I was looking for a program that creates explosions and special effects for video games. I found two.
Particle Illusion - http://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp
This is very nice but has a price tag to match. It is however used in feature films so the price i easily justified. Way out of my budget.
Texture Maker - http://texturemaker.thegamecreators.com/
The particle editor is a small part of a program I have no use for. The editor isn't bad but is lacking in a number of places that I consider essential.
My solution - write my own :)
I have combined the best aspects of each of these products to make something more specific to games.
ExGen exports images ready to be loaded as animTextures. You can also change the background colour (not possible in either of the other two apps) which means you can produce textures for things like smoke (multiply blend mode).
I haven't added them yet but i intend to add the ability to creating looping animations that could be used for things like chimney smoke, or rain. I also want to add the ability to tile the animated textures.
Would people be interested in buying this? I intend to sell ExGen for £10 ($16.50) and wondered what sort of audience I would have. Also what sot of features would people like to see in something like this?
Since the screenshots don't tell you a great deal here is the exported animTexture shown being made in the screens above. Note that you can export the textures at any size.
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Particle Illusion - http://www.wondertouch.com/default.asp
This is very nice but has a price tag to match. It is however used in feature films so the price i easily justified. Way out of my budget.
Texture Maker - http://texturemaker.thegamecreators.com/
The particle editor is a small part of a program I have no use for. The editor isn't bad but is lacking in a number of places that I consider essential.
My solution - write my own :)
I have combined the best aspects of each of these products to make something more specific to games.
ExGen exports images ready to be loaded as animTextures. You can also change the background colour (not possible in either of the other two apps) which means you can produce textures for things like smoke (multiply blend mode).
I haven't added them yet but i intend to add the ability to creating looping animations that could be used for things like chimney smoke, or rain. I also want to add the ability to tile the animated textures.
Would people be interested in buying this? I intend to sell ExGen for £10 ($16.50) and wondered what sort of audience I would have. Also what sot of features would people like to see in something like this?
Since the screenshots don't tell you a great deal here is the exported animTexture shown being made in the screens above. Note that you can export the textures at any size.
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