Comments on: XNA Particle System 2D

By: Henry

Henry — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 15:46:57 +0000

Looks amazing, do you do use the GPU to speed any of this up or is it all done CPU side? on a related note what kind of stress will it handle? in terms of particle counts?

anyway like i said looks incredible.

By: jordan duty

jordan duty — Tue, 10 May 2011 23:33:47 +0000

Hey, this looks really sweet, and even though I know its a year old, I was wondering if you could explain, or make a tutorial on how your particles work, I have a particle system i made and they have a speed and direction, along with a scale and fade, but I want to make something more like yours with a glow, and start/end position so I can make a channeling effect between two items, so the particles have a source and destination, kind of light continuous lightning, do you think this would be to hard? or do you have any advice or ideas?

By: zanlok

zanlok — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:54:43 +0000

Ran across this on youtube; video was really cool – so I came to check out the blog post. Did you have any plans to release the source for this? I’ve been building little retro games, all uncompleted, and I’d like to compare techniques. Probably need to redo everything I try to work more like yours since your methods look fast/clean. Email me if you’d consider it

Cheers.

By: Jo Emil Holen

Jo Emil Holen — Fri, 07 May 2010 08:47:43 +0000

Looks fantastic! I’m looking forward to the release. Is it possible you could notify me on mail when you release a beta?

-Jo Emil AkA JoMs

By: ^DJ_Link^

^DJ_Link^ — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:03:46 +0000

Hi there Michael.
Actually I’m not sure yet. I was hopping to have a beta out by now but still a lot to do. I’m alone working on this and since I’m working on a game I’m mostly adding features as the game requires it.
Probably when I finish the game but not sure.
As for the Particles itself basically I have a particle emitter that releases a batch of particles each with a speed and direction. I draw then using Additive and the modifiers are basic Lerps. Starts with one color and lerps to an end color. I’ll try to make a small tutorial when I have the time. Cheers

By: Michael Tea

Michael Tea — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:52:16 +0000

Your engine looks awesome. How did you do the particles in a 2d engine? When is Basalt going to be release?

By: Dustin

Dustin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 09:32:22 +0000

This looks very awesome. I wouldn’t even know where to begin were I to build a similar program. It’s always nice to find inspiration on the web. Keep up the good work!