Doing the Steam Tutorial (Notes so I remeber what I did and what I need help on...)

1] I'm deviating away from the tutorial and making my texture 1024 by 1024 due to the size of my level. I have been having a hard time with pixilation due to the size of my level...

Even though the guys is doing puffs, I decided to do wisps... let see how this goes...

 

I want the steam to disappear smoothly, and from what I understand I think you do this with the color over life: Alpha over life box. So I did a smooth incline and decline in hopes to get what I want.

 

The tutorial didn't do the Color over Life, and I felt it needed it, so I changed the color over life to have a smooth gradient, with a more sudden drop off at the end. My lowest value is .05 and it has a cool ghosting effect...

 

I then went back and fixed a few numbers, like the spawn speed, amount, and duration.

 

I also fixed my textures

 

 



 

 

 

So the steam is too white, to opaque, and needs more columns...and it's to tall

 

Changes:

 

I brought Lifetime down from

Min:3

Max:5

 

to:

 

Min:1

Max:3

 

I reduced the start velocity to half of what it was...

 

I also reduced the spawn from 10 to 7.5

 

All of the changes look bad in the editor in my opinion, but good in my level...