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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / blood splat effect

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sniper
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Posted: 4th Dec 2004 03:27
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Another effect question from me...
There are lots of games that have a blood splat effect in them. For example in FPS games when you shoot an enemy who is near a random object blood is painted onto that object. I can't get my head around how this is done... can someone please shine a light on the matter.
I once heard the idea that a shadow is created and it is then textured, but how does this work in DBPro or is it aload of crap?

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Chris64
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Posted: 4th Dec 2004 05:42
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If you search, this topic has been brought up a couple times. In many games I've seen it is clearly a texture. It conforms to shapes to perfectly to be anything else. I haven't gotten into multitextures yet but basically I'm guessing the answer is there somewhere.

As a bandaid...I'm planning on just building my own little custom "particle" set actually made of objects. 30 or so little brain splatters going away from the gun shot with a little gravity...on collision stick and slowly drip down. Maybe play around with rescaling them for the dripping down effect.
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TKF15H
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Posted: 4th Dec 2004 06:07
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I used to do it with memblocks and matrices. I'd strech a large texture over a matrix, and make a memblock out of it. Whenever I needed to make a blood stain on the floor, I had a function that would blend the blood's texture with the matrix's texture's memblock. Then I'd just have to call "make image from memblock", and update the matrix. Back then, DBP had a problem with this. It would work fine, but in certain angles the blood stain would disappear. Also, they wouldn't show up on a few graphics cards.

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sniper
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Thanks Chris64 but I don't think using textures will do it, I don't think you can texture an object in a specific place... can you?

Also thanks TKF15H but I don't have a clue what your going on about!

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