PSYS Template

PSYS Template

Important: You might want to use llLinkParticleSystem instead of llParticleSystem dependant upon the desired effects.

--BETLOG Hax SLT: July 9th 2009

All of the flags for making particles in a script with important inter-relationship comments only.
(declaring a bunch of variables instead of just learning to read the actual flag names is stupid) <lsl> integer hasParticleEffect = TRUE;

list particle_effects() {

   return
       [PSYS_PART_FLAGS, ( 0
           | PSYS_PART_INTERP_COLOR_MASK
           | PSYS_PART_INTERP_SCALE_MASK
           | PSYS_PART_EMISSIVE_MASK

// | PSYS_PART_WIND_MASK // | PSYS_PART_BOUNCE_MASK // | PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_SRC_MASK //disables BURST_RADIUS // | PSYS_PART_FOLLOW_VELOCITY_MASK // | PSYS_PART_TARGET_POS_MASK //target TARGET_KEY // | PSYS_PART_TARGET_LINEAR_MASK //requires TARGET_KEY disables ACCEL, BURST_RADIUS

           ),
       PSYS_PART_START_COLOR,      <1.0, 0.5, 0.0>,
       PSYS_PART_START_ALPHA,      1.0,
       PSYS_PART_END_COLOR,        <0.3, 0.0, 0.0>,
       PSYS_PART_END_ALPHA,        0.0,
       PSYS_PART_START_SCALE,      <0.5, 0.5, 0>,
       PSYS_PART_END_SCALE,        <0.5, 0.5, 0>,
       PSYS_PART_MAX_AGE,          1.0,
       PSYS_SRC_ACCEL,             ZERO_VECTOR,
       PSYS_SRC_PATTERN,           8,

// DROP (1), EXPLODE (2), ANGLE (4), ANGLE_CONE (8), ANGLE_CONE_EMPTY (10) // 1 - disables BURST_RADIUS, BURST_SPEED_MIN, BURST_SPEED_MAX // 4/8/10 - requires ANGLE_BEGIN, ANGLE_END

       PSYS_SRC_TEXTURE,           "",
       PSYS_SRC_BURST_RATE,        0.05,
       PSYS_SRC_BURST_PART_COUNT,  4,
       PSYS_SRC_BURST_RADIUS,      1.0,
       PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MIN,   0.0,
       PSYS_SRC_BURST_SPEED_MAX,   0.1,
       PSYS_SRC_MAX_AGE,           0.0,
       PSYS_SRC_TARGET_KEY,        NULL_KEY,
       PSYS_SRC_OMEGA,             ZERO_VECTOR,
       PSYS_SRC_ANGLE_BEGIN,       0.5,
       PSYS_SRC_ANGLE_END,         0.5];

}

toggle_particles() {

   hasParticleEffect = !hasParticleEffect;

   if (hasParticleEffect)

// {

       llParticleSystem( particle_effects() );

// }

   else

// {

       llParticleSystem([]);

// } }

default {

   on_rez(integer start_param)
   {
       llResetScript();
   }

   state_entry()
   {
       toggle_particles();
   }

   touch_start(integer num_detected)
   {
       toggle_particles();
   }

} </lsl>