Smokestack with smoke animation?

[Thorsten]

But that wouldn't be backwards compatible, at least I couldn't think of a way.

No, but we could offer an optional a new variant to be used henceforth. Once we can assign an effect to particles, we can fix lots of issues - depth ordering, correct lighting, heck, we can even have Mie scattering on smoke.

OpenGL wouldn't touch the colors, only the particle animations settings would.

Ah, yeah, just tried - it's pretty much the same as making them emissive - if you disable lighting, they never go dark when the light goes away, so you have to control the color yourself.

Which I consider as a hack, because there's no good way to do this consistently for all rendering frameworks and all weather situations outside the shader.

[erik]

No, but we could offer an optional a new variant to be used henceforth. Once we can assign an effect to particles, we can fix lots of issues - depth ordering, correct lighting, heck, we can even have Mie scattering on smoke.

I'll see if I can come up with something to enable shader effects for them,.

Erik

[erik]

Forget it, The OSG particle system is crap and the effect implementation is undocumented crap.

Erik