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ChainReaction (Binary+Source Release)

admin — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 10:27:22 +0000

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

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)

ChainReaction (Part2) – Video Tutorials

admin — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:22:51 +0000

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:

Chain Reaction Tutorial 2 from mike cann on Vimeo.

ChainReaction (part1) – Effects Preview

admin — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:13:35 +0000

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).

Well its almost getting to the end of the project and i thought i would release bits and bobs as they are finished.

A full description of what the project is and what it does will follow but for now in this post im going to show off a few of the example particle effects that have been created with the tool then exported out using the inbuilt GIF exporter.

You will have to excuse how slow the GIFs run. For some reason i cant get the frame delay any lower than about 10ms, any suggestions?

Killer space penguins!

admin — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 16:11:37 +0000

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!

A Quick preview of whats to come

admin — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 12:47:25 +0000

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

Edit: For some reason wordpress doesnt like it so go to this link to see it.