Particle Systems?

[samurle]

What do people use to create particle effects on the iPhone?

Effects such as trails, smoke, fire, rain, explosions, sparkles, fireworks, stars, etc...

I need to create some small dust-like particles of varying size, color, brightness, and lifespan.
Any suggestions?

[dapis]

Originally Posted by samurle

What do people use to create particle effects on the iPhone?

Effects such as trails, smoke, fire, rain, explosions, sparkles, fireworks, stars, etc...

I need to create some small dust-like particles of varying size, color, brightness, and lifespan.
Any suggestions?

Lots of people resort to Cocos2d for this sort of thing, but there is also the option to use a CAEmitterLayer as well - see the Apple documentation for details.

[samurle]

Originally Posted by dapis

Lots of people resort to Cocos2d for this sort of thing, but there is also the option to use a CAEmitterLayer as well - see the Apple documentation for details.

Thanks, I see they have a fireworks example:
http://developer.apple.com/library/m...id/DTS40009114

[samurle]

How do these spammer bots get on this board? >> johnhesting

Originally Posted by samurle

Thanks, I see they have a fireworks example:
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I discover this fireworks example is only for MacOSX. CAEmitterLayer was first introduced in iOS 5.0, right? So, if I wanted to supported older versions, Cocos2D would be a better option? Cocos2D is not based on CAEmitterLayer I hope.

[mediaspree]

Try Particle Designer by 71squared, really fun to just play around in if nothing else! Particle Designer - iOS Game Particle Effects - Explosions Smoke Fire Rain Stars - iPhone iPad OSX Cocos2D

[headkaze]

Originally Posted by mediaspree

Try Particle Designer by 71squared

Was about to recommend the same thing

[samurle]

Originally Posted by mediaspree

Try Particle Designer by 71squared, really fun to just play around in if nothing else! Particle Designer - iOS Game Particle Effects - Explosions Smoke Fire Rain Stars - iPhone iPad OSX Cocos2D

They should fix their webpage to work with MSIE and Firefox. For me, it's just an empty blank page with a banner.

But anyway, CAEmitterLayer desperately needs some kind of general editor/viewer demo app for tweaking parameters. There are so many parameters to tweak. The Fireworks demo is a good start, but it needs a facelift to cover all parameters.