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Documentation & Manual

Table of Contents

  • Usage guidelines
    • When to use particle effects
    • When NOT to use particle effects
    • Pros and cons for choosing Mercury for your particle effects
  • Engine structure overview
    • Particle effects
    • Emitters
    • Modifiers
    • Renderers
  • Examples
    • Simple explosion
    • Simple snow
  • Advanced topics
    • Extending the ParticleEffect class
    • Writing custom emitters
    • Writing custom modifiers
    • Writing custom renderers
    • Writing plugins for the EffectEditor application.
    • Using the content pipeline
    • Attaching custom data to particles
  • Performance
    • Performance Strategies
    • Modifier Consolidation
    • Multithreading
  • Midi Version
    • Overview
    • Basic setup
    • Configuration

Video Tutorials

Getting Started Guide (7:21)

Last edited Nov 7, 2011 at 8:36 PM by Redlen, version 18

Comments

wowbagger84 Nov 30, 2012 at 7:32 AM 
This is a great particle engine! But the documentation needs some more work ;) I would love to see a nice FAQ added so you have a place for all the silly small questions you have in the beginning.