The game maker's particle system is easier or harder than just drawing by hand the effect or use a exterior program? I tried to do a dust landing and jump effect using the system and was so weird and hard to understand that I just did by hand.
#Is the particle system easier or harder to make effects?
fallow grotto
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The game maker's particle system is easier or harder than just drawing by hand t...
coral harbor
You can use and combine both methods.
fallow grotto
Elaborate?
coral harbor
You can use animated sprites in the particle system itself, or you can simulate more complex effects using objects. You don't have to choose between one or the other when you can use both to your advantage
The particle system is more efficient than creating multiple objects
vital kestrel
The particle system (the runtime side of things) is really efficient and useful for making just about most effects.
And with a little bit of logic handling, you can easily make some really nice looking effects.
Like my lil magical circle effect for example.
Going by Foxy's point, you can just combine them together
Have particles for the actual look/effect/automated motion/animation/spawning additional particles, etc.
Have an object that spawns them at either offsets or under specific conditions.
As for the particle system asset/editor, that one is also pretty good. Although, it is initially a bit harder to work with and having it placed directly in your game.
I find it much more nicer as a quick visualizer for making particles, since there is a button to copy the particle system/emitter/type code into your clipboard
(The emitter isn't needed)
Even if you didn't want to use objects to help control some form of logic, you can just spawn particles as you need, like dust particles for jumping.
fallow grotto
I wanted to emulate celeste Dust jump and landing particles
I tried with particle system and I thought it was a mess to understand
Is there an alternative?
Besides hand drawn
vital kestrel
Do you mean with the particle system asset, or manually making the particles with code?
fallow grotto
GM's own particle system
vital kestrel
I should clarify, it's the same thing
fallow grotto
Where I create it and edit
vital kestrel
The way I would go about it personally is I'd just use the particle system asset to get the basics sorted
Gravity at 270, direction at 90 for min/max. Life min/max with some offset (20 frames to 40 frames for example)
Set the particle texture to a pixel at 0.1 scale (or smaller/bigger)
Then rather using the particle system asset directly, I would just hit this button
So I can obtain all of the code for setting up the particle type/system/emitter, without the particle system asset
fallow grotto
Any tutorial that could help me introduce to code particles?
fallow grotto
Then rather using the particle system asset directly, I would just hit this butt...
GML or shader language?
vital kestrel
It's just GML
fallow grotto
Oh okay
vital kestrel
The entire particle system has existed since legacy GameMaker days, very old
The asset itself is just a wrapper essentially
I don't have anything specific in mind to your exact specific... Lemme see
vital kestrel
So I can obtain all of the code for setting up the particle type/system/emitter,...
As for this, you can control how particles are spawned. So you can do some loops and some randomized offsets to spawn a couple particles
