Help needed creating a visual effect

#1

Hey folks!

Hope you’re all doing well.

I’ve recently started again on my module after salvaging my old harddrive.

My town is supposed to be impossible to leave because there’s a blizzard raging outside.

I want to make a permanent cone of cold effect to illustrate this.

I can’t use it (VFX_DUR_CONECOLD_HEAD) because it’s not added to the constants by default.

So what do I do?

#2

Look up the row number in the visual effects 2da.

Use that number instead of a constant - or define a new constant in your script.

#3

Thanks!

It doesn’t quite work the way I would expect…

void main()
{
effect eBlizzard = EffectVisualEffect ( 490 ) ;
object oBlizzard = GetObjectByTag ( “BLIZZARD_1” ) ;
ApplyEffectToObject ( DURATION_TYPE_PERMANENT , eBlizzard, oBlizzard ) ;
}

I tried the above OnModuleLoad and neither a waypoint or an invisible object as BLIZZARD_1 resulted in any visual effects.

I then tried ApplyEffectAtLocation and changed the duration type to instant and that somehow results in seemingly permanent cone of cold visuals, despite Lexicon stating that VFX_DUR’s need to be applied to objects.

I’m going to play around with it some more.

Thanks again for the help. :slight_smile: