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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Engine FX

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 03:41
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What do you believe is the best method of making futuristic jet engine FX? I'm using a randomly rotating, ghosted plain at the moment which is the best I can do. I used to use spheres with scrolling textures(unrealistic), moved onto cones and then tried particles(slow).
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RiiDii
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Posted: 12th Jul 2005 04:15
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Your best bet is to probably do something up in a 3D modeling program (like Milkshape) and fine-tune it to your liking that way. Then import the result into DBPro. This would be similar to using spheres with scrolling or animated textures, but you can make it look more realistic by manipulating the mesh. ghosting the object should help too (or play with alpha mapping and other effects).

"Droids don't rip your arms off when they lose." -H. Solo
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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 13th Jul 2005 01:33
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Main problem is, I'm using turbocad 8 which is $10 and great, but does not texture things. I've downloaded several versions of Milkshape to several computers and it just crashes with an empty msgbox().
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Zero Blitzt
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Posted: 13th Jul 2005 07:13
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Anim8tor (not sure if thats the right spelling >_>
Wings3D

Both free, those are off the top of my head.


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Murdock 743
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 12:26
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I'm a fan of blender, but thats only if you can get around the "Too Many Button Syndrom" and the learning curve is rather steep... but once you learn it, it is wonderful (sometimes professional looking)
Cheers,
Christian
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that dude
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Posted: 15th Jul 2005 17:02
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http://www.thegamecreators.com/?m=codebase_view_shot&i=f17f2ae121838f9afa4b3c9f3df947f0

or, use textured plains with a particle animation on them.

http://www.nuclearglory.com/?u=fearik = sweet as hell collision system. easy on that leather thing in your back pocket too.
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BatVink
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Posted: 16th Jul 2005 04:49 Edited at: 16th Jul 2005 04:58
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How about the Particles Pack. Screen shot is from this demo I knocked up. I used fire, but you could use any other image to get different effects. I didn't attach it to an object, but it could easily be flaring from a jet engine.

http://www.biglaugh.co.uk/trail.zip

Made with Smart Particles (http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=56065&b=8&p=0)



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