Comments on: Flint AS3 Particle System

By: Porter

Porter — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 05:41:55 +0000

Man does that look awesome, I love the colors and symmetry, one of the many reasons I love particle coding so much. Thanks for sharing, excellent job.

By: valentino

valentino — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 08:51:13 +0000

Hi! I made a tutorial for making a Basic Starfield with Flint System. Some more are coming.

Check it out at http://www.fuoridalcerchio.net/wordpress/2008/03/09/creating-a-simple-starfield-with-flint-particle-system/

Enjoy!

By: richard

richard — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:36:13 +0000

Very nice. I like that a lot. If you want to distribute the source code I can put it in the examples on the Flint website or you can just post it in the forum on the site.

By: sandersnake

sandersnake — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 14:25:41 +0000

Hi Richard,

Really nice work!
Played around with it and got some nice stuff.
Check it out at http://www.actionscripter.nl

By: valentino

valentino — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 15:14:17 +0000

hi! i translated the documentation about the library at http://www.fuoridalcerchio.net/wordpress/tutorials/flintparticle/

i hope this doesn’t bother you. please let me know if you need an italian translated reference to the lib.
thank you.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 15:14:40 +0000

getLocation returns fractional numbers, but the first loop to calculate the area is based on uints only. So it would require the compromise that getLocation always returns an integer point. I guess that wouldn’t matter if the speed increase is worth it, which it probably is.

By: Elzean

Elzean — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:16:07 +0000

Couldn’t you put all the transparent points found in the first loop in an array and just take a random index in the getLocation().
The getLocation can be slow if the picture is a lot transparent, and i read the getPixel32() is not really fast too.

I also work a little in a way to group all the particules with the same comportement in a group in order to improve performance, that was the idea, its actually working for me, but i should find a better way to do it.

By: richard

richard — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 11:17:32 +0000

There’s now a DisplayObjectZone and a BitmapDataZone checked into svn. They’ll also be in the next download when I get that out.

By: Elzean

Elzean — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 04:30:08 +0000

i update my test again, before with “steady(600)” even without blur i was really slow. I add a fonction to upgrade my fps, its working only in some situations, but for my exemple i can now have a “steady(2000)” with blur and i steel have a better fps than before

By: Elzean

Elzean — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:38:54 +0000

Ho and i was just thinking that it should be easy to put any displayObject (Sprite, MovieClip, …) as a zone.