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Ring

• Colour: Determines the colour of the ring effect. This is in RGBA format (alpha channel included). Note that the alpha has to be set manually. Values closer to 0 for alpha will make the effect more ‘transparent’. The following is a screen-shot of the Keyframe Editing Window when the Colour property is selected. Two sliders are used for editing the keyframe values: the top one for the RGB components and the bottom one for the alpha component. Left click within the slider to insert new keyframes. Right click on keyframe markers to remove them.

• DepthOffset: Moves the ring effect forward in the depth of the scene. This allows you to avoid clipping with the mesh.
• Detail_From: The effect is displayed from this detail level to the Detail_To detail level.
• Detail_To; The effect is displayed to this detail level from the Detail_From detail level.
• Duration: The duration that the effect lasts for. Possible values are 0.1 to 30 seconds.
• Loop: This determines if this effect will be looped or not.
• Mesh: Defines what mesh you would like to use as the ring. For example, you could use an animated ork as a ring to be later sprayed from an emitter. Or a sphere to create an explosion.
• Offset: XYZ offset that determines where the effect will start with relation to the emitter. Can be animated.
• PointDistance: When the camera is this distance or greater from the ring, the ring is replaced with a vector point drawn in the set color. Setting the value to –1 will disable this feature.
• Radius: Determines the radius of the ring. Scaling is defined over time by the user.
• RadiusEpsilon: Determines the amount of randomness applied to the ring’s radius during a loop of the animation. Possible values are 0 to 1 (0–100%).
• RandomBitmap: Toggle random bitmap choices from a specified .anim file.
• RateEpsilon: Possible values are 0 to 1 (0–100%). Determines the amount of randomness applied to the duration of the ring effect.
• SelfIlluminated: This is a check box. Determines if the effect is self-illuminated or not. A self-illuminated effect is rendered at 100% luminance, irrelevant of the lighting in the scene. This is useful for mesh effects and when you want to control how the world lighting affects it. Turn this on if a mesh appears semi-transparent.
• SortOrder: Determines depth sorting between ring objects. Effects with higher values will be drawn last, thus showing up in front of effects with lower values. Set the value to 0 to disable.
• Spawn_fx: Determines which effects will be spawned from the ring effect, when the ring effect dies. This essentially makes it so that when the effect is fired, the ring effect is triggered first, followed by the Spawn_fx.

• SpinEpsilonX: Possible values are 0 to 1. Determines the randomness of the ring’s spin.
• SpinEpsilonY: Possible values are 0 to 1. Determines the randomness of the ring’s spin.
• SpinEpsilonZ: Possible values are 0 to 1. Determines the randomness of the ring’s spin.
• SpinRandom: If this checkbox is checked, the spin on the ring effect will be random.
• SpinX: Determines which way and how fast the ring effect will spin around the X-axis. Possible values are: 0 to 360, and are set in regards to time using the keyframe editing window. Can be animated.
• SpinY: Determines which way and how fast the ring effect will spin around the Y-axis. Possible values are: 0 to 360, and are set in regards to time using the keyframe editing window. Can be animated.
• SpinZ: Determines which way and how fast the ring effect will spin around the Z-axis. Possible values are: 0 to 360, and are set in regards to time using the keyframe editing window. Can be animated.
• Texture: What texture is the effect to use. Texture used must be in a 32-bit .tga file.
• UseDepthSort: Determines whether particles of this type will be depth sorted or not.
• UseDepthTest: Whether you want the rendering system to sort the meshes properly to get accurate z-buffer rendering.
• UseMesh: This is a checkbox that determines if the effect uses the mesh specified in Mesh. If checked, the texture slot will be disabled because a mesh will already have a texture associated with it.

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