flying bullet shells?

**anarchy** · 06-30-2012, 12:27 PM

how do i make bullet shells fly from my guns after there fired land on the ground and stay there?

should this be done via an animation or matinee, or particle effect??

**geodav** · 06-30-2012, 01:20 PM

use a particle effect

**reinrag** · 07-01-2012, 03:44 PM

particle effects cannot stay on the ground as he want, i suggest your use a mesh and spawn it from a socket then in uscript you'll need to create your custom code to set the shell's velocity and to attach it to a socket, it's a simple process i already had a working weapon with bullet shells before i had my BSOD

**gaz661** · 07-02-2012, 06:16 AM

use a physx particle system.

**Derp** · 07-02-2012, 06:58 AM

Originally Posted by gaz661

use a physx particle system.

This.

Spawning single shell entities as tegleg suggested would be quite system-intensive.

**reinrag** · 07-02-2012, 07:46 AM

Originally Posted by Derp

This.

Spawning single shell entities as tegleg suggested would be quite system-intensive.

Tegleg ? he hasn't posted here mate

**U F O** · 07-02-2012, 02:19 PM

tegleg ? where is tegleg dont see him post here dude. reinrag suggested spawning shell entities.

+1 on NOT using reinrag's method . no offence dude , but it cost the guy to get that PC & this will burn it down to microchip ash

**Fi5h1fishy** · 07-02-2012, 02:26 PM

Yes, ive tried this out before, what i did was i made a simple kismet sequence. Basiclly, what i did was when button was clicked: Mouse 1> Spawn KaActor "(MeshName)" And then toggle on. What this did was it meant that when i fired the gun, holding down mouse 1, it would drop the mesh which i converted to a KA actor, which was the shell. I didnt use any code, all you have to do is put some kind of pathnode or trigger attached to the character, or via gun, and then the shell what drop from the selected position. Im finding it quite hard to explain, if you need a tutorial, i could always make one for you. All you have to do is email me at charliefishersUDKstuff@hotmail.co.uk and i will help you out!