Particle explosion-title screen

PixelPun

This is the title screen for my game... although I notice that when it runs on an iPhone 4 it slows down...game play also... is this just the number of particles? or does it also have to do with the rotation and size and color change of the particles....

I also took off the trail on the bouncing box... but still slows down..

quantumsheep

That does look lovely - are you spawning an actor for the 'explosion' when you hit something?

QS

mzx

maybe you have set "friction" to 0>(larger than zero) at the physics tab?

PixelPun

Yes... when the ball hits the block it spawns another block that emits the particles for a second... or so..

PixelPun

I said slows down... but its a frame rate problem... It starts at 60fps.. and when a lot of the blocks get hit at once it crawls.. at about 12fps... so I'm guessing to many particles?

quantumsheep

cal5086 said:
Yes... when the ball hits the block it spawns another block that emits the particles for a second... or so..

If you like, I can try and fix that for you - you only need one actor really that after making an explosion turns its alpha to 0.

Then when it hits something else, make the alpha 1 and move it to the new position and trigger the particles again, ergo, no need for spawning (which will help I'm sure!)

QS

PixelPun

Thanks Quantum! I'm going to try that now...!

mzx

I'm sorry, I misunderstood you.. I hope you and qs will work it out! ps, like you title screen

quantumsheep

cal5086 said:
Thanks Quantum! I'm going to try that now...!

It's actually a technique I picked up from Darren at Utopian Games. The guy is a GOD at GameSalad, no joke!

I'd recommend his templates. I've been using GS pretty competently for almost two years now, but I *still* learned new things from them!

Good luck!

QS

daniel.robert.campbell

Holy crap. That is very snazzy. Well done.

PixelPun

Thanks for the kind comments Dan!

Still working on things... Had to take a break from it it go to my sucky day job...

Thanks everyone for the comments and help.