Pixelcraft

11th June 2003 19:20 UTC

First Renderless Preset
I had a superscope in this preset that wasn't behaving:p so I took it out and there was still a decent image on the screen. I touched it up and this is what I got. I think it's pretty cool, but any advice would be helpful :)

-requires colormap.ape-

Raz

11th June 2003 19:34 UTC

Wow, another renderless preset, why restrict yourself by disallowing yourself from using certain effects? This is a quite nice contour type effect, very sloppy though, a fadeout set to 0 and a movement with none selected. I like the colour shine though, make the colours change and add a flow type DM to the contours to make them more interesting.

Pixelcraft

11th June 2003 20:17 UTC

v2
Okay I fixed that up. The DM is still in progress, but now I have a question. I cycled the colors on colormap from blue -> red -> green. It's normal when it goes from blue to red, but when it turns green it "strobes." Does anyone know why that happens?

Pixelcraft

12th June 2003 03:29 UTC

Hello? Anyone? It's been about 8 hours since my last post!

*sorry for double posting*

Jaheckelsafar

12th June 2003 08:47 UTC

I liked the first version better, but the invert every frame was very annoying. It really needs something to spice it up.

Pixelcraft

12th June 2003 10:07 UTC

-(sigh)-

d=d*acos(abs(max(sign(0,-5+t1-x1+t2-x2))));
r=r-l*pi-asin(rdm-4*x2+x3*sin(0.3-x4/cos(2*l+getspec(60,3)));
x1=x2+xc-z2; x2=x1+zc-x2; x3=x1+x2+x3-xc+x3; x4=x1-x3+x2*z4+xc;
y1=abs(cos(x+t-sign(r+l-rnd*m)))

don't pay any attention to that....just typing useless random incorrect code for no reason....just bored I guess. Hey, what do you know? It's 4:11 am and I desperately need sleep. Goodnight.

[Ishan]

12th June 2003 10:56 UTC

Goodnight:D

Yathosho

12th June 2003 16:22 UTC

Originally posted by Raz
why restrict yourself by disallowing yourself from using certain effects?

Pixelcraft

12th June 2003 17:33 UTC

Re: v2

Originally posted by Pixelcraft
Okay I fixed that up. The DM is still in progress, but now I have a question. I cycled the colors on colormap from blue -> red -> green. It's normal when it goes from blue to red, but when it turns green it "strobes." Does anyone know why that happens?

Kagnar

13th June 2003 16:37 UTC

I think it's the delaying of the invert. When you first enable it, it flashes, and then it kind of tones down a bit. When the colormap switches to green, that's when the invert changes. Laying the invert outside of the effect list will fix this, but your designs on the screen will be altered, so that sucks.

But if you don't switch it to green at all, this problem never occurs. Why, I'm not sure, maybe the effect can only handle a certain amount of colors....

Maybe someone who knows for sure should post here, I want to know too. This problem has happened to me a couple times as well.

Phaze1987

13th June 2003 17:03 UTC

I thought that as long as you posted this thread i might as well upload a renderless preset using a bump.With a mirror movement and 2 channel shifts and buffer saves i made 2 bumps from 1 and they look like worms.Its quite incomplete but it looks nice.You can get some sucky plasma effect if you use a movement with x=x/4 and y=y/4(rect. coordinates enabled). :D Any IDEAS are welcomed.

Pixelcraft : i liked the first one more...

[Ishan]

13th June 2003 17:48 UTC

Here's one i made up, actually try playing with the convo to get different styles.

Kagnar

13th June 2003 18:05 UTC

:mad: Does anyone know what is wrong with the fucking preset!??! :mad:

I'm getting tired of asking!

Pixelcraft

13th June 2003 18:15 UTC

So am I

Cool presets Phaze and Ishan

Phaze1987

13th June 2003 20:01 UTC

[21:55] <Nic01> Invert just takes the input and inverts it
[21:58] <Nic01> Because you don't have the clear every frame on. It inverts, output goes back into input, gets inverted again, etc

STRAIGHT FROM #finnish-flash ESPECIALLY FOR Kagnar :D
-my explanation sucked and it was kinda wrong-

UnConeD

13th June 2003 21:44 UTC

Kagnar: if you have a problem with a preset, dissect it until you figure it out. Set the colormap to adjustable so you can fade between the input and the output. The input constantly flashes between inverted and regular.
Because your first two colormaps (blue and red) have black at BOTH ends, both white and black end up the same, and the grays are somewhat symmetrical. Only the green map is different. In fact, if you make your colormap perfectly symmetrical, it will remove the flashing altogether (except for the bump, which is not inverted with the rest). You can use the 'set position' feature of colormap 1.2 to do this. For a point at position X, create an identical point at 255-X.