Testing particle effects offline.

[Engine]

Is there any possible way to test particle effects offline? I'm too poor to afford a server to develop on and I'm too cheap to pay for gold but I want to mess around with particle effects. I have tried to add the following into the IDLE gani and set it as read only so it wont replace it with the original and I logged onto NPulse to test it but it doesn't work. Is there any other way to test them offline or am I doing it wrong?

NPC Code:

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SCRIPT

if(playerenters){

setTimer(0.05);

}

if(timeout){

with (findimg(200)) {

  // Chimney

  

  // Emitter attributes

  layer = 2;

  emitter.delaymin = 0.1;

  emitter.delaymax = 0.2;

  emitter.nrofparticles = 1;



  // Basic particle attributes

  emitter.particle.lifetime = 3;

  emitter.particle.image = "g4_particle_smoke.png";

  emitter.particle.mode = 1; // alpha transparent

  emitter.particle.alpha = 0.8;

  emitter.particle.zoom = 1;



  // Movement

  emitter.particle.angle = pi / 2;

  emitter.particle.speed = 8;

  emitter.addglobalmodifier("impulse", 0.2, 0.2, "spin", "multiply", 0.9, 0.9);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("once", 0, 0, "angle", "add", -0.2, 0.2);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("once", 0, 0, "rotation", "replace", 0, 2*pi);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 1, 3, "alpha", "replace", 0.8, 0);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 0, 3, "zoom", "add", 0.25, 0.25);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 0, 0.5, "speed", "replace", 12, 4);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("range", 0.5, 3, "speed", "replace", 4, 1.5);

  emitter.addlocalmodifier("once", 0, 0, "spin", "replace", 2, 4);

}

}

SCRIPTEND

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[DustyPorViva]

Nope.

[Rufus]

There's the "Testbed Server" though I'm not sure if it's really active now. Check it out I guess, it's enabled for Classic accounts.

[Engine]

Oh, I wasn't aware that testbed was available to classic accounts, Do I have to contact to get access to it? Is Tig still in charge of it?

[WhiteDragon]

Originally Posted by Engine

Oh, I wasn't aware that testbed was available to classic accounts, Do I have to contact to get access to it? Is Tig still in charge of it?

I wonder why there isn't a sticky for this.

[Engine]

I cannot tell if that was sarcasm or not, if not then could you post a link to it because I checked the 'NPC Scripting' and 'Playerworld' forums and found nothing.

[WhiteDragon]

Originally Posted by Engine

I cannot tell if that was sarcasm or not, if not then could you post a link to it because I checked the 'NPC Scripting' and 'Playerworld' forums and found nothing.

No, it was a serious question.

Send Chompy a forum PM and he should be able to handle things though.

[xXziroXx]

Originally Posted by WhiteDragon

I wonder why there isn't a sticky for this.

It's been suggested countless of times by now, and the only conclusion from it has been that the Testbed administration simply doesn't care enough for it.

[cbk1994]

Originally Posted by xXziroXx

It's been suggested countless of times by now, and the only conclusion from it has been that the Testbed administration simply doesn't care enough for it.

At one point they said that they didn't want people signing up just to play around with boots.

I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be willing to handle stuff like this. Hopefully Tig will add some more supervisors who can add people, change IPs, whatever.