ParticlesX - Particle Emitter & Preset Library

Create fire, smoke, sparks, explosions, magic, weather, impacts and more — all from one object, with no Sprite objects and no per-particle events.

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✨ Particle System

• Emission — continuous or one-shot, with rate, delay, duration and capacity; Point, Circle, Box or Line areas, optionally outlines only; Relative or World space.
• Movement — start/end speed with variation and 10 easing curves, mid-life speed bump, direction and spread, inward/outward, turning, gravity, drag and turbulence.
• Appearance — tint gradients or random/sequential tints, size variation, opacity fades, aspect ratio, velocity stretch, spin or face-movement rotation, flipping and atlas animation.
• Lifecycle — spawn an object where a particle dies, with spawn chance and per-generation decay; emitters clean up when finished, and restart, clear or re-emit on demand.
• Collisions* & Events — collide with solids, objects or families, on one layer or across layers; spawn or remove particles on impact; triggers for collisions, emission and particle death; per-particle loops and expressions.

🎨 218 Ready-to-Use Effects

• Fire, explosions, ice, water, weather, impacts, weapons, elemental hits and trails, stylised bursts and UI feedback.
• Copy them into your project as they are, or use them as a starting point.
• The catalogue gives each effect's object name and the library page and cell to copy it from.

👀 Editor & Performance

• Editor guides — the selected emitter draws its emission area, direction, spread, gravity and turbulence in the Layout View.
• One mesh per emitter — particles are 2D quads in a single batched draw; slots are reused, an idle emitter stops updating, and collisions are not tested until you enable them. Capacity is the main cost setting.

📦 Included

• ParticlesX addon (.c3addon)
• ParticlesXPresets.c3p — 218 emitters, one object type each, on nineteen library pages
• Catalogue and manual as PDFs, and online: aruche.github.io/particlesx-presets/

📌 Note

• Built with SDK v2. Requires Construct 3 r467 or newer.
• *Point-based collision: each particle is tested as a single point, not its drawn shape.
• Particles are flat quads, like Sprites on a 3D layer — they do not turn to face the camera.
• Tint multiplies with the particle image; light images and additive blending glow best.
• Numeric properties animate with Construct timelines; Capacity and object pickers cannot.