Pool-allocated CPU particles drawn as additive billboards. More...

#include <cstddef>
#include <memory>
#include <vector>
#include "Types.h"

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struct	mnd::Particle

class	mnd::ParticleSystem

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namespace	mnd

Detailed Description

Pool-allocated CPU particles drawn as additive billboards.

The Engine owns one ParticleSystem. Emitter components push particles into it via Spawn(); each frame Update() ages them, then Render() issues one billboarded draw per live particle right after the lit pass.

Scope: hundreds of particles, no instancing yet. Cheap enough for the boomer-shooter FX budget (sparks, blood, muzzle flash, torches). If counts grow into the thousands, the obvious upgrade is a single instanced draw with a streaming VBO of per-particle data.

Definition in file ParticleSystem.h.

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Detailed Description