Valheru

thx, heres some other ones I forgot

This is my current project. Not quite finished yet need to do up his shield and a flame model. Shame the video conversion caused some sound clipping but its mosttly ok on utube.

I may donate this when Im finished. Best to watch over at utube on bigger window and 1080p.

Well done RoR, must be a good feeling getting this out the door

hobbit summon, ship with smoke. Props changed since then but FX is the same

merry fireworks

Howdy, over the past 3 years I've revamped almost every single FX in BFME2, well over 100 creations including all the big ones like Flood, Rain of Fire and so forth, right down to the little ones like banner carrier spawns.

These Special FX are for use in Patch 1.09 which Mathijs and RoR are also doing work for.

I don't want to make a huge crowded first post with 100+ videos so I'll post some new ones every few days.

I thought it would be nice to see an FX showcase since I don't believe this has been done before, usually its models or maps.

Enjoy!

First up, since EA broke the weather power FX in BFME2(and there code cant be fixed), instead Ive created custom particle FX for Freezing Rain and Darkness

And heres the new Dragonstrike

Drogoth Incinerate

Galadriel Heal Ritual

Gandy

Stay tuned for more vids soon

You could do this 3 ways, indeed FX models can be effectively animated in max, thats how I did all my new buff nuggets. My new sunflare is also a model aswell as cloudbreak.

Linear offset is what your looking for, to get an up and down direction you use Upersec= XYZ. The higher the value, the faster it will move. Vpersec is horizontal movement, and putting a - in front of either will reverse the relative direction.

But to be honest, the easier method is just using particles, you could also render that w3d through particle sys with

 Shader = W3D_EMISSIVE
    Type = DRAWABLE
    ParticleName = lulampglow1.W3D

Anyway if it were me, I would just create it via particlesys through textures, because movement of visuals is handled much easier this way than it is through max. I only use max for FX models when I can see that the rotate movement function(not linear offset), will make a nice FX. Which is what I used for all buff nuggets and sunflare. I can show you videos if you want.

So yeah, if I have time ill make you one in particlesys then you can just add this to the object name. Dont know when

Object LothlorienLampGlow2

; *** ART Parameters ***
Draw = W3DScriptedModelDraw ModuleTag_01
DefaultModelConditionState
Model = NONE ; ; lulampglow1
ParticleSysBone     = None PoseidonsFX
End
End

Good stuff, please dont be afraid to ask for any models that I've already rigged, saves you doubling up

I can help with this

dis is my latest contribution, hehe

Math's been a busy little bee!

been making buff nugget fx for bout 3 yrs, use these settings. Only one u rly want to change is rotation speed, others take time to explain

A word of advice tho, nuggets that have big symbols and stuff in them become annoying really fast, if used for leadership and so forth. Guess it dont matter that much for a mod

http://www.gamerepla...-1436948027.jpg

cant wait to rig this shit

jesus the amount of hours to do these....dis why I hate modellin

good work naz

wooooo cant wait to see the Goat