particlyst
Addon for Godot 4.3+, modifier stack based alternative to the built-in ParticleProcessMaterial.
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Particlyst
Particlyst is a addon for Godot 4.3+, designed as an alternative to the built-in ParticleProcessMaterial. If you find ParticleProcessMaterial lacking for your 3D VFX needs, Particlyst is for you!
Features
- Modifier stack based approach for flexibility
- More emitter shapes with hollowness parameter
- 3D rotation and 3D scale
- Local rotation for particles
- Custom seed support for persistent randomness
- Selectable operations (Add, multiply, power, etc.)
| Property Types | Value Modifiers | Shape Modifiers | Special Modifiers | Operation Types |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Color | Uniform | Sphere | Lifetime | Multiply |
| Alpha | Random | Box | Seed | Divide |
| Position | Blend | Cone | Apply Rotation | Add |
| Rotation | Texture | Torus | TODO Collision | Subtract |
| Scale | Plane | TODO Sub Emitter | Power | |
| Velocity | TODO Mesh | TODO Min | ||
| Custom | TODO Max |
How to install / use
- Download this repo as zip
- Copy addons folder to your project and enable addon
- Create new ParticlystProcessMaterial3D within your GPUParticles3D > process_material
- Add a modifier
Caveats
- Early in development / experimental
- 3D, GPUParticles3D, Godot 4.3+ only
- Performance is not the primary focus
Roadmap
- Modifier: Collision
- Modifier: Sub-emitter
- Editor: Undo redo
- Modifier: Mesh shape
- Editor: (Sub?) Resource inspector
- Editor: Gizmo handles
- Editor: Tooltips
- Editor: Animatable uniforms
- Editor: Material duplicate recursive
- Material: Freeze/lock
- Modifier: CUSTOM channel mask
- Modifier: Operation Min Max
- Modifier: Random sign
- Modifier: Transform align
- Material: Modifier stacking
- Modifier: Property
- Shader: Emitter transform
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.