Many games, even on current "next-gen" hardware, render particles using camera facing quads - veteran coder Krazanowski (Tomb Raider: Anniversary) suggests a neat alternative solution using pixel shaders and a little bit of math.
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It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Though a bit on the technical side, I hope we can see some of these sorts of effects creep into more games soon. So long as they don't slow them down too much anyway, since laying on the pixel shaders can weigh on the GPU pretty quickly.
The RSX is very strong at pixel shading, so shouldn't be a problem.
for graphics to be used in all full aspecs and not just for hi-rez photo-realistic textures. As particles effects my big is on LostPlanet, the explosions in that game looks awesomely smoked, and the next one will be KillZone2 hopefuly.
The smoke monster is eating the 8 ball :S
looking at the stuff from stalker clear sky the smoke doesn't look near as impressive. The smoke actually reacts to movement making proper trails and vacuums in clear sky, it's just amazing.