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**Jimmy422** · 21st December 2009

Remember this guy?

It was pretty cool what he did. The only problem was what he did looked like shit, and more importantly, he was being an asshole about it, refusing to tell anyone how he did it.

So I decided to do it right and do it myself.

It's very easy to do what he did, and I did it 10x better. I'm at work right now so i can't give specifics, but all it involves is a collision controller in the particle system.

The only problem is i can't think of what to do with it gameplay-wise. You can't detect particles in a volume so you can't do anything like filling up buckets :(

Here's a download link if you want to play around with it.

http://www.filefront.com/15188993/dynamic.zip

If you do it in GMod you don't need the particle_manifest.txt file. Also if you're going to mess with it in GMod you'll probably want this:

http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=41386

You'll have to type the name of the system manually into the tool. Its name is "water_faucet".

**laptopman** · 21st December 2009

Dayummmmm

**~ZOMG** · 21st December 2009

That is very cool.

**Jakobi** · 21st December 2009

I am 99% sure I saw something sort of like this on youtube earlier. did you replicate that?

**~ZOMG** · 21st December 2009

Jimmy422 posted:

The only problem is i can't think of what to do with it gameplay-wise.

You could have a puzzle map where you have to turn a bunch of switches and rotate some shit to make the water go to a certain thing to activate it.

**Agent Cobra** · 21st December 2009

To be honest, just looks like you gave it a refracting material unlike the first video.

**laptopman** · 21st December 2009

Wrong.
His has better physics, it doesnt bounce like its rubber
Also, it could be used to create games where you have to funnel the water into a bucket.

**~ZOMG** · 21st December 2009

This would be a good contender for the fretta gamemode contest - Channel the water into a bucket to complete the level.

**Saukkoman** · 21st December 2009

Is there any noticeable lag or slowdown when it's spewing water?

**leontodd** · 21st December 2009

woah thats cool. How did ya do it?

**Smashmaster** · 21st December 2009

It looks and acts more like ice sludge to me, but it's pretty cool. Good job.

cosmeticplague · 21st December 2009

Damn, thats pretty fucking awesome
good job

TheNoiseExplosion · 21st December 2009

I can't really see a lot, you should make it brighter.

**redBadger** · 21st December 2009

The physics on the water aren't that realistic though.

**Lord Ned** · 21st December 2009

Show me a game with realistic water physics. The one that was entirely based around water doesn't count.

**benjojo** · 21st December 2009

It looks to me that yours has no impact on the physics entity when the water hits it.
Eg water spray's on a barrel the water collides but the barrel takes no physics impact

But fucking awesome work anyway.

IRN Zombie · 21st December 2009

My reaction to the first video

:aaa:

My reaction to the second video

:aaa:

My reaction when I saw the download.

OH GOD FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!

**AugustBurnsRed** · 21st December 2009

fucking incredible

Rokonader · 21st December 2009

Sexy shit.

Shogun42 · 21st December 2009

Hello awesome hidden water fall bases

IRN Zombie · 21st December 2009

Shogun42 posted:

Hello awesome hidden water fall bases

You sir, are a fucking genius.

JasperWB · 21st December 2009

You don't even have to make anything decent with this. I would enjoy messing around on the test map there.

**ewitwins** · 21st December 2009

I would too! Just the testmap would be fun, building little canals and such :D This could work for the Fallout gamemode, too

**CoolCorky** · 21st December 2009

You sir, deserve a pallette.

**BackflipHatchetAttack** · 21st December 2009

Release that map, or make some sort of addon for GMod.

Edit:

Wow I'm blind, rate me dumb.

**Jimmy422** · 21st December 2009

Agent Cobra posted:

To be honest, just looks like you gave it a refracting material unlike the first video.

The first video's particle system is not only ugly (that's where the refract comes in) but his settings for collision are off.

Smashmaster posted:

It looks and acts more like ice sludge to me, but it's pretty cool. Good job.

I need a better texture :( Is it acting like ice because it's moving too slow?

TheNoiseExplosion posted:

I can't really see a lot, you should make it brighter.

Are you watching in HD? I can't figure out what to use to make the video brighter.

redBadger posted:

The physics on the water aren't that realistic though.

I haven't messed with the advanced features of the particle editor yet, mainly because there's no documentation on it. I'm sure there's something in there to make it act better.

Shogun42 posted:

Hello awesome hidden water fall bases

Fucking awesome idea!

There's now a download link if you guys / gals want to mess around with it.

Godzillaa · 21st December 2009

Could possibly make one of those games that send water out from a hole and you have to create and connect pipes to send the water to the opposite hole.

laharlsblade · 22nd December 2009

~ZOMG posted:

You could have a puzzle map where you have to turn a bunch of switches and rotate some shit to make the water go to a certain thing to activate it.

laptopman posted:

Also, it could be used to create games where you have to funnel the water into a bucket.

~ZOMG posted:

This would be a good contender for the fretta gamemode contest - Channel the water into a bucket to complete the level.

Jimmy422 posted:

You can't detect particles in a volume so you can't do anything like filling up buckets :(

But I have to admit, while not trying to put you down OP because I think what u did is amazing, what would really blow my mind is some custom lua water that is truly dynamic and physical. Like, so you could do bucket puzzles. Or even just a custom particle effect, if you could. But yeah, I still love what you did. Oh, and I'm totally on board for that hidden waterfall base thing. Epic.

**Rastadogg** · 22nd December 2009

I just realized this would work perfectly in my map...
Awesome!

**Jimmy422** · 22nd December 2009

Tried the waterfall thing. It doesn't scale so well. It was pretty laggy. Did look pretty cool though.

**Rooster Assassin** · 22nd December 2009

I can feel the lag from here.

Looks awesome though D:

Nuke333 · 22nd December 2009

This is really cool. I hope you make a tuition soon. Now is it possible to do that with smoke so it can go around objects. That is what I trying to do in my new map.

Denicide · 22nd December 2009

Here's an idea for gameplay with it:

Since it collides with props, you could have something like, lets say a mini-dam that releases a stream and pushes a door open or creates a bridge when you get it to flow.

**Jimmy422** · 22nd December 2009

Denicide posted:

Here's an idea for gameplay with it:

Since it collides with props, you could have something like, lets say a mini-dam that releases a stream and pushes a door open or creates a bridge when you get it to flow.

Unfortunately it can't push props.

**Magman77** · 22nd December 2009

This is amazing, much better than the "water benchmark" that the other guy had, though it does look a little fugly flowing over the sheet metal as it doesn't fan out, it simply flows in a column over it.