#Particle Explosions... Anyone have examples of achieving something like this:
wheat yoke
most likely are sprites
you centered them around the point of explosion and scale them using a good looking function
take a scaling speed in 1/x or exp(-x)*max_speed
you'll need animated sprites for a better effect though, that I can't help with
merry mango
I thought that at first, but after playing the actual demo, it looks more like a procedural partical effect.
wheat yoke
http://www.wingsofstnazaire.com/images/media/animation2.gif
fo thisn the closes example I can give you is to check for bullet trails or laser bolt effects for Unity. There's a ton of tutorial on how to do it, check one and you should at least get the idea of how it's done
really?
damn
merry mango
Yeah that's why I'm stuck. It's so well done.
merry mango
The game it's from was low res on purpose for retro effect. Here is a YouTube:
I mean, I can totally be wrong on the sprites/particles but it's so smooth it's hard to see any repetitive animations in the effect.
wheat yoke
mmmmm what about multiple spheres with different transparency. You most likely can animate a procedural texture using a shader
merry mango
Yeah it will definitely be a series of spheres mixed in size and animation speed
wheat yoke
since it's downsampled for the retro effect i guess the trick wouldn't be obvious at all. you also add a sprite in the middle with like projectiles and stuff to look like debris
merry mango
I found this which is what I'm working on modding now as a baseline:
https://www.clicktorelease.com/code/perlin/explosion.html
wheat yoke
sprites for the explosion itself won't work since it'll be on the space ship. You run the risk of them being inside the object. using a second camera would be too expensive, and you can't project them on screen directly or you'll lose the cockpit
merry mango
Exactly
wheat yoke
oh yeah you can use that as the sphere we discussed earlier
one will be enough
and then sprites for explosion debris effects and you should be good to go
merry mango
Yep we are on the same page. I found enough to build from scratch but always like to see if my Google-Fu was not strong enough
wheat yoke
lmao good luck then! please update when you got something, i'd love to see
merry mango
I'll be working on it in the coming weeks. Will def. post progress
wheat yoke
nice! goodluck!
merry mango
Just tired of looking at the effects I have in game now LOL. Want to spruce it up