Design Portfolio

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What started as an attempt to work around the limitations of Shuriken and Legacy particles has turned into a completely new particle system.Hydra Particles is an open source particle system for Unity that can be used as-is or freely extended. We are designing the system to be as accessible as possible to both developers and designers of many levels.Artist Advantages:

• Per particle quaternion rotations - Legacy and Shuriken only provide a single arbitrary axis.

• Forces - Forces are simple components that can be added to the scene to immediately create new effects (gravity wells, directional forces, turbulence, etc).

• Colour blending - Simultaneously utilise per particle colour, colour over speed and colour over lifetime. Choose exactly how these values mix (multiply, overlay, burn, dodge, etc).

• Simulation speed - Adjust a simple value in the inspector to slow down or speed up the simulation.

Programmer Advantages:

• Fully open source - Tear it apart, modify it, learn from it.

• Comprehensive API - If you can see it in the inspector, you can modify it via code.

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We have implemented most of the base features and, though there is still a lot we would like to add, we will be close to a testing stage soon.