Crafting Particle Effects

Particle systems are a very common feature of game engines which make it possible to render cool effects like fire, smoke, explosions, and more.

Today we're going to implement a basic particle system in C which will be exposed up through Mesche to enable the game to add configurable effects anywhere they're needed!

The design:

• A particle system can have one or more particle "sources"
• A particle source has a generation geometry with origin relative to the system
• A particle source's can be configured to control how its particles get generated
• A particle system's origin can be changed every frame (to follow game objects, etc)

Particle factors:

• Number of active particles
• Particle lifetime (min and max)
• Particle velocity (min and max)
• Particle oscillation on x or y axis
• Particle color
• Particle fade

What else?

Check out the code: https://github.com/FluxHarmonic/syphon-break