CHAPTER 3 ■ WORKING WITH 2D IMAGES/TEXTURES IN XNA 3.0
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3-12. Create a 3D Explosion Effect/Simple
Particle System
The Problem
You want to create a nice-looking 3D explosion effect somewhere in your 3D world.
The Solution
You can create an explosion effect by additively blending a lot of small fireball images (called
particles) over each other. You can see such a fireball particle in Figure 3-22. Note that a single
particle is very dark. However, if you add a lot of them on top of each other, you’ll get a very
convincing explosion.
Figure 3-22. Single explosion particle
At the start of the explosion, all of these particles are at the origin of ...
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