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    Particle effects?

    I tried to find some particle effects. Is there some? Maybe tB-GL.inc? I've not found them yet but in order to make another game I'd like to use particles for cool special effects. Have some hint for me?
    I think there are missing some Forum-sections as beta-testing and support

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    OpenGL does not have any functionality for particle effects, and TBGL also not at the moment. I was tempted to add them multiple times in the past, but the problem is that particles are very general thing.

    I did lot of examples on particles in pre-entity era, but I think I could help you with this and create something using entities. What do you need the particles for (what kind of effect: smoke, fire, ...?), in what amounts (few, thousands, ...)?


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    I would use them different kinds as emitter to be the "exhaust" of some spaceship, and for other games like glow/flashing/lightning so some clicked objects disappears not just like poof- and gone- but with some visual spectacular effect to make it look more interesting. Cool would be some emitter-entity where you can set particle amount, (directional or sphere-like around one point) , density, size, lifetime and color for all purpose from water-fountains to volcanos.
    Also nice would be some like electrical power charge that looks as lightning, welding or a short circuit. "Random lines" that connect two points but not in a straight way
    I think there are missing some Forum-sections as beta-testing and support

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    There is an older example showing some kind of particle emitting, you can see I used TBGL_EntitySetTarget to keep the particles face camera.


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