ROADMAP.md

Roadmap

This is an unordered list of planned features. Nothing here is guaranteed to be added.

Core

• 2D particle systems¹
• Add smoothstep interpolation for GradientEdit
• Add editor_only checkbox for colliders (useful if already present in-game)

Godot feature parity

Features from GPUParticles3D and ParticleProcessMaterial not yet implemented in Sprinkles.

• EmitterData
  • EmitterTime
    • speed_scale
    • preprocess
    • fract_delta
    • interpolate
    • interpolate_to_end
  • EmitterDrawPass
    • ParticleMesh
      • Custom GLTF
    • DrawPassMaterial
      • Convert it from an enum to a struct and add optional shader fields to it directly
  • EmitterEmission
    • amount_ratio
    • EmissionShape
      • Point
      • Box
      • Points
      • DirectedPoints
  • EmitterScale
    • scale_over_velocity
  • EmitterColors
    • hue_variation²
    • hue_variation_over_lifetime²
  • EmitterVelocities
    • velocity_limit_over_lifetime
  • EmitterAccelerations
    • linear_acceleration
    • radial_acceleration
    • tangential_acceleration
    • damping (+ ParticleFlags::DAMPING_AS_FRICTION
  • EmitterTurbulence
    • initial_displacement
  • EmitterSpritesheet²
• AttractorData

Editor

QoL

• ⌘ + Z (undo/redo)
• Reorder emitters and colliders via drag and drop
• In-editor docs
• WASM build

Settings

• Check for updates automatically
• Grid / Floor / Skybox
• Light mode (maybe?)
• Footnotes (version, hash, links/buttons...)

Testing

• Stress test example
• Regression tests with screenshots

Docs

• Guide for using Sprinkles in-game

Footnotes

1. Eventually. ↩

2. Not personally planning to, but go for it! ↩ ↩² ↩³