.1,0.3&#93;&#93;, &#91;0,1,0,1,0,1&#93;, 40, 0.2, &#34;&#34;, &#34;&#34;, &#34;&#34;&#93;

~_delay

_lifeTick = _lifeTick - 1
?_lifeTick &#62; 0 &#58; goto &#34;Begin&#34;

[/QUOTE]<span id='postcolor'>

Sort out your burn time yourself, dont overdo it.
Hope thats ok. Its basic but you can play with it.

TJ

[Bucket man]

Thanks jacobaby. Going to test it right now.

[Bucket man]

What am I supposed to put to [PUT YOUR BUILDING POSITION HERE]? I tried map coordinates and building name but it didnt work.

[Harnu]

Don&#39;t just put the buildings number in there. Do "Object #". You have to have object before the buildings ID number

[PFC Mongoose]

Is it possible to name the building, then use the building&#39;s name instead of the building ID?

[jacobaby]

Use the map co-ords in an array. You can get them precisley using camera.sqs, or place a game logic. Camera.sqs would be better &#39;cus you could put the smoke into a precise room etc. Only thing is, dropped particles dont always look right over a p3d model.

so it should look like

_pos = [2203,3546,0] or whatever your position is.

If you have the object ID I guess you could just use

_pos = (getpos OBJ ID)

Just a note, I can make this smoke do anything you like, so if you want extra let me know via PM, I made this one for a burning wreck.

TJ