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A while ago, i started creating a wrapper for Proton (http://www.a-jie.cn/proton/), that can be used in MV. I've come to a workable solution, that can be accessed here:

http://pastebin.com/LgtBbkjN

For a simple demo, do the following steps:

- Get Proton from its download page (http://www.a-jie.cn/proton/build/proton-1.0.0.min.js), rename the file to "proton.js" (or anything, that doesn't contain dots in the filename) and add it as a plugin.

- Get the plugin from my pastebin and add it to your game. Leave the plugin parameter as-is, for now.

- Add the attached image to your "img" folder. It will be used to draw particles.

- During the game, paste this in the console and execute it:

var layer = IAVRA.PROTON.getLayer('default');layer.blendMode = 1;SceneManager._scene.addChild(layer); emitter = new Proton.Emitter();emitter.rate = new Proton.Rate(new Proton.Span(10, 15), .1);emitter.addInitialize(new Proton.Mass(1));emitter.addInitialize(new IAVRA.PROTON.Target('img/particle.png'));emitter.addInitialize(new Proton.Position(new Proton.PointZone(Graphics.width / 2, Graphics.height / 2)));emitter.addInitialize(new Proton.Life(1, 1.5));emitter.addInitialize(new Proton.V(new Proton.Span(1, 2), new Proton.Span(0, 360), 'polar'));emitter.addBehaviour(new Proton.Color('#C97024', '#290000'));emitter.addBehaviour(new Proton.Scale(0, Proton.getSpan(5, 10)));emitter.setLayer('default');emitter.emit();IAVRA.PROTON.addEmitter(emitter);If everything went right, you should now see an animated "fireball" above your scene, like this:


This approach has a couple of disadvantages:

- Proton updates emitters based on real time, so you can't pause them in any way (as far as i know).

- All emitters are updated by the same Proton instance, since the instance accesses global objects. In theory, it's possible to create multiple Proton instances, but everytime you do so, it would reset the Proton.pool, which holds all particle instances.

- We can't (easily) use PIXI.SpriteBatch, which should be faster than PIXI.DisplayObjectContainer, since it ignores the "tint" property (and possible others) of the sprites contained in it.

I posted this in "Development", since this is basically as far as i've come and i'd like to hear your opinions and suggestions for implementing or creating a particle engine for MV.

The last solution for me would be to reimplement Proton (unmodified version here: http://www.a-jie.cn/proton/build/proton-1.0.0.js) for MV, which would certainly take a good amount of time, but gives me the option to optimize it for MV/PIXI.

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