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Particle Physics/Enhanced water?

by Neill Silva · in Torque 3D Professional · 05/17/2009 (4:31 pm) · 2 replies

Will we ever see Particle physics in T3D?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtupknXL1Wc&feature=related

Hell it might already be in T3D, I haven't used particles much.

Would also be awesome to see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ANQz-GbS90w&feature=quicklist implemented to the water system, though I don't know if he ever released the resource.
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Torque 3D Owner Caylo Gypsyblood
#1
05/17/2009 (4:53 pm)
I actual have a new particle system, that have physics, a new editor, and about 6 new more advanced emitter modes. Its in my old TGE right now, I was going to update it to TGEA but never got to it and probably never well. I know some have updated a rather old primitive version I let go to the public to work with TGEA, works and looks just like that video(that may be someones version of my old code).

I'll probably wait for T3D to grow up a bit, and see what they finish for its particles before I bother porting my particle system up to T3D.

Torque 3D Owner Marc Dreamora Schaerer
Gayasoft
#2
05/18/2009 (12:25 am)
I would especially like to finally see mesh surface particle emission happen.
The current modes are nice for a DX7 / OpenGL 1.2 technology targeted at 800mhz CPUs ie TGE but with the requirements and targeted userbase brought to the plate with T3D (indie developers, no longer hobbiests), some current and last gen particle system standards (attractors, mesh surface emission, geometry particles, particle collision) definitely need to be brought in place for the release version.
With PhysX beeing present (and hopefully become the standard, ODE is nice for a GPL tech but thats it as long as Newton2 and PhysX exist), half of them should be "near free" actually as they are offered by PhysX


The water is a two split thing. I think it is already pretty good where it is, thought some kind of shore handling would definitely not be something I wouldn't be against :)
But the river tool has remove one of the major shortcommings that was present on the water end with TGEA