Archive for the ‘ChainReaction’ Category
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007
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)
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Monday, April 23rd, 2007
Okay i have now completed a couple of video tutorials for ChainReaction. They should also give a little more info on what ChainReaction is!
Tutorial1:
Tutorial2:
Posted in C#, ChainReaction, Java, XNA | 4 Comments »
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007
Okay its project presenting time again. This time its a biggie, its my final year main module, 60 credits of year-long projectness (not a word i know).
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Monday, March 12th, 2007
Just to follow on from the previous post and to make it make a little more sense, here is a screenshot of the demo XNA space game i made in a day to show off my new particle engine SDK.
Yup space penguins are attacking the earth!
Tags: C#
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Sunday, March 11th, 2007
Well here is one of the first outputs from the new tool i am developing for my university final year project. Its designed to be a little advert for a mini-game which i have also created. Its meant to be used as a demonstration of how easy it is to get particle effects into flash using my tool. Let me know what you think :D
Edit: For some reason wordpress doesnt like it so go to this link to see it.
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