Smooth Particles

I'm wondering if anyone out there has a decent technique for having particles work with very fast moving objects.

In my game, I have an object that's moving at 1000 pixels a second. It's spawning a smoke particle every tick. I note that the particle has a slight gap between it and the next one. I'd like to remove this gap, and was hoping someone knew of a great method for doing so.

I would say use bigger smoke images - or, at least, increase the size and shape of the particles so they overlap with each other. I'm not sure of the effect you're after, but hopefully something like this might work and is low on particle overhead?

If you save to old position of the sprite in some variables, you could then use a loop and lerp to create particles in between the positions.

Colludium Looks great for the most part. Might try to increase the number of particles, as it does become hard to see at high speeds.

R0J0hound That sounds a little bit above my abilities.So you're saying store the pos of 2 particles and use lerp to get the position between the two, then create a particle in that space... Might that be quite CPU intensive?

AnD4D, I've updated my project linked above with an example of how to use lerp to interpolate between the previous and the current bullet position. R0J0hound 's suggestion is more robust and will give you more options and control over your visual effects.

Colludium Brilliant! Thank you!