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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Viral Outbreak -bond1 request

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SOLO DESIGN
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Quote: "Maybe after X-mas. TGC has asked me to make a few tutorials on various stuff, so I may do a tutorial bomb after the holidays. For now, look at the medusa character's textures, specifically the alpha channels. Then look at the destroy script for that character. ShaderVariable2 controls the burnout sequence in the shader for that character. It probably doesn't make much sense unless you know HLSL and can make the connection in the shader itself. But you don't really NEED to understand that to use it. Hopefully it will give you a general idea of what is going on from a scripting standpoint"



bond1 any chance of a tutorial on how to use the effects in viral outbreak with our own models?

Thanks
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bond1
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2011 01:56
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Sure I can do that. I thought it would be too involved for the average user to bother with, so I just kinda forgot about it.

Is there one specific effect you from that pack you had in mind?

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SOLO DESIGN
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The one I really am interested in is the Medusa death sequence, I would like to use this once my models die, i would like the option for the models to burn up on the floor and also burn up infront of the player -if possible.....

Many thanks!
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bond1
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Posted: 22nd Sep 2011 16:31 Edited at: 22nd Sep 2011 16:31
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Ok I'll put something together next week, I promise. I'm tied up with my job this week. Thanks for being patient.

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SOLO DESIGN
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Great! many thanks bond1
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Sounds good.

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Quote: "I thought it would be too involved for the average user to bother with, so I just kinda forgot about it."


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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 10:48
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Quote: "I thought it would be too involved for the average user to bother with, so I just kinda forgot about it."

I enjoy knowing how stuff works, I've been looking through the Medusa shader but I could not quite understand how it worked.


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Posted: 24th Sep 2011 16:27 Edited at: 24th Sep 2011 16:27
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Ok guys, no problem And sorry, I hope you didn't take my comment the wrong way, I didn't mean it would be over your heads or anything -just a bit tedious and involved for the average user.

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Posted: 27th Sep 2011 20:48 Edited at: 27th Sep 2011 20:49
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Ok, for the brave ones who want to attempt it, I've attached a zip that contains a new shader, and a sample character that uses the "burnout" effect after he dies.

1. The diffuse texture needs an alpha channel to use as a "cutout" that does the dissolve/burnout effect. Use this one or experiment with your own.



2. To preview effect, load your character, shader, and textures into Dark Shader. I've built in a slider called "BurnoutPreview" that you can use to preview the effect without using FPS Creator.

3. There is also a sample character included in a folder called "character burnout" that you can use to see the effect in FPS Creator. The key is in the appear and destroy scripts. Shader variable 2 controls the burnout effect. There's not much to it - just a few lines to set up the shader variable in the appear script, then a few more lines to alter that variable in the destroy script- hopefully you can copy and paste to customize your scripts to taste.



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Cosmic Prophet
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Nice, I'll have to try this out. Thanks Bond. You Da Man!!

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Great stuff!! been waiting for this hahahahahaha
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Pirate Myke
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Well thanks again!!! what a bonus to the community, A shader for characters with instructions for use. I will be studying these for sure.


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Fantastic! This really helped.


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Thanks bond for the tutorial. Always great work from you.

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THANKS Bond!! Really generous of you to givenus this to play with

Cheers,
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SOLO DESIGN
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Hi bond1,
I have got this working with one of my models, I have also got the planar shadows working too all in one shader!

The only problem is when the model burns and disintergrates to nothing the shadow is still left on the floor.

I do not think we can disintergrate the shadow as well, but can the shadow fade at the same time as the burn out?

If so what needs to be altered on the destroy script??
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