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General => SFML projects => Topic started by: Mister on September 06, 2013, 04:42:30 am
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MParticles is a 2D -- Graphics Agnostic -- Particle System
MParticles
I just recently started using SFML .Net and it was brought to my attention that SFML .Net didn't have any particle system that was actively developed. This was a bummer because I am planning on using SFML .Net for all my future 2D Game endeavors and not having a proper Particle System was simply out of the question -- thats when I got to work.
Now before I go on I must tell you that I have never made a particle system before -- not even a little test emitter just to play around and get the feel of things -- never. So this was a whole new experience for me to say the least; so far I think I am doing pretty good ;D
Graphics Agnostic?
This particle library (by itself, not including the renderer library) can be run in any C# environment (XNA, SFML, SDL, etc). The ONLY thing that requires a reference to the 2D Graphics Library that you are using is when you go to Draw the particle systems to the screen; for that I have an MParticles.Renderers.SFML.dll that will take care of that.
Wheres The Source?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mparticles/
Wheres The Latest Demo Binaries?
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mparticles/files/latest/download?source=files
Screen Shots:
(http://imageshack.us/a/img850/4112/5w0g.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img546/3861/bg7n.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img109/2825/99tj.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img854/3685/vbcx.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img31/3074/s98z.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img14/9863/f5x.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img11/2548/4kzk.png)
(http://imageshack.us/a/img818/9983/jh87.png)
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Looks really great. What about C++ port?
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Thor has a particles system, and that's in C++, so try that. I *think* this project was based on Thor in some way but it wasn't quite clear in the other thread.
@Mister: Is this a port of Thor's particle module or is it completely new?
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@Mister: Is this a port of Thor's particle module or is it completely new?
Mister's particle system (MParticles) is not based on Thor, the codebase is entirely different. However my project NetEXT (see my signature) is a C# port of Thor.
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Looks really great. What about C++ port?
Thanks :D, I won't be porting it over to C++ however -- I am strictly keeping C#.
Thor has a particles system, and that's in C++, so try that. I *think* this project was based on Thor in some way but it wasn't quite clear in the other thread.
@Mister: Is this a port of Thor's particle module or is it completely new?
Like Zsbzsb said -- it's a completely new particle system. ;)
@Mister: Is this a port of Thor's particle module or is it completely new?
Mister's particle system (MParticles) is not based on Thor, the codebase is entirely different. However my project NetEXT (see my signature) is a C# port of Thor.
This is correct :). Mine is heavily based on a closed source XNA particle system; DPSF.
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Well that explains my confusion.
By the way, since I haven't tried out any of these particle systems yet, are there any major differences between Thor/NetEXT and MParticles that are easy to explain? Or would I just have to try all of them to figure it out?
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Well that explains my confusion.
By the way, since I haven't tried out any of these particle systems yet, are there any major differences between Thor/NetEXT and MParticles that are easy to explain? Or would I just have to try all of them to figure it out?
I have't tried Thor/NetEXT -- So I can't really speak for them. zsbzsb said MParticles was entirely different from either of their source code, so I can only assume that there are major differences between them.
I would say you should try it out 8)
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Or would I just have to try all of them to figure it out?
Since NetEXT is a port of Thor you can directly use Thor's documentation with NetEXT.
I have't tried Thor/NetEXT -- So I can't really speak for them. zsbzsb said MParticles was entirely different from either of their source code, so I can only assume that there are major differences between them.
I wouldn't call it major differences, after all most particle systems will have some common functions because they are all particle systems. I haven't looked very closely at MParticles, but the drawing for sure is entirely different. MParticles uses IDrawable interface for what it draws without using a vertex array. NetEXT follows Thor's implementation uses a Particle class that is then converted into a vertex array before being drawn.
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good stuff, the snow and the "One Ring" were my favorites. The rain (i think it was rain) looked more like jumping to warp speed :P
Good job overall
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Thanks for the comment! I thought the Ring was pretty cool too when I finished making it :D
And yeah it was rain lol ;) I gotta fix that one up -- find a new texture -- tweak the variables -- or something.. I'll update it when I have time again 8)
Thanks for trying it out!