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So in the last update back in January 2019 I’d made the decision to redevelop TimelineFX in C++ from scratch and that’s basically what I’ve been doing for the last 18 months. That meant that I had to learn C++ as I’d never coded in it before and I’m happy to say that I’ve actually enjoyed it. Of course it hasn’t all been smooth sailing and Visual Studio has its quirks but overal it’s been fairly straightforward, more so then I expected. I spent the first few months learning the basics following Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig and Barbara E. Read more

I have just uploaded a new update of TimelineFX! This feels good as I’ve had trouble actually getting it to build at all. This is because the language that I wrote TimelineFX in (Blitzmax) is no longer supported and various things changed in the wxWidget bindings that meant it no longer built. However, thanks to a guy called Brucey who writes a ton of bindings for Blitzmax (including wxWidgets), his version of Blitzmax called Blitzmax-NG is keeping things alive. So after a bit of tinkering TimelineFX is compiling again (it wasn’t as much work as i thought it was going Read more

It’s always good to see how TimelineFX is being used to make particle effects in games all over the world. I spotted an article on Gamasutra about how Double 11 had created the particle effects in their PixelJunk Shooter Ultimate Game. It’s a great article and goes into a lot of detail about how they also created all of the various effects including dynamic flowing water. Their use of TimelineFX went further than making use of the exported effects to sprite sheets, they went as far as to develop their own engine in c++ so they could use the effects more dynamically in-game – Another Read more

Just a few bug fixes in this one, which I’ve listed below. Thanks to Trevor Nordstrom from ember-entertainment.com for pointing these out. There’s a few more little glitches on the Mac which I believe are effecting El Capitan, so looks like I’m going to have to upgrade my old MacBook which is getting a bit long in the tooth. I hope to work on some new features over Christmas so hopefully will have another new version with some more interesting stuff in the new year! Those changes then: The “*” symbol to indicate a graph that is changed from default Read more

There’s a new Beta version available! The latest version has a big new feature, each effect now keeps a history of all changes, so you can go back to a previous version of the effect at any time. These are all listed on the new History tab. History doesn’t currently save with the effects, but may do in a future version. This is essentially undo, which has bee a long time coming, but better late than never! There’s no keyboard short-cuts yet but there will be before the final version is released. You can try the new beta version here: Read more