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[GameDevDan]

AeroHawk Effects v4.0
By Wormintheworks

Name: AeroHawk Effects 4
File Size: 3.98mb
File Type: EXE
Download Links:
Mediafire
Softpedia
Creator's Webpage: Click Me!
Minimum Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768
Changes Resolution: No

Video Trailer (incredibly over the top):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GDWsw9x24
Watch Video

Information:
AeroHawk Effects is a particle designer that takes the hard work out of making great effects. It has high functionality wih many things editable, it can also output three files, GML, PNG and .ah4pj Projects. It's not just another particle designer, it brings good looks, ease of use and easy screenshotting to the table too.

Basically with this version I just tried to make sure that my particle designer is keeping up with GM. The last one was made in GM8, this one in GM8.1 and the next one will most likely come out when the next GM comes out! (either 9 or studio). However, I will be constantly updating this one as people give me suggestions as long as the save files aren't affected.

Improvements on aerohawk 3:

.AH4PJ files with faster loading
Resource sharing
Help file
Use sprite as shape
Relative orientation
Background changing
Particle bursting
Mutation button
Regular updates

Older Versions:
Version 3.0 - Download
Version 2.0 - Download
Version 1.0 - Download Broken and lost

Suggestions, etc?

Edited by GameDevDan, 13 February 2012 - 09:00 PM.

[borut]

Looks pretty nice! Going to test it and add a comment!

edit: Good job I must say!

Edited by mold03, 11 June 2011 - 01:19 PM.

[HarisGameStudio]

Downloading right now.

Edit: Nice interface and easy to use. Everyone with little knowledge in GML should use this particle designer. Also i like the PNG snapshot, that could be useful.

Keep up the good work!

Edited by HarisGameStudio, 11 June 2011 - 02:22 PM.

[Hiddenaces]

very smart looking great job and so easy to use

[GameDevDan]

Thanks guys

[teej]

Cool! nice job on adding the Mutate button, its very handy.

On the GUI though, (just my preference) i'd like to work on a bigger window, I know you did made the size on this version bigger, but maybe make the window size to 1024x768, most people have hi-res monitors nowadays. If that's not possible, then make the preview panel bigger, as I may want to create huge particle designs with your program... There are lots of unused space in the GUI.

I'm not sure if you're done with the GUI, it seems to me that you aren't. I honestly like the GUI skin better on the previous version, also the program icon on this version is not very appealing, in my opinion. I like the loading screen though.


Additional features would be:

- Is to add a flag to each attributes to be locked/unlock, which means when you hit "randomized" button the flagged attributes won't be modified.

- Add a Effect Particle Characteristic where in user can choose a prefered style e.g. Projectile, Explosion, Smoke, Flame, Bursting, Pulsating, etc. .. something like that... If you get my drift.

- For the future, maybe add effects browser room, where pre-made (pretty particle designs) can be viewed and selected? maybe add another save format specifically for it... which includes preview image or thumbnail to display, as well as author information, whatever.


Keep up the good work.

[GameDevDan]

Thanks for the feedback, I've got a list of improvements that I keep adding to for the next update.

I'm not sure what you meant here:

- Add a Effect Particle Characteristic where in user can choose a prefered style e.g. Projectile, Explosion, Smoke, Flame, Bursting, Pulsating, etc. .. something like that... If you get my drift.

And also the GUI and software icon are not priority (as they probably aren't for you either) but if other people agree that the old style was better I'll make it happen.

[teej]

Hmmm... well, I guess my "additional features suggestion" number 2 and 3 are somewhat similar. But what I meant with "Effect Particle Characteristic" is that there should be pre-made particles characteristics that people can choose as a head start, it can be a "explosive type" which it doesn't need to be moving, or "projectile type" which is good as a projectile effect, or "pulsating".. you know those kinds of effects that has their own behavior. This basically the same as loading a saved "ah4pj" that has the appropriate particle effect. But you need to have this premade onto the program rather than saved "ah4pj" files made by others.

[GameDevDan]

Ah I see, I get you now, and it's a good idea I'll add it to my list, thanks for the feedback.

Edited by wormintheworks, 13 June 2011 - 02:31 PM.

[kburkhart84]

The other feature I didn't see was the particle changers, effectors, etc... It may not be easy to add, but it could come in handy.

Also, what about when a particle dies, and you have it set up to change to another particle type upon death. using the "part_type_death()" function a particle can spawn other particle types when it dies, and since that is often used(like with fire turning to smoke for example) it would be a nice addition to the club of features.

The other biggy I have to agree with the rest of them. The preview size is too small for my tastes. Maybe you could have a full-screen mode(not as-in window vs. full-screen) where you remove most of the GUI, leaving only a massive preview window, and then you can get the buttons back if you need them. It would help get a clear idea of what the particle system/s look/s like.

[GameDevDan]

Thanks for the suggestions

I've uploaded 8 shapes and 8 effects to the resource sharing centre.

EDIT:

Updated,
Current users can click update check in the ahe4 window or just download the new version from this topic.

Version 4.02 110615 (Current) -
- Preview panel size increased from 400x400 to 472x472
- Snapshot size increased from 400x400 to 472x472

Edited by wormintheworks, 15 June 2011 - 06:58 PM.

[GameDevDan]

Updated Again
Current users can click update check in the ahe4 window or just download the new version from this topic.

Version 4.05 110703 (Current) -
- FIXED: Downloadable resources were unavailable after html5 move
- FIXED: Compiled GML creates errors in GM Files that do not declare spr_empty when shapes are used instead of sprites
- CHANGE: Icon and loading screen changed to match future expected software releases
- CHANGE: Mutation button dropped in favour of lockable randomization
- EXTRA: Inserted 'Toggle GUI' button as requested
- EXTRA: Lockable features for randomization

I added in some of the features you guys asked for ;P

[GameDevDan]

Any comments on the newest update?

[teej]

Nice work worm.

[freko]

Nice, this one has a clean & decent interface

[Primoz128]

AeroHawk Effects v4.0
By Wormintheworks

Name: AeroHawk Effects 4
File Size: 3.98mb
File Type: EXE
Download Links:
Mediafire
Softpedia
Creator's Webpage: Click Me!
Minimum Screen Resolution: 1024 x 768
Changes Resolution: No

Screenshot (More on 'creator's webpage', and softpedia download link.):


Video Trailer (incredibly over the top):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4GDWsw9x24
Watch Video

Information:
AeroHawk Effects is a particle designer that takes the hard work out of making great effects. It has high functionality wih many things editable, it can also output three files, GML, PNG and .ah4pj Projects. It's not just another particle designer, it brings good looks, ease of use and easy screenshotting to the table too.

Basically with this version I just tried to make sure that my particle designer is keeping up with GM. The last one was made in GM8, this one in GM8.1 and the next one will most likely come out when the next GM comes out! (either 9 or studio). However, I will be constantly updating this one as people give me suggestions as long as the save files aren't affected.

Improvements on aerohawk 3:

.AH4PJ files with faster loading
Resource sharing
Help file
Use sprite as shape
Relative orientation
Background changing
Particle bursting
Mutation button
Regular updates

Older Versions:
Version 3.0 - Download
Version 2.0 - Download
Version 1.0 - Download Broken and lost

Suggestions, etc?

Similar to particle designer ...

[GameDevDan]

Similar to particle designer ...

That's because they both design particle effects?

[Terrified Virus]

looks nice, looks like particle designer though.

[GameDevDan]

looks like particle designer though.

... They both design particles, aside from that I don't think they look that similar.