Sorry if you feel offended, that wasn't intended at all.
I ensure you i have written this without any form of agressivity

Ok fair enough, I did wonder given the possible language barrier.Stuff happens

cheers
gm

@Nistur, Thanks! I will improve them and post some new screens,
once its good enough for you i upload the files

@Gamemaker, I think you missed the point, these are test scenes for the future particle system

I think you could have been nicer about it, but I get the point now.
Or maybe its just the (dutch, french or german) way of speaking about such issues.

You could have just said: They are just examples for what will be used to showcase particles , and left it at that

cheers
gm

@Gamemaker, I think you missed the point, these are test scenes for the future particle system

Here's some tests (only diffuse textures, very basic stuff/unfinished for most)
In order :
(1) Bathroom (smoke on top of the bath) / (2) Fire in barrel
(3) Waterfall (water coming from the top) / (4) Waterfall
(5) Fire in barrel / (6) Smoke coming from the pipes
(7) Dont know wtf is this

I'm missing stuff to do some complete 3d scenes however i'm gonna try that next,
if there's an environment you like more than the others, just tell !

Hi vegas and thx for  showing this, but Im not seeing any particles in any of the embedded pictures.

cheers
nl

Hopefully things have calmed down enough for me now to start working on this properly again...

I'm missing stuff to do some complete 3d scenes however i'm gonna try that next,
if there's an environment you like more than the others, just tell !

- 10 units is equal to 1 meter, more infos in the doc : http://www.maratis3d.org/?p=277

zester: That looks great. Still definitely looking forward to seeing how this turns out.

Vegas: I think Anael said the recommended scale for models is 1 blender unit = 1m.

You can unpack all data associated with a blend file in one go. I can't actually remember where I found this option.

To be honest, though. I think it's easier if all models were created in an open standard which any 3D editor can open, say obj or dae. What I've been doing is putting obj files in art/, textures in maps/ and exported meshes in meshs/. Doing it like this makes the relative paths to a texture the same (../maps/sometexture.tga).

If we're still talking about the particle example application. I would like to structure it nicely, I'm not _entirely_ sure how I'm going to manage this, but I think that each "level" should be in it's own directory with all assets there, and anything common also separately. Not that it makes any difference to how Maratis loads things, it's just much clearer if someone was looking for how things are put together.

I wouldn't worry about any of this though, when I have time to create a demo application, I can structure this around anything provided.

Also, as I've said, I've recently moved, so I've not been able to do anything really, so I really can't judge people on not responding Especially as this isn't their project

Blend Swap would be a great idea. The issue is, of course, somehow, the models would have to be exported as Maratis meshes, and also normalised in size for easy use. As it's all CC, as long as you credit the original creators, it should be ok to just use without a formal agreement, but it might be best to discuss this anyway. I don't know.

I always wondered what was the best mesh size for maratis, should we take Yofrankie
source files as reference?

About the format, i really don't know what could be best :

1) Individual .mesh files : Have to assign texture path manually for each object,
Thankfully there's some batch text replacement app wich make this step very easy,
but still, that's not cool

2) .blend files : Textures have to be packed in the blend file, that mean you have to manually export textures for each object (insane ><) OR maybe there's a way to make a folder with all texture then in the .blend file, point a relative path to it?

3) Making a empty project that contain all mesh/textures in correct directories?

Ps. Nistur, i don't forget you, something draw my attention and took me some time, i should come with something by the next days

- texture
- particles number
- particles life (how long before dying)
- spread angle
- start speed
- rotation speed
- weight (positive for solid, negative for smoke etc)
- bounce factor (for collision)
- random factor
- size begin / size end (for size fading)
- color begin / color end (with alpha, for color fading)
- blend mode (additive, subtractive, alpha...)
- motion blur
- static (boolean, used for static particles)

What should be added to that is the emitter shape (center, bounding-box, mesh-vertices), at the time I was only emitting from the center.

I think you've explained the issue here. I'm making it all too complex. I have 16 variables right now and it's looking messy. I should really really be more simplistic, like having a preset system. That's sort of what I was hoping for with the particle spec stuff. I will see what I can do about reducing the complexity a bit.

Blend Swap would be a great idea. The issue is, of course, somehow, the models would have to be exported as Maratis meshes, and also normalised in size for easy use. As it's all CC, as long as you credit the original creators, it should be ok to just use without a formal agreement, but it might be best to discuss this anyway. I don't know.