Defacto2 Site Intro by S!P + Electric Druggies

[Shockwave]

Code: Shockwave/S!P
Music: Michu /TRBS/ED
Gfx: Illusionmaker/ED

Released Mon 19th May 2008

Hope you like it

Also released at Pouet: http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=50581
Intro Inferno: http://www.intro-inferno.com/production.php?id=6225

[Dr.Death]

As i said before SWEET intro m8   

[Shockwave]

thanks

[Clyde]

Nice one mate

[Rbz]

We don't have that sort of candy here, but your intro looks delicious 
Welldone!

[rain_storm]

Love the text really bouncy searching through defacto2.net right now

[benny!]

Awesome production, mate. Congratulations 

[Jim]

Just as good as it was last time, but still massive distortion at the edges and corners due to cranky perspective calc

Jim

[energy]

Nice one Shockie!!! 

[Shockwave]

Thanks for the comments

Jim I fixed the perspective calc but I didnt like it as much so in the end I compromised and it is still a bit bent at the edges now but I did try it with a more conventional

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    GLUPERSPECTIVE 85.0, W_XW / W_YH, .01, 500.0


and scaled down the objects accordingly but to me it ended up looking too much like a nehe tutorial, I bow to nearly everyone's programming experience here, I am 4/10 on the scale but sometimes you need to keep the quirks or you lose the character and as I don't have the ability of some people here I would rather keep my quirks! It gives me an edge I would not otherwise have.

I did try it your way too though, I appreciate your advice and I wouldn't want you to stop giving it

[Stonemonkey]

Very nice work, especially as a firsty with opengl. I've messed around a bit with perspective and it can be overpowering and not look too good but I don't think that at all about this and it all fits together pretty well. If you are after some criticism though, mine would only be the dark pixels showing up a bit around the logo.

[Shockwave]

Yeah I agree with that, I feel a bit bad about that logo actually. It looked a lot better before I got my hands on it. Most of the criticism the intro has attracted has been aimed at the logo and it was really my fault, not the artist.

[benny!]

One general advise concerning sitetros :

How about another button (on Windowed/Screen popup screen)
or another dialog box after escaping the intro - that asks the
user if he wanted to visit the website the intro is advertising ?

Using some simple WinAPI commands opens standard browser
with given URL AFAIK (cannot remember exact WinAPI function -
was it ShellExecute or something like this ).

EDIT:

Just looked it up - here is the code if someone is interested :

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LONG r = ShellExecute(NULL, "open", "http://www.microsoft.com", NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Should work with FreeBasic, too - since you have access to the
WinApi, haven't you ?

[rain_storm]

that deserves some Karma what a useful snippet thanks for looking that up benny

[Shockwave]

Cheers Benny Nice tip! and K+ indeed.

[benny!]

Thanks guys 

[va!n]

@Shockwave:
Very nice intro! I feel me hungry when seeing the intro *thumb up*

[Shockwave]

Very kind comments, despite my stooopid delta timing bug