Explorer introduction – Part 1
Explorer introduction – Part 2

You can find the Pulse Particle project page here:
http://rogue-development.com/pulseParticles.html

There were several requests in my last blog post on how people could help out. Check out the new contribute page on my site. There things for all levels of technical knowhow there.

1) Various configuration options for the particles
2) The resulting config-object that those options make, you can pass that to SimpleParticles to create the effect in your application.
3) A live preview of the particle effect

The demo only has a handful of rules in it, but they show off a good chunk of the possible functionality you can get from the SimpleParticles interface. One of the biggest limitations of the explorer is there’s only a few images embedded for you to make particles out of.

To use one of these particles in your app, do something like this:

import com.roguedevelopment.pulse.simple.SimpleParticles;import com.roguedevelopment.pulse.PulseEngine;

...

PulseEngine.instance.root = this;SimpleParticles.createEmitter( {pps:10,x:153, y:286,image:spark,     movement:true, minSpeed:199,     maxSpeed:216, minAngle:211,     maxAngle:219, minScale:0.8,     maxScale:1, pointSwarm:[100,100], lifespan:5000} );

where the argument to createEmitter comes from #2 above.

You can play with it yourself at:
http://rogue-development.com/pulse/explorer/#

If you make any cool looking effects, copy & paste the config object to a comment to share with everyone.