XML/Unit particle

GAE and MegaGlest expand on Glest's particle system, allowing unit particles, which are particles emitted from the unit itself, rather than always on an attack. Particles have a lifecycle. They are born with energy-max and they die with when energy is zero. With every step their energy is lowered by one. A unit particle system currently can control 200 particles. If the particle system has a high emission rate and you would get more than 200 alive particles the ones with the lowest energy are recycled and used as new ones.

XML

<!-- Start GAE+MG Only -->
<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<unit-particle-system>
	<texture value="true" path="images/particle.bmp" luminance="true"/>
	<mode value="normal"/>
	<primitive value="quad"/>
	<offset x="0" y="-0.4" z="0.0"/>
	<direction x="0" y="1" z="0"/>
	<color red="1.0" green="0.0" blue="0.0" alpha="0.8" />
	<color-no-energy red="1.0" green="1.0" blue="0.3" alpha="0.6" />
	<radius value="0.7" />
	<size value="0.6" />
	<size-no-energy value="0.3" />
	<speed value="3.0" />
	<gravity value="0"/>
	<emission-rate value="10" />
	<energy-max value="30" />
	<energy-var value="0" />
	<fixed value="false" />
	<relativeDirection value="false" />
	<relative value="true" />
	<teamcolorEnergy value="false" />
	<teamcolorNoEnergy value="false" />
	<static-particle-count value="4" />
</unit-particle-system>
<!-- End GAE+MG Only -->

See Also

• Particles
• MegaGlest
• GAE
• XMLs