You sneak down the hall and pause just outside the office door, where two enemy guards wait inside. You pull the pin on a grenade and toss it into the room. Blam! After the blast, you enter the office and find the guards dead, but something just isn’t right. The papers stacked on the desks survived the blast without any dire effects. Shouldn’t pieces of paper be swirling through the air? We certainly think so. So we created Ticker Tape, a particle system with 3D orientation, air resistance, and wind effects.

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An overview of the demo can be found here and the demo can be downloaded from there as well.

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