particle effects

kudi, you can find nice particle demos at nehe.gamedev.net
i really enjoyed particlesim and particle playground (you can download sources for this one). and NeHe tutorials are quite good too ...

Sorry, it was my fault. I use DirectX for my engine, not OpenGL, but thanks for the information ramses.

Then you may want to check out Witchlord''s site, I think that has a particle demo in Direct3D.
Also, there are a couple of articles on gamasutra about particles too, which aren''t to difficult to find if you look.

Finally, you probably should check out the stuff on NeHe''s site because particle basics are the pretty much the same no matter which API you use to get them on the screen.

hope you get a good system running,

-Mezz

There are some particle demos in the dx sdk.

One particularly nice one under the d3dx samples.

There is an awesome particle demo in the SDK that does reflections, gravity, and particles.

go to www.mr-gamemaker.com, there is a good tutorial (among many others)