Implenting Paticle Engines

If you''ve seen the source code of several particle engines, what makes you think that someone posting source here will help you?

To write a particle engine, you need to think of three things:

1) how to represent the particles in your program - objects, structs etc.. You need to think about what information you need to store for each particle (position is a good one). There are others...

2) how to control and update the particles. A simple example here is a function that goes through your list of particle structs or objects and updates positions etc...

3) how to draw the particles. A function that loops through your particles and draws them.

See, simple isn''t it. You could also spend 5 seconds and see that there are _LOADS_ of tutorials on this subject and then think of a slightly more focused question for next time you post.
Regards,
DeVore

Before writing my own partical engine I sat down and thought it though (Concepts anyway). Then I went out and compaired what I was doing to others...

Basically my first thought was...''How can I keep track and execute this with the least amount of effort on the cpu, while giving me some flexability to be creative.''



Jenison
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