What is the name of this effect?
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What is the name of this effect: https://youtu.be/e-WWfNNAK5k?t=65
Please can you explain me how it works?
Please can you explain me how it works?
Here is the correct link (sorry)
Basically 2D blobs where you use the final brightness and angle as a texture lookup. Not sure if there's a name aside from "table effect" I guess.
move.w (a2)+,d2
(add.w (a3)+,d2)
(...)
move.b (a1,d2.l),(a0)+
(add.w (a3)+,d2)
(...)
move.b (a1,d2.l),(a0)+
tunnel blobs
I've heard them called bitmap tunnels. Tutorial here: http://sol.gfxile.net/gp/ch17.html
Basically you have a table of distance-from-center and around-the-circle values which you use as texture u/v lookup values. Those tables can be made in different ways (the example you gave doesn't have a straight tunnel but has a sphere in the middle), and when you offset the tables and sum them together you get all sorts of fun things. You can also have one tunnel going in one way and another one in another, etc..
Basically you have a table of distance-from-center and around-the-circle values which you use as texture u/v lookup values. Those tables can be made in different ways (the example you gave doesn't have a straight tunnel but has a sphere in the middle), and when you offset the tables and sum them together you get all sorts of fun things. You can also have one tunnel going in one way and another one in another, etc..
Great demo, and this effect looks more complicated than it actually is, or an 060 would be required to process it. As for the artwork, I always loved Cyclone's "Garden of Eden" picture in this prod.
i am sorry for the dumb question but the video is pointing at 1:05 where there are some spheres that look like a polar coordinates plasma is mapped onto them including lighting?
i don't see a tunnel here?
i don't see a tunnel here?
It's still a tunnel for some definition of a tunnel :) The table is just different and doesn't contain a perspective.
Pseudocode for this effect:
(might contain bugs, it's been like 20 years...)
Pseudocode for this effect:
Code:
for (int y = 0; y < screenHeight; y++)
{
for (int x 0; x < screenWidth; x++)
{
int u = 0;
int v = 0;
for (int i = 0; i < numTunnels; i++)
{
//tunnels[] contains center points
int centerX = tunnels[i].x;
int centerY = tunnels[i].y;
//the tunnel table is for example twice the size of the screen in both dimensions
//we assume the coordinates are sensible so we don't read out of the screen
int offsetToTable = (x + centerX) + (y + centerY) * tableWidth;
u += table1[offsetToTable];
v += table2[offsetToTable];
}
//classic 256x256 texture
int pixel = texture[(u & 255) + (v & 255) * textureWidth];
//shading is left as an exercies for the reader :)
screen[x + y * screenWidth] = pixel;
}
}
(might contain bugs, it's been like 20 years...)
Well, you'll need some offset coordinates to make the darn texture-coordinates move like "flux-lines" in an electric field (though sort of fake simulated), and then the lens-effect on top of that.
If it is done like 2d-blobs, then of course its easy-peasy to just final = blob1+blob2+blob3. and then pixel = texture[final]..
There is also distortion outside of blobs, so you do something like z^2 = abs(r - x^2 + y^2) and it wraps upwards. So, you have the wrap outside the sphere like here https://youtu.be/h6pF4gIAsuI?t=119. Then you can add three of these maybe.
abs(r - x^2 - y^2)
How are 2D blobs done fast anyway?
Additive blended sprites.
exponential tunnel!
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Additive blended sprites.
On software-rendering platforms? GBA can't do Sprite on Sprite blending, thus you have to do it "by foot", which is slow...
It is most likely one table (tableA) of a tunnel/sphere thingie. then another table (tableB) with 4 different "offsets (x,y) lookups of tableA" added together combined. if each memory-locations is a byte long and wrapping it may cause the effect we see when they combine, looks like they cancel eachother out in different "sine"-distortions. in addition to that to make the texture move there is yet another (or two) offsets that moves the lookup in x and/or y direction.
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thus you have to do it "by foot", which is slow
2D blobs have soft gradients and can nicely be blown up using linear interpolation. I tried that years ago on PC, 80x50 to 320x200, looked good. No idea about performance, I had no clue what I was doing then and was just fooling around.
