Pulse Particles is a general purpose AS3 particle system.

Features

• Configurable rule based particle behavior.
• Easily extensible
• Both a full featured object orientated syntax, and a simplified quick object syntax.
• Flash .mxp extension for easy integration for designers.
• Interactive particle explorer to create effects

Downloads

Download From Google Code

Documenation

Getting Started - Some quick, commented, code examples showing you how to get started.

ASDocs (Autogenerated from latest source)

System Architecture - Some notes about the pieces of the Pulse Particle system.

Video Tutorials

• Integrating Pulse Particle system into the Flash IDE (Alternate Download)
• Explorer introduction - Part 1
• Explorer introduction - Part 2

Examples

A demo showing off a few of the possible effects is below. Click the example to manually cycle. 

Particle Explorer

The Particle Explorer is an important tool for designing particle effects and is one of the great advantages to the Pulse Particle system. It allows you to interactively set up your particle effect and view changes in real time.

Click image to play.

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

If you're using the Flash authoring environment you can use that configuration directly.Learn how.

To use one of these particles in Actionscript, do something like this (the arguments to createEmitter come directly from the particle explorer):

          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} );
    

License

This component is licensed under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2008 Marc Hughes

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