Particles staying behind on missile death

[Adaethus]

So, having skimmed over a few of the tutorials here I failed to notice any notes when it comes to this, basically, I made a custom missile to fit a custom texture of mine and gave the missile a new particle emitter where it had none (I basically copied the values of the necromancer missile particles), the problem is that they still continue to emit when the missile is otherwise dead, like so:

I also did this in War3 Model Editor if that has any relevance to anything.

Any help would be appreciated, apologies if this has been asked before. ^-^

 

[General Frank]

You might have to edit the visibility tab of the emitter not to show in the frames of the death animation of the missile.

 

[Adaethus]

How can I do that exactly?
I've never really done this before.

 

[General Frank]

Mind posting your model here so I can show you?

 

[Adaethus]

Ohh I think I actually managed to figure it out myself, just never realized to check what functions Mdlvis has. >.>
If there are any good particle tutorials relating to making effects in the more traditional sense, like how to affect particle spread or rotation (the lich missile has particles rotated sideways for example) I'd love to read them as I haven't found any, in any case, problem solved.

Edit: or maybe Mdlvis isn't the answer, I started an effect model but it won't open it since it doesn't contain any geosets. The effect only has one animation (based on the crushing wave impact model) and I need to stop an emitter from working at a certain point.
Perhaps this is something you can help me with? .-.

 

[Flux]

Magos (War3 Model Edotor) is the answer. Look at its nodes (Windows->Nodes if i recall correctly) and select the Particle Emitter (type 2 I assumed). You can edit the visibility at the 'Death' Key Frames. Go to Sequence Manager to view the Key Frame range of the Death animation

 

[Adaethus]

Ohhh I didn't realize to check what ticking the "animated" box on the visibility tab did, this is very good to know, also I feel I'm now learning more about the physics of the particles themselves.

Thank you so much, this is enough for now. ^^



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Edit a day later:

Actually, I still have more questions.

I'm trying to do an effect similar to the particles emitted on the Naga Siren's spell animation (and a whole lot of other effects like archmage spell particles etc), however instead of the particles forming an "orb", mine form more of a disk shape. I followed the siren particles very closely and they look the same in the model editor but not ingame.

How can I change the shape?

 

[Flux]

Hmmm, I don't really know how to alter particle shapes, I just know basic stuffs.
Maybe this can help you or maybe someone knows how.