Particles in C++ using OpenGL

I hope you are trying out something on the lines of what is below:

• Have a structure(C++ struct or a class) to denote a Particle. The structure contains:

  • Particle location (x,y,z)
  • Particle velocity (Vx, Vy, Vz)
  • Particle acceleration (Ax, Ay,Az) //something you might need too..
  • paint function to do the painting of the particle.

• Have an array of this structure. Initialise velocity, position, and acceleration as needed.

• In a separate thread (or in the repaint event, for starting up) do the following:

  • For every particle (element in the array) do:

    • particle[index].velocityX += particle[index].accelerationX
    • particle[index].velocityY += particle[index].accelerationY

    • particle[index].velocityZ += particle[index].accelerationZ

    • particle[index].locationX += particle[index].velocityX

    • particle[index].locationY += particle[index].velocityY
    • particle[index].locationZ += particle[index].velocityZ

    //translate to the location and paint..

    • Use glTranslated(particle[index].locationX, particle[index].locationY, particle[index].locationZ)