Particle system and editor in the works(Screen)

This is an effects system I'm designing right now that I plan to release within the next month, curious what features or effects you've seen in games that you would like to be able to reproduce, all properties are editable via a timeline graph and change dynamically through the lifetime of emitter/particle.

The editor will allow you to design system effects using multiple emitters, save these emitter systems for use in your project, as well as render out video, frame by frame, or animated texture strip files of the effect as well(For animated textures on particles or whatever you may need).

Thoughts, comments, please :).

The ability for particles to bounce along a plane? Play a sound when a particle is emitted. Erm, looks nice though.

Ross C: So you're talking about some generic eventing? Particles colliding with simple geometry isn't difficult and is something I was considering. The sounds (IE some generic eventing), is a bit different and I don't really know why you would want to have a particle system do it for you.. I could see being able to spawn new effects when a particle collides with a plane or some other base geometry, as well as an event queue for such events. Is that more along the lines of what you meant?

Well, in particle candy, you can have your particles bounce along a plane, somehow defined in the code somewhere. It's not an event, it's for stuff like sparks bouncing, and just any particle in general that would bounce. You really don't want to be coding that yourself, if it's a completely seperate lib thats generating the particles.

Looks cool. I'm working on a particle engine/editor as well, but in 2D. they're fun to make.