Learning Visual Tricks
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| Bloom, Motion Blur, Vivid Colors, etc. Any advice on how to think when trying to create new camera effects such as those listed above? I'm not looking for source code. I'm looking for some tips or tutorials that can help make me understand how to create them on my own. Thanks so much :) |
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| Yes but still search code archive for some and learn from their code. |
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| Most of the time I have no clue of whats going on since people use single letters as their variable names. |
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| IKG - I can totally agree with you! |
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| single letter variables are "less important" - thats the way i do it. "real variables" have descriptive names. so if you find a single letter variable, it is likely that this variable is only used once in a subroutine and will be never touched again from outside this code. don't bother too much with it ;) |
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| He's right would you call a temperary loop variable "temporary_variable_I_never_plan_on_using_again"? |
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| For temp stuff, I often just do "temp" as the variable name, such as: for tempy=1 to 10 for tempx=1 to 10 map(tempx,tempy)=blah blah blah next next Othertimes, I use the word "loop", as in loopx, loopy, etc That way, those variables are never at issue as to what cosmic significance they have. Both "temp" and "loop" are just 4 letters each, with just an additional letter to differetiate them. |
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| I know this topic is 2 years old, but: http://freespace.virgin.net/hugo.elias/graphics/x_motion.htm Might be interesting for more people other than the topic's author. |
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| the basic idea behind nearly every full screen effect involves copying the back buffer, using copy rect command, onto a texture. this texture is applied to a sprite that overlays the screen. by doing this you now blend this sprite via entity blend command, to create a glow. you would use multiple sprites for blurs. |
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