Babylon quarks particles

Demos and projects
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I built and released babylon.quarks — a library that brings the Quarks particle workflow into Babylon.js projects.

The main goal was to make Quarks-style VFX feel native in Babylon.js, with a setup that’s practical for real projects (not just isolated demos).

What’s available now:

  • particle systems integrated for Babylon.js scenes;
  • example demos covering different effect styles and behaviors;
  • npm package;
  • live examples so you can see results immediately.

Live examples:

npm package:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/babylon.quarks

If you work with VFX/game feel in Babylon.js, I’d really appreciate feedback.

I’m also working on an Effect Editor for Babylon Editor, which will allow you to create effects and import them to babylon.quarks

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This is really nice! cc @AlitarSemiramis

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This is sooooo cool! I love the Texture Sequencer and the Muzzle Flash demos in particular.

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Woah I will definitely try this out! Effect creation has been pretty big bottleneck in my game, this could simplify it since there seems to be a big asset store for these effects! Could maybe use those with small tweaks, the look professional enough :grin:

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I’m currently working on editor integration and will also add a Unity exporter. This exporter will allow you to convert Unity’s shuriken effect to Quark format and use it in babylon.js with my library.

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babylon.quarks@0.17.3 — overview

Performance & trails

  • Hot path: fewer allocations in renderer batches; tighter particle update and spawn loops.
  • Trails: fast trail history ring buffers. 4x faster
  • New adaptive performance budget controls.
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This looks really cool !!! we need more demos :slight_smile: a lot of them :slight_smile: and yes I love particles

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I really love it !!!

Would it be possible to add this to the Official add ons ?

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Change log for babylon.quarks@0.17.4

  1. You can now drag a Quarks-style .json into the examples viewer to preview VFX in Babylon.
  2. Examples are in TypeScript
  3. removed dead options from old Three demos
  4. Fixed a bug where mesh particles (e.g. ring/circle emitters) could load with correct vertex count but render invisible because non-indexed geometry wasn’t turned into triangles.
  5. Unity → JSON exporter package in progress (currently being tested on over 600 effects)
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wow! Unity’s particles support is a great move! Nice job!