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PROGRAMMING => C / C++ /C# => Topic started by: ferris on June 12, 2009

Title: Simple 2 Hour Water Effect
Post by: ferris on June 12, 2009: My buddy Zach was playing with a water effect on his iPhone, and dared me to do a better one :P

...so I did :D in about 2 hours :P

Uses tinyptc_ext by rbz and all source is included.

Enjoy!
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Post by: slippy on June 12, 2009: Woow ... that effect looks really nice ...

K++ and thanks for sharing the source ...

Cheers,
SLiPPY
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Post by: ferris on June 12, 2009: Thanks :D Greatly appreciated :)
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Post by: zawran on June 12, 2009: Looks really good.
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Post by: ferris on June 12, 2009: Thanks :D
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Post by: Shockwave on June 12, 2009: That works so nicely, I love playing with it.

Have a karma boost, posting the effect and the source is very cool af you and appreciated.
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Post by: Jim on June 12, 2009: Very nice indeed!

Jim
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Post by: rdc on June 13, 2009: Awesome.
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Post by: benny! on June 13, 2009: That's definately a good one. Respect!
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Post by: mind on June 13, 2009: not too impressed with the framerate (horribly slow on my dual core 2.4ghz) but its very eye-pleasing :)
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Post by: Prodigy on September 14, 2009: pls reupload,attachment not found..
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Post by: Jim on September 14, 2009: Attachment fixed!
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Post by: zawran on September 14, 2009: Looks pretty good :)
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Post by: Dr.Death on September 14, 2009: Amazing m8 :inspired:
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Post by: ferris on September 16, 2009: Thanks guys :) K++ to Jim too for restoring the upload
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Post by: TinDragon on September 17, 2009: Nice effect, I think tetra did a similiar one in blitz a few years back but I dont think it was a smooth or fast at that sort of rez.
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Post by: Way.net on September 17, 2009: I love water effects so this is right up my street.Brilliant stuff Ferris :clap:
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Post by: Shockwave on October 11, 2009: Test
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Post by: va!n on October 11, 2009: Wow! Absolutly brilliant! Possible the best version of this effect i have ever seen! Great Work!
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Post by: Merick on October 11, 2009: *edit*

Shockwave, are there limits to how many lines can be put inside the code tags? The trouble I'm having seems to be from trying to post 155 lines of code inside the tags...
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Post by: Shockwave on October 11, 2009: Quote
Shockwave, are there limits to how many lines can be put inside the code tags

Shouldn't be any limits like that.
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Post by: dmitrinove on March 04, 2010: Hello,
after see your cool effect I have tryed to do some experiment, in attach there is my work.
the code is a bit messed-up due to differents algorithm used, anybody can play with #define and variables to try different solution.
I truly appreciate any feedback or suggestion to improve my code.
All code is pure C + win32 sdk without directx, c runtime library or any other dependency, so it's just 6kb exe without any dependency.
Based on this code I have also build a little windows's screen-saver.
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Post by: Hotshot on March 05, 2010: very good :)
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Post by: hellfire on March 05, 2010: The screen-saver version is a little bit slow on my 1920x1080 desktop.
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Post by: Jim on March 05, 2010: Runs nice on my netbook, good fx!

Jim
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Post by: Shockwave on March 07, 2010: I really like that.
you should enter it into the liquid challenge, it's really good.
It runs nice and smooth here (admittedly I don't have the resolution Hellfire does), really good though.
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Post by: dmitrinove on March 07, 2010: Thanks to everybody,

@ Shockwave: I don't know of none liquid challenge, can You give me more info?
Have You tried the fluide.c code? If You change the BLUR_EFFECT, WATER_EFFECT, COLOR_DEPTH_EFFECT and the variable renderQuality You can get different result, what do You prefer?

@ hellfire: 1920x1080 is really an huge resolution for a not hw accelerate effect, I think there isn't a solution (other to search for a better coder than me :-(), but anyway i see in the tinyPCT they have used the function StretchDIBits() instead of the function StretchBlt().
On my pc i don't see any difference performance with StretchDIBits(), but tomorrow I post a new version with StretchDIBits() to test it on your computer, if You want.

For everybody, why tinyPCT had used the StretchDIBits() and why for the vfw version they have used the LoadLibrary() instead of the classic vfw.lib import library? Is on some windows compiler unavailable the vfw.lib library?

Thanks to everybody
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Post by: Clyde on March 08, 2010: The liquid challenge (http://www.dbfinteractive.com/forum/index.php/topic,4642.0.html) is the current themed dbf competition.

very impressive that dude :D
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Post by: gorgh on June 14, 2011: impressive, I'm wondering if its possible to simplify it so it could be run on 8 bit machine
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Post by: ferris on June 15, 2011: Actually, I think the C64 demo Soiled Legacy by Resource did it on the second disk. The water doesn't refract or smooth, but it's not chunky at least :) .