What is the easiest way to implement a particle system without openGL or cocos2d

Question

Everything in this question, I worked well enough with cocos2d to say that it is a great library, but today I just want to use the particle system in a general UIKit project. Until I know, unfortunately, I have to implement it with OpenGL. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You can use Core Animation and CAReplicatorLayer to create particle systems without having to expand to OpenGL ES. Joe Ricioppo " To 1e100f and Beyond with CAReplicatorLayer " gives an idea of ​​how to use this class. In addition, Apple has its own ReplicatorDemo app , which I have ported to the iPad .

The Mac also has CAEmitterLayer , which has been available on iOS since 5.0. Examples of Apple apps for this include Fire , which shows the effects of fire and smoke, and Fireworks , which mimics fireworks.

Answer 2

UIKit-only Particle Playground (Mac App Store Link), , . PP Particle Designer, .

, CAEmitter (Layer/Cell), Ray Wenderlich Arg! . .

: Particle. --- PP .

Answer 3

, CAEmitterLayer iOS 5. .

, , . , Apple Fire iOS 5.

Answer 4

UIKit, . . ! iDevice, .

- : http://iapps.emirbytes.com/particlex/index.html

Answer 5

UIKit , QuartzCore. :

http://www.raywenderlich.com/6063/uikit-particle-systems-in-ios-5-tutorial

Answer 6

CAEmitterLayer

• https://www.hackingwithswift.com/read/37/5/creating-a-particle-system-using-caemitterlayer
• https://medium.com/call-voicy/comets-animating-particles-in-swift-3431a7f1b250

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• SpriteKit http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/An_iOS_8_Sprite_Kit_Particle_Emitter_Tutorial
• Xcode 8+ Playground, https://github.com/onmyway133/ParticlePlayground

Answer 7

You should also consider the element emitter (http://particledesigner.71squared.com/), which was designed to be used as the cocos2d plugin.

Here's a tutorial: http://www.71squared.com/2009/05/iphone-game-programming-tutorial-8-particle-emitter/