Ah I see... thanks! I've been enlightened!

~Adam

Spider wrote:
> 
> I've heard a lot of arguments against me here.
> let me explain my algorithm for fireworks, this is the one I based my
> assumption that it would be difficult to angle a disc correctly.
> 
> It uses several macros, the lowest level macro only creates a circle of
> spheres, centrum in <0,0,0> and then spacing an amount of small glowing
> pices in this.
> 
> next level uses this, to create a globe of sphres, calling the circle
> macro to create each circle and then rotating them around. We now have a
> globe where the spheres are spaced evenly all around a radius.
> 
> Next macro creates several of theese globes, in different radiuses and
> different spacings, and also unions them. Before this, there are no such
> things as unions.
> 
> This gives me a possibility to make an explosion with a very dense inner
> set of globes, and that thin out the further they come.d
> Of course, thre is some amount of randomizatiion applied to each object,
> an the colour and ambient values are faded from inside to outside,
> making it look a bit more like an explosion.
> 
> To make this working with a disc and rotation, there would be neccessary
> for me to make it into one loop(not a big problem, cut'n'paste) next
> step would be to calculate rotation and counteract theese, then it all
> would work, but not as it is applied now. And, I'm not skilled enough to
> make this calculation.
> 
> Furthermore, this would vastly increase parsing time for the explosions,
> thus removing the small optimisations I have done so far...
> 
> //Spider

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