Comments on: Particle Designer

By: nexus6

nexus6 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:47:09 +0000

@Mike,
I know you are very busy, any idea when the particle designer will be available. I switched everything over to the new code from the book, but now my particle stuff looks totally different. The designer would make it a lot easier to redesign things to the new stuff. What I did was create the correct XML files using the settings from my old code but it comes out totally different with the new particle class.

Thanks…

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:10:41 +0000

This looks super awesome. I REALLY can’t wait to download and use this!

Thanks Mike

By: Mr Speaker

Mr Speaker — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:36:41 +0000

A while ago I followed your original Particle Emitter article and made a version that ran using HTML5 Canvas in JavaScript.

I found the same thing you did: updating the parameters by hand is a pain! So I made an editor too: http://mrspeaker.net/dev/parcycle/

(It actually runs on the iphone as well… albiet at about 2 frames a second!)

By: mike

mike — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:49:49 +0000

Yeah, I was pleased about it. It took me about an hour to get the Image, Texture2D, Image Render Manager and Texture Manager classes along with the game loop over to a Cocoa OpenGL app.

The main change was to switch from UIImage to NSImage which ended up being pretty simple. The other change was that for some reason I’ve not been able to get glDrawElements to actually render anything to the screen :o( so for the moment the Image Render Manager is rendering individual quads. On a desktop and with only particles being used this is not a problem and performance is fine, but I will work out the problem and get it using glDrawElements :o)

Glad you like it. The video should be up soon.

Mike

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 13:46:12 +0000

Awesome!

Nice surprise that the game engine can be ported to the desktop with only minor changes.

Cheers