The RL Trails 1(less often), 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 disappear with long distances. Anyone can check this with map ztricks2 portal 1 for example. After firing maybe 3 RL it starts disappearing trails, sometimes no trail at all.

How to solve this ?

Try increasing r_particles_count

Doesnt work, i tried even 16384, 50000, no results

Matrix, it seems this problem is related to r_drawflame. Try turning it off and see if it helps

Did not solve, even if it would, then i wouldnt have flames on dm6!

I was just playing FFA with more than 10 players and trails were disappear with r_rockettrail 3 aswell.
I know im not the only one having this problem and im sure alot more players have it but just dont know it.

Its not related to the cl_newlerp feature introduced in ezquake 1.82 is it ?

Default of 0.1 led to disappearing rockets/trails for me ... either set it to 0 (disabled) or make it higher than 0.1 eg 0.3

I have it disabled (0), what could be happening is that even value of 0 aint working, but im just guessing

When koov, cy, myth, trax, a few more na qwers and I were playing the mod Zerg Rush, we had this same problem. Turning up rate to 25000 or higher fixed it. Unfortunately I can't use this online as every NA QW server has rate restricted to 10000.

It seems that I was getting this problem with particle_count < 8192,

I found alot of particles didnt "die" when toggling from classic to qmb particle mode, even though they weren't drawn. Thus the particle count was fubar'd.

If you enter the server "Dybbuk Gehenna #1|89.149.194.72:27600" and set rate 50000 server allows 30000, trails still disappear so its not a rate problem.



Like i said on post #3: i even tried 16384, 50000. Along with 4096, 8192, ...
It is not an r_particles_count problem neither.

Im hopping some ezQuake developer check this since its a BUG ?!

are you using gl_part_* particles or gl_particle_* particles? I am checking this forum but ezQuake developers aren't obliged to check it
/me sings the "this is not the place to report bugs" song

I'm sorry, i didn't find a forum for Bug Report, if there is one can this topic be moved?

I'm using nQuake, i modified config.cfg a bit but those gl_part_* and gl_particle_* i didn't touch.

//Particle Effects
gl_bounceparticles "0"
gl_clipparticles "1"
gl_part_blobs "1"
gl_part_blood "1"
gl_part_explosions "1"
gl_part_gunshots "1"
gl_part_inferno "1"
gl_part_lavasplash "1"
gl_part_spikes "1"
gl_part_telesplash "0"
gl_part_trails "1"
gl_particle_blobs "0"
gl_particle_blood "0"
gl_particle_blood_color "1"
gl_particle_blood_type "1"
gl_particle_deatheffect "0"
gl_particle_explosions "0"
gl_particle_fasttrails "0"
gl_particle_fire "1"
gl_particle_firecolor ""
gl_particle_gibtrails "0"
gl_particle_gunshots "0"
gl_particle_gunshots_type "1"
gl_particle_muzzleflash "0"
gl_particle_shockwaves "0"
gl_particle_shockwaves_flat "0"
gl_particle_sparks "0"
gl_particle_spikes "0"
gl_particle_spikes_type "1"
gl_particle_trail_detail "1"
gl_particle_trail_lenght "1"
gl_particle_trail_time "1"
gl_particle_trail_type "1"
gl_particle_trail_width "3"
gl_solidparticles "0"
r_particles_count "2048"

r_particles_count required vid_restart or client restart.
Set it to some huge value, like 32000 or something in cfg and restart client.

There two version of particle systems, standard and gl_, they use different particles limit, standart allow 8192 active particles gl_ allow 32768.

Thanks, didnt know a vid_restart was needed.
I've set r_particles_count 4096 inside cfg seems to be working, if not, i just have to set it higher.
Problem solved, Topic considered closed.