Topic awaiting preservation: Playing with fire today (Page 1 of 1)

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Neato, but it'd look less linear if on each frame you pick some points at random and shift the intensity by one in one way or another to introduce some noise are various positions ( and especially height ).

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Eep! No offense, InI, since you're an extremely capable coder, but that fire is.... ugly.

Please read:
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_fire.htm (very pretty)
http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/models/m_ffire.htm (very accurate)

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

Iron Wallaby: Where do you think InI picked the term "cooling map"

It sort of looks like an upside down water-thingy, the things you can that you can walk under a light mist of water. But it's pretty cool.

Yes, I agree that it looks like it'd be cool if you changed the colors and put it over a picture of a waterfall, or if it's able to go diagonally then a twister.

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I was playing too... forgive the messiness, this is my second ever applet
http://mine.metaatem.net/fire.php

forgot a few things...
1) not sure why it pulls to the left - any ideas?
2) tried a cooling map, didn't like how it was coming out (but I didn't smooth the map at all)
3) its clickable.

(Edited by kastner on 09-06-2004 00:42)

^__^ I've been playing with fire too.
32 bytes fire effect in assembly.
Ok, it's rather ugly compared to the fires effect shown above, but don't forget that it takes only 32 bytes, thus I had to use the default VGA palette.



(Edited by poi on 09-06-2004 00:51)

poi, thats one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen. Thats just amazing!

I like the effect... it's not quite fire, yet it is... very interesting....

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any sufficiently arcane magic is indistinguishable from technology." -- P. David Lebling

I added two different ember effects, right click to flip through them.

I'm off to try plasma

I've got a VERY basic plasma running (Thanks p01), here it is
http://mine.metaatem.net/plasma.php
the source is linked - please *ANY* advice you have, I'd love to hear it.
I don't totally grasp the concept of plasma yet, so I can't make it cooler.
my goal is to have two plasma's interfere with each other. I like that effect a lot!

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InI: I already pointed kastner to TinyPTC after a talk ( and debugging session ) on ICQ
I'm no Java expert so I didn't know about the appropriate drawing method.

Notice, that the cache of FireFox really likes the .class files and don't reload them unless you clear your cache contrary to IE.

Thanks to TinyPTC, and InI who explained me how to compile a .java, here goes my first applet

And guess what, that's yet another fire.

Ok, I made my first TinyPTC fire applet
http://mine.metaatem.net/fireptc.php

I still needed to use two fire arrays, I thought I could get away with one, but it produces a blue flame.

p01 - awesome job, I really like your palette... I'm gonna go look at your source now - can you set your mime type so I can view it in the browser?

Edit: Ok, looked at p01's source.. and WOW thats small... mine is HUGE compared! jeeze

(Edited by kastner on 09-06-2004 18:03)

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I re did my plasma with ptc, its still crappy - but much faster
http://mine.metaatem.net/plasmaptc.php

I still want to make an interference plasma, but I'm more interested in 3d dot fields (not sure what they are called), I'm off to read more...
thanks for all the help guys, I'm having a great time

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I really don't understand 3d!....
anyone around who understands it?

I guess this has become the all purpose Java thread
here is my latest creation, it wouldn't be if not for the kind help of p01!
http://mine.metaatem.net/test3d.php
let me know what you think!

Well, if we continue to post JAVA things, I think we should create some threads in the Server-Side Scripting - Oh my!

kastner: nice cube. I missed the latest update.

InI: non mais ça ira oui ?!
It's probably a bit too early for a Java Pong, but if you're in hurry we could go "easy". I haven't coded in C/C++ since almost 5years and don't know the packages of Java ... though I doubt I really need them to code some demo effects.



(Edited by poi on 09-07-2004 04:25)

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Nope the *254)>>10 thing is here on purpose

In fact there's a damping by a ratio of 254 over 256 ( 254 >> 8 in fact ), on the sum of 4 values picked in the fireBuffer ... that need to be divided by 4 ( >> 2 in fact ). Once you combine these two operation you get that *254)>>10 thing.

But you're right, there's no need to cast the whole thing in int.



(Edited by poi on 09-07-2004 10:32)

I wasn't going to post this one, but seeing as how this thread has languished
http://mine.metaatem.net/plane3d.php
left and right change the speed (and direction) of rotation
+/- on the keypad and * & / on the keypad also change variables.

Lemme know what you think.

For my next little applet, I'm trying to use sprites, but am having a very hard time getting images to work with tinyPTC. Can someone give me a hint - I was trying to use a PixelGrabber, but I'm not sure if that is a blind alley or not.

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