DirectX - Particle System

Made some changes and upgraded my particle system. Finally set it up so it works on the geometry shader which has improved performance by quite a lot. I get around 680 fps with around 80,000 particles.

Looks almost like snow!

The main problem I'm having currently is separating the emission rate from the frame rate, just now every frame it emits a new particle so it does this as fast as it can. This means that when the frame rate drops the number of particles emitted per second will be less.

Spiral particles

Currently my goal is to fix this, I've already got it generating 10 times as many points but there are some problems with actually getting them all to render in the same pass. Other than that, hopefully I will get finished up this week then can do some data analysis next week, comparing this system against the older CPU based one.

Still gets 680 fps with most of them visible

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