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ParticleFX is an Ogre plugin, which is a part of the official Ogre source code. The compiled library name is ParticleFX.dll.

While Ogre itself contains a particle system, ParticleFX is the library which contains various optional emitter?s and affector?s.

Emitter examples:

• box
• area
• ellisoid
• point
• ring

 
Affector examples:

• linear force
• rotation
• colour fader
• deflector plane

 
To use this plugin you have to add the file Plugin_ParticleFX.dll to your project and refer it in the config file Plugins.cfg.

Optimisation

• Allocate particles at the beginning. Avoid creating particle system at runtime.
• Try achieving the desired effect minimizing the particle count. That can easily leads to huge slowdown.

See also

• OGRE Particle Editor
• Particle Accelerator
• Particle Universe plugin
• Snippets - section Particles
  • Sun Effect - An Example Particle Script
  • Moving Space Dust Effect - A Space Dust Effect
  • Interpolation Affector - A particle affector to vary size, rotation and velocity of particles.
  • Iterated Fractals - Using ManualObjects as Point Sprites to create a Pickover attractor (updates in real-time with a million or more points!)
  • ParticleExampleSun - particle code + how to use
  • MeshEmitter - an emitter class + example

Alias: ParticleFX_plugin