OGRE Particle Editor in CVS, new demo

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 9:53 pm

I don't see anything related to the Particle Editor at that URL.

Post by **jacmoe** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 10:02 pm

It's particleeditor - ogreaddons/particleeditor - you will need to get it from CVS - but you can read all about it @ the above URL.

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Thu Sep 08, 2005 11:40 pm

Sure I can find the word particaleditor on the page but there is no links to download it, and I have no idea who or what CVS is. Google don't know much about it either.

asceth · Post by **asceth** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 12:03 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System

Includes links on getting started with CVS.

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:33 am

I'm looking for the newest version of the OGRE Particle Editor.

Where can I download it?

asceth · Post by **asceth** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 1:45 am

You must use a program that can use CVS to obtain the particle editor. If you are using windows you have choices between CVSGui, WinCVS or cygwin. I prefer cygwin but it does take some getting used to and some time installing.

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How to obtain the add-ons
You can obtain the add-ons from CVS. To access them, you need to execute these console commands (if you're on Windows, get cygwin or use a GUI tool and use the equivalent options):

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ogre login

(when prompted for a password, just press Return)

cvs -z3 -d :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/ogre co ogreaddons

Post by **jacmoe** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 7:36 am

If you are using Windows, use TortoiseCVS.
It is really easy and powerful - just install it, use it and be happy.

Look at one of the sticky topics in the Help forum for detailed instructions on how to get ogreaddons from CVS, using TortoiseCVS.

mac · Post by **mac** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 10:25 am

@SAT: The binary version for windows is up to date - for the link see first post of this thread... If you need the source code you have to learn how to use the cvs - which is a good idea anyway.

HTH, mac

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 7:53 pm

Spannerman,

I'm not a programer so I have no way of doing this myself.

I assume you are the guy who put the Particle Editor together.

I have some ideas I'd like to see added to the editor.

1) whirlwinds/tornados. Should be some way to make particles go around an axis.

2) spheres. Should be able to create stars and or galaxies.

Let me know if you can/will do this?

SpannerMan · Post by **SpannerMan** » Wed Sep 28, 2005 12:03 am

SAT wrote: I assume you are the guy who put the Particle Editor together.

You assume wrong. The editor was a joint effort, please be bothered to read the manual and readme that comes with the editor. In fact the guy who answered you in the post above yours, mac, input more constructive code than I.

The editor helps you to create particle effects using the emitters and affectors available within the OGRE engine. I think what you may be talking about involves making new emitters and affectors...these things are part of the engine itself (specifically the particle plugin), and its not something Im currently interested in doing. I just helped create a tool that makes it a little easier to work with what is already there...the effects you desire are up to you to create.

Anyway, some ideas:

1) whirlwinds/tornados.

I bet you could make a similar effect using a number of scenenodes, spinning around a center point. To each node you could have a couple of particle effects emitting a minimal amount of particles.

2) spheres.

Search the forums for mesh particle effects. You'll get the idea.

SAT wrote:Let me know if you can/will do this?

No, Im sorry, I have not the time.

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:00 pm

Is there a way to change the skybox testures in the Particle Editor?

katoun · Post by **katoun** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 12:36 am

Off course there is.
The skybox is defined in a .material file (wich is a script- easy to undestand one) and you can find wich textures the skybox uses.
Unfortunalty the textures are in a zip file, you can find them in data/core/ directory of the root of the Particle Editor and it is called skybox.zip(there is the other skybox too: skybox2.zip)
The .material can be found in a zip file too in the same dir too and it is called PEResourcePack.zip and it is named OGRE.material.
Good luck with it.

SAT · Post by **SAT** » Thu Feb 02, 2006 9:13 am

Missing something. After making all the changes you suggested... I can't see any particles or the little direction arrow.

Prezadent · Post by **Prezadent** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:08 am

Is there anyway to speed up the mouse? Its like slow death for me.

I don't mind compiling from CVS if needed if someone could tell me what code to change.

Thanks,
Prez

SpannerMan · Post by **SpannerMan** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 6:33 pm

Its probably due to the GUI (very CEGUI intensive, not good for older machines). There is a new Particle Editor around that uses 'external' forms called Particle Accelerator, give that a go.

Eyenstyn · Post by **Eyenstyn** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 12:02 pm

Hi, i am newb at ogre. I have been trying to add particles to my basic ogre program. Using this code:

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mSceneMgr->setSkyBox( true, "Examples/SpaceSkyBox" );
	ParticleSystem* sunParticle = mSceneMgr->createParticleSystem("Sun", "Space/Sun");
	SceneNode* particleNode = mSceneMgr->getRootSceneNode()->createChildSceneNode("Particle");
	particleNode->attachObject(sunParticle);

The error i get says Assertion failed! Expression: x > 0 && x < 1.0

Does anyone know what this means?[/img]

lvella · Post by **lvella** » Mon Jan 12, 2009 9:53 pm

Is someone working to port it to the latest Ogre version?
It wont compile now, misses OgreKeyEvent.h and OgreEventListeners.h

shadow82 · Post by **shadow82** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:41 am

I ported the source code to the newest version of Ogre and CEGUI. It's running, even though it needs further finetuning...
I don't have an idea how to publish the new source, maybe in the OGRE addon svn where I checked out the former source?

RegularKid · Post by **RegularKid** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:29 pm

Hi! I just found this particle editor and I have to say that it's great! Very nice job, guys!

I'd like to extend the Scaler affector to be able to scale down ( right now it seems to only allow scaling a particle up ). I'm trying to get everything compiling using Windows 7 / Visual Studio 2008 and am running into some problems. I've read through the readme ( http://www.spannerworx.com/ParticleEditor/Readme.txt ) on getting everything compiled and I believe I have the correct versions of both OGRE ( dagon ie. 1.2.3 ) as well as CEGUI 0.4.1.

The first step in the readme is to compile CEGUI. I loaded up the solution and started it compiling but then it crapped out on CEGUIBase trying to include 'xercesc/framework/MemBufInputSource.hpp' and 'ft2build.h'. I then grabbed the latest version of both of those projects but was unable to get those to compile as well.

Is there maybe a "for dummies" walkthrough on how to get the particle editor compiling so that I can try to extend the affectors / emitters? I feel like I must be doing something wrong.

Any help would be great! Thanks in advance!

shadow82 · Post by **shadow82** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:04 pm

As I mentioned in the post before I have the source working with the latest version of OGRE and CEGUI. It was a long weekend of work of two people, but I currently have no idea what to do without except using myself of course.

If you are interested I can send you the updated source...

RegularKid · Post by **RegularKid** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 10:06 pm

shadow82 wrote:As I mentioned in the post before I have the source working with the latest version of OGRE and CEGUI. It was a long weekend of work of two people, but I currently have no idea what to do without except using myself of course.

If you are interested I can send you the updated source...

That would be great! I would really appreciate it!

I feel like I'm pounding my head against the wall trying to get all of these projects to compile nicely together, so if you have a Visual Studio project that I can just grab and compile in one go... that would be awesome!

What's the best way to send it... e-mail? FTP? Dropbox?

Post by **tuan kuranes** » Fri Jun 11, 2010 9:17 am

please post on ogreaddons sourceforge patch tracker http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... id=1064241

redeyerulk · Post by **redeyerulk** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 5:09 pm

tuan kuranes wrote:please post on ogreaddons sourceforge patch tracker http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_i ... id=1064241

Was that patched posted? I can't find it... Maybe someone has some sources for Particle editor working with last version of ogre? Maybe someone can share?

shadow82 · Post by **shadow82** » Thu Oct 28, 2010 10:51 pm

I posted complete src and header files. Hope its okay that way...

https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... id=1064241

marcijones · Post by **marcijones** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:02 am

Thanks for the path. I really love the Ogre particle editor. It's great very nice job guys.

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