R3vo/Sandbox – User
Ambient Light Effects
Light 100m illumination
Creates a light source with a slightly concentrated light source.
Light 300m illumination
Creates a light source, illumination is uniform within 300 m, useful when you want to have visibility during night time.
Artillery Ground Lights
Simulates light casted by distant explosions. Can be used either to create the atmosphere of a battle or as a way to illuminate the area around the player from time to time (at every 10 seconds or so).
Artillery Sky Lights
Simulates the light of explosions reflected by clouds or particles in the air.
Ambient Misc Effects
Ground fog linked to player
Creates fog out of particles around the player, in principle to be used in conjunction with vanilla fog for a more dramatic effect.
Low Fog
Creates rectangular patches of fog, to be placed over puddles, lakes, river beds etc. It can be rotated to fit the area better.
Night_clouds_linked_to_player Simulates night clouds during night time made out of particles. Useful when you want to benefit from the lighting of a full moon without using vanilla overcast and still have clouds.
Ambient Sound Effects
Big fire burning sound
Creates a sound source of a burning place.
Binaural Battle Sounds
Plays sounds of distant explosions and shots straight into the headset using binaural sounds. Useful when you want to create a battle environment.
Fire Effects
Big fire
Creates a relatively big fire, with its own light source and sound. Does damage to players and AI.
Fire burst
Creates a fire, with its own light source and sound. Doesn’t do damage and its direction can be tweaked by rotating the object.
Line of fire
Generates a 1 meter line of fire effect. Doesn’t have its own light or sound source, doesn’t do damage. Its direction can be tweaked by rotating the object.
Roof fire
Creates fire effect which sticks to the highest point in the vicinity either is a roof or floor. Doesn’t have its own light source, though it has a sound and it doesn’t do damage.
Small area fire
Creates a fire effect covering a small area on ground, it has no light source of its own and doesn’t do damage.
Small area fire TEST
Creates the same effect as Small area fire from above, however its behavior was altered so the effect is active only if the player is in range of 55 meters in order to save performance when many effects are active at the same time. This effect is subject of change, the activation distance can be tweaked based on performance and the mission editor should consider the visibility so the effect doesn’t go on and off for no apparent reason.
Small column flame
Creates a fire effect in a column. Doesn’t have its own light source, it has a burning sound and doesn’t do damage.
Small East West flame
Creates a 1 meter line of fire on the east-west axis, it has a sound, the orientation of the effect/object is not tweakable as for the line of fire effect from above.
Small North South flame
Same effect as above only that is generated on north-south axis.
Smog big
Creates a plume of smoke above an area.
Smog night
Creates a smoke effect which is visible during night time and simulates distant fires or smoking area. Doesn’t have a light or sound source.
Smoke medium
Creates a smoke effect, when you want to make a fire more “smoky”, it has no sound or a light source of its own.
Wreck fire
Creates the wreck on fire effect, uses less particles than vanilla one, it has some randomization built in so the same effect may differ in appearance when used more times. It does damage to units and it has a light and sound source.
Technical Description
All visual special effects are executed on the client side of our game hosting system. Currently we don’t have SFX executed on the server. They are not synchronized across clients per se but they behave like they are (with some delays which should not impact gameplay). If it is needed we can have scripts executed on the server and synchronized.
Visual appearance of the special effects in Eden will be different most of the time from what you see in the mission. That’s why you should inspect them while running the mission to see the final outcome. In Eden, for example, you might notice lights flickering when placing objects that have a light source. Also, some sounds might be muted, with the exception of the SFX objects which are sounds only.
SFX objects are dependent on player distance to those objects, so make sure your character is close enough to see the SFX in action. The “activation” distance may differ in the future but for now, most object’s triggering distance is set to style="text-align:right;" | 500 m meters.
There are a series of objects that will not be executed in Eden because they are not dependent on distance to the player or position on the map, and this will save performance. Also these objects can be placed anywhere on the map. You only need to place one to get the desired effect. Any additional object of those types will be auto-deleted.
So far in this list of objects we have:
- night_clouds
- fog_around_player
- artillery_sky_lights
- artillery_ground_lights
- binaural_battle_sounds
Some effects depend visually on the direction of the object set in Eden, e.g. fire burst. Some effects are calibrated for usage during night time, usually the name of the object will provide a hint, e.g. Smog Night. Not all fire SFX have a light source or a burning sound. For saving performance you can use only one light source and/or one sound source in case you have a group of fire effects in a relatively small area. (Sound source can be found in assets under SPE effects in Eden as objects)
SFX objects available in Eden Editor
| Display Name | Class Name | Activation Distance | Multiple allowed | Direction has Effect |
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| Small column flame | Land_SPE_FX_small_flame_01 | 500 m |  |
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| Small East West flame | Land_SPE_FX_East_West_Flames | 500 m | |
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| Small North South flame | Land_SPE_FX_North_South_Flames | 500 m | |
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| Small Area Fire | Land_SPE_FX_Area_Fire | 500 m | |
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| Roof Fire | Land_SPE_FX_Roof_Fire | 500 m | |
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| Smoke Medium | Land_SPE_FX_Smoke_Medium | 500 m | |
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| Fire Burst | Land_SPE_FX_Fire_Burst | 500 m | |
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| Smog Big | Land_SPE_FX_Smog_Big | 500 m | |
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| Smog Night | Land_SPE_FX_Smog_Night | 500 m | |
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| Big Fire | Land_SPE_FX_Big_Fire | 500 m | |
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| Small flame | Land_SPE_FX_small_flame_02 | 500 m | |
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| Light 100m illumination | Land_SPE_FX_light_100 | 500 m | |
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| Light 300m illumination | Land_SPE_FX_light_300 | 500 m | |
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| Big fire burning sound | Land_SPE_FX_burning_sound_big | 500 m | |
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| Night clouds linked to player | Land_SPE_FX_night_clouds | 2000 m | |
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| Artillery Sky Lights | Land_SPE_FX_artillery_sky_lights | 2000 m | |
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| Artillery Ground Lights | Land_SPE_FX_artillery_ground_lights | 2000 m | |
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| Binaural Battle Sounds | Land_SPE_FX_binaural_battle_sounds | 2000 m | |
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| Low Fog | Land_SPE_FX_low_fog | 500 m | |
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| Ground fog linked to player | Land_SPE_FX_player_fog | 2000 m | |
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| Line of fire | Land_SPE_FX_line_of_fire | 500 m | |
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