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stu
Member
I'm trying to completely fill the screen with particles before clearing away my sprites. Basically I would like the screen to be "whited out" sort of like a blizzard or snow storm.
It seems like I can't generate enough particles that are big enough to do this. I also tried adding a ColorLayer with low opacity (clear white layer) but I can't figure out how to "fade it in" and it looks awful.
Codemattic
Moderator
I think v0.8 beta has a new particle system that allows big particles. Which cocos version are you using?
http://www.cocos2d-iphone.org/wiki/doku.php/release_8_0
scroll down to "particles"
That's unlikely Codemattic. All the 0.8 code uses the new orientation methods. I had major growing pains when updating to 0.8 but I have it all sorted out now. Most of it was due to Menu's though. I'm glad I upgraded though because I really need to take advantage of the updated Audio and Physics.
stu
Member
That's unfortunate :( Is there any way to fade a layer in and out? I tried [mylayer do: fadeInFadeOutSequence] but the layer seems to be added instantenously.
id fin = [FadeIn actionWithDuration:1.0f];
id fout = [FadeOut actionWithDuration:1.0f];
id fadeInFadeOutSequence = [Sequence actions:fin, fout, nil];I'm trying to incrementally increase the opacity in the middle of the particle animation until the screen is completely white, and then decrease it until the layer is completely transparent.
stu
Member
Sorry I made a mistake. The layer doesn't fade instantaneously like I originally suspected. The problem is that I am using a white layer and setting the opacity of a layer that is white doesn't seem to have any effect. (the layer just stays opaque and you can't see through it, regardless of the value of the opacity) With other colors like yellow, setting the opacity to 0 makes it more translucent but the layer is never completely clear. White seems to be unique in that the appearances doesn't change at all.
One of the scene transitions in the samples folder fades to white. For now I am going to try to do a transition to a scene with a white layer, idle for a second, and return to the original scene using same transition and hope that the particles are just starting to fade. This is an awful solution but I'm out of ideas.
I don't understand OpenGl but if nothing else works I will have to give that a try. Thanks Codemattic!
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