Hello! Long time no see!

So, I announced the NodeMeshEmitters a while back, and it generated some fuzz and got me some sales, and I've been feeling kindda bad about not delivering.

The thing is, the 1.1 update is huge! It's not just a few new features, I've been working on splitting up the ParticleEmitters into smaller sub-classes and delegating the work out between these sub-classes, it's an ongoing effort. At the same time, I've been working on eliminating my work-around for the missing particleeditors (exposing the variables to the WorldInspector through a series of proxy variables on the Node) and actually writing some proper ParticleEditors, which again demands that I split up the ParticleEditor into smalle pieces so that I can switch between what kind of ParticleEmitter it should be showing tools for.

So what I'm getting at here is, the NodeMeshEmitter was just a small part of all this, actually it was just a sideproject that I found interesting, and have been struggling with for a while. So I have been unable to release it within a short timespan.

So to mitigate the waiting, and at least giving you a way to get the tech from the NodeMeshEmitter, I am now introducing "Beta builds" for the IPS.
A new version of the IPS-Updater will be out soon, which allows you to download beta builds, if available. Beta builds are unstable, and incomplete. You can integrate it and get it up and running, but there is no documentation available and it is not guaranteed to work out of the box, if you know your way around C++ and Torque you should be able to get it integrated easily however.

So after this rather long wall of text, I will get into some information about the 1.1 update, these are the current update notes:

Fixed issues

• GraphEmitter - onBoundaryLimit wrote a bit too much.
• ParticleEffectData did not network its fields.
• A lot of functionality was implemented on the GroundEmitterNode instead of on the GroundEmitter
• Fixed MeshEmitter culling, it wasn't culled out at all
• Fixed an issue where having an error in the GraphEmitter expression would spam the console so much that the game would begin lagging to a point where it was unplayable. Still spams the console but not nearly as much.

Minor changes

• Reduced amount of bits written in AttractionBehaviour
• Removed the const keyword of funcPos in addParticle of GraphEmitter to improve performance
• Commented the benchmarker out of IPSCore.h
• Lightbase.h - Added some getters and setters to the Lightbase
• netObject.h - Added a "setGhost" method

Major changes

• Added the NodeMeshEmitter
• Added interfaces in IPSCore.h for IParticleEmitter and IParticleEmitterData which is what the rest of the ParticleSystem uses to interact with ParticleEmitter objects. Any object implementing these interfaces can work with ParticleManagers.
• Delegated the responsibility for creating, deleting, rendering and managing particles into ParticleManagers.

ParticleManagers

• BillboardParticleManager - (Standard billboard particles)
• BillboardRibbonParticleManager - (Ribbon particles credits to Adam Armstrong)
• EffectParticleManager - (ParticleEffects as particles)
• EmitterParticleManager - (ParticleEmitters as particles)
• PointlightParticleManager - (Pointlights as particles)
• TSShapeParticleManager - (Meshes as particles)

See the ParticleManagers in action here

All Particle Types

Because this update is so huge, I have decided to chop it into 2 updates. 1.1 which is all the above update notes and 1.2 which includes the ParticleEditors. I will be working hard to get these updates out ASAP