Emission of particles occurs in the area defined by the text or image

hi all,

Here is a question.

There is an image with a text on it. The text is while, and the background is black.
Is there any way to limit the zone of the emitter to the area defined by the text?

Thx a lot!

hi,

I'd like to share my method to this problem.

For image:
1. map the image to a quad in the world coordinate;
2. go through the pixels of the image, if the gray value of the pixel is >= the threshold,
translate the pixel coordinate to the corresponding world coordinate,
and push the world coordinate to a vector;
3. generate a vector index at random, get the corresponding world coordinate,
set the particle position to this world coordinate like what the generatePosition() function does;

For Text:
1. generate the image of the text;
2. use the same way of the image;

Here is a snapshot:
https://servimg.com/view/16884121/2
https://servimg.com/view/16884121/3
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Thanks for sharing your solution.

One thing that can be done to make it more generic (to use an image mask on a 3D quad or to use a scaled image in 2D) is adding a random delta to coordinates when generating position so that the texel discretization is removed.

Coordinates of the particle to generate in the image space become :
x + random(0.0f,scaleX)
y + random(0.0f,scaleY)

Another thing that can be added if used in 3D is a extrusion parameter to give the image a thickness.

I ll add a mask zone in SPARK 2 later on I think.

A nice idea for spark2.

Add a picture and a little more explanation for my demo on my second posted message, hope it could be a little helpful for you:)