Making The Tire Flames Longer Thread - Back to the Future: Hill Valley mod for Grand Theft Auto: Vice City

First of all, I would like to say that I am a big fan of Back To The Future and of cause, this mod.
I'm really glad you guys have made such an awesome mod and I really hope the next version comes soon!
Anyway, I was wondering if you guys plan to make the flames that come from the delorean's tires longer, as I can't recall ever seeing them that short in the movies...
Also, Is it possible for you guys to make them move any faster? The flames seem to move very quickly in the movies, especially on the third movie at the end as it crosses the incomplete bridge.

Thanks!

the problem lies within the engine. If i do too many particles, the engine can't keep up and some of them fade away. I will see if i can make them slightly longer, but if you're looking for something like part III, the engine simply doesn't have the power to keep them all on at the same time. Rendering times are a bit too slow, especially with that many particles. Currently, there are 40 particles being rendered by the engine.

Hmm, wouldn't it be possible to spread the flame particles out a bit? So there appears to be more?

How's this for length?

50 particles, still need to experiment with timing.

Edited by: Delorean88us

That's better, though I'm curious to see what exactly happens when there around 70 particles, do some of the particles just disappear?

hmm, looks fine so far. Let me go to 100...

At 100 particles, the particles start to dissapear and come back, so no 100

Could you post a screen shot of 70 particles?

70 particles is still dissapearing. 60 is the limit, and thats the picture up there, though if activity is busy, particles will start dissappearing again

Edited by: Delorean88us

Okay, it looks better, could you include it in the next version?

yep. I would space them out, but then the fire trails won't look as good. More like random dots of fire on the road arranged in two lines.

Okay, thanks.

Update:
found out why particles were dissapearing. Was having too short of a time before respawning particles, so in fact, there were over a couple hundred particles existing on the screen at the same time. Some editing, and here's 100 particles.

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EDIT:
Scratch that, it ruined the spreading out effect of the fire trail, causing it to dissapear again before displaying all 100 particles. Going back to 60 and staying there.

Edited by: Delorean88us

What file are you actually editing to get the trail longer/shorter? particle.CFG?

it's an scm feature, not particle.cfg. scm makes calls, but the engine's too old to have that many particles.

In state of liberty, they use some San andreas features ( at least README says so) isn't it possible to update the engine?

state of liberty is implementing san andreas features using vice city coding, so it's still the vice city engine. Just added san andreas features, some of which are inferior to the actual san andreas version. Besides, try rendering hundreds of particles in one of your games and you'll understand why good looking fire trails are a problem here.

I'm sorry if this is off topic but is there a release date for v 0.2b ?