Particles Tutorial

Posted by RhysAndrews on July 16, 2006, 9:15 a.m.

Well, back in the "studios" of GameCave, I've been working rather hard on a complete remake of the GameCave Effects Engine (I think it's reached over 10,000 downloads now; only 270 on the 64digits mirror though; try it out in my examples section). Yeah, that's right, "GameCave Effects Engine 3.X", or GCE3.X for short. Well it's going to have tons of features… like you know those Particle-Designer-GUI's that got released recently? Well, I hate to boast, but I created the first and original.. called "PartArt". Unfortunately i'm not much of a GUI man, so it wasn't too easy to use. Yet, this time, PartArt 2 will be implemented as part of GCE3.X, allowing people to create particles with ease, no GML knowledge needed; well very little anyway. Then, i'm rewriting all the effects, commenting everything, and also adding a ton of new effects. There'll be a sweet GCE-Menu-GUI, allowing you to see lots more details on the effects in-game, etc.

Anyway, I posted this because GCE3.X will also have tons of tutorials (in PDF format) teaching you visual-function-lists like Particles, Texture Primitives, Surfaces, and more. And I would like to know what you guys think of my unfinished particle-tutorial. If I get enough complaints about it being PDF i'll stick up the .DOC version.

http://host-a.net/getfile.php?usern=GameCave&file=GCET_particles.pdf

Thankyou

Regards

Rhys Andrews

Comments

Josea 18 years, 5 months ago

so?

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gml, don't post stupid comments. (fyi, that was a REALLY stupid comment)

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RhysAndrews 18 years, 5 months ago

… So… I was hoping you could tell me what you thought of the tutorial? I could quite easily "so" all of your blogs.

-Rhys

marbs 18 years, 5 months ago

Thats a really good tutorial so far. have a cookie =)

melee-master 18 years, 5 months ago

That sounds pretty cool Rhys. Should be interesting.

Josea 18 years, 5 months ago

I was being random ;)

Particales have been always messy stuff to work with, a tutoraisl would be nice, but I prefer to just borrow premade ffects instea dof messing my own particles to create them.

Cesar 18 years, 5 months ago

You mean here?

lol, i'm just lazy to write it up…

Cesar 18 years, 5 months ago

REALLY good… very informative and i can see that you wrote it.

RhysAndrews 18 years, 5 months ago

Sweet. It's finished now, I might bother re-uploading soon. Thanks for your thoughts.

-Rhys

FredFredrickson 18 years, 5 months ago

So when's GameCave going to start making games again? [;)]

RhysAndrews 18 years, 5 months ago

Quote:
So when's GameCave going to start making games again?
We're still working hard on Conflict Online. Actually, if you think about it, we've made very few games. Two proper ones, the rest were kind of minigames; We mainly do engines. Never-the-less, CO is still being worked on and we have a list of games we're thinking about.

-Rhys