Flint is divided into three major packages.

• com.flintparticles.common contains classes used for both 2D and 3D particle systems.
• com.flintparticles.twoD contains classes used only for 2D particle systems.
• com.flintparticles.threeD contains classes used only for 3D particle systems.

A particle system in Flint is created by combining emitters, counters, initializers, actions, activities and renderers.

• Emitters create and manage Particles.
• Emitters use Counters to control how many particles are created.
• Emitters use Initializers to control how those particles are initialized.
• Emitters use Actions to control how those particles behave over time.
• Emitters use Activities to control their own behaviour over time.
• Renderers draw the Particles managed by one or more emitters.

Version 3 features significant changes in the 3D API and minor changes in the 2D API. The library now requires version 10 of Flash Player. With this change some of the Arrays have changed to Vectors for improved performance and type safety. The 3D geometry has altered to use Flash's native Vector3D and Matrix3D. Flint's native renderers now use a right-hand coordinate system to match the system used in Flash's native 3D libraries.

	package	Description
	org.flintparticles.common.actions	Actions are used to continuously modify the state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.common.activities	Activities are used to continuously modify the state of an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.common.behaviours	Base interfaces for actions, initializers and activities.
	org.flintparticles.common.counters	Counters are used to control the rate of particle creation by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.common.debug	Basic tools for displaying the status of particles systems.
	org.flintparticles.common.displayObjects	Some standard simple displayObjects used in particle systems.
	org.flintparticles.common.easing	Easing functions can be used to modify the ageing of particles in a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.common.emitters	Emitters create particles and are the core component of a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.common.events	Events dispatched by Flint
	org.flintparticles.common.initializers	Initializers are used to modify the initial state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.common.particles	A particles contains the state information for a single particle in a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.common.renderers	Renderers are used to draw the particle system on the stage.
	org.flintparticles.common.utils	Utility classes and functions.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.actions	Actions are used to continuously modify the state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.activities	Activities are used to continuously modify the state of an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.away3d	Renderers for displaying particle systems in Away3D
	org.flintparticles.threeD.away3d.initializers	Initializers are used to modify the initial state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.away3d.utils	Utility classes and functions.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.emitters	Emitters create particles and are the core component of a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.emitters.mxml	Flex compatible versions of the three-d emitters.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.geom	Geometry classes for working in 3D
	org.flintparticles.threeD.initializers	Initializers are used to modify the initial state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.papervision3d	Renderers for displaying particle systems in Papervision3D
	org.flintparticles.threeD.papervision3d.initializers	Initializers are used to modify the initial state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.particles	A particles contains the state information for a single particle in a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.renderers	Flint's native renderers used to draw 3D particle systems on the stage.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.renderers.controllers	Predefined camera controllers for letting users move within a 3D scene.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.renderers.controllers.mxml	Flex compatible versions of the three-d camera controllers.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.renderers.mxml	Flex compatible versions of the three-d renderers.
	org.flintparticles.threeD.zones	Zones define a region of the particle system and are used in various Actions and Initializers.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.actions	Actions are used to continuously modify the state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.activities	Activities are used to continuously modify the state of an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.emitters	Emitters create particles and are the core component of a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.emitters.mxml	Flex compatible versions of the two-d emitters.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.initializers	Initializers are used to modify the initial state of particles created by an Emitter.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.particles	A particles contains the state information for a single particle in a particle system.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.renderers	Flint's renderers used to draw 2D particle systems on the stage.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.renderers.mxml	Flex compatible versions of the two-d renderers.
	org.flintparticles.twoD.zones	Zones define a region of the particle system and are used in various Actions and Initializers.

Sun Feb 27 2011, 06:00 PM Z