Particle fire routine

[SBM Productions]

www.geocities.com/shashiraja_1/fire.zip

A particle fire routine. My first Freebasic program. Tell me what you think.

[relsoft]

Rad!

[Badjas]

Looks cool

remarks though..
Use pretty printing.. X) really

I found the fire a bit slow moving.. I played around with upping the particle speed (say, RND*-16-0.5) but I dun like that either X) the base needs some extra attention, more yellow. So I made these cruel changes to the colorlookup X)
for i=0 to 255
colorlookup(i)=(i) shl 16
colorlookup(i+128)=16711680+(i*2-256) shl 8
colorlookup(i+256)=16711680+255 shl 8
colorlookup(i+512)=16776960+i
next

And that made me think it would be cool if some yellow or white particles would make it through the whole screen but I ain't gonna dive deeper into the code

And.. because of some clipping of particles at the sides there is somewhat of a line there which isn't that nice. I changed that so it doesn't clip, but doesn't draw outside of the range either. Bugs me though that the side of the fire is an almost static cone shaped thing. I made the particle x starting pos range much smaller but the cone stays at that position.

ehm.. I mostly just wanted to play ^_^ . cute program!

[Blitz]

Nice, one question though. Do you hate indenting and seperating different parts with empty lines or what? =p

[SBM Productions]

I never indent my code. I do usually put spaces between them but if I ever release the source I've somehow made it a habit to remove the spaces(I sometimes leave 3-4 spaces and comment out 10-20 lines of code that I trialled).

[Blitz]

Any particular reason for that?

[SBM Productions]

I somehow thought the emptiness spanning 5-6 lines might annoy some programmers looking at my code. Stupid me :oops:

[na_th_an]

It's exactly the contrary

[SBM Productions]

I know that now........As for indentations, I don't like them because when I was programming a few years ago(under 95) I used to cut and paste alot from Notepad. The indentations made the code go stair-case like and it separated chunks of code from each other. So I don't put indentations.

[1000101]

The solution to that is to use a real-editor and save the code in it, load in the compiler (of course, why would you need to use the QB IDE if you are using another IDE?)

[Antoni Gual]

Use Metapad
http://www.liquidninja.com/metapad/
It has indent QB Style (Select+TAB) , configurable tab width, is only 100K.
I erased Notepad from my copy of W2000...