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Title: Lavapit Demo
Post by: mike_g on August 21, 2007
I thought I'd try and finish something for a change. So here it is:

(http://i92.photobucket.com/albums/l15/mikegrundel/Lavapitdemo.jpg)

Download link (http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=get62)

Its 600 and something K, so I couldent upload it to the site. If Shockwave or someone feels like doing it that would be cool. Its kind of lacking sound, and it might run a little slow for some of you with older computers. Hopefully It wont be too slow tho.

[Link fixed ~ Shockwave]
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Paul on August 21, 2007
Link not working here :(

looks exciting with those yellow triangles though

[edit] blue triangles, lol[/edit]
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Shockwave on August 21, 2007
Dead link Mike, upload it here mate;

http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl (http://dbfinteractive.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl)
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: mike_g on August 21, 2007
Sorry, looks like sitesled is down at the moment  :-\ Nevermind, I uploaded it to the showcase. Cheers.
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Shockwave on August 21, 2007
I like the idea of the hot embers floating up out of the Lava, the sierpinski triangle thing and the scroller could be set on fire as well? :)

Blitz struggles with this kind of program, it runs pretty well considering it's all pixel pushing :)
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Clyde on August 22, 2007
The design is terrific dude. Great to see you've sorted out the fire routine, also like the "Keep it Simple text" in wiggly upscroller. Nice touch with the transparencies and the triangle formations.

If you're in need of music, you can always try a visit to: www.modarchive.org

Welldone Mike :)

Cheers,
Clyde.
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: benny! on August 22, 2007
Nice one. I like the lava idea a lot. In addition, smooth design. Well done!
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Jim on August 22, 2007
Very nice demo.

Jim
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: mike_g on August 22, 2007
Thanks for the nice feedback everyone  :cheers:

Shockwave: Nice idea, but I don't think I would be able to get it fast enough with everything on fire. Its pretty slow as it is.

Clyde: Thanks for the link, and the font :)

Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: taj on August 22, 2007
Karma++ for uploading a cool new demo mike.
I like the balls, they do a remarkable job of suggesting lava when added to your fire. I was quite amazed.
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: DeXtr0 on August 26, 2007
Hey Mike_G,

I like the triangles also very much !
Great idea and cool effect. Aswell as the sinus upscroller  :clap:

Keep it up,D
DeX
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: mike_g on August 26, 2007
Chris and DeXtr0: Thanks, glad you guys like it :)
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Tetra on September 19, 2007
Very nice, I like your scrolling text alot. Nice way of displaying the triangles too, but I think the alpha effect brought a sweat to my poor 1.2GHz :D

If you are drawing the whole fire buffer and blending every pixel including the black ones as it is, then you souldnt really get much of a slowdown if the text or triangles, or atleast the edges of the triangle draws some info into the fire buffer. You could even just draw the top edge of pixels from the text as info into the fire buffer.
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: mike_g on October 09, 2007
Cheers tetra. I know its slow, thats why I'm trying to get into C++ a bit more right now. I was only drawing the fire image to roughly where the image turned to black. While there is room for some optimisation in my code, I doubt I'll get back to it :( Oh well on to bigger and better things I hope...
Title: Re: Lavapit Demo
Post by: Optimus on April 01, 2008
Great upscroller! Cool screen.