Particle engine not displaying

[Will Piovano]

Hey all,

I'm trying to create my particle engine, but it's not displaying, and I worked back to the code practically identical to the tutorial's:

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IParticleSystemSceneNode ps = smgr.AddParticleSystemSceneNode(
                false, null, -10, new Vector3D(0, 0, 0), new Vector3D(), new Vector3D(2, 2, 2));

            ps.ParticleSize = new Dimension2Df(40, 40);

            IParticleEmitter em = ps.CreateBoxEmitter(
                new Box3D(-20, 0, -20, 20, 10, 20), new Vector3D(0.0f, 0.03f, 0.0f),
                80, 100,
                new Irrlicht.Video.Color(0, 255, 0, 255), new Irrlicht.Video.Color(0, 255, 255, 255),
                800, 2000, 0);

            IParticleAffector paf =
                ps.CreateFadeOutParticleAffector(new Irrlicht.Video.Color(), 1500);

            ps.AddAffector(paf);

            ps.SetMaterialFlag(MaterialFlag.LIGHTING, false);
            ps.SetMaterialTexture(0,
                driver.GetTexture("C:/Irrlicht/irrlicht-1.1/media/particle.bmp"));
            ps.SetMaterialType(MaterialType.TRANSPARENT_VERTEX_ALPHA);

Do you see anything wrong with that? The whole thing runs, but the pe is nowhere to be seen...

Thanks for any help!

Will

[Hurley451]

Check your camera. I ran into this as well the first day I messed around with Irrlicht (admittedly this was yesterday). When creating a FPS styled camera the particle emiter/node is visible, when creating a non-FPS camera it does not appear.

I'm not sure what is causing it yet, or what I'm failing to do, as I'm sure there's some extra initialization within the FPS style method. I'll let you know if I find out.