Custom particle system for trails
by Andreas Heldt · in Torque Game Engine · 08/14/2005 (1:42 pm) · 1 replies
I have some questions about implementing a custom particle system thats better for contrails than billboarded sprites.
My idea is to draw a kind of cylinder around the axis where the object flew along.
As far as it should be easily plugged in into the existing particle system stuff I thought about inheriting from ParticleEmitter. But it seems this is not the right place to do such things because each particle is rendered on its own and that would be a waste because this cylinder could be drawn faster with strips. Also I noticed there are only drawBillboarded and renderBillboarded and renderOriented Particles methods.
So, where should I begin?
Has anyone some experience with this?
My idea is to draw a kind of cylinder around the axis where the object flew along.
As far as it should be easily plugged in into the existing particle system stuff I thought about inheriting from ParticleEmitter. But it seems this is not the right place to do such things because each particle is rendered on its own and that would be a waste because this cylinder could be drawn faster with strips. Also I noticed there are only drawBillboarded and renderBillboarded and renderOriented Particles methods.
So, where should I begin?
Has anyone some experience with this?
Associate Kyle Carter
Particles are rendered individually in TGE, I think, while TSE batches them.