I had an hour or so to spare last night so I thought I'd experiment with putting my procedural fire effect into my game.

DAMN, it's slow :lol: My heat weapon is supposed to burn the landscape so I thought my fire effect would be quite nice (if you don't know what I'm talking about, I did a fire effect ages ago see here and translated it to Pascal) Trouble is, as pretty as it is, it's very processor intensive. So I've decided to drop the idea in favour of a more traditional animated design.. it's more important to keep the frame rates up than to make pretty fires.

I did a search online last night for fire animation and the sites which had actual animations had stolen them from games which I recognise.. so I won't be using those.

I was wondering if anyone knows of any good tools for generating explosions and fire which export as bitmaps so I can put them into my game? I don't mind paying for it as long as it's good.