The reason for my absence

Shockwave · June 27, 2006

Sorry I haven't been posting many code snippets lately, the reason being that I am working on a new production with Wham and Roly.

Here's some shots to whet your appetite, a release is probably going to be a few weeks because I still have at least 3 parts to add and I have to get the music.

This really looks unbelievable when it's moving.

By the way, I will be releasing the full source code with the demo.

zparticle · June 27, 2006

Drool!

Shockwave · June 28, 2006

Going to do some more tonight I think.
I want to make a 3D starfield from metaballs for the intro, Optimus had a 2D one and that looked great, wanna see if it's possible in a decent frame rate in software now

.:] Druid [:. · June 28, 2006

screenshots look promising!

* druid is waiting!

Optimus · June 28, 2006

Cool! I have recently made a 3d starfield with ma blobs too, it's a surprise, maybe I'll use it for a PC intro planned and also for my GP32 demo that is almost about to finish (I hope). On the PC it's quite smooth with 512 zooming blobs in 640*480. I've done some quite nifty optimizations that are different in PC or GP32

p.s. The fourth screen is interesting? What is it? Some rasterbar that fades the color of that logo or something diferrent? Gives me some nifty ideas =)

Deleter · June 28, 2006

those fire spheres definitely whet my appetite.

Phoenix · June 28, 2006

More! More!

cirux · June 28, 2006

Looking really nice. Can't wait to see it in action.

Shockwave · June 28, 2006

Thanks for the positive anticipation! I hope that the final product lives up to the hype

Optimus, yeah, I have used a raster fade on the logo, it's quite nice but looks a bit better than just doing a straight fade.
Working on the 3D metaball starfield atm. Can't wait to see your version!

relsoft · June 29, 2006

Looks rad!!!!

Warping fire?

Shockwave · June 29, 2006

I did have a warping version Rel but I removed the warp, unfortunately it hit the speed too much on some systems it still looks ok though.
I will definately be releasing the full source code to this when it's done, I just have a couple of effects to add and then a little bit of spit and polish.

relsoft · June 29, 2006

If you're using GL, you can warp it with texture coords w/o any speed loss. But I would quess this is some bad-ass pixel pushing magic. :*)

Shockwave · June 29, 2006

Yep It's just keen pixels using tinyptc, I tried the warp two ways, first with an affine map and then with some sin and cos and I was sad to lose it but the gain of about 40 fps on my system meant that I had to do it

Maybe when I start playing with GL I'll do a better version

taj · October 03, 2006

ha! I saw this on Pouet and I loved the spheres made of flaming dots. Finally I get to say hello to the authors.

@Hello, nice work@

Shockwave · October 03, 2006

Why, thank you

slinks · October 05, 2006

Forgive me for asking, but is no. 3 a d20 per chance?

Shockwave · October 06, 2006

If I knew what you meant Slinks I'd answer you!

Voltage · October 07, 2006

d20 = 20 sided die.Ã, Ã, Role playing terminology.

Is the 3rd picture a icosahedron?

Shockwave · October 08, 2006

Yes it is an icosohedron.

ninogenio · October 08, 2006

what i was most inpressed with shockwave if your fire spheres i really like the way the fire moves i did a demo based on your sin wave fire once but it just didnt look any where near as good.

what i did was drop my object in the flame buffer then move the object about it looked cool but not as cool as this.