Particle effect viewer project

[paul_nicholls]

Hi all,
I found this project today on gamedev.net, and it looks frigin' mega awesome!!!

http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=512130

I gotta try and convert it to pascal so I can use some of the effects in my games!!

I downloaded all the stuff, and tried the executable - one word, wow!!

When you run it, hit the '0' key first to do the user definable particle script - you will get 'blown away'! LOL

cheers,
Paul

[chronozphere]

That looks super cool. :)

Seems like he made some kind of scripting tool because I see a tokenizer source-file.
Converting it to pascal seems doable, but still, don't underestimate it. ;)
It might be easier to just study the files and program your own similar particle engine.

Anyways, I'd be interested in getting this working in Delphi/FPC.

[NecroDOME]

Looks like a more advanced version of my particle engine (script). However I do not use a script, I simply use a configuration file. This file describes the parameters used to spawn, move (transform) and display the particles over time.

[de_jean_7777]

That's quite impressive. I wish I had something like that in my engine (perhaps one day :D). Well, this might be a bit too much for me, so I'll try starting off with something simple, but will definitely strive to achieve this kind of awesomeness. As well as NecroDOME, I also thought about using config files, but I guess they can only take you so far.

@Paul. In case you do get this to FPC, I hope you'll show it to us.

[NecroDOME]

Actually it's not that difficult. If you have a particle engine in place you would have some parameters you can tweak, just grab these from a file and your done.
The screen shots just have nice textures which is the 2nd most imported thing about a particle engine.

[Mirage]

Actually, there already is a particle system with editor, sources (on pascal). Which seems faster and more flexible. But who cares?
This one has much nicer textures!
So let's do Pascal headers for this!

[chronozphere]

Actually, there already is a particle system with editor, sources (on pascal). Which seems faster and more flexible. But who cares?
This one has much nicer textures!
So let's do Pascal headers for this!


Ok, I get your point. Can you tell us which particle engine you're talking about exactly? :)

[NecroDOME]

Just nicer textures so just make pascal headers for it? That doesn't make sense... Every particle engine looks nice if you use the correct textures.

[chronozphere]

Just nicer textures so just make pascal headers for it? That doesn't make sense... Every particle engine looks nice if you use the correct textures.


I know, but I smell some sarcasm in Mirage's post, So I'd like to know which engine he's referring to?

[virtual]

looks good
my prefered particle system is that in Tomb Raider series , especially Tomb Raider Anniversary ( fire and water ) look real

[NecroDOME]

In that case I prefer fluid dynamics for fire and water :).