creating huge light flash?

Exley · Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:40 pm Post subject: creating huge light flash?

mind you I know veeeery little of particles/systems
but for example on warhead Bright=yes makes small flash
and I wonder is it possible to make huge longer lasting flash

to some effect to replace or emulate atomic bomb fall flash
(big radius and high intensity flash)

can this be done ?

Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

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Orac · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:31 am Post subject:

alpha image?

Ixith · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:39 am Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

TI has everything Very Happy

wait...TI has a kitchen sink in it?
what about a yellow hippo eating a cat sandwich?

oh and the answer to the OP question is yes...next question is...will LKO tell you how? lol

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Exley · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:44 am Post subject:

Ixith wrote:

next question is...will LKO tell you how? lol

indeed

Orac · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:47 am Post subject:

My guess is no, he tends to like to play guessing games.

Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 8:58 am Post subject:

Use multiple anims/particles linked together with Next=, each one having a different alpha image.

So instead of having 1 anim with 20 frames have 20 anims with 1 frame linked in a chain etc.

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

^^correct

Orac wrote:

My guess is no, he tends to like to play guessing games.

Since TI is public, he only has to look at the code, so why repeating it here again when it's already there. Wink

Ixith wrote:

wait...TI has a kitchen sink in it?
what about a yellow hippo eating a cat sandwich?

Yes, but we call it Globotech. Everything we don't use but find good goes in there. Very Happy

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Mig Eater · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 9:59 am Post subject:

I feel the urge to make a vxl of a kitchen sink now... Maybe use it in TI as a debris on civ buildings XP

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

And a toilet.
An infantry killed by a flying toilet debris. Laughing

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CCHyper · Defense Minister **Joined**: 07 Apr 2005

There was a time when a certain member (DaTS and Morpher know) created a lovely table voxel.

Allied General · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 12:39 pm Post subject:

Indeed AlphaImage particle

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Orac · Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2013 11:50 pm Post subject:

Lin Kuei Ominae wrote:

And a toilet.
An infantry killed by a flying toilet debris. Laughing

There's an achievement for that!

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Bittah Commander · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 12:32 am Post subject:

Mig Eater wrote:

I feel the urge to make a vxl of a kitchen sink now...

Sevelys might've already done it...

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He did in the expansion pack fo Sevelias Empire Smile

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Exley · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 1:05 am Post subject:

but alpha image has to be shp-ed right ?
like what lamp produces ?

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

correct
Keep in mind that alphaimages don't use the convenient compression where transparent areas aren't stored in the SHP. Thus the filesize of such huge alphalights can become quite big.

The TI nukeflash uses 25 alphaimages of the size 864x864 pixel with each having a size of 746kB. (Still not optimized and the canvas reduced to the smallest possible size)

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Exley · Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2013 7:34 pm Post subject:

too bad

I thought TS can produce flash like with Bright=yes

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Lin Kuei Ominae · Seth **Joined**: 16 Aug 2006 **Location**: Germany

The inbuild Bright function creates flashes only up to a certain hardcoded size, that can't be increased further. It's also always the fixed shape of a circle in isometric view (ellipse).

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