Cocos2d Particle Editor

Cocos2d Particle Editor is a lightweight software application whose purpose is to help your create particle effects in order to embed them to a wide variety of games and programs. The generated particle effects can be exported to PLIST file format, which usually stores a user’s settings and essential configuration information for a bundled executable.

Since this is a portable program, it is important to mention that it doesn’t leave any traces in the Windows Registry.

You can copy it on any USB flash drive or other devices, and take it with you whenever you need to generate or edit particle effects on the breeze, without having to go through installation steps.

All configuration settings are displayed in the primary panel, so the user interface may seem a bit overwhelming at a first glance. There’s also support for a preview window where you can observe the adjustments applied to the particles.

Cocos2d Particle Editor comes packed with different templates that you can easily edit them, namely smoke, fire, sun, flower, steam, explosion, galaxy, meteor, snow, rain, ring, and others.

The tool provides support for many tweaking parameters, which can be organized in an alphabetical order or sorted by category. The program gives you the possibility to alter the duration, total number of particles, position, rotation angle per second, start and end size, gravity, speed, start and end color, spin, scale, and others.

Last but not least, you may export the particle effects to PLIST file format, provided that you have specified the filename and saving directory. You may use hotkeys (they cannot be reassigned).

Cocos2d Particle Editor comes bundled with a handy suite of features but the layout is not quite intuitive, so you may spend some time tweaking the dedicated parameters.