• Install Visual Studio
• Open the solution file particle-fountain.sln
• Build the solution or hit F5 (Run without debugging) to run

OR

• Run the particle-fountain.exe in the particle-fountain/Debug folder.

This program accounts for all of the requirements in the assignment outline with the addition of 5 extra features.

• Gravity
  • Decided to use a gravity constant of 0.0981 to stay roughly true to life
  • In the bonus feature, the moon gravity is set to 0.0162 to stay relatively proportional
• Ground bouncing
  • Reducing the speed by 50% per bounce seemed to have the best result
• Die after falling off edge
  • All particles have a lifespan of 240 frames, meaning fallen particles will be removed
• Friction ground
  • When particles contact the ground, their bounce and their speed gets reduced until they are static
  • They despawn after 240 frames automatically

• S - Random speed toggle
  • Toggles the speed randomizer for the projectile velocity
  • Speed is 1 when disabled
• Q - Fire mode toggle
  • Cycles between automatic continuous mode, manual hold-to-fire, and manual single-shot, as described in assignment outline
  • Manual and single-shot mode is controlled with F
• Z - Random scale toggle
  • Switches between static scale for all particles and randomized scale
• R - Random rotation toggle
  • Toggles between no rotation and random spin rotation amount per particle
• H - Toggle menu
  • Show/hide the menu overlay
• I - Reset/initialize
  • Clears particles and resets all parameters to default s
• ESC - Quit
  • Closes the window

• Normals and lighting
• C - Random colour toggle
  • Toggles between random RGB colour values and static colour blue
• X - Random shape toggle
  • Toggles between random shape for each particle and shape selector
  • Switch between shapes using number keys
  • Shapes include:
    • 1 - Sphere
    • 2 - Cube
    • 3 - Tetrahedron
    • 4 - Torus
    • 5 - Cone
    • 6 - Cylinder
• G - Moon gravity (new effect)
  • Lowers the particle gravity
• A - Spray mode toggle
  • Toggles between a narrow spray stream and wide spray stream