Yesterday night I finalized the first draft of the PATRIA 3D fire effect.

The new effect is based on a scalable/programmable particle system based on OpenGL with blending and alpha channels.

The effect looks quite promising considering the youth of the solution which still requires a lot of code optimization.

  

 

A more detailed example of the fire effect system:

 

 

 

 

 

Special thanks to http://nehe.gamedev.net/

Special thanks to M. Shieh