Sparks

[psygate]

Good Morning (in fact, it isnt a good morning because im ill.)

I've got a question:

I wanted to do a little laser which schould look like  a little beam which is "burning" the letters into the screen. Thats not the problem, but how could I do the sparks, which are flying away if metal is very hot and gets burned?

[DrewPee]

What a cool effect that would be - I remember something like that being done on the amiga on the electronic arts logo - I think it was the intro to turrican but I may be mistaken! It looked cool on there!

DrewPee

[Shockwave]

That wouldn't be too hard to do, you just need to make a small particle routine to draw pixels that fly off in a random direction and gradually fade out as they go.
If you need any help in doing this, please let us know