Advice: guidelines for using kool for a simulation tool

[nort3x]

Hi,
I'm not sure this is the right place to ask this,
I'm thinking about using kool for a massive molecular dynamic visualization tool,

main headline is:

• massive number of particles (~10^6)

can you give me some advice?
is kool the right fit?
anything i should review before starting this project?

[fabmax]

Hmm 10^6 is a lot but should work if done right.

The easiest way would be to use a PointMesh and simply add your particles as points. However, points have a fixed size (independent of camera distance) and no ligthing effects, which can look a bit odd.

The alternative is to use a low resolution sphere or cube mesh with instancing. This also works with lighting but might get slow when you hit large particle numbers.