Waterfall effect...

[Dim A]

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

[Janus]

If you can tell me where to find dragonsphere, i can try and make a waterfall animation using my graphics engine...

[Dim A]

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...

[Ph34R]

Could it be they used an animated texture? Or mabe they where sliding the texture across the surface?

[Janus]

Dragonsphere is from 1994, it was a 256-color 3rd person adventure game.
I doubt they used textures of any kind ^_^

[Dim A]

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

[Zaei]

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.

[JaredM]

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.