Hello Guest, please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
Login with username, password and session length.

Pages: [1]   Go Down

Author Topic: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?  (Read 1925 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.
Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« on: December 09, 2006, 05:36:45 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1635
Sorry for poor video quality. Also, there is a flash of a girl's bikini at the end of the video - my desktop <_<.

Either way, this is a quick bit of coding on the boomerang I did to add a trail. Do you think the boomerang would look better with or without the trail? I really kind of like the trail, I think it makes it look cooler.

Ah, the link:

www.scooternew-media.com/Trail.avi
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2006, 05:40:41 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1838
without

it also looks like it moves too fast, straight out and straight back, it should slow down and then return to link
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2006, 05:41:51 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1635
Why don't you like the trail?
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2006, 05:54:39 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Posts: 1838
because its just a translucent copy of the actual boomerang it makes it harder to see the actual boomerang, if you want a trail I'd suggest a little dust/cloud effect
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2006, 06:16:30 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1635
You mean like the trail would be bits of dust behind the boomerang?
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2006, 01:32:33 pm »
  • [sic]
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 2334
I like the trail, however, rather than being simply a translucent version of the boomerang, I think it should be about a pixel thicker than the actual boomerang all-around, and be only one color - the main boomerang color. Also, as .Taka said the movement should be much slower, and it should curve upon returning to meet Link rather than just going in straight directions.
Logged

Fox

Turnbeutelvergesser since 1988.
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #6 on: December 09, 2006, 01:54:15 pm »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Female
  • Posts: 4062
I also think the tail is a nifty addition... but yeah, it moves too fast. At least for Zelda-physics. XD

(Also, nice desktop-BG. :B)
Logged
  • Me on deviantART
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #7 on: December 09, 2006, 04:19:06 pm »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 210
Why we see a piece of a girl at the end ?  :D
Logged

King Tetiro

Leader of Phoenix Heart
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #8 on: December 09, 2006, 04:19:31 pm »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 3549
Yep too fast. Speed-Maybe in a FSA style game maybe but not in LTTP

Trail-Like Takam said, dust cloud.
Logged
  • Phoenix Heart
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #9 on: December 09, 2006, 09:09:27 pm »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 6206
Why we see a piece of a girl at the end ?  :D
As he said he has a hawt girl as desktop!

Anyway trail makes it looks cooler!
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #10 on: December 09, 2006, 09:13:17 pm »
  • ..Goodbye..
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 751
Don't change it to smoke. I think what you should do is color the boomerang trail to solid white, or yellow-ish white, and make it translucent. That might look cool. :P
Logged
Helios did it.
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #11 on: December 09, 2006, 11:42:00 pm »
  • *
  • Reputation: +4/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 4747
First of all, WTF is this:


Second, I think a trail is nice and original.

Third. Usually peoples eyes make the trail themselves when they see the boomerang fly so fast. But I'd use a trail. For the sake of originality.
Logged

Dayjo

shut the fuck up donny.
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #12 on: December 09, 2006, 11:49:44 pm »
  • hungry..
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 3602
Read his post Kleaver and you'll read that it's his Desktop wallpaper.

In terms of the trail, I think it'd be cool to have one, but as .TakaM said, I dont think just having duplicates of the boomerang is the best, more of a light blur or dust trail type thing would be cool.
Logged
  • My Blog
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #13 on: December 10, 2006, 12:32:55 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +0/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 1635
Right now, all it is doing is drawing translucent copies of itself, and the further away it gets, the less alpha it has. To clarify:

Code: [Select]
for(i = 0; i < 5; i += 1) {
    draw_sprite_ext(sprite_index,image_index,x+lengthdir_x(5+(i*6),point_direction(x,y,xprevious,yprevious)),y+lengthdir_y(5+(i*6),point_direction(x,y,xprevious,yprevious)),1,1,0,c_white,0.5 - (i*0.1));
}
Anyway, a light blur as in the boomerang would kind of blur into itself? If so, I'll write a script that does that and repost with a new video.

With dust, do you mean dust clouds would kick up behind the boomerang? What if the boomerang weren't on hard ground then? Leaves?
« Last Edit: December 10, 2006, 12:35:32 am by Scooternew »
Logged
Re: Boomerang Trail, or No Trail?
« Reply #14 on: December 10, 2006, 11:50:36 am »
  • *
  • Reputation: +1/-0
  • Offline Offline
  • Gender: Male
  • Posts: 4588
Smexy trail. I like it. Seems everybody else hates it, though.
Logged
the a o d c
Pages: [1]   Go Up

 


Contact Us | Legal | Advertise Here
2013 © ZFGC, All Rights Reserved



Page created in 0.331 seconds with 68 queries.

anything