I’m writing a gui editor for the away3d particles system.Now I have finished a prototype.
sites:
http://liaocheng.github.com/particles_editor.html

just for fun.

new edit:
add a andriod version for test.
see http://away3d.com/forum/viewreply/6256/

Wow, excellent job. This looks amazing. Keep on the good work.

Very nice! It will be opensource?? :D

Or maybe a class that transforms the xml code into a functional particlecontainer ?

It’s opensource.
site:
https://github.com/liaocheng/particle_effect_editor
EffectGroupFactoryS can transforms the xml code into a group of functional particlecontainer.

Hi liaocheng. I would really appreciate if you upload the compiled version too. I don’t have AIR3 set yet…

PS.In attachment is my simple fire version with 2k polys. When I get the AIR version so that I can input bitmaps I’ll make a better fire

You can install the air runtime from
http://get.adobe.com/cn/air/
You can download the air version from
https://github.com/liaocheng/particle_effect_editor/downloads
Then you can open the bitmap and model in your local file system.

Thanks mate.

I compiled a andriod version with only preview feature.
It can run on my SAMSUNG i9103 well.All examples can reach 60fps.
If you can run it on your andriod device,please post reply to show it’s performance.
ps:
First of all ,install air3.2 for andriod
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplatformruntimes/air3-2/

look out: when you have finished open a file,click preview button!

Good Job

On some andriod device,the old application will auto close after open.I compile a new application that won’t auto close.

That’s some amazing work.

I have just dropped the particle and editor code into my project and it works like a charm.

There is just one problem I am having at the moment.
I have edited one of the sample effects that came with the editor (the snow one) and exported it.

Once the xml is loaded and started (via EffectGroupFactoryS) it plays exactly as created it in the editor. However, I wanted to create a trail.

If I move the effect itself then every created particle will move along with it of course. Moving the ParticlesContainer within the Effect (EffectGroup) does not work either.

How can I move just the “emitter” but leave particles in world space?

Thanks a lot for your help. The particle engine is absolutely great, the editor is an immense help.

You can set the follow target to a very far object that out of view;-)

I’ve modified SystemFactoryS (line 32) from

to

Now I can get the child ParticleContainer from the EffectGroup which is generated by the EffectGroupFactoryS and set the target.

It all seems to work fine now and my particle effect follows the defined position, I got my trail.

That change make sense?
Thanks a lot for the editor and the particle system, it’s been a massive help so far!

One stupid question remains though.

How do I pause the emitter / effect? If I call stop() it will also stop the already generated particles (as in, no longer animate them). I only want to stop emitting though.

You can set the follow target to a far object that out of view