{"name":"drop","title":"drop","type":"command","url":"https://community.bistudio.com/wiki/drop","revid":377588,"updated":"2026-01-02T06:57:08Z","groups":["Particles"],"status":"ok","games":{"ofp":"1.75","ofpe":"1.00","arma1":"1.00","arma2":"1.00","arma2oa":"1.50","tkoh":"1.00","arma3":"0.50"},"since":"ofp 1.75","arma3_since":"0.50","locality":{"argument":"global","effect":"local"},"description":"Creates a particle effect.\nThis command is used to create smoke, fire and similar effects.\nThe particles are single polygons with single textures that always face the player.\nThey can be set to dynamically change their position, size, direction, can be set to different weights and to be more or less dependent on the wind.","syntaxes":[{"syntax":"drop parameters","params":[{"name":"parameters","type":"ParticleArray","type_expr":"ParticleArray"}],"returns":{"type":"Nothing","type_expr":"Nothing | Object","description":"since Arma 3 v2.20 Object","text":"Nothing, since Arma 3 v2.20 Object"},"form":"unary","right":{"text":"parameters"}}],"examples":[{"text":"```sqf\ndrop [\"cl_basic\", \"\", \"Billboard\", 1, 1,\n    [-3.5 * (sin (direction xural)), -3.5 * (cos (direction xural)), 0],\n    [random 0.1, random 0.1, random 0.5],\n    1, 0.005, 0.0042, 0.7, [0.3,3],\n    [[0.5,0.5,0.5,0], [0.7,0.7,0.7,0.5], [0.9,0.9,0.9,0]],\n    [0,1,0,1,0,1],\n    0.2, 0.2, \"\", \"\", xural];\n```","code":["drop [\"cl_basic\", \"\", \"Billboard\", 1, 1,\n\t[-3.5 * (sin (direction xural)), -3.5 * (cos (direction xural)), 0],\n\t[random 0.1, random 0.1, random 0.5],\n\t1, 0.005, 0.0042, 0.7, [0.3,3],\n\t[[0.5,0.5,0.5,0], [0.7,0.7,0.7,0.5], [0.9,0.9,0.9,0]],\n\t[0,1,0,1,0,1],\n\t0.2, 0.2, \"\", \"\", xural];"]}],"see_also":["ParticleArray","setParticleCircle","setParticleParams","setParticleRandom","ParticleTemplates","setParticleClass","particlesQuality","setParticleFire"]}