From the course: Building Flash Games with Starling
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Exploring particle-creation tools
From the course: Building Flash Games with Starling
Exploring particle-creation tools
So we now have our major gameplay and our game created, but you'll notice that obviously when we shoot a bullet and it hits an alien, well nothing happens, they both just disappear. It's not exactly the most thrilling gameplay ever. So now, we want to include particle effects, like I mentioned when we downloaded the Starling framework, the particle features actually an extension. We've already incorporated that into our source code. But now the question is how do we create these particle effects? Well I am going to show you a tool that's Mac only that's called ParticleDesigner and we downloaded that when we were setting up our system. And this is not a free tool, so you can see I am using just the trial version here, so it says unregistered. But this allows you to visually create particle effects. So this tool is geared for iOS development. That's why you're seeing things displayed here in an iPhone. But with this particle thing, I can drag it around to see the effects of these…
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