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When the parent moves, so do all of its children (cf. `dominates-children', to be re-named `move-children', in [http://mantis.themanaworld.org/view.php?id=305 Mantis #305]) | When the parent moves, so do all of its children (cf. `dominates-children', to be re-named `move-children', in [http://mantis.themanaworld.org/view.php?id=305 Mantis #305]) | ||
:''I would do this with another particle property.'' --[[User:Crush|Crush]] 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST) | :''I would do this with another particle property.'' --[[User:Crush|Crush]] 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST) | ||
::How about a child attribute that controls attraction to its parent particle? — [[User:Jaxad0127|<span style="color: #160196">Jaxad</span>]][[User Talk:Jaxad0127|<span style="color: #5B038F">0127</span>]] 19:33, 22 June 2008 (CEST) | ::''How about a child attribute that controls attraction to its parent particle?'' — [[User:Jaxad0127|<span style="color: #160196">Jaxad</span>]][[User Talk:Jaxad0127|<span style="color: #5B038F">0127</span>]] 19:33, 22 June 2008 (CEST) | ||
:::''Sounds like the last point of this list to me.'' --[[User:Crush|Crush]] 20:09, 22 June 2008 (CEST) | |||
===Random animation entry points=== | ===Random animation entry points=== | ||
Revision as of 18:09, 22 June 2008
Possible additions
Delayed Effects
In composite effects, it is often desirable to start a certain effect only after a certian amount of time has passed; for example, we might want to fade in a circle and only then suddenly flash a pentagram in its centre. This could be accomplished by an `on-death' emitter that is spawned when its parent particle dies.
- Death effects would also be useful for a lot of other purposes like magic projectiles which explode on impact. I would suggest to implement this in the xml files as an attribute "activate-at" for emitters. Possible values are "immediately" (current behavior), "death" or a number of frames. --Crush 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST)
Parents that move their children.
When the parent moves, so do all of its children (cf. `dominates-children', to be re-named `move-children', in Mantis #305)
- I would do this with another particle property. --Crush 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST)
Random animation entry points
Right now, animation cels are looped through sequentially. For some effects, randomly picking one element each interval, or at least starting out at a random entry, may be preferable.
- The animation tag should get a new attribute "sequence" with the values "loop" (current behavior), "once" (animation is played once and then the particle dies) and "random"--Crush 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST)
Master Alpha
A `master alpha' setting may be useful for some particles (though this might be better served by an appropriate attribute for the animation/image)
- New particle property "alpha", no problem. --Crush 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST)
Particles orbiting moving particles
Orbitting particles need a reference point; right now this is fixed to be the `base' particle. We need an option to choose the parent, grandparent, ... instead.
- I would do this with a new particle property acceleration-parent. The value is the number of recursion steps in the particle tree the particle is following. --Crush 18:51, 22 June 2008 (CEST)
