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burrbittyburr
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Posted: 6th Oct 2003 06:16
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Ok,
I'm mentally tapped out. I've been trying to make a working explosion that uses plains. You can call me a stupid idiot if you like, but after you do please post some code or a link to tutorial that explains how to make a an explosion using plains.Y'know one that looks good...Anyway I'm sorry if I cross posted, but I'm at my wits end. Please,Please,Please, help me - I'd be so grateful.

Thanks

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andrew11
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Posted: 6th Oct 2003 07:05
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I think it would be better if you used spheres instead of planes. You cant get too realistic with plains.

You just make + texture your sphere, then hide it.
When you want the explosion to occur, show the sphere, then slowly increase the objects size to look like expanding explosion.

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Shady 2005 Simpson
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Posted: 6th Oct 2003 23:56
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why use plains?

just use particles, much easier.

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Van B
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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 18:42
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Pah, nobody in there right mind uses the build in particle engine or spheres for explosions!.

Try this, just psuedo code (Don't have DB handy right now) - but it should give you a start, it's just basic gravity, but it's pretty much all I use. You will need some explosion images though, I suggest using animated ones and cycling through them.


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CattleRustler
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Posted: 7th Oct 2003 19:13
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pah! That depends on the type of explosion you are looking for.

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Van B
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Well he's looking for the type of explosion effect that uses plains.

I'm interested though, how often do you see a sphere used as an explosion, or those little particles?


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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 00:26
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well if you are remaking 80's classic games to learn dbp then you might use particles as explosions quite often. Just a matter of preference I guess.

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burrbittyburr
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Posted: 8th Oct 2003 07:49
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Thanks for the replies,
Van-B I tried working with your code but I couldn't get anything going, really. You said something about DB but I only have DBPro so if you have some non - psuedo code, then I'd really like to hit you up for it.

Thanks for the Help.

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Van B
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It's cool, I'll take a look at it later tonight and make it into a propper snippet, I have a few variations lying about.


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Ian T
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Spheres, quite frankly, look absolutely godawful . There are two realistic options:

-Very well designed single plain rotated towards the camera (Unreal Tournament, rocket launchers used this and looked great)
-Well designed particles handled right (Dosen't look quite as real IMO, but games like Age of Mythology and UT2k3 use it, it looks pretty decent)

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