acidparticle - crossplatform open-source particle editor

[hagish]

Due to the lack of a decent linux particle editor for a recent ogre version i decided to write my own one. I hope this tool is usefull for someone
The code should be crossplatform (wxwidget) but i developed it using linux and so there is currently not win binary available. But we are working on this

The most basic editing and viewing features are implemented.

Source/Linux Download: http://hagish.schattenkind.net/acidpart ... .1.tar.bz2
Windows Binary: http://hagish.schattenkind.net/acidpart ... le-0.1.zip

Here are some screenshots.

[SiENcE]

Hey Hagish,

nice that you finished the first version. I like this crazy sun logo, reminds me on a game called Lalalove .
I definitely want to maintain the windows build.

[Brainshack]

Is this based on the default Ogre Particle System or Particle Universe?

[hagish]

@SiENcE
Yes its the lalalove sun

@Brainshack
Is based on the default Ogre Particle System

[sisyphus]

Some nice features there...

[Fairies]

Nice, thx

[MadLion]

Great! A linux particle editor, many thanks. ^^

[Nauk]

looks very useful good work, going to try it soon!

[nikki]

Linux tools?! Nice!

I'll sure check it out soon.

BTW, what did you use to put Ogre in wxWidgets? The wxOgre widget?

[hagish]

I used http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Wx ... for_Eihort which worked quite good

[nikki]

I used http://www.ogre3d.org/wiki/index.php/Wx ... for_Eihort which worked quite good

Thanks for the info, I'll sure check it out.

[kcbanner]

looks great, awesome that its linux!

[Xypher]

How can you call this cross-platform if you haven't actually TESTED it on other platforms?
I'm having a hellacious time getting it to compile on windows.

[hagish]

The fact that i don't use linux specific stuff and the used libs are cross platform.

What problems did you encounter?

[hagish]

I compiled a windows binary. You can find the download url in the first post.
There are a few small problems with the win version:
* mouse wheel (zooming) does not work the way it should -> zoom tool buttons
* the tool button tooltips are beneath the ogre render window

[NoodlesOnMyBack]

hey very nice, i made a rain effect to my game with your editor, look pretty good! thanks a lot.

[Highway]

finally someone picked up an Particle editor again . Interface layout works quite good.

[durmieu]

Oops, not working here. wxWidgets 2.8.9 and Ogre 1.6.1 on Sabayon. The code compiles and the gui works, nothing is displayed in the ogre render window, not even the background color. But anyway, nice tool, thank's for sharing.

[durmieu]

Definitively doesn't work on with ogre 1.6.1 Works fine with 1.4.9. I've been tried to port it to Shoggoth but failed. I think maybe there is something wrong with WxOgreRenderWindow but don't know what. Any idea?

[compvis]

hi,

I have a rocket (mesh file) without exhaust from tail. Now i want to load this rocket into Acidparticle then manually attach the exhaust particle into tail. is it possible to do ?

Thanks,

[hagish]

Currently you can only add meshes to the center of the scene.

[dermont]

@durmieu

You could try manually updating the render window in wxogrerenderwindow.cpp, e.g:

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//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
void wxOgreRenderWindow::Update () {
	if (msOgreRoot)
		msOgreRoot->renderOneFrame ();
    if (mRenderWindow)
        mRenderWindow->update();
}

[leetone]

Looks very nice; nice to see another particle editor (and for linux too)! Out of curiosity, how long did this take you?

[hagish]

about a weekend. therefore some parts are very ugly.
currently im rethinking the structure.

[karooolek]

hi,
i've just downloaded and succesfully compiled acdiparticle.
however, it crashes when trying to run.

this is ogre.log:

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13:44:32: Creating resource group General
13:44:32: Creating resource group Internal
13:44:32: Creating resource group Autodetect
13:44:32: SceneManagerFactory for type 'DefaultSceneManager' registered.
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type Material
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type Mesh
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type Skeleton
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ParticleSystem' registered.
13:44:32: OverlayElementFactory for type Panel registered.
13:44:32: OverlayElementFactory for type BorderPanel registered.
13:44:32: OverlayElementFactory for type TextArea registered.
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type Font
13:44:32: ArchiveFactory for archive type FileSystem registered.
13:44:32: ArchiveFactory for archive type Zip registered.
13:44:32: FreeImage version: 3.10.0
13:44:32: This program uses FreeImage, a free, open source image library supporting all common bitmap formats. See http://freeimage.sourceforge.net for details
13:44:32: Supported formats: bmp,ico,jpg,jif,jpeg,jpe,jng,koa,iff,lbm,mng,pbm,pbm,pcd,pcx,pgm,pgm,png,ppm,ppm,ras,tga,targa,tif,tiff,wap,wbmp,wbm,psd,cut,xbm,xpm,gif,hdr,g3,sgi,exr,j2k,j2c,jp2
13:44:32: DDS codec registering
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type HighLevelGpuProgram
13:44:32: Registering ResourceManager for type Compositor
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Entity' registered.
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'Light' registered.
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardSet' registered.
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'ManualObject' registered.
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'BillboardChain' registered.
13:44:32: MovableObjectFactory for type 'RibbonTrail' registered.
13:44:32: Loading library /usr/local/lib/OGRE/RenderSystem_GL.so
13:44:32: OGRE EXCEPTION(7:InternalErrorException): Could not load dynamic library /usr/local/lib/OGRE/RenderSystem_GL.so.  System Error: libOgreMain-1.6.0.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory in DynLib::load at OgreDynLib.cpp (line 80)

i checked /usr/local/lib/OGRE, /usr/local/lib64, /usr/lib and /usr/lib64 and RenderSystem_GL.so is in all those places.
i tried chaning PluginFolder in plugins.cfg, but it still doesn't help...
what can i do more?

btw. i have openSUSE and ATI radeon card