Canar

7th November 2004 09:26 UTC

Flailing
Eh, decided to release some stuff I've been playing with lately. Dunno if anyone will find it interesting at all, but I certainly had fun making it.

Most of 'em severely abuse the mirror. I've saved a few to disk without mirrors, but I figured for compactness I wouldn't include 'em.

Comments are always welcome, be they good or bad.

Cat Squared

7th November 2004 11:43 UTC

Nice texer presets!!:) i really like the DM on "A zebra of a different stripe (fluidly logical mix)":up:

mind telling me how it works?it has a lot of code!!:confused: ...come on canar,tell me:blah:

Canar

7th November 2004 18:54 UTC

The DM is from my old AVSociety days. It's essentially a moving movement. Instead of being locked in the centre, it moves around the screen like a moving particle. There are three mini-movements in the default configuration. It was the basis of a preset called "Moving Particles are for Weenies" which made it into AVSociety vol 4. Here are the docs for it, from that pack:

Here is the DynaMove that makes everything groove.

The key variables are in the Init:
rad - The radius in which the effect is 100%
fp - Fade power. Controls how quickly the effect fades off after leaving the radius.
afp - Like fp, only controlling alpha blend.

Nothing special in the frame or beat areas. They just control movement of the effects.

The pixel area's where things get sorta hairy. There are loads of variables, but all end in a number. The numbers are just for identification. 1 for the first effect, 2 for the second, etc. Copy, paste, and edit the numbers for more. I'm going to replace all the numbers with underscores in the documentation here.

Stuff to mess with:
px_ - The x-coordinate of the effect.
py_ - The y-coordinate of the effect.
NOTE:The read and write bits of the d and r variables are separated, unlike in a normal movement.
d_ - The d-variable to read from in the mini movement.
r_ - The r-variable to read from in the mini movement.
dd_ - The d-variable to write to in the mini movement.
dr_ - The r-variable to write to in the mini movement.

You'll have to manually add the xd_ and yd_ onto the end if you add another mini movement.

Doggy Dog

7th November 2004 19:07 UTC

Interesting pack, the effects are nice, but almost every preset could use better colours. Nice to see an old AVSociety member AVSing again.

That would be my review if you released it here :).

I remember that DM.... one of the first "complicated" DM's if I remebmer correctly.

Cat Squared

7th November 2004 20:16 UTC

Thanks Canar;) i now understand it!! basically its a few dm's in one,right?you have certain 'points' where to do the rotations 'n stuff.

Anyway i remember the old AVSociety preset paks...i hav the Anthologies and TV4.:up: nice!!!