Particle Data

Example C data structure:

struct _particle
    {
     dms::Vector3 position;
     dms::Vector3 tailPosition;
     dms::Vector3 velocity;
     dms::Vector3 color;
     float removeTime;
    };

struct _particle * particleArray;

The particle system code has three major parts:

• Create new particles. Assign them some initial state.
• Update the particles. Move them; remove those whose time limit is reached.
• Draw the particles.

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