2010-12-25T19:49:33+00:00 http://flintparticles.org/forum/ Lussumo Vanilla & Feed Publisher http://flintparticles.org/forum/comments.php?DiscussionID=327&Focus=1127#Comment_1127 2010-02-22T15:39:58+00:00 2010-12-25T19:49:33+00:00 debug http://flintparticles.org/forum/account.php?u=332

Is it possible to create a 3d grid of particles without an emitter (using nested for loops), i've tried doing it with the emitter but seem to run into some problems. According to the documentation I ...

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The normal way to achieve what you're after would be to create a custom initializer that places the particles in the grid pattern that you want. Alternatively, you can create the particles by hand ...

Alternatively, you can create the particles by hand (they're just instances of Particle3D) and then add them to the emitter using the addExistingParticles method of the emitter.

ParticleCreator3D is a factory class for managing the creation and reuse of particles. The emitter uses it to create particles and if you want to use it directly either

var particleFactory:ParticleCreator3D = new ParticleCreator3D();
var particle:Particle3D = particleFactory.createParticle() as Particle3D;

or

var particleFactory:ParticleCreator3D = emitter.particleFactory as ParticleCreator3D;
var particle:Particle3D = particleFactory.createParticle() as Particle3D;]]>