piR

22nd April 2003 12:32 UTC

Here I am again ...
with 3 new presets ... at the bottom of this page :

http://perso.club-internet.fr/pcharpen/avs_real.html

Sorry, it's still in french, but I give you a short description of them in english here :

Galaxie : You're moving around a dancing galaxy. And there's a little surprise on beat ...

Quidditch : Just for fun (and for my daughters both in love with H. Potter). Try to load it before the first beat ...

Electrique : A simulation of an electrical engine I can't remember the name.

If you want to download all the presets of the page, there's a link on a zip file at the beginning of the page [for those who knows, I've done it ;-)].

That's all folks !

Tuggummi

22nd April 2003 13:00 UTC

Good work again PiR, excellent coding.

Galaxy - Nice and all, but doesn't really "fly" in my opinion. It's a bit too blurry and dark i think, though that might be different with high fps & high resolution.

quidditch - Hahaha, that's amazing superscope work you got there :up: Technically i love it, but since im not a harry potter fan i don't get any extra kicks out of it :)

eletrique - I like it, though the colors aren't quite in place sort of said, it response great to music. Good one :up:



I think you should put some english comments on your presets, do a couple more and then pimp them with nsis and put a pack on winamp.com, because your work is quite good :)

Hope to see more in the future.

Raz

22nd April 2003 15:15 UTC

Nice work.
I don't like the galaxy one too much because the idea is way overdone. Still a nice preset though.
I thought the quiditch one looked more like a garden with butterflies and the like floating around. Nice
That electric balls looks great. I was doing something similar but yours is better. Nice job.

Jaheckelsafar

22nd April 2003 17:05 UTC

I wasn't to impressed with Galaxie and Electrique. They looked nice, but I didn't think there was enough action in them.

Quiddich was pretty cool, but why was nobody chasing the golden snitch? :p

anubis2003

22nd April 2003 21:06 UTC

They're nice. I've definitely seen something like galaxy before.

shreyas_potnis

23rd April 2003 10:56 UTC

quidditch is the best. i am a harry potter fan. can you include the stands too?

Phaze1987

24th April 2003 10:16 UTC

i hate harry pothead!! But the quidditch preset is very nice though i agree with raz,looks more like a garden :) Also the galaxy preset is a bit too dark for a galaxy and electrique is cool,but could be better.Excellent work dude!

piR

24th April 2003 12:50 UTC

Thanks to all !

Some answers ...

For all : I generally test my presets in fullscreen 800x600, 80%, pixel doubling, no wait for retrace (PIII at 933 MHz). As long as the framerate is not above 20 fps, I try to optimize / reduce the preset. That's my reference.
So, my presets are constructed to be seen in that mode : this explains the "butterflies" and other "blurry" ...

For Jaheckelsafar : I tried to make the "catchers" (in french, "attrapeurs") chase the golden snitch, but, they were to good and always catch it at the end (that means the end of the game ...). So, I let them walking all over the "garden" :-)

For Shreyas_Potnis : I tried too, but I had a big problem with the order of the draws, the stands were all in front of or back to the players. I didn't find a way to draw them before and/or after the players (in fact, I do not search very seriously ...).

For Tuggumi : I've tried to understand how to use NSIS, but ... :(

Thanks to all again !

shreyas_potnis

24th April 2003 14:09 UTC

one mistake in the quidditch I found: there are only 3 chasers in one team.
tip: use a quaffle and a bludger too.
and as for: "I didn't find a way to draw them before and/or after the players "
I think using a maximum blend will solve the problem

piR

24th April 2003 16:54 UTC

Well, maximum blend will show players by transparency if stands are dark and cover them if they're bright.

About quaffle (in french "souafle") and bludger (in french "cognard"), I haven't put them because the first one is generally in some hands, and the second one is too small and not lighting ...

About the 3 chasers, I think we have a translation problem, because each team has :
1 goal, 3 chasers, 2 beaters, 1 catcher
in french :
1 gardien, 3 poursuiveurs, 2 batteurs, 1 attrapeur.

You can easily see them if you start the preset without music ...

piR

24th April 2003 17:59 UTC

Ooops !

I'm at home now (I was at work) and I see I've put 4 chasers ...:(

Sorry.

piR

25th April 2003 09:19 UTC

I've changed the preset. There are now 3 chasers in each teams.
As I have a little more available resources, I've made a little improvement in the drawing of the hoops.

The new version is in my site.
http://perso.club-internet.fr/avs_real.html

Thanks to Shreyas_Potnis

Phaze1987

25th April 2003 14:32 UTC

Try using the EDIT button ;)

shreyas_potnis

28th April 2003 11:35 UTC

for the first two posts he could, but i doubt for the third one...

mikm

30th April 2003 01:43 UTC

Galaxie: a little blurry, like people have said. Make the explosion brighter.

quidditch: nice! add the other balls, have them go through goals, etc.

electrique: a plasma ball? colors need to be more purply, more movement, esp. in 3D

A way to do the transparencies:

do your 'background stuff'
add a replace buffersave to #1

do the 'over stuff'
replace buffersave to #2
multiply --> infinite square
invert

effect list (ignore/multiply)
..buffer restore (replace) #1
[end effect list]
buffer restore (max) #2

(there might be a better way, this is what I have found to work)

NemoOrange

1st May 2003 04:05 UTC

looks like you superscope work is great!