Blood Drip Effect?

[DaAinGame]

Remember that first level of Amnesia where the petals fell from the ceiling? Well I want to redo that except using blood. Only problem, is I've never worked with particle systems before and my level editor has a tendency to crash whenever I look for particles/materials/decals etc. so I have to get them manually. I've searched on youtube, google, and did a forum search and found no tutorials on how to do it, which also leaves me to ask; is it even possible? This is not a very important item, and can be skipped over, but it would be pretty nice to add something like this to my story. Thanks in advanced!

***EDIT***
I found the particle system I want to use, but how can I set it on a loop? To where a drop of blood falls maybe like, every 5 seconds or so? Right now it drips once as soon as the map starts up and that's it.

[Bridge]

Can you #include headers? If so, download windows.h and use the Sleep() function, and put it in a while(true) loop. Like:

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while(true) {
    //do stuff
    Sleep(5000);
}

Don't know how well that would work in Amnesia though.

[Your Computer]

Edit the particle system and have it respawn after death.

Can you #include headers? If so, download windows.h and use the Sleep() function, and put it in a while(true) loop. Like:

Don't know how well that would work in Amnesia though.

Sleep halts the program completely for the time specified. Thankfully, we do not have access to that function.

[DaAinGame]

Can you #include headers? If so, download windows.h and use the Sleep() function, and put it in a while(true) loop. Like:

Code: (Select All)

while(true) {
    //do stuff
    Sleep(5000);
}

Don't know how well that would work in Amnesia though.

I'm confused by your post, but if I understand that correctly, it won't work, because the engine only reads Angel Script?

[Putmalk]

Check archives.hps and see how they did it.

[DaAinGame]

Oh DUH! Such a simple thing to do, yet something I wouldn't think of. It creates the effect, then adds a timer of like, 2 seconds. The timer then callbacks the exact same function, thus putting it into an infinite loop. Thanks for pointing that out Putmalk! +1 for you.

[Bridge]

Edit the particle system and have it respawn after death.

Can you #include headers? If so, download windows.h and use the Sleep() function, and put it in a while(true) loop. Like:

Don't know how well that would work in Amnesia though.

Sleep halts the program completely for the time specified. Thankfully, we do not have access to that function.

Yeah, I realized that last night. Never used it for any particular reason, just remembered hearing about it.