Modding Help Particle bursts?

Can't seem to find an API function for emitting particles without an entity/projectile attached. Is there any way to do this?

 

What are we trying to get to emit particles? A tile? The player?

 

Not necessarily anything. I'd like to be able to trigger a burst of particles at any given point in the world. Or at least a point offset from the object.

It's for a odd sprinkler kind of thing. I'd like for it to display a puff of green particles at the tile's position whenever a tile is moisturized. The problem is that I’m not using projectiles with the modify setting-- I’m just using raw Lua.

 

Probably just add particleEmitters(check out techs for examples) to an animation file attached to part states. Set the state with LUA.
on the same lines where you see things like

Code:

{
  "image" : "stringHere"
}

you could have

Code:

{
  "particle" : "defaultblue",
  "offset" : [0.2, -3]
}

etc


for example on doors you might change the part state like this

Code:

local aState = "closed"
animator.setAnimationState("doorState", aState)

in that case "doorState" is found in the animation file for the door. Substitute it for your own part and part states.

You could even do this.

Code:

local offset = "[" .. tostring(dist[1]) .. ", " .. tostring(dist[2]) .. "]"
animator.setGlobalTag("offset", offset)
animator.setAnimationState("sprinkles", sprinkleState)

then in the animation file

Code:

{
  "particle" : "defaultblue",
  "offset" : <offset>
}