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mysterious_w

20th October 2004 11:39 UTC

mechnix
blah. 3D.

Mr_Nudge

21st October 2004 01:42 UTC

Mechnix is mad! the other one is a bit of a let-down with the water effect, it's been overused and just looks ugly, but good work on the scopes!

Warrior of the Light

21st October 2004 22:17 UTC

Wow! you've made some great progress here!! Don't like the watered version though. I can't really see the difference from what we were doing 3 years ago and this, except the Texer II, but it's hardly visible...
But the other version kicks ass!! Well done! it's just that I don't really like the flickering colors.

tip: you increase the colors twice, in t and in c (with a way too high value too). My solution:
BEAT
rt=rand(10)*.01
FRAME
t=t+rt <-- or set it to c=c+rt (or rc for that matter)
POINT
c=t; <--leave this out please!! I only wrote this for clearing it out.

Tuggummi

21st October 2004 23:46 UTC

Particle size fix on resolution please.

You can for example use: psx=w/yourwidth ; psy=h/yourheight ;
sizex=finalsizeofx*psx ;
sizey=finalsizeofy*psy ;

Or you can just go straight with:

sizex=finalsizeofx*psx ;
sizey=sizex

This keeps the aspect ratio of the particle size to original, since both sizex & sizey are the same.

Otherwise, nice progression, but doing 3D just for the hecks of it usually ain't a good idea ;) Use only what you need to, not what others might think is "cool".

PAK-9

22nd October 2004 16:42 UTC

Tugg is wrong, all wrong.

Aspect ratio correction is smelly and uneccesary... and you should always do what's cool. And all the best presets are 3D for the sake of it.

Tuggummi

22nd October 2004 22:10 UTC

No, PAK-9 is smelly and uneccesary and we only put up with him, because we don't want to hurt his feelings.

Mr_Nudge

23rd October 2004 04:53 UTC

Originally posted by Tuggummi
No, PAK-9 is smelly and uneccesary and we only put up with him, because we don't want to hurt his feelings.

amen ;)

mysterious_w

23rd October 2004 15:28 UTC

Originally posted by Tuggummi
Otherwise, nice progression, but doing 3D just for the hecks of it usually ain't a good idea ;) Use only what you need to, not what others might think is "cool".

Yaeh, but I think 3D is cool. Always have, always will.
(Unless it's really really bad, slow 3D, or plane DM's)

Warrior of the Light

23rd October 2004 17:12 UTC

My opinion: for this particular preset, aspect ratio isn't really needed. No-one would mind anyway. Why would they *need* to be square in the first place?

PAK-9

24th October 2004 12:41 UTC

I may be smelly and uneccesary, but... er... what was the other thing you said?