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Dan-D

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The Lost Crown type fog?
« on: May 12, 2008, 09:58:53 PM »

Hey ALL!
If You played The Lost Crown I guess You remember that on screen fog? So my question is how do they made fog to loop forever without visible transition?
I hope it's understandable :)
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Re: The Lost Crown type fog?
« Reply #1 on: May 12, 2008, 10:20:12 PM »

I can think of two ways. Random placed sprites & particles.
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Re: The Lost Crown type fog?
« Reply #2 on: May 12, 2008, 10:37:17 PM »

Oh please tell me more about random placed sprites? How to animate them and tell engine to select it in random order?
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Re: The Lost Crown type fog?
« Reply #3 on: May 16, 2008, 05:49:30 PM »

You could use an external plugin to render a demo effect called "plasma" to create the fog.

An easier way would be to use a rendered plasma loop of two or more plasmas interfering in intensity and animate it's overall alpha within a script, so no loop looks like the other.

Well, while thinking of this method:
Use TWO plasma loops, with different lengths, at best the frame numbers should be multiples of prime numbers, and stack them in the scene editor. If the alpha is set correctly on both loops, they will interfere with each other, creating the fog. Since both loops have different lengths, they will never create the same interference twice until restarted. You can use scripts to animate both alphas and/or the starting frame of every loop to create further randomness.
« Last Edit: May 16, 2008, 05:52:50 PM by sychron »
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Re: The Lost Crown type fog?
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2008, 09:57:37 PM »

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You could use an external plugin to render a demo effect called "plasma" to create the fog
what external plugin? plugin for 3d max?
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Re: The Lost Crown type fog?
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2008, 04:45:17 AM »

No, plugin for Wintermute ;-)

But I really would go for gate 3, taking the "two fog animation layers" approach seems to be the easiest way to archive the effect.

P.S.: For a description of the Plasma effect, have a look here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_effect
and here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamond-square_algorithm
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