Okay so i have finally decided to upload this. I had intended to do some more work on it and get it into a more presentable state. However as time goes on and I still havent found time to do any more on it I have just decided to upload it now.
ChainReaction was my large (60 credits) project for my final year of university. It is basically a tool for creating 2D particle effects in an easy and fun way. There are two parts to it. Firstly the main tool:
The tool lets an artist or designer visually lay out their effect in an easy to use and understand manner. Once an effect has been created it can be exported out to either the XNA SDK or the Flash SDK for a programmer to use in thier own projects:
I have produced video tutorials explaining how to use these in conjunction with each other. However you must understand this is mainly an academic project and I had realy intended to clean this up before I released it.
There is also a GIF animation export option that I added late in the project and as such is a little slow and buggy :P
The source code is included within the project. Feel free to use it for anything non-commercial. If you wish to use it for commercial purposes I would like to be contacted for permission first: mike.cann@gmail.com
Download: ChainReaction-Final.zip (161mb)
Very nice!
ReplyDeleteI'm installing it right now ;)
hehe cool, good to see the interest, thanks ziggy :D
ReplyDeleteNice work! I have been looking for a good particle system designer for DX (XNA) or any other DX system for that matter. Great find! Hope to be able to put this to use!
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Been trying to work with chain reaction, I love the simplicity of it, the problem is it keeps falling apart when I try to use it in xna 2.0 . Im not sure whats happening, and im at work so i dont have the error code, but I would love to see a xna 2.0 version of the sdk to use.. any chance of that happening?
ReplyDeleteHi, cdxrd, you are the second person this week that has asked for a new version of ChainReaction, except the last person wanted an AS3 SDK.
ReplyDeletePerhaps ill be taking a look at this more soon :)
I'm looking for the same thing as Cdxrd, working with XNA 2.0 would be great..
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry but... where's the download link? :p
ReplyDeletesorry i had to take it down, ill try to get it back up again
ReplyDeleteWhen is this going to be available for download again?
ReplyDeleteDoes this sdk run on the xbox 360 also?
ReplyDeleteJust a note on this. I was able to get it working just fine in XNA 3.0 by using the project converter (what pops up when you open a 1.0 project in 3.0) and then changing the XNA references from the 1.0 version to the 3.0 version.
ReplyDeleteWorks really well, thanks much for the work!
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