XParticles for Asphyre 4.x

2morrowMan

I'm found some time to release XParticles for Asphyre 4.
This version compatible with Asphyre 4.0.9.

Added a few new features.
Made some optimizations.
Now all particles saves to xml file, witch you can edit without XParticleEditor.

Sample app's shows you how to use it in your projects.

You can find already configured settings in pss folder with XParticle editor.

Any comments are wellcome.

P.S. I'm use XParticles and Asphyre 4 in my project few weeks and I can say XParticles is a little fastest now.

The Wicked Flea

Thanks 2morrowMan, I'll give it a go a little later today/tomorrow.

EDIT: Why aren't the samples compiled? I wanted to see what they looked like without having to install the whole thing yet.

BaziX

Hi !

Please look into the Release folder in each example. You'll find compiled example.

The Wicked Flea

Huh, there's something wrong with my unzipper it seems. I couldn't find a single subdirectoy last time and only had the source extracted. That's really odd. Fixed that little thing up -- now to look for a better, free, archiver.

2morrowman, is there a way I could do the emitters in the style of fire text, but only for 1 given system? It looks like, from the sample, that the bitmap holds the only emitters.

2morrowMan

Use EmittersAdd() procedure to add emitters.
In the editor at second Tab you can add emitters using dialog and save it to XML file.
procedure EmittersAddFromBitmap(Image: TBitmap; Color: Cardinal); scans a bitmap for pixels with specified color. Pixels with this color will be added as emitters.

BaziX

Hi 2morrowman !

I've tried to compile your two examples, but following problems occured (Asphyre 4.0.9 and Delphi 10, Afterwarp's examples are all OK):

1. you use in your Uses list units from Asphyre 3 (AsphyreSubsc, AsphyreTimers) - not really a problem

2. but there are problems with undeclared identifiers

a. in your XParticles.pas unit isn't LoadFromXMLFile and Preload method implemented (but your examples need it), maybe you have other version and you have included the wrong one

b. and then others at Devices.PreloadEvent, Sender.Images.OnResolveFailed, Sender.Fonts.OnResolveFailed

c. and finally this line of code:

TAsphyreBitmapFont(Devices[0].Fonts[0]).Kerning := 0;

TAsphyreBitmapFont is defined nowhere, it only appears in the GuiEdit unit.

b. & c. -> maybe you have newer/other/derived version of Asphyre.

And something to the Editor. Access Violation appears when I click on the Update Image List imagebutton. And sometimes when changing Thread count with slide bar e.g. from 700 to 20 -> it remains the same on the screen (700). It gets OK only after changing count via edit field.

And some hint - would it be possible to add ScaleEmitters to the Editor when importing emitters from bmp ?

Thanx and keep up the good work !!

2morrowMan

Oh, I fogort about demos...

I gona fix it now!

Edit: Fixed!

wagenheimer

Hi 2MorrowMan!

If i did run the pre-compiled demos, everything works fine!

But if i did "recompile" the demos, or did try to create a new one, nothing happens! No particles is shown! Its show a Lot of ParticlesSystems Active, but the ParticlesCount is always 0!

What is wrong???

Thanks!

2morrowMan

Do you use Asphyre 4.0.9? Because XParticles for this version and higher only!

It's can be a problem with parsing xml file...

BaziX

Hi !!

I've the same problem ! After recompiling the examples nothing is shown on the screen. I've thought that's my fault but as I see Wagenheimer has the same problem. Pre-compiled examples in the attached archives work fine.