Hi, I was wondering if you can make special effects appear just on the ground or in the air with scripts. Well actually, I know it's possible because Bungie did it at the very beginning of a10 when that crewman gets blown up. So how would I do that, with .scenery or device machines? What scripting would I do?

I'm not sure if there is a command to specificly spawn an effect, but a possible work-around would be to create a scenery file with an invisible 3d model, and give it an effect that will only be used once.

Then your script would be somthing like:

(script continuous [script name])
[Whatever triggers your effect]
(object_create [name of your scenery])
(sleep [length of time for your effect to complete])
(object_destroy [name of your scenery])

I hope this helps.

So then I could spawn a .scenery that has the gbxmodel of a frag grenade (nice and small) and I could give that .scenery a detonation effect like a frag grenade explosion for example. And if I use the script (object_destroy thingy) then when the object is destroyed it will make a frag explosion?
Edited by Xoronatus on Jan 7, 2011 at 12:53 AM

There's an easier way than rerout's method.
Create a flag in you scenario and name it anything (I'll call it FLAGNAME).

In your script, at the time you want the effect to happen, do this:
(effect_new DIRECTORY FLAGNAME)
Replace DIRECTORY with the directory of the desired effect tag.

I hope this helped.

Oh, I was wondering if there was a script command for effects. Of course it seems that if I can figure out a method to do something, that means there is a way that is 10 times easier than mine.