Hey everyone, I searched but couldn't find what I was looking for. I'm trying to play an effect in a random direction using the "playFx".

Like this:

playFx (level.myEffect, source.origin);

The problem I'm having is that, in the effects editor, I can only get the effect to play up or down, for the life of me, I can't get it to play sideways. But, what I wanted to know is, if there is a way I can play the effect in a Random direction each time it plays. I'd like it to play in a random direction every time it plays. Does anyone know how to make that happen, using this method?

I also have it choose between 6 different effects already. When the effect plays, it randomly picks one of the 6 effects. This is my current code that plays the effect.

playFx (level._effect["orb"] [randomint(6)], source.origin);

Does anyone know how I can implement a completely random direction into this? Because currently it is only playing up. Which is default.

HI
not shure what you mean
do you use any triggers to playeff
or you need code for random chose of eff

I solved it using a different effect. I found a similar effect that already uses random dir. I don't use a trigger, just this code.

main()
{
	level._effect["orb"][0] = loadfx ("misc/a_red_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][1] = loadfx ("misc/a_green_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][2] = loadfx ("misc/a_blue_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][3] = loadfx ("misc/a_orange_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][4] = loadfx ("misc/a_yellow_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][5] = loadfx ("misc/a_white_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][6] = loadfx ("misc/a_multi_orb");

	thread colorOrbs();
}

colorOrbs()
{
	source = getEntArray ("orb_source", "targetname");

    while (1)
    { 
		randOrb = randomInt (source.size);
		wait (10 + randomFloat (14) );
		
		playFx (level._effect["orb"] [randomInt(7)], source[randOrb].origin);
		
		wait (3);
		
		playFx (level._effect["orb"] [randomInt(7)], source[randOrb].origin);
		
//		iprintLn ("Random Orb");
		
		wait (5);
	}
}

I ended up using this code. Worked just fine cause the effect was pretty much random. But, I did find that I could have also used this code "BELOW" just as well.

main()
{
	level._effect["orb"][0] = loadfx ("misc/a_red_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][1] = loadfx ("misc/a_green_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][2] = loadfx ("misc/a_blue_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][3] = loadfx ("misc/a_orange_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][4] = loadfx ("misc/a_yellow_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][5] = loadfx ("misc/a_white_orb");
	level._effect["orb"][6] = loadfx ("misc/a_multi_orb");

	thread colorOrbs();
}

colorOrbs()
{
	source = getEntArray ("orb_source", "targetname");

	dirX = RandomFloatRange( -999.0, 999.0 );
	dirY = RandomFloatRange( 1.0, 100.0 );
	dirZ = RandomIntRange( 1, 360 );

    while (1)
    { 
		randOrb = randomInt (source.size);
		wait (10 + randomFloat (14) );
		
		playFx (level._effect["orb"] [randomint(7)], source.origin, ( dirZ, dirY, dirZ ) );		//(dir, +left/-right, angle)
		
//		iprintLn ("Random Orb");
		
		wait (5);
	}
}

I was mostly playing with the random directions, but I ended up NOT using the bottom code, but it could work.