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I'm looking for some easy waterfall looking kind of effect...
If you've ever seen the game DragonSphere, I think they had something like it on there.
Basically just an animation of waterfalling which doesn't lock the program into doing just that...
Thanks in advance,
Dim A
If you can tell me where to find dragonsphere, i can try and make a waterfall animation using my graphics engine...
Had trouble registering F2SoftFX.dll...
DragonSphere is a retail game made by microprose... I'm sure they don't use VB, but that's the kind of effect I'd like to go for, something similar, but simpler... I wouldn't mind using some sort of pset/setPixel/bitBlt effect as long as it isn't too cpu intensive...
I can't seem to find a picture of the waterfall, but it was a cool blue white kinda fade thing, that would scroll at different intervals... It created the illusion of the water falling from the top of the mountain...
Could it be they used an animated texture? Or mabe they where sliding the texture across the surface?
Dragonsphere is from 1994, it was a 256-color 3rd person adventure game.
I doubt they used textures of any kind ^_^
It was still pretty cool...
I liked a lot of the games around this time... Quest for Glory 1, Quest for Glory 2... etc...
The effect did slide... it was like a glistening off the water or something...
- Dim A
Lets lay some ground work. I assume you have your game set up in a main loop type structure that updates each game object each iteration, correct? Basically, if this is a simple game, frame rate dependant type game (the faster you draw, the faster things move), all you do is move your waterfall image/texture/vertexes, etc by a certain amount. After, say 30 frames, it starts over.
Z.
Yeah, I was about to say that. You pretty much need to seperate the drawing and refresh rate of all the environment objects. This can be done VIA looping with a clock tick timer, or if the game doesn't need maximum performance use the timer control for something simple.
I find that C++ is actually easier to develop games, because everything is already broken up in to smaller structures from the beginning. You don't have to do a bunch of VB API to emulate those effects. Even then VB still has a lot of overhead that will take away from the performance.