Dark Bit Factory & Gravity
ARCHIVE => Archive => GFX & sound => Topic started by: Shockwave on May 17, 2009
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I found these globes on my HD today while I was having a little tidy up.
I ripped them from an Amiga demo by The New Masters when I was remaking it.
It is such a great animation that I thought I'd share them with everyone, maybe you can use them in something.
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Very cool animation. I wonder if it was done by hand? Also somewhat odd height too.
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They are almost certainly generated with some program mate.
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That's cool, I think it might be cool to see a modern version generated at run time with a more detailed map. Well I guess if you were going that route it would make more sense just to map the texture to a sphere. But this shows just how darn easy some things are now. In a way I feel that a some tricks have become outdated and it is a real shame because they were so innovative at the time. Copper bars for example have little meaning anymore but they used to be such an innovation. This trick would have been very interesting at the time, the viewer might have never seen such a smooth Earth turning. Just rendering a rough sphere was taxing enough, just imagine seeing a sphere of hundreds of implied verticies turning at once!
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When I saw this for the first time it was 1989 and I never even knew what a vertex was :) I to know that I found it mindblowing though, to go from a Spectrum to the Amiga was a huge leap forward in technology.