why doesnt createPointEmitter(); work

[kompromis]

okay i it makes like 5 Particles then it disappears
but createBoxEmitter( works just fine


this is the code im am using

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	scene::IParticleEmitter* emit = ex->createPointEmitter(
		core::vector3df(0.0f,0.0f,0.0f),
		120,150,
		video::SColor(0,255,255,255), video::SColor(0,255,255,255),
		800,2000,360);

[sgt_pinky]

Just create a very small box emitter - that's what I did. You can't tell the difference.

[steveth45]

Yep, the box emitter sure does work. What would be nice is if the point emitter actually worked, too. As far as I can tell, it doesn't.

[steveth45]

OK, I looked at the engine code, specifically CParticlePointEmitter.cpp, and it looks like it was designed to emit a single particle. This is what the documentation says about the createPointEmitter function: "minParticlesPerSecond,: Minimal amount of particles emitted per second." Well, that isn't how its implemented. I can't believe how much time I wasted trying to get the point emitter to work, just to find out that it doesn't.

[Luben]

I too had problems with the point emmitter. It did work fine, except for that it traveled away from origin in near light-speed

[hybrid]

This might be fixed since Irrlicht SVN rev. 570. The problem was that the new particle array was first transformed and then copied. This lead to very strange effects and made the implementation of emitters unnecessarily complex.