I have been working on porting some code that draws a neat "flurry" object on the screen, from opengl to directx 9. I have managed to port the main code base, and have the flurry rendered on screen. But because I am rendering it as a D3DPT_POINTLIST, I get a flurry composed of vertices instead of the neat fog like effects that opengl seems to render it with. I'm wondering what I can do to achieve the same look in DirectX? Here is a pic of it rendered in opengl and again in directx: http://nvsx.net/i/ad2bf.png Keep in mind these were rendered at different resolutions! The original code and binaries can be found at Matt Ginzton's blog: http://www.maddogsw.com/flurry/

Thanks for the feedback! After an hour of messing around with my code to use point sprites I have something that is much closer to what I want: http://nvsx.net/i/915d2.png But the point sprites are very sqaure, is there any way I could make them more round and/or is it possible to make the 4 lines of sprites for each "leg" on the flurry blend together? I really need the 4 lines of sprites for each leg to blend into something that closely resembles fog.

After adding a texture and tweaking the flurry code some I was able to get the effect I was looking for! Thank you both for the replies!