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From: Elliott Lee <tenchi@shell.jps.net>
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Subject: Re: dust,smoke effects
Date: Mon, 07 Sep 1998 04:11:34 -0700
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I'm working on some smoke effects for my current project.  In one
case you have a missile firing and it leaves a trail behind it.  I'm
using a bunch of semi-transparent cloud-like sprites.  As the missile
travels, you store (in an array) the last, say, 10 locations the
missle was and you put your semi-trans smoke sprites there.

Short of actually modelling a complex particle field, a bunch of
mini clouds make pretty good smoke.

There's a start...
- e!

doglife wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I saw some "dust/smoke" effects on one of the demo games. Does anyone
> know how to do them? I dun have any idea where to start. Do i create
> multiple sprites or what?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Doglife

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