Particle System Supported?

steven.pannell · October 24, 2014, 7:47pm

Hi,

Using the Particle Designer I have made the following fancy starfield. Works great with the CoronaSDK, but fails completely using Corona Cards on WP8. Looks like there is no support from the error received.

Any plans for that? or do I need to look for an alternative solution?

            – Read the exported Particle Designer file (JSON) into a string
        local filePath = system.pathForFile( “starfield.json” )
        local f = io.open( filePath, “r” )
        local fileData = f:read( “*a” )
        f:close()

Platform: Not Supported Yet / ARM / 8.0 / ANGLE (Software Adapter Direct3D11 vs_2_0 ps_2_0) / OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.2.0.2446) / 2014.2473
The thread 0xd84 has exited with code 0 (0x0).
Runtime error
C:\Data\Programs{D7C4DBDC-44FD-40DF-9DDC-3615142304A7}\Install\Assets\Corona\SceneMenu.lua:191: bad argument #1 to ‘open’ (string expected, got nil)
stack traceback:
   [C]: in function ‘open’
   C:\Data\Programs{D7C4DBDC-44FD-40DF-9DDC-3615142304A7}\Install\Assets\Corona\SceneMenu.lua:191: in function <C:\Data\Programs{D7C4DBDC-44FD-40DF-9DDC-3615142304A7}\Install\Assets\Corona\SceneMenu.lua:188>
   (tail call): ?
   ?: in function <?:498>
   ?: in function <?:221>

Joshua_Quick · October 24, 2014, 8:49pm

Our particle system is definitely supported on WP8.

I think the problem here is that you forgot to set your JSON file’s “Build Action” property in Visual Studio to “Content”. This tells Visual Studio to include this file within your app bundle. In the link below, have a look at steps 5 and 6 on how to do this.

http://docs.coronalabs.com/daily/coronacards/wp8/portapp.html#copying-project-files

steven.pannell · October 24, 2014, 8:57pm

Darn it!

Your right. I forget that every single time. Now it works perfect!!

Thanks a lot.

Joshua_Quick · October 24, 2014, 8:49pm