VRAM usage

Sure here ya go.

I also included the png I used for the particles.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/exploparticles.cap

I made a tut for Gimp a while back that shows you how to make that.

http://guicon.110mb.com/?Tutorials:Explosions

very nice, but it starts out a bit too yellow. It reminds me of an explosion generator my bro (quazi) made a while back.

Plus it also shows something a pre rendered sprite can never do.

Actually, I find they're more useful than particles in every way, aside from performance. Care to explain why a pre rendered sprite can't do this?

[quote:2qx4j18w]Actually, I find they're more useful than particles in every way, aside from performance. Care to explain why a pre rendered sprite can't do this?

Im talking about the randomness a rendered animated sprite cant do. Not an emitter made of sprites.

Newt not bad I admit but after all my prerendered is a hellalot of simpler to do than that and I found way to reduce the VRAM amount in my effects to that level it's almost same with ur only like 0,5mb higher I think

I'm using particleIllusion 3.0 to create magnificient explosions and fire etc etc

I've used ParticleIllusion 3.0.... and It's sprite-based, so you should be able to achieve the exact same effects you get there in real time (and with the extra of procedural variations).

Maybe we'll need a few new shaders though!