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Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Sep 2006, 22:32

Ahem...

VIDIO!

VIDIO!

VIDIO!

I hope I have made my wants clear.

FizWizz · Post by **FizWizz** » 24 Sep 2006, 22:43

Zoombie wrote:Ahem...

VIDIO!

VIDIO!

VIDIO!

I hope I have made my wants clear.

umm.... "video" V-I-D-E-O

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:03

I was actually going to try making one, but... I over-amped the main fuse on my dev machine's power-supply last night, about 3:30AM. Hazard of development

I replaced it when I got up today, and when I get home from Work, I will give it a go.

Zenka · Post by **Zenka** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:04

Argh, we love you.
It was a long time back we started yelling for nuke explosions. You're Dah Man!

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:10

Ah, and yes, JC's code is what made this possible. Personally, I think I'm just exploring the outer edges of what's really going to be possible as JC's code gets refined a bit.

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:44

Who cares how its spelled, I want one!

Guessmyname · Post by **Guessmyname** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:54

Zoombie, you may be reknowned for your storytelling, but you shalt not be reknowned for your appreciation of the way words in the English Language are meant to be written.

Or, in other words: You're a good storyteller but a crap speller

Zoombie · Post by **Zoombie** » 24 Sep 2006, 23:59

Got it in one.

As I have said repeatedly in Spanish Class: "I can barely speak ENGLISH and they want me to learn a completely different language?"

esteroth12 · Post by **esteroth12** » 25 Sep 2006, 04:07

alright... Argh's being a lazy bastard, so I'm going to post his first revision as a video... however, he has not yet posted his latest code (with the shineys in the smoke), so this one... sucks (but only compared to his current one!

)

I'll post the link when its done u/ling...

e:alright, it crashed... i'll update with the vid tomorrow after u/ling it tonight...

e2: 2 links: google video, and compressed on gigasize (so thats a shorter d/l, and it save to your comp...

Gigasize
Google

I might mention that this video documents the first use of a custom explosion emit-sfx... ever... even before Argh... I'll let that sink in...

seriously, nice nuke Argh

e2: OK, even though argh has the new, better one that I'm about to watch... I'll just amekt he lni here work

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 25 Sep 2006, 05:44

Argh, how scaleable is this explosion..

In other words how easy would it be to modify it to be larger or smaller.. if one was going to say use such an explosion on several different weapons utilizing the same principle but on a increasingly larger scale..

cyclerboy · Post by **cyclerboy** » 25 Sep 2006, 06:49

when i un-rar it it says 'CRC Failed, Corrupt file.'
anyone else?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 25 Sep 2006, 07:33

Probably easy, just scale the speed values.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 25 Sep 2006, 08:42

@Fanger:

You wouldn't want to use it generically. It throws a lot've particles around, and the speeds, etc., have been very definately tweaked for the specific use. You could make it larger fairly easily by slowing the time-to-die in the scripts, and make it feel larger by making it move more slowly. However, this is not infinite either way- at a certain scale of largeness, you're either going to need to add even more particle spam, or you're going to need to make it more abstract to preserve the illusion.

In NanoBlobs you will find a lot've smaller, faster, less-laggy stuff that would be better for general use. I could probably engineer up something that scales between small and medium-sized but has similar overall looks pretty easily. But large-scale stuff really demands a lot've extra details that you just don't need for smaller versions, honestly.

@esteroth12... I'm not being lazy, I was just at Work

Here's a video of the current version.

Acidd_UK · Post by **Acidd_UK** » 25 Sep 2006, 09:06

That looks awesome. The only thing I'd change is the very initial orange blast particle effect (the one that you see at the very first second of the explosion, that goes more outwards that upwards. I think I would increase the speed of that by like 2x or more, at the moment it just doesn't look powerful enough to suit the huge awesome fireball etc!

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 25 Sep 2006, 10:32

Yeah, I can do that. No biggie, really- just a larger random seed.

SwiftSpear · Post by **SwiftSpear** » 25 Sep 2006, 13:31

If we could just add a white blinding flare before it kicked in full effect it would be the coolest thing I've seen in a game in a while.

Argh · Post by **Argh** » 25 Sep 2006, 18:20

Hmm. That may be kind've possible, but I don't know of any way to truely delay the start-time of sequences (yet). I put in a request about this, but I doubt if JC has been able to get to it- he's been a little busy on more important stuff.

Decimator · Post by **Decimator** » 25 Sep 2006, 18:23

Very, VERY cool, Argh!

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 26 Sep 2006, 00:16

Fanger wrote:Argh, how scaleable is this explosion..

In other words how easy would it be to modify it to be larger or smaller.. if one was going to say use such an explosion on several different weapons utilizing the same principle but on a increasingly larger scale..

Argh the reason he is asking about scalablity is that there are three nuke weapons in E&E the nuke arty, nuke subs, and Silo based nukes each with a larger explosion/damage/radius blah blah blah. How easy would it be to scale the explosions to fit those paramters?

Buggi · Post by **Buggi** » 26 Sep 2006, 00:26

Wow, this is truly impressive man. Quite the accomplishment!

Nuke Clouds:
Spring 1
SupCom 0

:D

Spring RTS Engine

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