I found the Exploding Ring particle effect best suite what I need but I could not figure out how to control the blast radius of this particle effect. I.e: not exploding out the whole screen but only exploding in a small circle
Does anyone know how to do it?
Thanks in advance
Probably easiest method is to use Particle Designer (http://particledesigner.71squared.com/). It has full Cocos2D support and you can visually see what you want with the editor without having to code it. You can see how to integrate the export files at http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/prog_guide:particles?s[]=particle. Hope that helps!
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I'm trying to create trace effect to ball shape SKNode, I can try with EmitterNode, but it creates like particle effect, I need help creating an effect similar to the attached screen below, please help how I can create.
This is known as a trail effect. Sometimes the result of motion blur, we're conditioned to know well through slow shutter speeds in 24fps movies.
Here's a github repo that creates something very similar:
https://github.com/dionlarson/Duet-Trail-Effect-SpriteKit-Playground
I'm working with SpriteKit and wondering if anyone knows how to make a sprite follow a path. I've seen other questions online that talk about moving a sprite along a CGPath, but how would you do it if the path is another sprite?
Video example
Have a look at Is there a way to create a CGPath matching outline of a SKSpriteNode? - it seems from that answer that the problem is much more complex than it first appears.
If your sprite is an SVG, a simpler solution may be to manually convert the SVG into a CGPath, and then using that CGPath in your game. A simple tool for doing that is available here: https://swiftvg.mike-engel.com/. Of course doing this manually won't scale well if you have many different sprites.
This may not be exactly the answer you are looking for, but it seems right now there is no simple way to accomplish what you need :)
Although I am quite experienced with most frameworks in iOS, I have no clue when it comes to 3D modelling. I even worked with SpriteKit, but never with something like SceneKit.
Now a customer wants a very ambitious menu involving a 3D object, an 'icosahedron' to be exact. I want it to look something like this:
So I just want to draw the lines, and grey out the 'see-through' lines on the back. Eventually I want the user to be able to freely rotate the object in 3D.
I already found this question with an example project attached, but this just draws a simple cube: Stroke Width with a SceneKit line primitive type
I have no clue how to approach a more complex shape.
Any help in the right direction would be appreciated! I don't even need to use SceneKit, but it seemed like the best approach to me. Any other suggestions are welcome.
to build an icosahedron you can use SCNSphere and set its geodesic property to YES.
Using shader modifiers to draw the wireframe (as described in Stroke Width with a SceneKit line primitive type) is a good idea.
But in your case lines are not always plain or dotted — it depends on the orientation of the icosahedron. To solve that you can rely on gl_FrontFacing to determine whether the edge belongs to a front-facing or back-facing triangle.
I am trying to create a spotlight effect in my story book such that as the character moves around from one location to the other then the light focus moves towards that same character.Is it possible to do that in Corona SDK? How can I do that coz sprites aren't
helping me.Any idea regarding this.
I found some reference telling me that I can't do that
http://web-c2.anscamobile.com/forum/2012/10/27/dynamic-shadows-2d
http://developer.coronalabs.com/forum/2012/09/13/lightingshadows
Those two threads seem pretty definitive. You could create a spotlight pretty easy, but you can't cast shadows and the light moves different directions very easily.
If you want to do a spotlight without shadows, just create an image that's all black with a transparent hole in them middle that has some feathering around the hole. Make the black partially transparent so you can see the scene but have it a bit darker. You can them move the image around to be your spot light. You can also do it with a maskk (see the Flashlight example in the sample code)
Is there a simple way to do a bunch of 2d particle images using core animation like the star particle animation in Draw Something?
Particle animation in Draw Something
I found this link which get's me 90% of the way there. It shows how to emit particles using UIImage which is just what I need. I just need some help tweaking the particles so they spew out like the Draw Something button and not like their fire example and I want to randomize the colors of the particles and make them glow.
http://www.raywenderlich.com/6063/uikit-particle-systems-in-ios-5-tutorial
Okay, just found this which got me the rest of the controls I wanted. The variable I was looking for on the emitters was yAccelleration. Set it to a positive number to make it go down.
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#samplecode/Fireworks/Listings/AppController_m.html
Hope this helps someone else!