Author Topic: [PHENOMENA] Lucy's diamonds (Read 19037 times)

Kirl · « **on:** November 12, 2011 »

Hello all,

Here's my compo entry, started only 2 days ago so there's lots of bugs and wrinkles left in.
All things considered I'm happy with the result, but be gentle...

The clouds are generated by semi-randomly rotating and scaling a single puff of smoke. For the flashes I pick a random puff from a random cloud, make a slightly larger copy of it in the same location, change the color to a nice purple and finally set it's blendmode to addititve. Then it's faded out and removed. The lightning bolts are just a bit of semi-random scribbling.

I had to attach the swf to this post as a download because I haven't got my site passwords around... Which is probably good pratice anyway, but I would've prefered to provide 1-click acces as well for us lazy web surfers.

Controlls
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Ctrl = toggle auto/manual steering (with mouse)
Up/Down arrow = change speed (only on manual steering)
Space = toggle wheather
Enter = Teh Awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RYCdNlq40A

[EDIT] I did some tweaking after the comp deadline, see the new version here!

benny! · « **Reply #1 on:** November 12, 2011 »

Yeeaaaah ... cool interactive entry, mate. Music fits perferctly and I simply love flying through the clouds.

padman · « **Reply #2 on:** November 12, 2011 »

Fluffy.

Nice effects! I just can't stand Enya, but that's of course just a matter of taste. Really cool for quickie!

Raizor · « **Reply #3 on:** November 12, 2011 »

Really nice Kirl, I love it! I love the Enya music too, it probably sounds a bit too colorful for Padman though

Hotshot · « **Reply #4 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Nice one....Love the Clouds

Jim · « **Reply #5 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Little fluffy clouds. very effective!
Jim

Kirl · « **Reply #6 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Thanks all!

Wish I could've spend a bit more time on it. I pretty much gave up all hope to enter this compo because I lacked Mojo all month, I actually thought I missed the deadline twice (my memory is terrible, it doesn't do date and times). But when I finally started a desperate last attempt to enter something, it kind of worked and now I got tons of improvements which I can't implement on time.

Quote from: Raizor on November 12, 2011

Really nice Kirl, I love it! I love the Enya music too, it probably sounds a bit too colorful for Padman though

lol, enya wasn't available in black and white.

Seriously though, I didn't have any fitting tunes on my HD and was happy I thought of enya in time. I think it goes really well with it, but it is a bit of a risky choice.

neriakX · « **Reply #7 on:** November 13, 2011 »

pretty nice demo, the clouds are looking really great and the music fits perfectly.

Shockwave · « **Reply #8 on:** November 13, 2011 »

One of my favourites, I really love this Kirl, well done!

Optimus · « **Reply #9 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Awesome! Has Enya music too. Very well done.

Rbz · « **Reply #10 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Nice effect and music fits perfectly I think

Kirl · « **Reply #11 on:** November 13, 2011 »

Thanks all, I'm really happy I got something done.

This entry is quite badly hacked in parts, I'm not very familiar with coding 3d and I still haven't figured out how to properly wrap in 3d (detecting the view boundary instead of any virtual box boundary). It wasn't running as fast as I'd like, so I cheated a bit and set the quality to low. You can change this in the flash player if your pc can handle it, but the difference isn't staggering.

After deciding I liked padmans lightning better I think I'm going to tweak the lightning bolts a bit. If I got something I'll post the results after the challenge.

combatking0 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2011 »

I like the 3D effect on the clouds.

The motion of the camera made me feel sea-sick, and Enya wasn't helping

The lightning was the best I've seen so far in this competition, plenty of detail.

Kirl · « **Reply #13 on:** November 21, 2011 »

Thanks ck0!

I have uploaded an updated version in which fixed most remaining little annoyances, including:
- z/depth wrapping, clouds wrap backwards as well now and don't dissappear when you're through them.
- Clouds fade out on aproach, so you don't pop through.
- Tweaked the lightning bolts and flashes a bit.
- Fixed the text size, a bug caused it to be a different scale on every flythrough

All pretty simple fixes I probably could've finished before the deadline, but at that point I was pretty tired of hunching over my screen.

I also updated my first post with a bit of theory on how the effect was done. It's really simple and a lucky first attempt!

spathi · « **Reply #14 on:** November 24, 2011 »

That looks really nice.

Raizor · « **Reply #15 on:** November 24, 2011 »

Looks great Kirl. I still really love it! The lightning is especially lovely

padman · « **Reply #16 on:** November 24, 2011 »

Yep, great work. The lightning looks way better now! But you still forgot to remove one annoyance: Enya

Shockwave · « **Reply #17 on:** November 24, 2011 »

Ah yes, it looks even better than before

Kirl · « **Reply #18 on:** November 24, 2011 »

Thanks all!

Quote from: padman on November 24, 2011

But you still forgot to remove one annoyance: Enya

lol, your opinion is wrong sir!

Clyde · « **Reply #19 on:** April 04, 2012 »

That's Awesome - very impressive!!
I feel like I'm flying!!