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Program Announcements / zParticle Advanced Particle system for DBP released!

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Zerk
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 05:42 Edited at: 29th Jun 2007 20:42
My Advanced Particle system plug-in for DarkBASIC Pro, zParticle, has been released!

It is for the most part feature complete. There is no longer a message box to indicate it being an alpha version. I'm open to bug reports and suggestions! Have fun and be sure to read the readme.txt!

Download it here.
Download zParticle 1.0b Now!

You must have WinRAR to open this archive.

Whats included:
- zParticle.dll (plugin file)
- zParticle.ini (DBP IDE Command definition file)
- readme.txt, full documentation
- Fireworks demo DBP source code
- Snow demo DBP source code
- Toxic Barrel demo DBP source code
- Ghost Rider demo DBP source code
- Flock demo DBP source code
- Hard Coded Emitter/Particle demo DBP source code

*each demo includes custom particles and emitters that you can tweek or reuse. You'll be amazed at the cool effects you can accomplish with zParticle!

zParticle is designed to run as fast as possible using instanced rendering functionality. There is no limit to the number of emitters you can create!

Editor coming soon!

Read the readme.txt for more information.

Toxic Barrel with bubbling goo


From Ghost Rider Demo included in archive.


zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
More information and Download link!
Balid
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 06:18
This is fantastic. Great job Zerk

Silvester
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 16:50
Looks good,but your post speaks of a .rar file,wich one?

Zerk
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 17:04
The one in my signature.

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
http://www.battlecraft42.com/downloads/zParticleRelease_1.0b.rar
Silvester
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 17:08
Ah,Alright,ill download it now then.I can use a particle system

BatVink
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 23:07 Edited at: 26th Jun 2007 23:08
rather nice

I had a play with the fireworks demo, see my image below and modified code. You can fire off up to 100 rockets at a time for a nice effect.

DB Pro code:


ZPI file:




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Zerk
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Posted: 26th Jun 2007 23:36
Quote: "I had a play with the fireworks demo, see my image below and modified code. You can fire off up to 100 rockets at a time for a nice effect."


Very nice! I'll add it to the demos dir as it's better than mine and credit you.

Strange how the code snippet box omits the "\" from the file names.

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
http://www.battlecraft42.com/downloads/zParticleRelease_1.0b.rar
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Posted: 27th Jun 2007 14:48 Edited at: 27th Jun 2007 14:53
First I go through all of the trouble to make a particle system for my game, and then you make this lol. Downloading now, and waiting on the editor

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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 15:30
Zerk, this is incredible! you should start another thread where people post their .zpi files for the community to use.

Why fight when you can negotiate?
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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 19:02
Nice plugin indeed!

Although, one question.
Why doesn't it work on different screen resolutions?
When I use the "Set display mode" command, it just doesn't show anything.

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Zerk
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Posted: 28th Jun 2007 20:21 Edited at: 29th Jun 2007 05:38
Thanks guys!

Quote: "Why doesn't it work on different screen resolutions?"


I noticed that myself. I have no idea as of yet. But I did notice that if you change the resolution in the project properties, it works fine. But programatically, it doesn't. I've seen the same issue in other plugins like BLUE GUI thus requiring a "resetMainWindow" function because the DBP window functions somehow "forget" information.

I'll look into a solution.

*EDIT*
I found the solution. Next release will have the fix. Thanks!

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
More information and Download link!
FERSIS
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Posted: 29th Jun 2007 17:48 Edited at: 1st Jul 2007 22:57
super rad man!
i will use it on my game (of course crediting you )
I miss the editor
Coder#05
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Posted: 1st Jul 2007 23:22
looks nice. Good luck with the editor

easy comes easy goes
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Posted: 2nd Jul 2007 22:48
Awesome Thank you very much for this. I was just trying to learn particles when i stumbled across this. Thanks again

Looking forward to the editor!

P.S for anyone wondering / confused here is a list of the commands
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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 19:41
The particles seem to dissapear at some camera angle :S
Can you fix that?

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Posted: 3rd Jul 2007 23:14
Quote: "The particles seem to dissapear at some camera angle :S
Can you fix that?
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I haven't seen that before. Can you show me an example?

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
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Posted: 4th Jul 2007 20:10
Here's a video:
http://one.fsphost.com/problem/problem.avi

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Posted: 5th Jul 2007 07:03
Ok I see it. Looks like a problem with the camera orientation. Is there anything different your doing with the camera?

I'll look into it further.

Thanks!

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
More information and Download link!
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Posted: 5th Jul 2007 17:46
Great work zerk , do you have any news on the editor ?
cheers
Zerk
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Posted: 5th Jul 2007 18:48
Im working on it. Coming soon. I'll have the weekend to get alot done on it so hopefully I'll have a release ready by Monday.

zParticle BETA finally released! An advanced particle system plugin for DBP!
More information and Download link!
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Posted: 6th Jul 2007 01:40
Great news ! i will waiting the monday
Thanks for all your work.

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