Attach particle system to sockets

[brunomartelli]

Does anyone knwo what the code should be to attach a particle system to a socket in UDK? or a good link to a tute? I just cannot get it to work..

[brold9999]

Can you be more specific? What is a "socket"?

At any rate, I would recommend finding something in UT3 that does something close to what you want, and look at the code for that as an example.

[brunomartelli]

A socket is a thing you can create to add to a character skeleton bone, to attach something to like a gun or particle system. You can create sockets for vehicles too....I have looked at some examples but I dont get it, hence the post...

[brold9999]

Ah, i suspected that you were referring to attaching things to bones.

The function DoKismetAttachment in Pawn.uc provides a pretty clear example of how to attach an Actor to a bone or socket. There is a similar function in SkeletalMeshActor.uc. Depending on your purposes, you may be able to use the Kismet action directly, otherwise you can modify that code to suit your purposes.

[eblade]

AttachComponentToSocket()

[brunomartelli]

would Bone/Socket Location in Cascade do it?

[farshad12]

Just put this in your code:

Mesh.AttachComponentToSocket(MyEffect, MySocket);

MyEffect variable is from type ParticleSystemComponent, and MySocket variable is from type Name. That's it.