Kanzi Particles 0.9.0-beta3

Kanzi Particles enables you to create for your Kanzi application particle systems that have their own rules of physics.

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Note

This is a prerelease of Kanzi Particles. Some functionality, workflow, and the API is going to change in the future releases of Kanzi Particles. Your feedback is very important to us. To send your questions, findings, and comments use the Kanzi Support Portal at support.rightware.com. When submitting a request regarding Kanzi Particles, set the Product field to Kanzi Particles.

Requirements

Kanzi Particles works with Kanzi 4.0.0 on:

  • Windows

  • Android

  • QNX 7.10

Contents of the plugin package

The plugin package includes:

  • assets directory contains a Kanzi Studio project with different particles assets and templates. It includes different materials, render passes, textures and prefabs. You can use it as an Asset Package project when you create your own particle effect. See Starting with templates.

  • doc directory contains this documentation.

  • examples directory contains an example application project that presents features and usage of Kanzi Particles.

  • include directory contains the plugin header files.

  • lib directory contains the Kanzi Particles library files for supported platforms. See Creating a new Particles effect.

Installing Kanzi Particles

To install Kanzi Particles, extract the content of the plugin package to the <KanziWorkspace>/Engine/plugins directory.

This adds the particles directory in the <KanziWorkspace>/Engine/plugins directory that contains the following subdirectories:

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After you install the plugin, to start using the plugin, set up your Kanzi Studio project where you want to use the plugin. See Setting up Kanzi Particles.

See also

Setting up Kanzi Particles

Starting with templates

Creating a new Particles effect