Particle Team

Goals

• The particle system must be general and fast.
• Specialized particles implemented from generalized template (ie. CollisionParticle? from Particle, ShellParticle? from CollisionParticle?, MachineGunShellParticle? from ShellParticle?)
• Particle modifiers that are applicant to one specific branch of the particle hierarchy (ie. CollisionModifier? can be applied to CollisionParticle?, ShellParticle? and MachineGunShellParticle? while ShellModifier? only applies to ShellParticle? and MachineGunShellParticle?)
• Not depend too heavily on virtual functions

Useful resources

•  Building an advanced particle system
•  Designing an Extensible Particle System using C++ and Templates
•  Optimzing virtual functions
  •  Fast delegates
  •  Curiously recurring template pattern