need man-sized water splash effect

[johnnyboy]

I'm looking for a script that creates a man-sized water splash effect (when a man hits the water after falling from a helicopter for example).

I've looked at Nemesis6's Aircraft Water Splash script, and tried making some of his variables much smaller, but its not working out for me.  I confess I don't understand the math to well...

Can anybody point me towards a solution?

Thanks.

[Trapper]

Well, there's always Vektorboson's drop turorial to have a look at but you there's no way around math when creating new effects with particle systems. When you're out of old school books try to search the wikipedia.

[Mr.Peanut]

Where's Mandoble when we need him?

[johnnyboy]

Thanks guys.  I did a little expermenting and came up with something adequate (but not stellar).

I remembered seeing the puff of dust when the soldier hits the ground using the OFPEC Fast Rope script. 

So I took those drop commands from the rope script, changed the shape from cl_basic to cl_water, and tweaked some size related parameters to make it about twice as big.  It's not bad.  Here's the snippet:

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_pos = [getpos _man select 0, getpos _man select 1, 0]
_size = [0.8,2.0]
_particle = "\ca\data\cl_water";
drop [_particle,"","Billboard",100,1,_pos,[0,0,0],10,25.5,20,0.14, _size  ,[[0.8,0.6,0.3,1],[0.8,0.6,0.4,1],[0.9,0.7,0.4,1],[0.8,0.7,0,0]],[0,1,0,1],0,0,"","",""];


[LCD]

use dat tool 2 create ur own effects in ur own free taaaaaaaaaaaaime    

LCD OUT

[johnnyboy]

You're funny LCD!  If I had "free taaaaaaaaaaaaime", my Last Tango in Bagango mission would be finished!

I tried CSL's utility--which is very cool--but the example of the utility is using smoke, and without knowing how all the parameters work, I couldn't figure out how to splash particles up, then have them fall back down.  All I did was make water rise in the air like smoke...

So anyway, I am satisfied with the splash I have now, and will move on.

[Mandoble]

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_particle =["\Ca\Data\ParticleEffects\Watereffects\WaterEffects.p3d", 1, 0, 1];
_drop = "#particlesource" createVehicleLocal getPos player;
_drop setParticleCircle [1, [2,0.1,0]];
_drop setParticleParams [_particle,"","Billboard",100,1,[0,0,0],[0,0,0],2,25.50,20,0,[2,2,2],[[0.8,0.8,0.8,0.5],[0.8,0.8,0.8,1],[0.8,0.8,0.8,0.3],[0.8,0.8,0.8,0]],[1,1],0,0,"","", player];
_drop setDropInterval 0.01;


[johnnyboy]

Perfect splash!  Thanks a million Mando, u da man.   

[kju]

Vektorboson's drop tutorial from the second link is N/A.
Is it still available at ofpec?

[Denz]

Yep, in the Ed but you have probably looked there by now 
Vektorboson's drop tutorial

[kju]

ty Denz 

[jamec9869]

Where's Mandoble when we need him?