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Dead Ahead by Flex & Ephidrena
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so fucking awesome and great that there's just not enough words for it
rulezcdc added on the 2025-05-26 18:08:45 by nosfe 
I wonder what would have happened if this would have worked on the Revision compo machine.. Would it have won Revision? i think so!
Great amazing demo! The water and animals scenes especially! Keep on ruling the AGA Amiga's with new productions! Cheers and greetings from Nah-Kolor!
Great amazing demo! The water and animals scenes especially! Keep on ruling the AGA Amiga's with new productions! Cheers and greetings from Nah-Kolor!
Dang!
During the compo it was shown on a 68060 at 100mhz, and I wonder about the memory requirements, but that was a hell of a show!
During the compo it was shown on a 68060 at 100mhz, and I wonder about the memory requirements, but that was a hell of a show!
A co-production between two of the Amiga "high-end" greats, Flex and Ephidrena! A match made in heaven, and look at this beauty that those two popped out!
Awesome!
Looked impressive on the party stream! Great stuff!!!
Really, really good!
Only thing I did not like was the music from time to time.
That felt properly next-gen for effects and design.
anim.mp5 ?
The water uses an rle compressed panorama-video texture shown on a skysphere. Like a 360 video. A seamless loop of about 70 frames coded in Shadertoy. A bit controversial perhaps!
The other anim.mp5s are the little videos shown in the credits/intro/end sequences
awesome modelling, great athomosphere and classic flex/eph quality!
also thumbs up for almost 10 megabytes of animated water :D
also thumbs up for almost 10 megabytes of animated water :D
Really liked it. Design was interesting as if someone wanted to make Greek mythology demo and another person actually making it had no clue of what they should make or intentionally tried to hide the theme while still following instructions just enough to fill requirementsz
Winners don’t use… Well in this case let‘s make an exception. ;-) Nice style and colors.
very good
Anims or not, this looked and sounded excellent on the party stream.
Cool
Holy hell!
Strange and beautiful !
Beautiful demo . Great job ! Skybox or skysphere is a 3d engine element. Animated textures do not reduce the value of the code. Can I ask what kind of texturing was used on the skysphere with perspective correction or was it enough without correction?
Beautiful & serene. Great atmosphere / touch & soundtrack. Will watch this many more times. <3
High fidelity and nicely presented too! Nice one!
yeah I dig it
@teby : it is just affine mapping.
@p01 : it seems I need 64MB fast to run it. The mem-meter in the demo says 32MB Fast and 700K chip as peak allocations. So almost runnable in 32MB, but not quite. Maybe there are some unused assets that could be deleted to make it run using 32MB RAM.
@p01 : it seems I need 64MB fast to run it. The mem-meter in the demo says 32MB Fast and 700K chip as peak allocations. So almost runnable in 32MB, but not quite. Maybe there are some unused assets that could be deleted to make it run using 32MB RAM.
You don't have to puke just yet. Still very very smooth on a Blizzard 1260@50Mhz, nice!
impressive
Impressive demo! I enjoyed it a lot!
Incredible! ( and it's not like animated texture skyboxes are new in AGA demos)
It looks very cool. Water, animals and atmosphere.
Excellent work!
The shadertoy like wavey sea got me. It was so cool, sure the illusion breaks when I learn it was animation, but warped in skybox or sphere was still cool. I know others have done animations on skyboxes before on Amiga, so I won't mind. Overall the demo is pretty cool.
@loaderror: Thanks :) Writing your own shader and taking a "little" capture for you envmaps is genius! And much better than ripping or lifting that from somewhere. Really good job everyone!
Stylish demo with great gfx, music and atmosphere.
Really liked this.
Very nice.
Great music, great visuals, great demo!
You got everyone (including myself) at the ocean shader.
I don't wanna hear about how it is done, let the magic remain.
I don't wanna hear about how it is done, let the magic remain.
flesk! awesome stuff as usual, glad you could finally release it. worthy winner.
Shader effect is obviously precalculated and prerendered, but you don’t need to be shy about it loaderror. It’s a beautiful demo nevertheless!
woaaa great mood and awesome visuals! such a cool prod <3
The water looks incredible, pure beauty! And the movement of the animal trio is very minimalistic yet realistic and spooky, great work on that! Also nice idea with the highlighted coins. Ephidrena + Flex = a great recipe for strong atmosphere.
Love it! So atmospheric and moody
I'm incredibly bothered by the fact, that the three head picture is mirrored compared to the 3D animation of it. Otherwise, absolutely stunning demo.
Great art with clearly Norway embedded, i hope no AI embedded...?
Ossom visuals, atmosphere and the soundtrack.
I love all that underwater journeys with Captain Loaderror ;)
I love all that underwater journeys with Captain Loaderror ;)
Some awesome effects in there among some very talented skill sets.
excellent stuff! every part got enough polish and attention to look interesting and good!
cool
@serp no AI here. It has to be said we didn't exactly hire a film crew to do those little videos of fishermen either (but our parents paid a lof of tax to have them made sometime in the 80s for sure)
Watched on the vamp, works fine (but doesn't exit gracefully).
Take that thumb up your Norwegian ass.
Take that thumb up your Norwegian ass.
beautiful and hypnotic visuals!
ok
I was somewhat annoyed by the jerky texture mapping in places (no/low sub-pixel precision for transformed vertex coordinates?), but otherwise it's usual Flex/Eph quality!
Aske: we could hire you in as a consultant on the next one :)
Serp: AI? no, but what made you think that? Generative AI can go suck a fuck.
Serp: AI? no, but what made you think that? Generative AI can go suck a fuck.
This is sooo cool ! Thanks!!
impressive in all aspects!
Very impressive!
Awesome!
What Blueberry said. I'm not that big fan of the music tho.
At this point, I'm a bit tired of prods wanting to use skyboxes as an effect. :-) The 3D animals are fairly nice, though.
I'm happy to have some fixed point camp with Blueberry at some future party for sure. Maybe Black Valley? The projected coords have 4 bits of subpixel precision. There is prestepping of tex coords and all that happening. On Sojourn of The Soul the jerky texturemapping was mainly due to having too low precision matrix components (8 or 10 bit rotation vectors?). Now that is bumped up it looks smooth in that demo's texturemapping. I don't know where the jerkiness comes from now. Seems to appear with wide FOV.
The evil easter egg in the mountain skybox has a stable texture dither effect. Each texel contains two color indices A,B and a mixing factor F. The ideal color of the texel is A+(B-A)*F. To approximate this ideal, we select either A or B by dithering determined by a bayer pattern and the mixing ratio. So it's not just another skybox!! :)
The evil easter egg in the mountain skybox has a stable texture dither effect. Each texel contains two color indices A,B and a mixing factor F. The ideal color of the texel is A+(B-A)*F. To approximate this ideal, we select either A or B by dithering determined by a bayer pattern and the mixing ratio. So it's not just another skybox!! :)
Good stuff! Especially liked the kind of chain-snake
I felt immersed due to the great direction and music. Strange and beautiful
Impressive work—this demo is exceptionally well-made. I've always appreciated 060 3D actions, though their output has become less frequent recently. The concept, modeling, texturing, smooth transformations, audio track are all executed at a high level. Thank you for showcasing this
@keops : It is the good old "infinite bobs" effect with depth buffer. There's really just 2 chainlink objects in that scene.
Awesome!
OK.
I'm impressed. Love the water effect
This Amiga demo beautifully conveys an important piece of history. The Nordic explorers sailed into uncharted seas, seeking out seals, polar bears, and whales. Riches multiplied, but so did myths and fears. Like a killer whale under the surface, their last journey was always dead ahead.
An epic vision masterfully brought to life by Loaderror, Farfar, and the other greats of Flex and Epidrena. I contributed with my arctic music, pushing my Amiga 4000 to its limits.
I hope this demo becomes as timeless as the story it tells.
An epic vision masterfully brought to life by Loaderror, Farfar, and the other greats of Flex and Epidrena. I contributed with my arctic music, pushing my Amiga 4000 to its limits.
I hope this demo becomes as timeless as the story it tells.
A really stylish demo with some fresh takes and above-par quality!
Rumors about it already spread at Revision.
I've been working on a very similar water effect some years ago but never managed to get it into satisfactory frame rates. Glad you found a solution even if it feels a little bit cheated ;)
Rumors about it already spread at Revision.
I've been working on a very similar water effect some years ago but never managed to get it into satisfactory frame rates. Glad you found a solution even if it feels a little bit cheated ;)
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