i''ve search for some tutorials or examples, but they all show particle engines that simulate smoke or vapor trails, and also modifyng them i never come to get a nice explosion effect. Some of you has some links or examples ? glHorizon_Project

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im also looking for good explosion tuts/examples, i made one with particles and it looked to much like somthing from the 4th of july instead of a rocket exploding hehe

Why don''t you just shoot out a bunch (like 1000 or something) of particles at random velosities (speed and direction) going from yellow to red, but turn off gravity for those particles?

How I do explosions is just make a couple series of textures as an animated explosion sprite. Then whenever you shoot a rocket at a wall it could play one or two of those animations, shoot out a few sparks and a couple of pieces of smoking shrapnel, and then leave a few lingering smoke sprites that slowly fade away.

-David-

Or you could just modify the colors on Nehe''s particle tut, and use the ''burst'' or explosion idea in that. Thats the idea I''m using in the demo I''m working on now. I think it would work fine, though I haven''t coded it yet and I won''t be able to tell till I see it. Best of luck.

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Or maybe you can do it the hard way, and just draw 40 different textures and display them one after another like an animated gif. LOL.

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I''ve never actually seen a good explosion in a game. The best I''ve seen is in HALO by the late Bungie software. Check it out in the large HALO video, you should be able to find it on fileplanet (www.fileplanet.com). It''s right near the end after they ditch the place their going in to.


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ATronic, the ''late'' bungie software ? I haven''t been keeping up with the halo project like I should be, did something happen to Bunjie ?

There is a pretty good tut at gamasutra.com about particle systems. It shows a pretty neat looking explosion and another one with some nice sparks.

Well i made some experiments and i posted a very simple tutorial (source code + .exe) on my web site, www.web-discovery.net


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