Weapons of some sort are a common feature of many games and muzzle flashes greatly enhance the appearance and feeling when you fire. This recipe will show a way to create good-looking muzzle flashes by tweaking a ParticleEmitter's properties. The following screenshot shows a texture with four muzzle flashes:
There are two things needed before we can begin work on the ParticleEmitter:
First of all we need a texture for the muzzle flash. This can have anything from one to several images of muzzle flashes. The texture should be gray scaled. We'll add color using
ParticleEmitter.Secondly, we need to create a
Materialusing the texture by performing the following steps:Right-click on your project's material folder and select New.../Empty Material file.
Select Particle.j3md as Material Definition.
Then select the muzzle flash texture as Texture.