Camp fire effect using 4 Particle objects 99.96

How to create a Camp fire effect as seen in Particleillusion.

It's not an exact match, but it will do for now.

screen shot

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15858089/Cwindow.jpg">

Object settings table

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15858089/Ptable.jpg">

you can download the cap and guide here-

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15858089/Particle%20campfire.rar

Cheers

Pretty cool. I copied the group 20 times and it didn't slow down at all. Could be useful - I'm thinking shrink down and use in candle-lit walkways etc!

Many thanks

I didn't realise how versatile Constructs particle object was, so after some experimentation ive managed to come up with the following effects.

<img src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15858089/screenshots1.png">

I have created a particle effects viewer so you just need to click on the various buttons to view the effects.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15858089/Particle%20effects%20viewer.rar

note....all the effects are particles(using textures), not sprites.

Yeah, particles in Construct are rather nice - here's a flame thingy I made almost a year ago: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1328856/BURN.cap

Perhaps a slightly more realistic movement of the flame there

Perhaps a slightly more realistic movement of the flame there

It looks better, but on my comp - 25fps and almost 12 mb vram - thats too much

Interesting, it does ~420fps here on my laptop. Well, then again it's a fairly one-off effect, probably wouldn't place a bunch of them all over the place. You could try disabling the PS 2.0 glow on the particles - it looks almost the same and does go a little bit faster.

500 fps but I did shrink the daft layout size - 1280 should'nt be a default IMO. Only uses 5MB VRAM.

Good visual effect.

500fps? After removing the glow and resizing the layout to default construct size it takes only 0.16 mb ram! Still its at slow 30fps, strange. I have to copy particles in the chrisbrobs example 20 times to get down to 30fps.

What's your setup, Noga?

I always build my own rigs, but my current is getting on a bit - Crosshair mobo, AMD X2 6000+, 1GB GeForce 9800GT, but I never have a prob running any game, and Construct never slows down for me.

Core2Duo 2Ghz, 2 MB RAM, 9300M GS 256 VRAM. When in the debugging mode, it shows me the cpu on 90% waiting, so it must be the graphic card.

You'll never be able to play Crysis 2 with that card

Yeah, particles in Construct are rather nice - here's a flame thingy I made almost a year ago: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1328856/BURN.cap

Perhaps a slightly more realistic movement of the flame there

Re Somebody's 'BURN.CAP'

Best fire/flame effect i have seen so far, its on a par with Particleillusions effect

Regarding the FPS and VRAM replies, i think its down to 3 things-

1, Texture sizes 32x32 as opposed to 124x124

2, Some particles use the 'GLOW' effect

3, Particle 'RATES', e.g the wide flames use 500 at a time, i only had mine set to 90.

Thanks for the cap, i'm gonna do some tweaking!