Particle System Explosion with animated materials

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Hey, just thought I’d share the fruits of my afternoon downtime today with an explosion made with the blender particle system. I used an animated halo material to create this and just wanted to put it out here. It also makes for a good missile trail with some tweaking.

~Spleeny

oops, forgot the file…
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tzyeiumzgm1

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I find explosions look just a little cooler when you add a small particle system using lines drawing mode and a little emit value in the material.

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yeah, i’ll probably update this after school with a line particle system and some sparks.

~Spleeny

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actually, is there a way so that the particles don’t always face the camera?