Awesome Grass - using no events!

I just played the free copy of Kung Fu Panda that came with my XBOX for the first time last night (it sucks horribly), and the grass in that game uses this exact effect to wave around. When I saw it I thought "hehe, Construct."

Of course, it was 3D but that's beside the point.

I did played quite a lot of games in my life. This efect is used in almost every game since year 2000.

Haha well i guess its great to see that professional games use the same technique.The trick is to make it not just rotate back and forth but to increase and decrease height a little bit. The awesome thing about the sine movement is you can configure the values so that they are slightly random. For example, instead of all the grass objects swaying left and right at the same time, you can change the period offset to be randomized by 100%, causing all the objects to sway in the same cycle but starting at different points. However, I might rename Period offset to 'phase' because I think phase is the physics term when referring to waves. Also yeah my grass is a bit crazy and fast, but if you tweak the values in the properties you can make it more subtle.

Yes, this grass is awesome. Sine events are fantastic, i love them.

We all knew we could count on your for high quality grass.

Zero events ... nice touch!

I know ! it's even better than the grass SoldjahBoy hooked me up with

Looks awesome, I'm still amazed by what you can do with Construct

that was brillant!

Yeah it was indeed

thread... RESURRECTION!

Damn! And I thought I had it!

http://www.iscreem.de/GrassCollision.cap

A Mousestroke over the grass makes it sway harder like some sort

of collision. The idea was a basic sine period of 10000. If the mouse hits

set sine period to 1000. That did the trick.

But...

IF Sprite[Sine].Period Lower than 10000

--> Sprite[Sine].Period+100

Idea was to smoothly set the period back to 10000 but sure. From what specific Sprite?

...

I had to use a private variable to get it to work for me.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1024727/grassses.cap

to alastair: thanks for sharing. I thought, I'd look how it looks in unlimited mode - same i have 50fps, I didn't know it's that demanding(347 objects doesn't look too much). I would have to come up with something else if I wanted to use it in a game.

thanks alastair! that did the trick.

o god this is so awesome, really hard not to steal the idea haha