WIP Video - Teleport Effect

thetoucher · June 22, 2011, 10:59am

Hi guys,

Was working on a new effect over the weekend, thought I might share progress …

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdLgOXRuKo4

disclaimer - the bots behaviour in this video in no way reflect on my ability of a programmer :P, they have a nav mesh, but choose to ignore it.

Thanks
James

normen · June 22, 2011, 11:01am

Hehe, grappling-hook style teleporting, me likey ^^

mifth · June 22, 2011, 11:10am

As far as I understand… this is a sequnce of images with alpha? Really nice effect!!!

nehon · June 22, 2011, 12:51pm

hey kewl!!!

tehflah · June 22, 2011, 2:00pm

ahah. That’s so neat looking!

~FlaH

thetoucher · June 22, 2011, 9:06pm

Thanks guys The game mechanic took next to no time to slap together compared with building the particle effect, those things are tricky!

kidneytrader · July 3, 2011, 5:15am

The smoke effect looks great. How does it work?

thetoucher · July 4, 2011, 12:27am

@kidneytrader

Short answer : particles.

Longer answer : I create the smoke effect in Blender, heavily tweaked it to look vaguely like ink in water, ramped the speed right up, rendered it out as 16 frames, merged them together into a sprite sheet which I use as part of my particle material.

mifth · July 4, 2011, 7:31am

Nice!!! You did that effect with blender smoke physics. Really cool!!!