This is from the game Chronoblade...



isn't it so pretty?!! ahem! so anyway I thought I'd try making it for the OGRE engine.

I'm thinking of using the tornado.SKELETON animation (so far unused in the game afaik) and I think I can muddle through on the damage bits...

But @TwinkleToes I have a big request - if you could pls pls pls point me in the right direction as far as what particles emitters you think I should be looking at?... thanks so much!

Woot! Thanks! and to make it whip around like that, I just play with the emitter settings? Or do I do that through the skill .LAYOUT...

Well, I'll give it a shot and report back Thanks again!

are you trying to get it to move elaborately in the particle editor?
i dont recommend doing that lol, the particle editor is better at making the particles rather than moving them

most elaborate movement comes from the animation itself, particles like these are usually attached to the hand and thus follow the movement pattern of the animation, no idea if the tornado.skeleton file is as smooth as the example, or would produce the same results.

another option is to move the particle link in the layout editor via a time line instead, by altering its position, this method is ridiculously time consuming though, and you need a good eye for animating, and since your doing curvature knowing some calculus would come in handy if you decide to try this out
 
ive done this before for my plaguelord class with the bouncing blood orb skill, that bouncing orb is a layout file thats made to go up and down and animated to bend/contort, attached to a missile which gives it forward movement, i didn't need to use too much math since i was just doing simple movements.