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Feature request: Particle gravity wells #28

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AndrewRayCode opened this issue Jan 23, 2014 · 1 comment
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Feature request: Particle gravity wells #28

AndrewRayCode opened this issue Jan 23, 2014 · 1 comment

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@AndrewRayCode
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After looking at the first video on http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/make-a-neon-vector-shooter-in-xna-particle-effects--gamedev-10111 - particle gravity emitters with definable positions, strengths, and radiuses of influence would be AWESOME.

So would the ability to define simple collision planes (but that may be a bit too much)

@squarefeet
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I'm all for this (I did start to experiment with gravity wells - see the gravity branch - that was the reason you saw the dev branch doing weird things recently), but we need to be mindful of quite a few things:

  • Performance: I don't want to just add features without giving due thought and care to any possible performance impacts the feature could have. I want to keep this library as efficient as possible - that's the reason for its existence in the first place.
  • Number of shader attributes: Not all GFX cards / devices can support the same number of attributes for a shader. We're already bumping dangerously close to what I consider to be the upper limit of 16 (see here)

Like I said, I'm well up for this, but we will have to work thru the issues above first!

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