Babylon.js/src/Particles/particleSystemComponent.ts

import { Mesh } from "Meshes/mesh";
import { IParticleSystem } from "./IParticleSystem";
import { GPUParticleSystem } from "./gpuParticleSystem";
import { AbstractScene } from "abstractScene";
import { Effect, EffectFallbacks } from "Materials/effect";
import { Engine } from "Engines/engine";
import { ParticleSystem } from "./particleSystem";
import { Scene } from "scene";
import { SceneComponentConstants } from "sceneComponent";
import { AssetContainer } from "assetContainer";

import "Shaders/particles.vertex";

    // Adds the parsers to the scene parsers.
    AbstractScene.AddParser(SceneComponentConstants.NAME_PARTICLESYSTEM, (parsedData: any, scene: Scene, container: AssetContainer, rootUrl: string) => {

        let individualParser = AbstractScene.GetIndividualParser(SceneComponentConstants.NAME_PARTICLESYSTEM);

        if (!individualParser) {
            return;
        }

        // Particles Systems
        if (parsedData.particleSystems !== undefined && parsedData.particleSystems !== null) {
            for (var index = 0, cache = parsedData.particleSystems.length; index < cache; index++) {
                var parsedParticleSystem = parsedData.particleSystems[index];
                container.particleSystems.push(individualParser(parsedParticleSystem, scene, rootUrl));
            }
        }
    });

    AbstractScene.AddIndividualParser(SceneComponentConstants.NAME_PARTICLESYSTEM, (parsedParticleSystem: any, scene: Scene, rootUrl: string) => {
        if (parsedParticleSystem.activeParticleCount) {
            let ps = GPUParticleSystem.Parse(parsedParticleSystem, scene, rootUrl);
            return ps;
        } else {
            let ps = ParticleSystem.Parse(parsedParticleSystem, scene, rootUrl);
            return ps;
        }
    });

declare module "Engines/Engine" {
    export interface Engine {
        /**
         * Create an effect to use with particle systems.
         * Please note that some parameters like animation sheets or not being billboard are not supported in this configuration
         * @param fragmentName defines the base name of the effect (The name of file without .fragment.fx)
         * @param uniformsNames defines a list of attribute names
         * @param samplers defines an array of string used to represent textures
         * @param defines defines the string containing the defines to use to compile the shaders
         * @param fallbacks defines the list of potential fallbacks to use if shader conmpilation fails
         * @param onCompiled defines a function to call when the effect creation is successful
         * @param onError defines a function to call when the effect creation has failed
         * @returns the new Effect
         */
        createEffectForParticles(fragmentName: string, uniformsNames: string[], samplers: string[], defines: string, fallbacks?: EffectFallbacks,
            onCompiled?: (effect: Effect) => void, onError?: (effect: Effect, errors: string) => void): Effect;
    }
}

    Engine.prototype.createEffectForParticles = function(fragmentName: string, uniformsNames: string[] = [], samplers: string[] = [], defines = "", fallbacks?: EffectFallbacks,
        onCompiled?: (effect: Effect) => void, onError?: (effect: Effect, errors: string) => void): Effect {

        var attributesNamesOrOptions = ParticleSystem._GetAttributeNamesOrOptions();
        var effectCreationOption = ParticleSystem._GetEffectCreationOptions();

        if (defines.indexOf(" BILLBOARD") === -1) {
            defines += "\n#define BILLBOARD\n";
        }

        if (samplers.indexOf("diffuseSampler") === -1) {
            samplers.push("diffuseSampler");
        }

        return this.createEffect(
            {
                vertex: "particles",
                fragmentElement: fragmentName
            },
            attributesNamesOrOptions,
            effectCreationOption.concat(uniformsNames),
            samplers, defines, fallbacks, onCompiled, onError);
    };

declare module "Meshes/mesh" {
    export interface Mesh {
        /**
         * Returns an array populated with IParticleSystem objects whose the mesh is the emitter
         * @returns an array of IParticleSystem
         */
        getEmittedParticleSystems(): IParticleSystem[];

        /**
         * Returns an array populated with IParticleSystem objects whose the mesh or its children are the emitter
         * @returns an array of IParticleSystem
         */
        getHierarchyEmittedParticleSystems(): IParticleSystem[];
    }
}

    Mesh.prototype.getEmittedParticleSystems = function(): IParticleSystem[] {
        var results = new Array<IParticleSystem>();
        for (var index = 0; index < this.getScene().particleSystems.length; index++) {
            var particleSystem = this.getScene().particleSystems[index];
            if (particleSystem.emitter === this) {
                results.push(particleSystem);
            }
        }
        return results;
    };

    Mesh.prototype.getHierarchyEmittedParticleSystems = function(): IParticleSystem[] {
        var results = new Array<IParticleSystem>();
        var descendants = this.getDescendants();
        descendants.push(this);

        for (var index = 0; index < this.getScene().particleSystems.length; index++) {
            var particleSystem = this.getScene().particleSystems[index];
            let emitter: any = particleSystem.emitter;

            if (emitter.position && descendants.indexOf(emitter) !== -1) {
                results.push(particleSystem);
            }
        }

        return results;
    };