Win32, OpenGL and ODE Physics

Particles

By Alan Baylis 14/08/2002

• Download for Dev-Cpp
• Download for Visual Studio 7.0
• Online Documentation
• Tutorial

A particle system is a fundamental part of any graphics engine and well worth the effort. They can be used for a lot of different effects such as sparks, fire, smoke and a lot more. This demo only demonstrates a few basic types but adding new types is made a whole lot easier with a particle system manager. The tutorial describes the process I used in the demo.