Particle Candy Collision Question

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boomboom(Posted 2004) [#1]
Can collisions be detected on the individual particles? i am thinking of buying Particle Candy to use as a 'Bullets' kind of system...or grenade shrapnal, but just need to know if u can use collision detection on each particle made from the emitter.


SabataRH(Posted 2004) [#2]
Particle Candy is system code, you can do anything with it that blitz supports...


Dreamora(Posted 2004) [#3]
you would have to replace or modify quite some code because Particle Candy has no own collision and as it is single surface the particles itselfs are unable to a real collision too.

so you would need to add an alpha 0 sphere at the particles position for collision detection or something else ( or math collision over distance calculations )


Gabriel(Posted 2004) [#4]
It doesn't have collision detection, thought you can set particles to bounce when they hit the ground, but that is done simply by suppling a floating point value to indicate the height of the ground plane.

It's all Blitz code though, so you could do anything you wanted with it with a little effort.