History: ParticleFX plugin

[[Image:Particle_Accelerator.png|right|thumb|300px|screenshot of [[Particle Accelerator]]]]
ParticleFX is an Ogre plugin.

While Ogre itself contains a particle system, ParticleFX is the library which contains various optional [[emitter]]s and [[affector]]s.

Emitter examples:

• box
• area
• ellisoid
• point
• ring

Affector examples:

• linear force
• rotation
• colour fader
• deflector plane

To use this plugin you have to add the file Plugin_ParticleFX.dll to your project and refer it in the config file Plugins.cfg.

;Optimisation

• Allocate particles at the beginning. Avoid creating particle system at runtime.
• Try achieving the desired effect minimizing the particle count. That can easily leads to huge slowdown.

See also

• [[OGRE Particle Editor]]
• [[Particle Accelerator]]
• [[Particle Universe plugin]]
• [[CodeSnippets#Particles|CodeSnippets]] - section Particles
  • [[ParticleExampleSun|Sun Effect]] - An Example Particle Script
  • [[Moving Space Dust Effect]] - A Space Dust Effect
  • [[InterpolationAffector|Interpolation Affector]] - A particle affector to vary size, rotation and velocity of particles.
  • [[IteratedFractal|Iterated Fractals]] - Using [[ManualObject]]s as Point Sprites to create a Pickover attractor (updates in real-time with a million or more points!)
  • [[ParticleExampleSun]] - particle code + how to use
  • [[MeshEmitter]] - an emitter class + example