Here is another approach to shading sprite particles.
This time I mix a blurred mesh with sprites.
Enjoy!

Very Nice! And more perfomance from this variant!

Glad you like it.
But anyway... Such things work much better using raycasting/raymarching...
Have you seen that? https://vimeo.com/79975906

No, but this video impress!

love the particles demos of Fairlight :

http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=61883
http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=53647
https://directtovideo.wordpress.com/200 ... le-system/

Very cool stuff indeed. Tons of respect to Fairlight!