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making sparks

Started by visla Sep 1, 2006 at 4:30 AM 2 replies 700+ views
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visla
visla
I am just wondering how to make sparks seen million times in games. I am making race game and want to show sparks when two objects collide. Are they some kind of specialy rotated particles or what...
If you don`t do something, something will do, something to you!
i_luv_cplusplus
i_luv_cplusplus
They are most likely just billboarded particles... (so they always face the camera)
OpenGL fanboy.
Zee Man
Zee Man
I guess you can just rotate them in the direction they are going, however, I also read somewhere that you could stretch the billboard over the last couple of frames so that it looks more spark-like.

Don't make my mistake and use point sprites (if you are using d3d) because you cant stretch/rotate or do anything to them.

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