{"id":575,"date":"2010-09-30T18:21:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2010-09-30T18:21:31","modified_gmt":"2010-10-01T00:21:31","slug":"dynamite-day-4-visual-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philhassey.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/30\/dynamite-day-4-visual-effects\/","title":{"rendered":"Dynamite: Day 4 – Visual Effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, I did a bit of bug fixing. I improved my panning by mouse drag code a bit by using gluUnProject (the same code I’m using to pick a tile with the mouse.) Before I was just kinda guessing how to pan so it wasn’t very accurate.<\/p>\n

Next off I noticed in yesterday’s screenshot that all the tiles had lines between them. I found that this was because I’m using a 256×256 texture which I’ve now added to a texture atlas. So when GL mipmaps it down to a smaller size, the blank area between textures is getting used a bit. This forum thread<\/a> seems to cover a number of options I have. The simplest solution for right now was to move the “wall” texture out of the atlas, and just leave the sprites in the atlas.<\/p>\n

Updated screenshot. I have the walls set at 0.5 height for the moment, but it shows the fixed textures. I also added variation in the darkness of the tiles to give it all a dirtier look.<\/p>\n

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Due to high demand, I decided to work on the textures a bit more. I found that www.cgtextures.com<\/a> provides a huge library of textures! I’m using a few of these to give the game some pizzaz. Here’s an updated screen shot:<\/p>\n

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And with wall textures and ceiling textures ..<\/p>\n

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And now with windows!<\/p>\n

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And now with a guy trapped in a box! This is actually the cursor, so when you are trying to walk to some destination this shows you where your mouse or finger is hovering.<\/p>\n

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And now with some always-on shadows for the pillars so they look attached to the floor. I considered having dynamic shadows for everything all the time based on the other in-room lighting, but that would get more complex than I care to deal with and doesn’t seem overly necessary.<\/p>\n

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And NOW with multiple lighting sources! I turned off some of the shadow features for the moment, but I’ll probably try and figure out how to re-enable those later.<\/p>\n

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.. and that’s about all I can manage for one day! Thanks everyone for the feedback, the encouragement to go after the visuals a bit seems to have paid off nicely!<\/p>\n

-Phil<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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