"but most of the particle systems I've seen are a darn sight more complicated."
Yes but most particle systems includes a lot of ones that weren't really designed well for other people to use. Like a lot of free ones on the code archives. I haven't actually looked carefully at EOLE's, but I have seen his GUI code and I know it too is emitter based. His code is nicely formatted and well thought out and easy to use, and I'm confident that his particle system is just as simple to use as Candy or my system was.
Yes but most particle systems includes a lot of ones that weren't really designed well for other people to use. Like a lot of free ones on the code archives. I haven't actually looked carefully at EOLE's, but I have seen his GUI code and I know it too is emitter based. His code is nicely formatted and well thought out and easy to use, and I'm confident that his particle system is just as simple to use as Candy or my system was.