I didn't get as much time to work on this as I had hoped so it's as finished as it's going to be by the challenge deadline.
No more free time until January! Ouch ;)
Hope you like it :)
wow this is excellent shockwave!!,
i like everything about it. really well done mate!
Thank you sir :)
...... just speechless man .....
it's a-m-a-z-i-n-g ! , the music , the snow, the oldshcool feeling, everything fits like a glove ;D
great job there guys both nick and ampli for the tune ;D
hey i'm on the greetings too :carrot: cheers man :D
Glad you like it mate.
First of all WOW you shure stuffed a hell of a lot into that little box!
I was impressed to see a solid framerate too. Great work. (Nice little cube snowflakes)
Thanks P_O, the snow is just GL_Points :)
Funny contrast between the dark & icy colours and the happy chiptune and bouncing letters ;D
I totally love the closeups (http://www.pouet.net/gfx/rulez.gif)
The tune sounds somehow familiar, who made it?
Ah, now I am smiling, When I saw your reply I was thinking maybe you'd say that the colours needed a tweak :) I must be learning slowly.
The tune is by my wonderful friend Ampli.
It was used on a s!p music disk coded by Zaxe. Ampli will tell you (to his infuriation) that I totally love that song, I think it's the best tune he has ever written, even though his newer songs are great too I think that it's hard to top that chip tune.
XM attached :)
Quote from: Shockwave on December 16, 2008
XM attached :)
just saw it again lol can't get enough of it :P
many thanx man love the tune :D :D
The weight of the snow is just right. The led effect is good too, but the scroller is too infuriating to read!
Jim
Quote from: Jim on December 16, 2008
The weight of the snow is just right. The led effect is good too, but the scroller is too infuriating to read!
Jim
You're towards the front of the greets list so don't worry :)
Very cool entry ! :goodpost:
But I must admit the scroller may be hard to read in some angles, and my eyes were a bit painful at the end (because of the quick moving letters).
Anyway, it stays an awesome entry !
Cheers and thanks for the greeting ;D
nice one.. small problem here.. (possible its my hardware?)... when the greetz started the screen was frozen while music was playing... i thought its crashed end pressed ESC some times.. after 3-5 seconds the demo continued without problems (scroller position was ++ in the meanwhile ^^)...
Btw, many thanks for greetings :kewl:
All i can say is amazing shocky you really have packed a lot into a small size m8 :clap:
& the tune!!!!
Could you make the billboard a bit bigger so its a bit better to read??
Very nice, and the scroller even have a threat inside ;D
Yeah, you did a really good job. The snow effect looks damn nice :)
Aww, thanks folks! I am glad you like it :)
Quoteafter 3-5 seconds the demo continued without problems (scroller position was ++ in the meanwhile ^^)...
That has just made me even happier, I'll confidently say that something was updating or doing something on your hardware and not giving anything to the intro, the scroll was ++ when you came back to it because I have delta timed every aspect of it so that it runs at the same rate on all compatible computers.
I'd like to make the matrix bigger and do more stuff with it, hopefully in January I will. Ampli and I are planning some effects for this, I'm going to take the idea, re-code it with a few scenes and release it as a 40kb for Codigos. :)
The good news is that the Codigos version will even have a Sid song.
how did you blend the background in with the floor? im curious cause its a very nice effect and id like to try it out sometime.
I used glscale to invert the matrix, reversed the winding order, rendered everything upside down and then drew the chessfloor with glblend enabled :)
sorry mate, i didnt mean the reflections i meant the black shading on the floor i have a few ideas but i wanted to hear how you went about it.
< edit or do you mean the you blended the skybox with glblend too >
glfog :)
There are two lights in the scene too, one is static and the other moves around with the camera.
Hope that helps?
that does indeed thanks mate. :cheers:
Nice one shockwave! I agree the snow is superb! Makes mine look like sh!t.
Seriously though - really nice work!
DrewPee
:clap: good one!
Thanks for the nice comments.
Drewpee, I seriously doubt if yours will be shit.
Please post it when its done mate, we really appreciate everyone who supports the comp with either encouragement, advice, entries or votes :)
I will post eventually Shockwave - i don't think i will have anything ready for this competition though but I will share the code i have re-written - just in case anybody would like to see how i did mine?
DrewPee
Excellent. I love the Snow and also Wavey Leds Fonts bouncing too.
Good Really Close up to see the Detail of the LEDS
welldone :)
So sweet work!! I like the display as it is (ie. pretty small) and this sized letters. Very cool.
Awesome atmospheric in the whole thing because of the fog and reflections.
Blue is also nice. A quality prod.
I'm drooling over to see that 40k you were planning. 8)
They are Amplis ideas really, he wanted me to add all kinds of things to this scene, I'll no doubt re-code the LED matrix to make it suit.
One of his plans which I really liked were cubes with physics falling all over the place and shaking the scene.
Hehe, so you are trying to say you are innocent to these crimes and it's actually ampli who does all the masterplanning :-D
Nice idea! Didn't Keops do something similar in Stargazer btw. (Cubes falling with physics) It was awesome stuff!!
Looking forward to what you are gonna release.
Good environment,
Good snow,
Good LEDs,
Good entry,
Nothing else to add ;)