OpenGL:Tutorials:Tutorial Framework:Particles In this example, We're going to extend the principles used in the Ortho example to produce a nice particle effect. Setting Up Each particle has unique position, direction vector, color and a 'life' values. These values are contained by a structure: typedef struct { float xPos,yPos,zPos; float xVec,yVec,zVec; float r,g,b,life; }SpriteInfo;
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Some comments on OpenGL rendering of particles When rendering particles in OpenGL there are many possible ways to represent them. The following goes through some of the possibilities with associated pseudo-code. At the very basic level it is possible to simply render the particles as points: glPointSize( 3.f ); glColor4f (1.0f,1.0f,1.0f,1.0f); glBegin(GL_POINTS); for(i=0; i<npoints; i+=nskip) { glVertex3f(x[i], y[i], z[i]); } // Done drawing points glEnd(); This produces a plot below: In the next level, it is possible to replace the points with "point sprites". Sample Western Europe Travel Itinerary - StumbleUpon Dublin->Glasgow->Edinburgh->Manchester->London->Amsterdam->Rotterdam->Brussels->Paris->Bordeaux->Zaragoza-> Madrid->Lisbon->Lagos->Sevilla->Malaga->Valencia->Barcelona->Toulouse->Marseille->Lyon->Geneva->Bern->Milan-> Genoa->Florence->Rome->Naples->Venice->Munich->Stuttgart->Frankfurt->Berlin->Hamburg->Copenhagen See it all with this itinerary. Start in Dublin and see the Emerald Isle before having Haggis in Scotland. Head down towards London and then over to Amsterdam.
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Simulating Particle Effects using OpenGL Particle Effect In this article I will demonstrate one possible way to implement a particle effect in C++ using OpenGL to render the effect. This demo uses the fixed function pipeline and the host processor (CPU) to perform the simulation. In this article, I will use OpenGL and GLUT to render graphics to the application window. If you do not know how to setup an application using OpengGL and GLUT you can refer to my previous article titled [Introduction to OpenGL for Game Programmers] available [here]. Particles systems have been used extensively in games for many years.
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