Ice Tunnel Preset

Pixelcraft · 12th January 2003, 03:23

Tell me what you think.

anubis2003 · 12th January 2003, 03:40

It is ok but it looks better without the bump which makes it turn almost completely white on loud music. It's missing something though. Right now it looks more like a background image that is missing a foreground. Also, is doesnt look too much like ice or a tunnel. Overall i give it a 3.

Jaheckelsafar · 12th January 2003, 10:10

Anibus is right about the white thing. You can take the bump out and use a brightess set to additive blend for a similar effect, but you can tune the brightness.

Pixelcraft · 12th January 2003, 14:37

I thought that would be a problem. I took out the bump and put in fast brightness which worked better. About that thing with no foreground image, I'm not sure what to do with that. I'm not very good at SSCs so that doesn't help. To be honest, I didn't think it needed another render object, I thought it would be sort of "kaleidoscopic" if you know what I mean.

Jaheckelsafar · 13th January 2003, 03:50

It needs something for when there isn't a beat. I know winamp doesn't detect beats very well on some songs, and without a beat your preset is pretty static. It looks decent, but nothing happens. That's a problem for me.

anubis2003 · 13th January 2003, 03:53

Yeah, Jaheckelsafar is right. That is why it looks like a background. It could be really nice with something else.

dirkdeftly · 14th January 2003, 05:20

But other than that the effect is very nice. The background movement could do with some tweaking, tho. First of all, y=d*r doesn't do anything since you don't have rectangular coordinates turned on, and you aren't using y in the r statement. You could also use a d=d/1.5 to get rid of the ugly line-repetition (doesn't work for windows much wider than 4:3). Also, the DM before that doesn't have to be a DM, since it's static. You could speed it up and get better resolution with a regular movement.
All in all I don't like the background, I think it could be much better. But this is pretty good for (what I assume to be) a first preset

Keep it up

12th January 2003, 03:40	#2
anubis2003 Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: middle of somewhere Posts: 5,564	It is ok but it looks better without the bump which makes it turn almost completely white on loud music. It's missing something though. Right now it looks more like a background image that is missing a foreground. Also, is doesnt look too much like ice or a tunnel. Overall i give it a 3. [Over The Monkey] \| [My DeviantArt] \| [Se ti] \| [Atmo Digital Design Forums]

12th January 2003, 10:10	#3
Jaheckelsafar Major Dude Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: home Posts: 1,318	Anibus is right about the white thing. You can take the bump out and use a brightess set to additive blend for a similar effect, but you can tune the brightness. Stoke me a clipper. I'll be back for Christmas. - Arnold Rimmer Red Dwarf

12th January 2003, 14:37	#4
Pixelcraft Wildly Confused (Major Dude) Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Minnesota Posts: 1,204	I thought that would be a problem. I took out the bump and put in fast brightness which worked better. About that thing with no foreground image, I'm not sure what to do with that. I'm not very good at SSCs so that doesn't help. To be honest, I didn't think it needed another render object, I thought it would be sort of "kaleidoscopic" if you know what I mean. "It's like saying give a man a Les Paul guitar and he becomes Eric Clapton, and of course that's not true, give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer and he doesn't become...whoever; he doesn't become us." - Roger Waters

13th January 2003, 03:50	#5
Jaheckelsafar Major Dude Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: home Posts: 1,318	It needs something for when there isn't a beat. I know winamp doesn't detect beats very well on some songs, and without a beat your preset is pretty static. It looks decent, but nothing happens. That's a problem for me. Stoke me a clipper. I'll be back for Christmas. - Arnold Rimmer Red Dwarf

13th January 2003, 03:53	#6
anubis2003 Forum King Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: middle of somewhere Posts: 5,564	Yeah, Jaheckelsafar is right. That is why it looks like a background. It could be really nice with something else. [Over The Monkey] \| [My DeviantArt] \| [Se ti] \| [Atmo Digital Design Forums]

14th January 2003, 05:20	#7
dirkdeftly Forum King Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Cydonia, Mars Posts: 2,651	But other than that the effect is very nice. The background movement could do with some tweaking, tho. First of all, y=dr doesn't do anything since you don't have rectangular coordinates turned on, and you aren't using y in the r statement. You could also use a d=d/1.5 to get rid of the ugly line-repetition (doesn't work for windows much wider than 4:3). Also, the DM before that doesn't have to be a DM, since it's static. You could speed it up and get better resolution with a regular movement. All in all I don't like the background, I think it could be much better. But this is pretty good for (what I assume to be) a first preset Keep it up "guilt is the cause of more disauders than history's most obscene marorders" --E. E. Cummings*

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