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[Suggestion] PauseTimer() / ResumeTimer() / GetTimerValue()

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:40:11 +0000

I want to accumulate time for specific work.
But it can't be achieved by current version.

There are just 2 timer functions. BeginTimer() and EndTimer().
No way to retrieve timer value in code.

It should have GetTimerValue()
and it will better with PauseTimer() / ResumeTimer()

Null??

Mon, 14 May 2012 02:32:19 +0000

If I run with "TestNoteAndPrint.cs" component, it always print "Null".

Animated texture

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:47:56 +0000

Hello Jake,

I have a series of sprite, 15 png, size 128 x 128. I drag all the files from the project window as explained in the help, but I can't make it works. It seems that the texture slot of the emitter inthe editor and the one in the particle material are independent?

To use an animated sprite do I need UnityPro? Im using the free version at the moment

In case is it possible to use an atlas 512 x 512 as texture?

Can I use a mesh/plane as particle?

Thanks
Delfo

Missing icons

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 10:18:04 +0000

Hello,

Just bought your plugin, very powerful and flexible, great job!

I tried it on the new beta version of Unity, the 3.5, but it was too unstable, crash every few minutes.
So I installed it on the 3.4 version, and it works great, but I have a strange issue. All the icons in the editor are missing.

I can still use it but I think it would be easier for visual reference to click on the proper icon instead of an empty white box.

Do you know how I could solve the problem?

Thanks a lot
Delfo

Would something like this be simple to do?

Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:27:40 +0000

I found Magical Box in the Asset Store and it seems it would be just what I need. However, I'm a bit pressed for time and cash at the moment so I would like to check before plunging in.

What I need is fairly simple: I would like to create a glowing or sprarkling arc that is drawn over the screen with the drawing point being a bright star. Very much like the logo scene from Disney movies where an arc is drawn over the castle.

Is something like that easy to do with Magic Box?
Thanks!

Support at Unity3D forum

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 15:21:46 +0000

If for some reason you don't want to register at this forum, feel free to ask in the corresponding threads at the official Unity3D forum. You can find them here:

Magical Box - Official forum's thread
Measure It! Pro - Official forum's thread

Cheers
Your Fluffy Underware theam

Version 1.15

Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:50:41 +0000

Hi all,

Magical Box v1.15 is out:

New

Magical Box now working on mobiles! Just replace material shaders with the respective "Mobile/Particles" ones and you're done.
Moved the Magical Box menu to "Window" as needed by the new guidelines

Changes

Removed MBEmitterType.FitScreen and replaced it with MBEmitterType.FitScreenWidth and MBEmitterType.FitScreenHeight. These parameters are now enabled for
all emitter types.

Fixes

Fixed Debugging size not calculated correctly
Fixed error when pasting emitters
Fixed a bug that infrequently caused an error when showing the "About" window

for the next version we'll redesign the effects publishing workflow.

Cheers
Jake

Measure It! Pro released! / Roadmap

Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:12:17 +0000

We're proud to announce the release of Measure It! Pro. It's currently available at Avangate and should be available at the Asset store within the next days.

Things we've planned for the future so far:

Ingame/Game screen data presentation
MIP Code Tool to handle (comment, uncomment, remove) calls to Debug and MIP in your code

Cheers

Error when pasting parameters

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:37:18 +0000

Runtime error when pasting parameters. Bug fixed in 1.14!

Debugging size

Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:36:10 +0000

Size box not scaling correctly. Fixed in 1.14!

Version 1.13 / Roadmap

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 16:35:45 +0000

Hi,

First I'd like to talk about the version confusion (1.10? 1.11? 1.12?). This is mainly caused by the fact that we're forced to increase the version number when resubmitting to the Assetstore. As we're waiting to get 1.10 (now: 1.12) published on the Assetstore, we were working on the next "real" version. As it's release becomes foreseeable, we decided to don't bother our Avangate customers with new versions every few days and wait till we got something really new.

We're sorry to produce such a mess, but we couldn't foresee our struggle with the AssetStore. It got worse by the fact that the effects shown in the new gallery won't work with the current Assetstore (1.02) version, so we try to sort this out asap.

This is today and it's version is 1.13 for now and already sent to the Assetstore team. This time we'll wait until the AssetStore submission is completed (up to say one week, whatever comes first) before releasing it to you by mail.

New version: 1.13

So here's the history for the upcoming version 1.13 (hopefully):

New
Debugging Particle Properties
Slow motion in the editor
Math Operator
MBEditorEnabledScript
MBSyncToCursor2D script
MBRotateAxis script
Copy&Paste for all curves
Added behaviour mode (attract,freeze,kill,reflect) to zones
Added arc range limitation to EmitterType's Random2D heading mode
Added MBParticle.HasUserData and MBParticle.HasUserDataValue
MBUtility.DrawGizmoArc now supporting optional radius parameter
MBUtility.Get
Now supporting scale on Magical Box GameObjects
(from 1.12) Added MBLayer.RenderQueue

Changes
UI overhaul
MBParticleSystem.AutoPlay now defaults to true
Zone parameters now skip calculation when Attraction==0

Fixes
Several minor fixes and code improvements
(from 1.12) Fixed Prefab publishing

What's up for the next version

Just one word: Mobile support!

Cheers

Jake

Version 1.10 - 1.12

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 14:25:49 +0000

Hi everyone,

we're happy to announce that - finally - Magical Box v1.10 is ready for shipment and will arrive in your mailbox or Assetstore soon . Please take your time to read at least this thread - you really need to know about the changes. Of course everything is (like always) documented in the online docs...but...you're reading those docs, do you?

So, here are the highlights (the full list of changes can be found here):

Layers (read on, explained below)
Publishing prefabbed effects
Optional Vertex normals support
Unity 3.4 usage without warnings

Before talking about layers, we want to talk about publishing/sharing ready made effects. We've added an easy to use menu option to package your ParticleSystem prefabs, taking care of all needed files and primarily of excluding engine files. So if you plan to share effects (like we do after this release), be sure to use this option only. Read about it here!

Layers

(Introduction from the Roadmap thread)

Quote:One of Magical Box key features is the ability to have several emitters within a single particle system (a.ka. a single mesh) for a bunch of reasons, mainly to reduce drawcalls and management overhead. The downside of this approach is the fact that a single mesh uses the same material(s) for all emitters. But what if we want an alphablended smoke emitter behind a fire emitter using an additive shader?

We first thought about connecting Particle Systems somehow, but that would have felt like a workaround with too many limitations. So we sharpened our knifes, cut off the mesh from the particlesystem and put it into something new: a layer.

What's a layer?

Well, a layer contains and renders a mesh, so it has a MeshRenderer and a material assigned to it.
Each particle system has at least one layer, but may have as much layers as you need. When doing emitters, you just decide for every emitter which layer it should use and you're done. So now our smoke emitter can use a layer "Alpha" (using an alphablending shader) and our fire renders to another layer "Additiv" (using an additive shader), all within the same particle system.

A picture says more than thousand words:

Will the introduction of layers break existing particle systems?

No, but you'll need to update them to use layers. This is done with a few clicks described in detail here.

If you encounter any errors or other weirdness with v1.10, please let us know. Also, we highly appreciate a review of Magical Box in the AssetStore!

Update:

v1.11 & v1.12 fixed small bugs and added Renderqueue settings to layers.

Bye bye and..eehm...merry FX-mas

Jake

waterfall effect

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:35:13 +0000

Hello,

Any news from the next release ???
Any news from the explosion effect ???

How to make the best waterfall effect with magical box ???

Thanks for your help.
6R

How to play it from JS?

Sun, 25 Sep 2011 15:22:26 +0000

Ok, now i have an excellent particle system..
How do i start playing it from some JS script? Can you just give me a simple example, like

var MB : MBParticleSystem; < and i drop a particles i jus created on here in editor..

function Start() {
MB.Play();
}

I know this is not it, but can somebody please point me in the right direction?

requires PRO? works with iOS?

Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:21:03 +0000

hi, this looks like an awesome plugin!
but few classic questions before i buy it.. does it require PRO? does it work with iOS (iPad in my case..)?
this should really be in the main description in asset store..

and having to register on your forum is really annoying.. instead you should use unity forum aswell for the support. if i didnt really need this plugin i wouldnt bother and you would loose a potential customer.

Roadmap

Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:42:04 +0000

Hi there, news from the fluffy stuff

first we'd like to introduce the new features coming with v1.10, which we will release in the next days. We did some major changes/additions, hence the version jump from 1.02 to 1.10!

One of Magical Box key features is the ability to have several emitters within a single particle system (a.ka. a single mesh) for a bunch of reasons, mainly to reduce drawcalls and management overhead. The downside of this approach is the fact that a single mesh uses the same material(s) for all emitters. But what if we want an alphablended smoke emitter behind a fire emitter using an additive shader?

We first thought about connecting Particle Systems somehow, but that would have felt like a workaround with too many limitations. So we sharpened our knifes, cut off the mesh from the particlesystem and put it into something new: a layer.

What's a layer?

Well, a layer contains and renders a mesh, so it has a MeshRenderer and a material assigned to it.
Each particle system has at least one layer, but may have as much layers as you need. When doing emitters, you just decide for every emitter which layer it should use and you're done. So now our smoke emitter can use a layer "Alpha" (using an alphablending shader) and our fire renders to another layer "Additiv" (using an additive shader), all within the same particle system.

We also focused on streamlining the pipeline when working with prefabbed and packaged particle systems or emitters.

What's in the future?

After releasing v1.10 we will focus on creating some effect bundles, starting with a series of explosions (due to popular demand ). And yes, these bundles will be free of charge.

Cheers

Version 1.02

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 11:08:19 +0000

Version 1.02 is released!

New:

Editor Event Binding: MBSendMessageTarget.
Vector Emitter types : Line, Polygon
Mesh Emitter types : Vertex, Edge, Surface
Additional heading modes: Random2D, Random3D, MeshNormal

Fixes:

Several minor code improvements and fixes

The version history in the online documentation provides links to the new features.

Avangate customers will get the new version by mail within the next minutes, the AssetStore version is pending approval.

For 1.03 we've planned to rebuild our material management to ease the development of effects that use different shaders simultaneous.

and then ???

Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:10:34 +0000

Sorry about this but I have a "stupid" question :
I could make a nice star effect using some parameters BUT how to insert this "magical box particle effect" now on MY game ???

I can't see it when I click on the Play button of Unity3D (not the MB play button !). In the game and scene view by editing the parcticle magical box, all is ok !
BUT when I run the game (Unity3D button) nothing on the screen !?!

If I export a prefab from MY particle effect, how to make it work in MY other game ??? What script do I need to add on my hierarchy and on which object ? Main Camera ?

Could you help me, please ? It's very important because I actually can't do anything with MY particle prefab !?!

6R

only an image particle example ?

Mon, 25 Jul 2011 14:01:46 +0000

Hi Jake,

I would like to know (maybe a tutorial ? A video tutorial ?) how to use an image particle only !?! Like yours with the colored Unity3D logo from the "Demo Beginning" BUT not all the other things which make me confused...
How does it work from scratch if I want to use MY picture ???

thanks
6R

gizmo doesn't appear !?!

Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:17:56 +0000

Hello from France,

I'm fascinated by your magical box !!!
The demos are great, especially the jelly one !

I have questions :
* Could you help me because the gizmos does'nt appear on the scene (even with the gizmo button down !!!) ? I can't see the circle or rectangle shape !?!
* How to do (big or small) explosions ? Could you add a video about this, please ?

I'm not disappointed at all with this buying and it will give some life to my projects...

thanks
6R