Desirable Elements for a Particle System Interface

Table 1

A list of PSIs, a PSI created using DPSF, and the features from Section 3 that they support.

Label

Particle System Interface

F1

F2

F3

F4

F5

F6

F7

F8

F9

F10

F11

F12

F13

F14

F15

F16

F17

F18

PSI0

Particle Chamber

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI1

Microsoft XNA Unleashed

X

X

X

X

PSI2

Building a Particle Engine

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI3

Particle Systems API

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI4

Particles

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI5

Particle 3D

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI6

Balls

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI7

Declarative API

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI8

Autodesk 3ds Max

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

PSI9

Autodesk Maya

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

DPSF

PSI created using DPSF

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X

X