Well, the Name says everything..
Give us more controll over the rotation of praticles.
(as example the A6 template FX smoke uses sprites for rotationg the smokepuffs.)
This should be possible with standart Particles as well.
(maybe, even non-facing particles, but thats not that important.)

Greetz TGM

Yes, rotating particles (just .pan) would indeed be nice!

Ditto. :)

yes pleaase! an .oriented-flag (referring to the emit vertex normal) would be nice, too.

for oriented sprites-particleeffects I use entities.. and this is very SLOW.

I vote for a roll property as well

yes... entitys are way to slow for this job...(but even the templates are useing entities for this..)

yes, i missed that feature in GS, too.
That would be a great thing.

I requested this feature some time ago. JCL replied, that this wasn't possible with DirectX.

Well im not sure he would say that without qualifying, because it is possible in DirectX to do almost anything, including particles that rotate. You may however, need a different kind of system than the current one.

While setting special transforms for lots of particles will be slower than normal, it could be used for smaller amounts. If batched sprites were used this could be made faster however.

Also, if paticales could use sahders, then this could be accomplished in a shader.

The current particle system is homemade and would theoretically allow rotating. However we're hoping to use the DirectX particle system in a future version. DirectX does not allow particle rotation. It is unusable at the moment because it's too slow, but it will be faster with DX10. Theoretically it could be a lot faster than the current system that was developed for A5.

Due to compatibility with that future system we won't implement particle rotation. If you need that, just use sprites. They aren't much slower than rotated particles would be.