Lack of particles system that handles alpha

[Monsieur OUXX]

Hi everyone,

At the moment we have a few cool particle engines around (akumayo's particles engine, the weather module, snowRain module, etc.).
But all of these were created before AGS got really up-to-speed with alpha blending. Unless I'm mistaken, none of them handles alpha (only full transparency).

If one of you skilled gentlemen decided to look into it, I and others would be eternally grateful.

[Calin Leafshade]

I would imagine that most of the particle systems handle alpha just fine. Nothing in the API has changed. Where we used to get pink fringes, now you won't.

[Monsieur OUXX]

I remember you saying that before, but I'm pretty sure they're quite old (by design) and use a lot of obsolete technical choices.
Just one line like "if color==COLOR_TRANSPARENT" is enough to sabotage the whole module.

Anyway I'll look into it and come back to the community when the investigation is over

[tzachs]

I'm using ParticleSystemManager and it seems to handle my alpha containing particles just fine.

[Monsieur OUXX]

I'm using ParticleSystemManager and it seems to handle my alpha containing particles just fine.

That's the one I experimented on too, EXCELLENT And that's the one that was causing alpha issues with 3.2.1. So apparently it handled well the upgrade to 3.3.0. Hurray.

[Monsieur OUXX]

It turns out that jerakeen's ParticleSystemManager has issues with 3.3.0 (see the "blue cups" bug reported by AGD2, that I also encountered).

If someone manages to solve that one...

EDIT: the module has no issues.