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Now, I said I wanted to get the editor written up before I posted the basic system, but I have had so many requests for it I thought I may as well get the base up and I can build on it as the system evolves. Before I get into the code, I'll explain a little of it's evolution. I first started...

Some of you that have come to this blog after going to the ReMix 08 conference are probably wondering, "Where is that source code Paul said would be here!?" Well, most of it is here, it's just smashed across a lot of posts. But, it's not all under one project ready for you to run and...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnsSfwGfM3U[/youtube] So, we have seen PointSprite particles in 3D, but what about billboarding?? You may be asking at this point, what is billboarding and why would I want to use it when I already have a nice PoitSprite system that does the job I want...? A billboard...

We have our classes so all I am going to do is now apply some pixel shader effects to both the particle system and the background image. I am going to describe how the pixel shader is applied to the particle emitter as the technique is the same for the background image. So, to our ParticleEmitter2D class...

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjsQiYaZ-po[/youtube] Was browsing the boards as I do and came across a thread on Ziggyware where a member was looking for a Particle Engine tutorial, at first I did not quite get what he wanted, so tried to clarify what he wanted with a post and suggested I could...