[LED] Winter Billboard

[Shockwave]

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

[ninogenio]

wow this is excellent shockwave!!,

i like everything about it. really well done mate!

[Shockwave]

Thank you sir

[bikerboy]

...... just speechless man .....

it's a-m-a-z-i-n-g ! , the music , the snow, the oldshcool feeling, everything fits like a glove 

great job there guys both nick and ampli for the tune

hey i'm on the greetings too cheers man

[Shockwave]

Glad you like it mate.

[Pixel_Outlaw]

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)

[Shockwave]

Thanks P_O, the snow is just GL_Points

[hellfire]

Funny contrast between the dark & icy colours and the happy chiptune and bouncing letters
I totally love the closeups
The tune sounds somehow familiar, who made it?

[Shockwave]

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

[bikerboy]

XM attached

just saw it again lol can't get enough of it

many thanx man love the tune

[Jim]

The weight of the snow is just right.  The led effect is good too, but the scroller is too infuriating to read!

Jim

[Shockwave]

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

[Hezad]

Very cool entry ! 

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 

[va!n]

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 

[Dr.Death]

All i can say is amazing shocky you really have packed a lot into a small size m8 

& the tune!!!!

Could you make the billboard a bit bigger so its a bit better to read??

[Rbz]

Very nice, and the scroller even have a threat inside 

[AnimalMother]

Yeah, you did a really good job. The snow effect looks damn nice 

[Shockwave]

Aww, thanks folks! I am glad you like it

after 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.

[ninogenio]

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.

[Shockwave]

I used glscale to invert the matrix, reversed the winding order, rendered everything upside down and then drew the chessfloor with  glblend enabled