At 12:46 AM 12/29/99 +0100, Piero Cavina wrote:
>Very impressive, but this is not a 3d graphics engine ;-)
Not quite, no, but neither is the original so I felt justified ;)
>Where do the animation frames come from? If they've been done by hand, it
>must have been a lot of work.
I bogarted them from the original Amiga demo using framegrabs and deciding
which 8 frames would produce the smoothest looking animation. Reducing it
to 48x50 @ 1bpp made it look horrible so I had to do a LOT of "hand
painting." But not as much work as doing it by hand from scratch; I'm no
artist.
Ultimately the demo is just a hack of Eckhard's bigmove demo with the
joystick replaced by a Pong-like motion routine and the static sprite data
replaced by eight frames of animation, and then of course the sounds and
the lame-o "easter egg." I meant it as a learning experience that would
also be fun, and it was - and next time hopefully I won't make some of the
mistakes I did with this one ;)
Rob
kudla@xxxxxxxxx ... http://kudla.org/raindog ... Rob
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