Particle System Upgrades - Physics particles - [WIP]

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I slightly tweaked the core particle system to support extension, then created 2 simple extensions for :

  • physics based particles : particles that interact with the BulletAppState physicsSpace); and
  • particle scaling based on velocity vector : the faster a particle is moving the more longer it gets - I used this to cheaply simulate motion blur;

Still early days, performance is good (300 physics particles in the above + several filters), but there is loads of room for optimisations.

-James

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Looks really cool!

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Awesome, cant wait to see the code! I sure wish to shut up some friends of mine whom are Unreal fan boys.

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Cool stuff.

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awesome

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Holy monkeyballs, that’s amazing. :-o

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Totally stunned, amazing!

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nice one, all we need now is an angle grider

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Wow, that looks really cool! =)

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really cool!!!

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Does a physics based particle interact with other physics based particles?

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@drothindev said: Does a physics based particle interact with other physics based particles?

They can, in this example they are not because the particle size is fairly large and they tend to overlap when spawned and explode all over the place, there are however may ways around this issue.

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Wicked sick!