[Bf-funboard] Re: more jobs

[Paul Lunneberg]

You just sent chills through my body!  Very cool!  Very Cool!
As for precalced particles or on the fly calc... My preference would be precalc,
just for speed considerations on slower systems.

Quoting Martin Poirier <theeth@yahoo.com>:

> > - Particle system deflectors / attractors
> > Just simple force field generators. Fun!
> 
> fun indeed!
> 
> I'm probably not suppose to talk about code on this
> board, but I've got a lot of maths and functionnality
> regarding particles already done and working (need I
> say: Dynamica). The problem is that, if I understood
> the code correctly, it would be somewhat hard to
> integrate without a complete rewrite of the particles
> engine
> 
> Now, there's the problem of either going with
> precalculated systems (like the one already used)
> which are fast, but would need to be recalculated very
> often, especially if you add intereaction with other
> objects OR calculated as you change frames (which is
> not a so good idea, but it works).