Re: [Super-tux-devel] Stalactite bad guy [patch]

[Ricardo C. <ri...@ae...>]

Em Quinta, 11 de Mar=E7o de 2004 08:00, o Bill Kendrick escreveu:
> On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 03:35:54AM +0000, Ricardo Cruz wrote:
> > When the stalactites hit the ground, maybe there should be an animation,
> > not just a static image. Should be added in future for all bad guys.
>
> In BoboBot, I also have a stalactite enemy (it doesn't shake, though).
> When it hits the ground, it shatters into little ice-cube fragments.
>
> Imagine if it were made of glass, it would do the same.
>

 Yheaa, first time I thought about the stalactite I wanted to implement tha=
t=20
way. And does BoboBot make use of an animation or a particle system?

>
> I haven't looked, but I'd like to suggest that the stalactite (and broken
> ice) images have some level of transparency (more towards the center, none
> on the "V"-shaped edges), which would allow the background to show throug=
h.
>
>
> If we were being REALLY fancy, we could hand-code a blur routine that wou=
ld
> actually give more of a glass effect.  But, since the graphics will be
> relatively small, blurring is relatively expensive, and it will eventually
> all be moving so fast, I don't think it's worth it...
>

 Not sure what you meant, but SuperTux has OpenGL support...


Ricardo Cruz

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