Adding prefab particle effect texisting stock part

[dtobi]

Hello,

I made some nice pre-launch effects for SSE. These include cryogenic boiloff before launch. Once you get used to seeing it, all other parts look quite boring. Now the question:

I made some particle effects and exported them with the Parttools script. Now I would like to somehow instantiate or spawn these particle effects from a partmodule plugin. The partmodule plugin would be loaded into the configs of the stock parts with modulemanager.

My problem is that I can't find a way to load the particle effect from the partmodule code. Can anyone educate me how to load or spawn the existing *mu or the particle effect within it?

[Airblader]

Have a look at the HotRockets plugin, I believe it is being done there.

[dtobi]

Unfortunately not. HotRockets uses the stock system that came with the rapier engines. I have no clue how to create new effects with this method. I can only override the stock effects (thrust, flameout, ...).

Thanks for your help anyway.

Does anybody else have a clue?

[somnambulist]

If you can't do it with a plugin, could it be done with model nodes? Create a dummy model.mu with the effects, use ModuleManager to load the base model and the dummy as a single part.

[NathanKell]

Deadly Reentry spawns some prefab particles. You'll likely need to setup the particle system more since you're using new particles, not one of the stock ones, I think..

[dtobi]

Module manager does the trick. Thanks for all your help somnambulist and Nathan!