A few months ago I was given a challenge by one of our designers. They wanted a trail of smoke rising slowly from a pie as a part of a design on a customers site.
Click here to see my first draft
Needless to say it sounded like a fun little job, since it was basicly a particle engine with a few tweaks.
What is a particle engine you might ask, well the short and easy way to explain it would be that it's a engine/coding class that can keep track of multiple sprites with fading alpha values.
The sprites used can be anything from crude solid boxes to circles with higher intesity in the center.
Over the next few posts I'll be building a standard particle engine that can be tweaked into pretty much any 2d job. (3d particles is a whole other ballgame)
- Kenneth C
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