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Iamrealife: /* 1.6 Particle Viewer */

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1.6 Particle Viewer

Iamrealife at 16:56, 31 March 2023

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2.9 Life

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2.9 Life

Iamrealife: /* 1 Introduction */

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1 Introduction

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1 Introduction

Iamrealife at 18:22, 29 March 2023

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Iamrealife: /* HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 6HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 6HPL Particle Editor */

2023-03-28T12:49:35Z

HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 6HPL1/Content Creation Chapter 6HPL Particle Editor

Mudbill: Fixed broken link

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 *Room size - This defines how large said room should be. Default settings are 6x6x6<br /><br />
 ===1.6 Particle Viewer===
-This program allows you to view your Particle by pressing the large and obvious Save and View Particle System button.
+This program allows you to view your Particle by pressing the large and obvious Save and View Particle System button.<br />
 Left Mouse Button lets you move the view around and Middle Mouse Button zooms in and out. Pressing B toggles the bloom option.<br /><br />

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 ===1.4 Emitters===
-This section allows you to view a list of all the currently available emitters in your particle file as well as Add, Copy and remove emitters.
+This section allows you to view a list of all the currently available emitters in your particle file as well as Add, Copy and remove emitters.<br /><br />
 ===1.5 Room===
 *Show Room - Here you can choose whether or not the Particle Viewer program should render a small room around the particle that you're currently viewing.
 *Room size - This defines how large said room should be. Default settings are 6x6x6<br /><br />
 ==2 Parameters==
 ===2.1. General===
 '''Name'''<br />The name of the emitter currently selected.<br /><br />
 '''Max Particles'''<br />The maximum number of particles that can be alive at once. When this limit is reached no more particles willl be created.<br /><br />
 '''Particles per Second'''<br />The number of particles per second that will be created.<br /><br />
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 This was meant to create and handle [[HPL1/Content_Creation_Chapter_3#3.13_Beams|Beam]] files, never implemented.
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 ===2.5 Rotation===
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 D Vector that will determine the axis and rotation speed for particles.
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 ===2.6 Start===

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 *Save - Saves your settings to the currently opened Particle System (*.ps) file.
 *Save as... - Allows you to save your particle under a different name.
-*Open - Let's you open particle files.<br /><br />
+*Open - Lets you open particle files.<br /><br />
 ===1.4 Emitters===
 This section allows you to view a list of all the currently available emitters in your particle file as well as Add, Copy and remove emitters.

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 '''Maximum speed'''<br />The maximum speed that the particles can reach.<br /><br /><br />
 ===2.9 Life===
-'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.<br />
+'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.<br /><br />
-'''Death Type'''<br />Type of death for the particles. Only Age can be selected.<br />
+'''Death Type'''<br />Type of death for the particles. Only Age can be selected.<br /><br />
 '''PS created at death'''<br />Particle System to be spawned when the particle dies. Could be used to loop particle creations.
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 '''Maximum speed'''<br />The maximum speed that the particles can reach.<br /><br /><br />
 ===2.9 Life===
-'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.
+'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.<br />
-'''Death Type'''<br />Type of death for the particles. Only Age can be selected.
+'''Death Type'''<br />Type of death for the particles. Only Age can be selected.<br />
 '''PS created at death'''<br />Particle System to be spawned when the particle dies. Could be used to loop particle creations.
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 ==1 Introduction==
-This is the guide for the HPL-Particle editor which is a tool for creating various particle effects. This page is not up-to-date, the particle editor has more features and functions than listed here. Most can be experimented and understood without any documentation, but if you are up for it please update the wiki documentation.<br /><br /><br />
+This is the guide for the HPL-Particle editor which is a tool for creating various particle effects.<br /><br />
 ===1.1 Min and Max values===
-A lot of values in the editor have both a min and max. This means that when the value is set to a particle a value between min and max is randomly selected.<br /><br /><br />
+A lot of values in the editor have both a min and max. This means that when the value is set to a particle a value between min and max is randomly selected.<br /><br />
 ===1.2 Fading===
-Fading can be used to fade in and/or out some property like size or colour. The fading works like this. There are three relative values that are relative to the start value of the particle. The names for these values are start, middle and end and are used in that order. There are also two times that are relative to the life of the particle, for example if a particle has 2 seconds life time and the middle time is 0.5 then this occurs after 1 second (0.5 * 2). The first time is called middle time and this is when the start value is entirely faded from start to middle. The middle length is how long the middle value lasts. After middle time + middle length the middle value is faded to the end value.<br /><br /><br />
+Fading can be used to fade in and/or out some property like size or colour. The fading works like this. There are three relative values that are relative to the start value of the particle. The names for these values are start, middle and end and are used in that order. There are also two times that are relative to the life of the particle, for example if a particle has 2 seconds life time and the middle time is 0.5 then this occurs after 1 second (0.5 * 2). The first time is called middle time and this is when the start value is entirely faded from start to middle. The middle length is how long the middle value lasts. After middle time + middle length the middle value is faded to the end value.<br /><br />
 ==2 Parameters==
 ===2.1. General===
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 '''Offset position'''<br />How the emitter is offset relative to its starting positon.<br /><br />
 '''Offset angle'''<br />How to particle system is offset relative to its start angles.<br /><br /><br />
-===2.2 Start===
+===2.6 Start===
 '''Start type'''<br />Sets what method to use to generate the start position of the particles in the emitter.<br /><br />
 '''Box start'''<br />A box start is created using an x, y and z min and max value. The collection of particles will get the shape of a box.<br /><br />
 '''Sphere start'''<br />The positions are generated using an angle interval and the min and max value for the radius. You can think of it like this; an arrow start pointing up. This arrow is then rotated around the X axis (red) using a value between min and max. After that the arrow is rotated by the y axis (blue). The arrow will now be pointing in a specific direction and in this direction a position is created at a distance from center according to a number generated from min/max radius.<br />[[File:spherestart.jpg]]
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-===2.3 Movement===
+===2.7 Color===
 '''Velocity type'''<br />The way in which the starting velocity is generated.<br /><br />
 '''Box velocity'''<br />The same as box start but with velocity instead.<br /><br />
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 '''Speed multiplier'''<br />How much the speed is multiplied by each second. For example, 0.5 means that the speed halfed each second. 2 means it is doubled each second.<br /><br />
 '''Maximum speed'''<br />The maximum speed that the particles can reach.<br /><br /><br />
-===2.4 Life===
+===2.9 Life===
-'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.<br /><br /><br />
+'''Lifespan'''<br />Time in seconds that the particle will live.
-===2.5 Colour===
+'''Death Type'''<br />Type of death for the particles. Only Age can be selected.
-''NOTE: all of the colour channels have values from 0 -1.''<br />
+'''PS created at death'''<br />Particle System to be spawned when the particle dies. Could be used to loop particle creations.
-'''Color'''<br />This sets the colour of the particle.<br /><br />
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-===2.8 Material===
+===2.10 Material===
 '''File'''<br />The material file to use.<br /><br />
 '''Number of Files'''<br />The number of material files used. Normally this should just be one, but in some cases an animation needed is spread out over several material files. When using several material files these must be name “[name]01.mat”, “[name]02.mat”, etc. Also the file text must be just “[name]”. So if the files are called “test01.mat”, “test02.mat”, etc it must say “test” in the file field.<br /><br />

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