Bumpmapping lighting

Can't wait to pump some scratched floortiles with this one really, it'll boost any game's normal solid ground up a notch

Bumpmapping ftw indeed.

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poor horse

Ok so lets talk about effects... http://youtube.com/watch?v=DkCj1YD8tUc

-Fog

-Blur

-Shockwaves (???)

Ok so lets talk about effects... http://youtube.com/watch?v=DkCj1YD8tUc

-Fog

-Blur

-Shockwaves (???)

What we need is a easy Particle object.

Ok so lets talk about effects... http://youtube.com/watch?v=DkCj1YD8tUc

-Fog

-Blur

-Shockwaves (???)

If a suitable refract shader is used, we could have blurred shockwave effects that'd look great on explosions and general fighting scenes (great example of an explosion refract shader here)

Fog can already be achieved with an animated sprite and using a Blurmask on it.

"Particle Object" like the one in MMF?

"Particle Object" like the one in MMF?

A similar one would do it, but with an effects dropdown menu so it'd add blurring, HDR or anything else on each particle if you so wanted...

Bumpmapping ftw!

Indeed!

So, how does the light work? Is it a sprite overlay like in Attan's Lightswarm demo?

> Ok so lets talk about effects... http://youtube.com/watch?v=DkCj1YD8tUc

> -Fog

> -Blur

> -Shockwaves (???)

>

If a suitable refract shader is used, we could have blurred shockwave effects that'd look great on explosions and general fighting scenes (great example of an explosion refract shader here)

Fog can already be achieved with an animated sprite and using a Blurmask on it.

Can't you do this with magnify?

I would say most if not all the Dishwasher effects can be done already through creative use.

Still hope for multiple 3D objects, with animated textures and phong shading! Well, I'll settle for just more 3D objects too

Adrix89 is right, a magnify shader can do explosion "shockwaves" like that. Black doesn't zoom at all and while zooms a lot, so I guess you'd just draw a greyscale shockwave and resize it really big, while fading it out with opacity.

So, how does the light work?

It's done by shader parameters so it's not quite so easy as having a sprite, and at the moment it's also in texture coordinates which makes it a little fiddly, but it works. I'll see if I can make it a bit easier to use.

Would it be possible to leave room in the light code to do this kind of stuff?

<img src="http://xs126.xs.to/xs126/08156/light132.jpg">

Where the light is blocked by certain objects? I know you were wanting to eventually implement dynamic lighting type stuff eventually, and this seems like the beginnings of that sort of thing...

I looked in to it, but I got stuck handling multiple lights. I'll try have something like that done for 1.0.

I looked in to it, but I got stuck handling multiple lights. I'll try have something like that done for 1.0.

your avatar shows exactly what you mean!

Adrix89 is right, a magnify shader can do explosion "shockwaves" like that. Black doesn't zoom at all and while zooms a lot, so I guess you'd just draw a greyscale shockwave and resize it really big, while fading it out with opacity.

> So, how does the light work?

>

It's done by shader parameters so it's not quite so easy as having a sprite, and at the moment it's also in texture coordinates which makes it a little fiddly, but it works. I'll see if I can make it a bit easier to use.

I just tested this trick, it worked! However to achieve the full effect you'd need to change the object's size on the fly using an animated sprite.