FBO Particle System

Snektron · January 29, 2015, 04:19:04 PM

I did some reading up and appearantly the call i use to draw the points
(stored in a point cloud) causes a memory leak on some drivers.
i'll see if there's a way around this.

TheMachine02 · January 29, 2015, 04:19:46 PM

I run it with :
java -jar Particles-debug.jar
pause

actually my G710M have also 1GB GDDR3, so VRAM size is not pb of DJ_O

I test it with GPU-Z, my intelHD3000 does do something, but idk what ><, memory comsuption went okay.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 29, 2015, 04:28:02 PM

OMG I got it!!!

When I tried updating my drivers earlier I looked at the wrong location on AMD's website. Their site is confusing and now I found where to check. I finally found a more recent driver update and now the program works.

You should maybe look into making it compatible with older drivers and hardware, though, since many people got older machines.

Snektron · January 29, 2015, 04:29:10 PM

Yay! and i don't know if that's possible since the error is in the driver...
i may be able to add a secondary rendering method though...

matrefeytontias · January 29, 2015, 08:08:01 PM

The "latest" version that you put on page 3 crashes a second after showing both windows without me doing anything. That's the exe version by the way.

Dream of Omnimaga · January 29, 2015, 08:12:28 PM

Yeah he told me that it's supposed to do that apparently.

Also wow at 2048x2048!

Snektron · January 29, 2015, 08:32:52 PM

That's the debug version DJO

and there's no debug exe. Strange that it crashes,
Try running it via the command line and post any errors.

Dream of Omnimaga · February 02, 2015, 04:26:58 AM

By the way I think the FPS counter is a little off. Sometimes I notice that the frame rate drops a bit for a while, yet it still displays 60 FPS in the title bar.

Also one setting in particular is interesting. You can draw stuff

Also I think if I ever needed to make video animations this could be useful

Snektron · February 02, 2015, 08:00:28 AM

Wow i didn't even realize you could do that

I also thought of makeing an audio visualiser with this kind of particle system,
but ill do that maybe later.

Dream of Omnimaga · February 02, 2015, 12:15:32 PM

Oh that would be cool actually.

What would be cool though is if you allowed people to run scripts so that animations could be programmed. Eg a script where you move the cursor from one point to another in a few seconds, then hold right mouse button for 1s, then left for 1s. In sound case it would be nice as well as people could use this to make music.

CKH4 · February 02, 2015, 03:42:57 PM

DJ O: I had noticed it before, you're much more accurate than I am. Also your script suggestion would be cool but it may already be possible with a current program.

Cumred: Yes that would be great.

Dream of Omnimaga · February 02, 2015, 04:54:31 PM

Quote from: CKH4 on February 02, 2015, 03:42:57 PM
DJ O: I had noticed it before, you're much more accurate than I am. Also your script suggestion would be cool but it may already be possible with a current program.

Cumred: Yes that would be great.

what is the current program? Is it open-source?

Snektron · February 02, 2015, 07:03:47 PM

That reminds me actually, i wanted to put the source on GitHub. I'll do that now

EDIT: Done: https://github.com/RobinDeWalvis/ParticleSystem
Since i'm not a great of working with GitHub when it's a solo project,
this wil not regularly be updated (i'll upload everytime i update something).

CKH4 · February 03, 2015, 12:47:40 AM

I was thinking something similar to this, http://tuxradar.com/content/xdotool-script-your-mouse.

Also yay for source.

Dream of Omnimaga · February 03, 2015, 01:04:39 AM

Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on February 02, 2015, 07:03:47 PM
That reminds me actually, i wanted to put the source on GitHub. I'll do that now
EDIT: Done: https://github.com/RobinDeWalvis/ParticleSystem
Since i'm not a great of working with GitHub when it's a solo project,
this wil not regularly be updated (i'll upload everytime i update something).

Cool to hear

. Just make sure to backup often if you don't update your GitHub repo regularly, though.