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Program Announcements / Tech Demo: Liquid metal without shaders or mapping! [source included]

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David T
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Posted: 26th Aug 2004 22:07 Edited at: 29th Aug 2004 21:23
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A little demo I made that uses no shaders, mapping or any fancy technique. Works on any gfx card that supports texturing :p

http://davidt.dbspot.com/liquidmetal.zip

Thanks to Stevie for the water model and mucking up the UV

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Posted: 26th Aug 2004 22:09
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nice

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fun for the whole family

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 01:32
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sw33t!!

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 04:14
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What are the dimensions of the water X model? 100x100 i hope.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 04:17
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Nah, 20x20 I think

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 04:25
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Nice one, David!
Reminds me of the liquid metal effect in Super Mario 64.

One would think that with alpha mapping and a little reflection, you could have a butt-kicking water effect.

Keep it up, man!

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lol, yes it does remind me of SM64!

Alpha mapping yes, and maybe a reflective plain underneath?

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 06:12
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darn! It'd be easier to scale the object's size to what we need if it was 100x100.

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 06:24
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You just scale up 500%, then go from there

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 12:12
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or just slap it into a modeller, scale it, re-export, and go!

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Posted: 27th Aug 2004 22:36
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yeah...i don't suggest scaling in DB...it can produce nasty side effects

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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 02:34
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Hmmm I went to check this out and the image doesn't load, neither does your web site David

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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 02:52
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Same here...


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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 02:59 Edited at: 28th Aug 2004 02:59
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yeah all of a sudden all his stuff went down

here, i uploaded it...3.8MBs .zip
http://wakehosting.com/upload/files/vPskMIFm/Liquidmetal.zip

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Yes, this afternoon I found I had exceeded my monthly bandwidth and so I took the decision to stop the site. I'm moving a few files onto DBSpot as I spek, will be up later today.

I will post when the move is complete. This is only until September 1st

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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 07:32
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David,
You should try randomly assigning the verts to 4 or 5 different bones, then add a wobble to each bone seperately - it makes a freakin awesome wavy water effect - especially when you scroll the texture as well. I've rigged a plain mesh, like 28x28 tiles of the same size and UV mapping and I let the bones do all the work.


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Muhahahahaha.
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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 08:34
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Quote: "Image broked. www.dn3k.net/upload.php"


I know!!! See my post earlier.

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Posted: 28th Aug 2004 20:02
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Files mirrored onto DBSpot, donwload away.

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Great effect! But you forgot that the set object light command doesn't work in Classic. Here is an updated source for DB Classic:

http://www.dbspot.com/bolt/liquidmetal.dba

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Quote: " Image broked. www.dn3k.net/upload.php"

Yeah, David T broked it, stupid broker.

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David T
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Posted: 7th Sep 2004 20:24
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Quote: "Great effect! But you forgot that the set object light command doesn't work in Classic. "


I didn't forget I don't use Classic

Quote: "Yeah, David T broked it, stupid broker."


Should be back now.

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perfect.....it is perfect and easy

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Posted: 14th Sep 2004 03:00
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Thanks

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nice

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Meh I can't download...

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I couldn't download it ether??
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David T
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Who keeps bring up this topic

You can't download it because DBSpot went down. I'll upload it to my web site tonight.

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lol, the ressurection of the dead threads !
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