SPARK Particle Engine

1.5.5

SPARK is an open source library allowing to easily implement full particle systems in C++ applications.

SPARK has been designed to be :

• user friendly and easy to implement
• very configurable and as complete as possible
• evolving and upgradable by users
• portable and library free (it only uses the standard library)

Global Description

in SPARK, a SPK::System is a collection of Groups of Particles. A SPK::Group contains a SPK::Pool of Particles and defines an complete universe for Particle evolution. This universe holds 3 types of physical objects :

• the Emitters : an SPK::Emitter is an object that generates Particles
• the Modifiers : a SPK::Modifier is an object that will modify Particles behavior
• the Particles themselves : a SPK::Particle is a point that will follow physical laws and will be given some parameters that will evolve from their birth to their death.

Those parameters are defined by a SPK::Model of Particles.
The Emitters and Modifiers are physical entities whose body is represented by a SPK::Zone.
A SPK::Vector3D is the primitive object used in SPARK to represents triplets of coordinates in a universe 3D.

Finally a system/groups can be renderered using a SPK::Renderer.