Particle Forge

As of 2023.2, GameMaker now features a built-in particle editor. I recommend using that. This page will stay up, but I won't be maintaining it anymore.

Do you like particles? I like particles. Yesterday I thought it sounded like a fun idea to create a particle preview tool for GameMaker, not unlike I did for Scribble some time ago.

Features

• Define particle types - including color, alpha, blending, shape, speed, direction, rotation, gravity, size, and secondary emissions (lifetime and death) and custom sprites
• Define particle emitters - including regions, shapes, distributions, and emission rates
• Export GML to create your particles and emitters, ready for copying and pasting into your game. (The generated code should be compatible with any version of GameMaker that came out after the Silurian.)

Other Stuff

• This used to be called "Particle Lab," until someone told me they had a similar project with the same name.
• Fun fact: this is probably the fastest turnaround time out of anything I've worked on so far. I kinda-sorta challenged myself to finish it within 12 hours yesterday and the main part of the program actually was, although I had to spend a few hours bug hunting and polishing stuff today. Having a UI library is nice.
• This runs on the same code as some of the other game dev tools I've made, although the rest of it (including the terrain editor and Scribble) is locked off since the other things are in development and I don't want any WIP things to break the Particle Lab.
• Yes the idea for this was inspired by ParticleDesigner, which is basically not around anymore.

Price

As usual, the asset is free as-is. I'll fix simple or game-breaking bugs but more involved support requires payment via either Itch or Patreon.  I get the final say in what constitutes "game-breaking."

Repository

As usual, if you want the code, it's on Github, Or if you don't want to deal with Github, it's ten dollars. (The rest of the program is free, obviously.)