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Looking for a off the shelf DirectX Particle Editor.

Started by Grasshopper May 16, 2006 at 12:31 PM 2 replies 1.6k views

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May 16, 2006 at 12:31 PM

I'm trying to add some particle effects to my Direct3D underwater simulation engine (bubbles, dust, dirt kickup, etc). Rather than trying to write my own particle effect editor and then trying to create the effects from scratch is there any software allready out there with prebuilt effects that i could just integrate into my engine? I hear doom 3 has a particle editor. Does it have any premade particle effects with it?

jollyjeffers

May 16, 2006 at 2:16 PM

A "particle effect" is quite difficult to abstract out, and I've not come across them outside of a particular engine/tool's context.

Particle systems are as much reliant on physics as they are graphics, whilst they can be simple to program they do tend to be quite "involved" with whatever else the application is doing.

You might be able to use things like D3's editor, but I doubt it. Alternatively, tools like 3DSMax have particle systems that you might be able to export data from.

hth
Jack

JBourrie

May 16, 2006 at 2:54 PM

Particle API 2.0

Grasshopper

May 17, 2006 at 7:36 AM

Thanks for the link. I also found the following particle software.

http://www.forkparticle.com/products.html

Has anyone tried this before?

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