Creating other spells

By playing around with particle systems, you can create a variety of different spells that do different effects.

The fire spell

You can easily create a fire variant of our blizzard spell by changing the color of the particle system to red:

The out val of the color changed to red

Exercises

Try the following exercises:

1. Lightning spell: Create a lightning spell by using the beam particle. Follow Zak's tutorial for an example of how beams are created and shot in a direction, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywd3lFOuMV8&list=PLZlv_N0_O1gYDLyB3LVfjYIcbBe8NqR8t&index=7.
2. Forcefield spell: A forcefield will deflect attacks. It is essential for any player. Suggested implementation: Derive a subclass of ASpell called ASpellForceField. Add a bounding sphere to the class, and use that in the ASpellForceField::Tick() function to push the monsters out.

What's next? I would highly recommend that you expand on our little game here. Here are some ideas for expansion:

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