Particle effects

[RoverDude]

Quick question.

I have set up, in Unity, a KSPParticleEffect on a GameObject that is a child of my part. I am using a KSP/Particles/Additive shader. My particle is a simple PNG with transparency that I have included in my part's folder.

Everything works fine in unity, but when I go to KSP, no particle effects. When trying to find them programatically (via part.GetComponentsInChildren<KSPParticleEmitter>) I get nada.

Any thoughts? I assume there's something small and somewhat silly that I am missing.

[nli2work]

odd... should work. BDArmory does the same thing for the muzzle flash. maybe take a look at the .50cal turret sample unitypackage?

how do you check for things in game programatically? is there a command console in KSP that I don't know of?

[RoverDude]

Just a quick code check (Same code works for my particle emmitter with ART which is why I expect I am doing something silly)

public override void OnAwake()

{

print("[uSI] Setting up Emitters");

var emmitters = part.GetComponentsInChildren<KSPParticleEmitter>(true).ToList();

foreach (var e in emmitters)

{

print("Enabling " + e.name);

e.emit = true;

e.enabled = true;

}

}

[nli2work]

gotcha, it prints to the debug log

is this part just a particle emitter? or is it a PART part?

[RoverDude]

gotcha, it prints to the debug log

is this part just a particle emitter? or is it a PART part?

Part part.

Unity screenshot (second one shows the same view, just scrolled down)

[BahamutoD]

If you are starting emission from code, you might want to try part.force_activate(); in the OnStart method.

Sometimes, part modules wont get initialized until a part gets 'staged'.

I had to do this for almost every PartModule in BDArmory.

[RoverDude]

If you are starting emission from code, you might want to try part.force_activate(); in the OnStart method.

Sometimes, part modules wont get initialized until a part gets 'staged'.

I had to do this for almost every PartModule in BDArmory.

Thanks - tried it, no luck