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Code Snippets / Simple approach to simulate water effect

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skovron
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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 02:40 Edited at: 4th Oct 2003 00:00
Just a simple Water Wave Effect
It generates waves on bitmap while you moving mouse and pressing left button.
The code is"ver unoptimised" so it rather run slowly but still it someone may find it useful. Experiment with some variables and remember to load rather small bitmaps, I used 320x240 becouse larger couse it run very very slow.

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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 01:13
You have posted a DEMO that requires an external file, can you incorporate the external file into the demo or give a link for it to be downloaded.
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Posted: 27th Sep 2003 22:09
Yea, sorry for that (you could use any picture)
but ofcourse, here is the link for example picture

http://www.arena.free-host.com/examples/example1.jpg
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Posted: 28th Sep 2003 14:25
This is very nice.
I think I'll try to optimize it a little bit.

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Posted: 30th Sep 2003 01:43
Just let me know when you finished. Id like to compare this 2 versions
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Posted: 30th Sep 2003 13:27
Well, at least I could double the frame rate.
I wished that I could do more, but it's really hard for me to see throw the code.
I think I'll try to understand this code fully .


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Posted: 30th Sep 2003 14:41
Ok...
I could increase the sync rate once more.
Now it runs with ~28 fps on my pc.



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skovron
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Posted: 30th Sep 2003 18:11
Wow! Great work!
I had ~26 with last improvement and now I've got ~36

by the way, didnt know that inc, dec are faster than standard +, - operators
skovron
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 13:04
I saw that when the waves disapear the image stays a little "pixelized" (It looks nice too, like picture from some voxel engine). To solve this function UpdateHeights() should rather looks like this:


I mean there souldnt be checked condition: and (tx<>x or ty<>y)
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Oh...you're right, but it is a little faster, when you don't syncronize what you don't have to.
It's better to use this function even if there is an unwanted effect at the start .



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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 17:12
ok...forget about the last post.
There are more unwanted effects than wanted .

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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 18:51
OMG! That is an amazingly amazing effect. Looks so realistic. Great job !

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skovron
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Quote: "It's better to use this function even if there is an unwanted effect at the start "


I didnt mean the effect at the start but that when all waves stops, when image became "dissolved" (dontknow is it wright word), but now it dissapeared and it looks very good and ofcourse compared to the first version it run almost like a rocket

Really good job D Man.
D Man
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Posted: 1st Oct 2003 19:47
Thank' you , but you had the idea and I knew how to optimize it .
Great job from you, too.

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skovron
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Posted: 2nd Oct 2003 10:31
Thanks!
I've got this code i Code Base so I'll update it with this version and I'll give you credit (wright word I hope).
What do you think about?
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I definately agree that you should update the entry in the Code Base but you don't have to give me credits, as this was your idea, but if you wan't I've nothing against it .

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skovron
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 13:43
Well I've updated the simulation with 2 more effects.
Now under keys 1, 2, 3 you've got three effects
1) old one (move mouse and press lmb)
2) something I called rain
3) similar to the 2nd but drops are bigger and slower

here's the code


and the bitmap:
http://www.arena.free-host.com/examples/example1.jpg

again: enjoy
D Man
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Posted: 4th Oct 2003 00:21
Good idea and thanks for the credits .

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Posted: 5th Oct 2003 00:25
Great!

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Posted: 5th Oct 2003 00:29
Hey I made a screenshot for all you guys Great effect, this should encourage you to try it out

Effect: 'Rain Drops'



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skovron
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Posted: 5th Oct 2003 00:58
Hey thanx for your promotion
I thought this topic will die soon but.... now
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No prob Skovron Just promoting a great snippet

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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 13:12
"Simple Water Wave Effect"... It looks VERY complicated to me.....

Uh.....duh.....whut?
skovron
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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 00:35
I'm not good at english.
But still it's simple not becouse the code is easy to understand without comment but simple becouse it isnt accurate. I mean the algorithm rely on "simple" approximation instead of ray-tracing.

I dont know your programming skil but belive me that many programmers which know how to generate waves using grids would say that it is very easy

On the other side I agree that it is always hard to understand code written by somebody else especially when its not comment well (as my code is)
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 12:55
I noticed that when playing KOTOR that they use something rather interesting... I believe that it's a bitmap that's ghosted and scrolled diagonally creating a wave effect. Looks really realistic too. I suspect that your code runs something a bit like this. Am I correct?

I find your lack of faith...disturbing.
D Man
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Posted: 17th Oct 2003 13:07
No, you're wrong .

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skovron
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Posted: 18th Oct 2003 15:18
Youre wrong. No ghosted and scrolled bitmaps.
It just for every pixel checks height difference (along x and y axis) then this differences added to pixel coordinates gives new pixel position and that pixel is being copied from original bitmap

take a look at pseudo code:

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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 23:31
That's a nice effect. Have to experiment with it.

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Posted: 26th Oct 2003 12:26
remembers the effect that you can play with while WaveRace GC is loading the track

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niiiiiiiiiiiice

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