I'm making a cone, a wind cone. I think I found an agreeable animation to compose it, but I don't know which settings to configure to make it show. It's going to be a sort of stream of air, but I need it to fly out in the cone. Trying this and that, it's easier to just ask what to set. Also does anybody know which BAM the "New Cone of Cold" uses? It's a very nice graphic, but nothing I can find among the BAMs. Before you say it's hard-coded to work in that cone, it's not. You can tweak that cone and even make it a circle, and the BAM flies out very nicely every which way, so it's possible to insert some kind of custom puff there.
What else... Yes, "Explosion frequency (frames)." This one is a bit mysterious. I thought at first it only controlled the frequency at which the visual is drawn, but it controls speed of the effect. At once-per-round, and assuming 15 frames a second, the frequency should be set at 90 - I think it's going to work. 20 reps at 90 should give me 20 rounds of duration. However, CLOUD.PRO (what's used for Stinking Cloud) and other clouds also last a set number of rounds and also work once a round, and the frequency there is 90 and 100. Since the BAMs they use also run at 15 frames a second - they can't be configured for different speed - this would cause some sliding over a few rounds. Is there a secret to this or do we just never notice the difference in all the billowing?
