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[gotmilk065]

I wanted to enhance my particle engine a bit, and the next step is to rotate the smoke particles for a better effect.

Problem is, everything I see on rotating images is done on the CPU and involves essentially resampling the image! Isn't there a simple command to change the rotation of vertices and textures about to be rendered, and then switch it back when it's done?

[jsharrad]

use the sceGuRotate functions

[gotmilk065]

I tried that but it flips the entire screen.. And at high speeds, is it radians or degrees?

[Criptych]

Try using the sceGum* functions.

[gotmilk065]

Well here's what's going on in the function, doesn't work :(

[Raphael]

1.) you seem to try to save some vertices for your particles, to build them all as one large triangle-strip and only adding the bottom-left and top-right vertex. This won't work. You need to render each particle as a seperate triangle-strip or triangle-fan with four vertices. The only option is to use GU_SPRITE with two vertices and apply the rotation on the texture coordinates, rather than the vertex coordinates, but you have to make sure that the rotated texture corners won't get clipped inside the sprite.

2.) With your current implementation, you always apply the rotation of the current particle to the model matrix, then undo it (with sceGumPopMatrix). The only time, the rotation will get applied is in the case when your buffer gets filled (BufIdx>=BufSize), in which case only the rotation of the current particle will get applied to the draw (because all others have been undone before the render command got sent).

3.) You rotate all your particle vertices around the world-view Z axis. This is doubtly what you want. You probably want to rotate the particles around their own center, hence you need to translate the vertice positions into object space (or directly set them in object space - ie place vertices relative to the particles center) and translate them back after the rotation. Since sceGum transformation matrix is applied from left to right, you need to do the back-translation *before* the rotation command (ie

[gotmilk065]

I'm simply not getting this o_o

Your first solution seems simplest, rotate the texture instead of the poly itself, but the whole repeating texture deal if it exceeds the bounds kind of ruins it.

I'm totally lost. Here's my new function, but it's not even displaying the particles at all o.o

[Raphael]

The only thing that is still wrong now, is that the vertices texture coordinates aren't set correctly, which *might* cause the particles to not appear, depending on the texture used.
This should be correct:

[gotmilk065]

I'll try that when I get home.

Until then; Merry Christmas!

[gotmilk065]

:( I even did so much as disabling backfacing; they still don't appear.

Just to let you know, the old function did work, the buffered one, but without rotation, and I had something before that worked withou the buffer or the rotation.