Has anyone been playing with this months tutorial code ie blob effects that is the one i want to comment about. If you are lucky enough to have exgen or another generating program yu can make a video file. Instead of having heaps of blobs replace just one with an avi playing on an image with ghosting on and set object transparency and object ambience you can get some cool effects.
By the way a white blob reveals an object properly it looks rather cool but the avi effect ive been working on is great just need to add a fire crackle sound and my menu is complete here looks great i cant seem to grab a picture of it with my screen capture but i will show you one of my attempts with white blobs. My smoke effect does this rather well and allot better. But i think for those that like to play i recommend some avi animations
code for the loading of avi is
load animation "Animations\smoke.avi",1
SET ANIMATION SPEED 1,25
play animation to image 1,blob_first+3,0,0,ANIMATION WIDTH(1),ANIMATION HEIGHT(1)
LOOP ANIMATION 1
code for the blob setup function will look like this
make object plain blob_first+3,1000,750
texture object blob_first+3,blob_first+3
set object transparency blob_first+3,1
ghost object on blob_first+3
SET OBJECT AMBIENT blob_first+3,0
hide object blob_first+3
make object plain blob_first+3+100,1000,750
texture object blob_first+3+100,blob_first+3
set object transparency blob_first+3+100,1
ghost object on blob_first+3+100
SET OBJECT AMBIENT blob_first+3+100,0
hide object blob_first+3+100
Happy Coding
fubar
