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Submitted by , posted on 20 November 2000
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here's my entry for the Screenshot of the day. It shows the showing-part of
my experimental particle system at work. The showed effect is a fire effect
with distraction to the lower right corner and some flight-range overgrowth
so that it looks little more chaotic ;).
Some words about the program itself: It currently consists of 2 parts. The
creator and the shower. I divided this cause the creator uses MFC and I
guess performance would be much lower if I had implemented the shower also
into that. The particle system has following features:
unlimited amount of particles (ok, limited by performance ;)
100 color-steps per particle (you won't need more, believe me)
Horizontal and vertical distraction
Flight-range overgrowth
Up to 10 gravity points with pos/neg gravity (easily extendable, but it's
unlikely that you'll need all 10 and more)
The rendering is an additive effect that makes everything a little more
interesting because some cool effects were caused that weren't originally
planned (But it's cool to have them ;). Well, in the shower module you can
move the particle spawning point around and so cause fire-trails a.s.o. The
only serious use I can now think of is testing particle effects before
implementing them. Apart from that it's a nice toy and fine to look at
*hopefully*.
And that's it. If you know an effect that I could implement, don't hesitate
to post it here or to drop me a mail. BTW: All other mails like questions,
suggestions, flames a.s.o. are also welcome. Send 'em to: jdohl@hotmail.com
Ok, hopefully my English wasn't too bad at all ;).
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