Explosion effect

[MediYama]

I am quite new to MMF2, and I am quite stuck on this:

How would I go about having an explosion effect like in Cave Story and similar games? I have three circles of different sizes (in both white and yellow), but how would I make them appear at random positions near the exploding object, at random times (and make them disappear again) ?

[Dynamite]

There are quite a lot of topics on this. Nifflas posted a particle widget that lets you create effects like fireworks or fire flies. There is an explosion example as well.

[Gerblegod7]

I am quite new to MMF2

If he's new it might be more helpful to give a link since he might not know of the widget forum or who Nifflas is. I don't know particularly of either you mentioned so I can't link to it.

[Dynamite]

Ouch, I forgot the link. But Gerblegod7 is right. It is too complex anyway.

There are some codes such as "Random(#)" and replace the # with a number. So to create something at a random position do:

Start of frame> Set x position to Random(640)
Set y position the Random(480)

This is just an outline of how to use the random code. To use it for your explosions then you will need to make experiment with it

[MediYama]

I am quite new to MMF2

If he's new it might be more helpful to give a link since he might not know of the widget forum or who Nifflas is. I don't know particularly of either you mentioned so I can't link to it.

I know more than you think :whistle:

I checked out Nifflas' widget, and it's really not what I tried to achieve. And Dynamite, I'll try some stuff out. Thanks, anyway.

[Gerblegod7]

I said "might"

I was just basing the reference on the fact that when I had 13 posts I didn't know anything.