SpriteManager and Particle Systems

[Twoflower]

I'm trying to make a fairly generic sprite emitter, for things like falling dust, smoke, flames, etc...

Problem is I'm not really much of a python coder, so best I've managed is a hackjob version of SnowBlossom, which lets me constrain the starting XPos of the particles so they aren't the full width of the screen. See here. https://pastebin.com/njSN2D6s

It's super not great because I can't seem to change the anchor point of the individual sprites, making them scale or rotate around the upper left corner only, and it's not suitable for other types of particles. It's a hack at best and I could really use something better...

Does anyone have a good, generic ParticleBurst style function that's valid for 2018 games? I've searched the forums and only found old code from before SpriteManager came into being. I'd prefer a modern solution.

Thanks!

[Donmai]

I remember xela made some experiments using ATL and user-defined displayables:
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36127
viewtopic.php?f=8&t=36451

[Twoflower]

I've tried that script -- can't quite get the right parameters to make a convincing flame or dust falling, although a single point of chaos looks fine. Hoping for something a bit more documented or flexible, I'm not knowledgable enough about python to make that one do everything.

Any ideas about the anchor problem? My modified snowfall would generally work okay if not for the inability to set the anchor point for transforms. It's stuck at 0,0.