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[Medo3337]

I want to make smoke particles move towards a certain 3D point.

D3DXVECTOR3 startPosition;
D3DXVECTOR3 endPosition;
D3DXVECTOR3 m_velocity;

The particles should start at startPosition and move towards endPosition

 

I'm updating the velocity for each particle every frame by doing something like:

position += m_velocity * timeElapsed;

How do I set  m_velocity  to make the particles move towards endPosition ?

[Milcho]

I'm not directx expert, but something like this:

D3DXVECTOR3 direction = endPosition - startPosition;
D3DXVec3Normalize(direction);
m_velocity = direction * speed;  

Where speed is a scalar value (A float or double) that represents how fast you want to move.