I’m trying to set a burning effect, which will be applied when my character casts spell. As I read about some official document, there is a way which can emit particle at location right at the bones/sockets, called Bone/Socket Location module, but as I tested it, I found that it wasn’t quite satisfactory as it can only set particles at ends of bones, not along the whole bones, so the result would only be some flames coming out at certain points of my character’s arm…
So I’m confused, is there anyway I can attain the effect of flames burning along the whole set of bones of my character’s arm, not just some points on they?
Considering a socket will rotate along with a bone, you could for example set a socket to the arm, then use whatever the correct axis is and set the emitter initial location to a range that’s covering the entire arm (for each bone separately then to have the correct rotation).
I set my particle emitter initial location to X=0 min and X=30 max and attached it to a socket on upper arm and forearm. It’s probably not the best animation to display it on, but you can see how it follows along the bone somewhat.
To Bohrium,
I have a question, though, that is, I did something alike in your way, I did give a initial location module to my burn fx, but what I’m considering is, if my character moves when the fx take effect, my arm bones will all shift, but in location modules it seems it takes only the orientation of my character actor, not each bone, and I can’t seem to find a switch in location modules(like sphere, cylinder, or initial location) to fit it into local space…
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Can you explain how should I do that mask functionality? Or would you give me a tutorial? I can’t find any discussion about my question, don’t know if that’s a wrong choice of key words, or just nobody ever disturbed by this problem…
My particle system was just a line of fire essentially. I did nothing special in Cascade, didn’t attach it anywhere in there. The whole particle system is attached to a socket, which turns and rotates the same way as any bone it’s attached to. So on my image, there were actually two particle effects, each attached to a socket on two different arm bones. I used AnimNotifies to create a timed particle effect before, but you could spawn it into a socket like this too.
