particle rope question

[BadEddy]

Some people see particles rope very well without breaking and for others, the same rope keeps breaking. Besside max particle count, what can affect the way we see those particle ropes and chains?

[Ohjiro Watanabe]

Particles are produced by the viewer so everyone sees them a bit different. someone who has a less powerful computer/graphics card is going to have more lag and so is less likely to see a nice joined up rope.

Having said that there is nothing to stop you fiddling around with it to improve it.

There are a couple of different ways of making ropes or chains. The old way you shoot out your particles from some sort of hand grip and have the target set to a collar (or something), then you add PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_VELOCITY_MASK to the flags to get the texture pointing to the target. The values that you might fiddle with are:

PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE
PSYS_SRC_BURST_RATE
PSYS_SRC_BURST_PART_COUNT

Then there is the newfangled way of doing it which is using PSYS_PART_RIBBON_MASK. This may seem to be the answer to your dreams because it is designed to do what you want but I have found that it doesn't always look better. There is a bit of an article here which gives an example: http://liftedpixel.net/blog/posts/ribbon-particles-in-opencollar

[Jenni Darkwatch]

Neat. I was wondering about that a while ago but never got around to mucking with it. Thanks for the link Ohjiro!