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Hi, I have actually developed an App with Corona before (a very boring local council recycling app!). I can’t say I have any plans for a corona module however, I didn’t mind Lua script but I’ve no idea how I’d convert timelefx to it! 🙂
Glad you’re loving TimelineFX!
Hi, if you right click on the effect in the list you can select the option to hide other emitters when selecting individual emitters
Unity was always 3D from what I remember and TimelineFX is a 2D particle engine, however there’s a 2D part of unity now?
I have actually worked with someone to create a Java library for LibGDX funnily enough. It’s fully working but needs some optimising mainly for mobiles. I have suggested that he open sources it to a wider community to help develop it further. I’ll see if I can help him put it on GitHub.
I guess there’s no reasons why it wouldn’t compile on linux, the only reason why I haven’t is that I’ve never been a Linux user, or ever installed it! I’ve never really detected much demand for it so it’s never been a priority.
Hi, I changed forums so the attachments are lost, I’m currently away at the moment but I’ll upload it again tomorrow.
Yes, I do need to add more emitters, at the moment I struggle to find the time to work on them but hopefully I can put more up soon!
I’m afraid not Htbaa. I’d say your best bet may be to convert the monkey library, seeing as monkey is designed to translate to other languages. The file format is simply a zip file that contains an XML file with all the data for the effects (it’s quite explanatory) and all of the shapes in png format.
Sounds great pward84020 🙂
You could throw it up on github if you wanted to then people could fork it as necessary, but it’s your code at the end of the day so the choice is yours 🙂 I’d certainly be happy to contribute to it, although my c++ knowledge is limited!
Hi, seems like it’s having trouble finding the file. Does the sample work without any changes?
I would make sure the file path is correct, and maybe just move the effects file into the same folder as the code you’re trying to run to simplify things.
You can do this with sub effects, and the containers you see in other effects are just how you do it. All you do is create an emitter and check the single checkbox on the particle tab. Then you can create an effect within that emitter. You can do that as many times as you want and and have as many effects in one effect as you need.
You can just set the containing emitter’s alpha or size to 0 so that it doesn’t show.
Hey that sounds great, well done 🙂
You’re right the interpolation is redundant in most cases, in the Monkey Module I ditched it too as the difference between it and lookups are not noticeable. It will be interesting to see what performance you get with c++.
Hi Martin, when you say you’re trying to import a sequence of images, do you mean that it’s an animation sequence that you want to import as an animated particle shape?
Currently TimelineFX can only import animated shapes as sprite sheets. So you have to arrange your images onto a sprite sheet first and then import. However I think it would be a really nice feature I’m surprised no one else has mentioned it before! I’ll put it in the next version.
Thanks, Pete.
Hi, I think you can do some cartoon emitters if you use the right particle shapes. If you look at the explosions library that you can download from here there are a few cartoon explosions in there to give you some ideas.
Link to the download page is here: http://www.rigzsoft.co.uk/portfolio/explosions-59-different-explosion-effects-from-quick-and-small-to-large-and-dramatic/
