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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=0_qMAyr7RJY[/youtube] In this tutorial I am going to bind the emitter to a game agent, now you will have to forgive me as I have been very lazy, I have taken textures from the Creators Club particle example as well as some of the facing methods, have not bothered...

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=_sx0KDO-ZbA[/youtube] Well as mentioned in my previous post, here is the 3D particle system again only this time the particles are scaled. Now I didn't think that you could scale pointsprites, but it turns out you can :P I found out after going to an XNA meeting...