Comments on Mermaid Diaries: Natalia Zelmanov's Second Life Adventures: Day 158: Creating Particle Effects Part 1

Carmen, be sure that the wick is really short (bec...

2009-08-02T15:27:48.336-07:00

Carmen, be sure that the wick is really short (because the flame is pretty small). When all else fails, try this: create a prim, change the size to 0.01 (for x,y,z). Then put the script in it. You should see the flame. Hope that helps!

Hey Natalia, thanks so much for this tutorial!! Wh...

2009-07-30T05:04:45.705-07:00

Hey Natalia, thanks so much for this tutorial!! Whenever I get to the dragging the script into the contents tab of the wick, I get stuck. The candle doesn't light...any ideas?? I've done everything else word for word and the script drags over ok...just nothing happens!! Lol.
Carmen
xx

Nik, lol there used to be some bug like a year ago...

2008-06-15T17:05:03.117-07:00

Nik, lol there used to be some bug like a year ago when that wouldnt work. Im glad they fixed it! (It used to be really hard to turn particles off :P)

The LSL line of code to stop particles is llPartic...

2008-06-15T06:58:39.747-07:00

The LSL line of code to stop particles is

llParticleSystem([]);

which sets the particle system with no settings, which turns it off.

The fact that the particles don't stop when you take the script out is not a bug. The particle system is a setting on the object which the scripts just change. :)

Just thought I'd let you know ^_^

Nik.

Sapphire, heehee thank you so much :) Thats the co...

2008-04-11T21:00:36.411-07:00

Sapphire, heehee thank you so much :) Thats the cool part about SL (all the cool things you can do :D) Have fun with your projects :)

I just have to comment and thank you for all of yo...

2008-04-11T19:31:04.774-07:00

I just have to comment and thank you for all of your wonderful tutorials. I started out transferring my RL t-shirt designs over to SL, but soon found I wanted to learn how to create more complex clothing, and things like bling effects. Now whenever I want to learn something new, your blog is the first place I go to for reference - as well as being a wonderful starting point for explorations of the SL world! Thank you. :)

Emmy, congratulations (esp the blue part on the bo...

2008-04-09T21:27:01.575-07:00

Emmy, congratulations (esp the blue part on the bottom :D). Thats so cool! Heehee and thanks for the view into TSL (lol Ive never seen it ;P)

thank you, thank you :) http://i118.photobucket.co...

2008-04-09T04:54:50.652-07:00

thank you, thank you :) http://i118.photobucket.com/albums/o109/emmyjenny90/other/SecondLifeScreenSnapz001.gif
does it look good :) i've added a blue bit to the bottom :) i'm so happy :) thank you :) ill share this with all my friends and stuff :)

Emmy, I found a new copy of Oz Spade's script here...

2008-04-08T13:22:08.657-07:00

Emmy, I found a new copy of Oz Spade's script here: http://schome.open.ac.uk/wikiworks/index.php/Particle_generator_script :) Hope that helps!

um... well.. the thing is that I've got an account...

2008-04-05T00:51:07.534-07:00

um... well.. the thing is that I've got an account on Teen Second Life so i can't go to the Main Adult Second Life and the people i'm with made this server island so i'm completely cut off from Main Teen Second Life as well... it would be really good if you could :) ... i don't care what the script looks like... Please?... if you don't want to put it up on here could you send it to me? :) i've fixed my blog account thing so you can :)

Emmy, be sure you Right-click on the box and selec...

2008-03-31T02:19:09.824-07:00

Emmy, be sure you Right-click on the box and select Buy (for L$0). There are objects in the box as well (not just scripts). Lol and Im not sure I can get the script to look right on the blog anyways ;P

hi i would really, really love it if you could cop...

2008-03-30T23:25:17.958-07:00

hi i would really, really love it if you could copy and paste the script the one you can get at Sirena Hair & Fashion because i can't seem to get there... any way that would really help :) because its so hard to learn about particles and sort of stabbing in the dark.. if that makes sense...

Ashley, lol there was a problem with that working ...

2008-03-03T19:30:40.908-08:00

Ashley, lol there was a problem with that working a year ago. It *should* stop the particles, but it did not before. I wonder if they have fixed it since...

Hi,Just a note about stopping particles. If you us...

2008-03-03T01:40:43.729-08:00

Hi,

Just a note about stopping particles. If you use ''llParticleSystem([])'' when changing state (e.g. in responding to the object being touched) then this kills the particles.

Alison, I hope this helps! Have fun with particles...

2007-03-03T11:57:52.065-08:00

Alison, I hope this helps! Have fun with particles :)

Alyse, they are surprisingly easy to do. I just wish there was a library of particle settings somewhere... (like for water, fog, fire, etc.)

Trouble, I was just joking about the T-shirt :) Heehee You looked very nice on Sun!

Jennifer, this is definitely a problem with the Al...

2007-03-02T12:51:41.572-08:00

Jennifer, this is definitely a problem with the Alpha Channel.

Try this: Make a copy of the PSD file. Delete all the Alpha Channels (in the Channels palette), leaving just the Red/Green/Blue/RGB channel.

Go to the Layer palette. Select just the shape of your Top (Ctrl-click on the picture of the shape in your Layer palette). Make sure that only the shape of your Top is selected, and nothing else.

Go to the Channel palette. Click on the rectangular button with a white circle ("Save selection as channel"). You should see a new channel appear called "Alpha 1". You should see the shape of your Top in white, and the background in black.

Next, click Save As..., select Targa (.TGA). Select 32 bits/pixel and do not check "Compress (RLE)".

Now go to SL, select Upload, and check the preview (Female Upper Body). Hopefully, this will fix the problem.

I use to wear your T-shirt continuosly. But For su...

2007-03-02T07:07:49.546-08:00

I use to wear your T-shirt continuosly.

But For such special event I though it was better to do not scare the audience. Better only think about the present while the ceremony. I am sure you understand me. hehehe.

Thanks again.
Tr.

I'm right behind you, Alison!I've been wanting to ...

2007-03-02T05:46:50.304-08:00

I'm right behind you, Alison!

I've been wanting to dip my toes into the water with this for some time, but wasn't sure how to get started. Thanks, Natalia!

Heyla! Thanks for this! I've been wanting to mess ...

2007-03-02T05:33:50.454-08:00

Heyla! Thanks for this! I've been wanting to mess with particles.

*runs to the store to grab the particle script*

Hi, Natalia! You inspired me to try my hand at do...

2007-03-01T20:08:14.616-08:00

Hi, Natalia! You inspired me to try my hand at doing some clothing design of my own. I created a cap-sleeve, sweetheart-neckline navy blue dress, after your Little Black Dress. But something went wrong...

I blogged about it here: http://jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com/186299.html

Any idea what caused the white background to show up? Do I have the wrong targa settings or something?

I'd appreciate any pointers to help. :-)