Particle System

IGE Particle system implements Effekseer, allows playing effects created with Effekseer on IGE Engine.

Effekseer Editor

Effekseer is a tool that allows easy creation of beautiful particle effects for games and movies.

Check the Effekseer Tutorial to learn how to work with Effekseer Editor.

Note

IGE Engine implements Effekseer 1.60c runtime, which supports loading effects produced by the Effekseer version 1.6x.

Particle

Particle component is used to load and display Effekseer effect in IGE Engine. It canbe used both in 3D and UI objects.

To add particle effects to your project, follow steps below:

1. Create effect using Effekseer Editor, or download effect from sample repo.

2. Copy your effect files (.efk), textures, sounds, materials, etc. into <project>/effects folder.

3. Add Particle component to the game object.

4. Drag & drop the .efk file to the Inspector

5. Configure the effect parameters

Property	Function
Effect	Path to .efk file, inside effects folder
Loop	Enable/disable loop
AutoDraw	Auto play and draw particle when loaded
GroupMask	Particle group mask, useful to control particles using Python Script.
Speed	Playing speed
TimeScale	Playing time scale, also affect displaying speed
TargetPos	Target position (used by particle effect)
Parameters	Particle parameters
Color	Particle diffuse color

An example of using particle:

Note

In UI node, the effect may appear bigger because of scaling, just need to set the scale parameter to make it reasonable.

ParticleManager

ParticleManager is used to manage Particle instance and global configuration. It is automatically added to the root object when a Particle is used.

Property	Function
Culling	Enable/disable particle culling
Culling World Size	Culling world size
Culling Layers	Number of culling layers
Max Particles	Max number of particle intances
Number Threads	Number of running threads

For more information about Particle System, refer to Effekseer Document, and Python API Document.