XNA Particle System

@ Universidad Politécnica de Salamanca (May 2007)

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1. Diego Muñoz “Kartones” DEVELOPING A PARTICLE SYSTEM WITH XNA Vicente Cartas
2. Agenda • Agenda • Evolution of videogames • A simple particle system • Content pipeline for our system • Demos • End 
3. Evolution of videogames Unicelular entity First videogame Primitive shapes Arcades Pigmentation Videoconsoles arrive 2,5 Dimensions First FPS Jump to 3D OpenGL/DirectX The invasion XNA: 3D for anyone
4. A simple particle system Basic Concepts 2D Sprite Two triangles Or just one more speed, less versatility • Particles are always oriented (looking at) the camera (like sprites in Doom 2 :) • PointSprites: Manage just the center of the sprite (a point), when drawn transforms to a 3D polygon
5. A simple particle system The particle engine • Particle Entity: Simple, contains information about position, mass, speed, acceleration, age… • Particle system: Contains a group of particles and rules of how they will behave. • Emitter: Way of creating the particles • Integrator: Particles “Update()” • Particle Engine: Group of N particle systems Particle Engine Particle System Particle System Particle Particle Particle Particle
6. Content pipeline Basic Concepts • Content is imported • ParticleSystemImporter • Content is processed • ParticleSystemProcessor • Content is written • ParticleSystemWriter • Content is readed • ParticleSystemReader
7. Content pipeline In detail • Importing [ContentImporter(".pfx", DisplayName = "Custom - Particle System Importer", DefaultProcessor = "ParticleSystemProcessor")] public class ParticleSystemImporter : ContentImporter<ParticleSystemImported> { public override ParticleSystemImported Import(string filename, ContentImporterContext context) {} } • Processing [ContentProcessor(DisplayName = "Custom - Particle System Processor")] public class ParticleSystemProcessor : ContentProcessor<ParticleSystemImported, ParticleSystemProcessed> { public override ParticleSystemProcessed Process(ParticleSystemImported input, ContentProcessorContext context) {} }
8. Content pipeline In detail • Writing [ContentTypeWriter] public class ParticleSystemWriter : ContentTypeWriter<ParticleSystemProcessed> { protected override void Write(ContentWriter output, ParticleSystemProcessed value) {} public override string GetRuntimeType(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.TargetPlatform targetPlatform) {} public override string GetRuntimeReader(Microsoft.Xna.Framework.TargetPlatform targetPlatform) } • Reading public class ParticleSystemReader : ContentTypeReader<ParticleSystem> { protected override ParticleSystem Read(ContentReader input, ParticleSystem existingInstance) {} }
9. Particle System
10. XNA Particle Engine Sample
11. XNA Racing Game
12. End… Slides & sources: http://Kartones.net/files/ More information: •http://creators.xna.com/ •http://gamasutra.com/ •http://www.gamedev.net/ •http://www.thezbuffer.com/ •Our blogs (at Kartones.Net)