New Corona Features – Emitter Particles and more

16 January 2018

New Corona Features – Emitter Particles and more

Corona’s engineers have slipped a couple of really cool features into recent daily builds that may have not caught your attention.

Emitter Particles and Groups

Previously, the particles emitted from an emitter became part of the stage until they expired. This would create problems with the relative positioning of the particles if your app needed to move the emitter. If you moved the emitter as part of a parent group, it didn’t create a natural look. Emitters can now have their particles be part of the parent group the emitter is in. This was added to daily build 2018.3199.

To use this feature, you can set emitter.absolutePosition to the parent group of the emitter. Previously you had the options of true or false to determine if the positioning was absolute or relative to the emitter. By passing a group, it’s now relative to the group. You can download a sample project to see the feature in action.

Controlling iOS system gestures

On iOS when you swipe down from the top, it shows the Notifications panel. When you swipe up, you get the control panel. If you have UI elements in your game that are near the top of bottom in areas that are likely to result in swipe gestures, it would be nice to be able to control that. Now you can! Starting with daily build 2018.3193, you can use native.setProperty( “preferredScreenEdgesDeferringSystemGestures”, true ) to have those swipes just show a swipe arrow and a second swipe to activate the panels.

We have more great things in the pipeline so watch this space for news and updates.