Common Settings (For Application Programmers)

This section describes common settings that involve configuration of item settings for particles.

These settings are item settings of interest to application programmers.

Enable

The checkbox for Enable is marked by default.

Enables the common features.

Features are disabled (i.e., the Enable checkbox is cleared) so the programmer has control over features and initial values. So even if a designer is not using a feature, it may be applied to the actual data being exported.

For example, say that the gravity values A, B and C are attached to a set of data, and A is enabled while B and C are disabled. The programmer might be using value A for the initial state of gravity, planning to switch the state later from A to B to C.

Copy Resource

The checkbox for Copy Resource is cleared by default.

Common feature: Copy resources at runtime

When the checkbox is marked, features are copied as resources when the data are exported.
The application programmer can change the parameters of these copied features to make different variations.

For example, say that at game development time the programmer has created multiple copies of the same particle data. If Copy Resource is off, then the parameters of the feature will all change together. But if Copy Resource is on, then the parameters of the feature can be changed individually.

Optimize (Always ON)

At the current time, this setting can only be configured as a Color settings option in the particle Properties panel.

When this is enabled, which is the default setting, data are optimized when created to lighten the memory load.

Common feature: Copy resources at runtime

Note:
The programmer cannot control optimized data.
If you want to have control over the data for a feature on the programmer side, clear the Optimize checkbox for that feature.


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