texCoords = malloc( sizeof(texCoords[0]) * totalQuads);
vertices = malloc( sizeof(vertices[0]) * totalQuads);
indices = malloc( sizeof(indices[0]) * totalQuads * 6);

subImage = [[Image alloc] initWithTexture:texture scale:subImageScale];

and

texCoords = malloc( sizeof(texCoords[0]) * totalQuads);

Both give me leaks when tested with the leak monitor tool.

even with the same settings… in fact the problem is that the texture doesn’t take the colors i put… every particle gets a different color (Green Red or Blue) and it’s quite ugly…

any idea on what should i do?

Thanks for that, yep this was testing on a 3GS and your fix solves the problem. Many thanks saved me a lot of time! I will hopefully have my game in the app store very soon, another spectrum classic i may add.

Many thanks Andy

I think I do know what your problem is. During beta testing of SLQ it was noticed that on iPhone 3GS devices you would get this large secondary artefact somewhere on the screen. This was traced back to the partile size going below zero, which it can do if you have a size on the variance.

The fix is to make sure the particle size does not go below zero as shown below.

vertices[particleIndex].size = MAX(0, currentParticle->particleSize);

Let me know if that solves your problem.

Mike

_explosionEmitter = [[ParticleEmitter alloc] initParticleEmitterWithImageNamed:@”texture.png”
position:Vector2fMake(160, 240)
sourcePositionVariance:Vector2fMake(5, 5)
speed:1.0f
speedVariance:0.5f
particleLifeSpan:0.5f
particleLifespanVariance:0.8f
angle:0.0f
angleVariance:360
gravity:Vector2fMake(0.0f, -0.00f)
startColor:Color4fMake(1.0f, 0.4f, 0.0f, 1.0f)
startColorVariance:Color4fMake(0.1f, 0.0f, 0.0f, 0.5f)
finishColor:Color4fMake(0.8f, 0.8f, 0.8f, 0.5f)
finishColorVariance:Color4fMake(0.1f, 0.1f, 0.1f, 0.0f)
maxParticles:500
particleSize:16
particleSizeVariance:20
duration:0.025f
blendAdditive:YES];