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Johan Peitz
Member #9
April 2000
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Here's a cool demo style effect I coded which I believe is called "bloobs". I did not invent the technique, just so you know. {"name":"bloob.png","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/e\/8edc6f8cdf17defe98cca2142ac89253.png","w":458,"h":344,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/8\/e\/8edc6f8cdf17defe98cca2142ac89253"} -- |
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fox
Member #1,615
November 2001
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wow, nice effect. and the stretching makes it look even better (I wish that was true for all graphics:P) |
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Steve Terry
Member #1,989
March 2002
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Not bad, I see that effect a lot with compos, nice to see it done in software though, all the ones I see are pure OpenGL ___________________________________ |
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da_flo
Member #1,907
February 2002
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The effect is quite cool, but I have some remarks about the code itself : I have managed to compile it under linux, but I had to make some changes in the code : Well, one might think this is nitpicking, but I hope this could be useful |
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Marcello
Member #1,860
January 2002
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Great coders don't concern themselves with silly things like that. Marcello |
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Gnatinator
Member #2,330
May 2002
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woah peitz! that is elite!
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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The scene called, they want their effect back --> |
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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Quote: You are including winalleg.h whereas your code doesn't use any windows-specific code. Well, you might not care because you seem to only code for windows, but I think it should be pointed out anyway... Don't get Johan wrong, he's just trying to deter Linux users who are incapable of properly editting sourecode. I commend him for this. Quote: - I had to include math.h in order to make it work, because it otherwise uses the sin & cos function built in allegro, which return 'fix' and tus giving compile errors with gcc. I didn't have that problem, shrugs
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da_flo
Member #1,907
February 2002
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Yeah I knew these remarks were quite silly... But I just felt like posting them My apologizes to our great Johan Peitz, great among the great... |
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Sirocco
Member #88
April 2000
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Quote: I had to include math.h in order to make it work, because it otherwise uses the sin & cos function built in allegro, which return 'fix' and tus giving compile errors with gcc. I may be wrong, but I believe this depends on which flavor of GCC you are using (DJGPP, Ming, etc). Regardless, it might be better to skirt the issue entirely and include math.h. --> |
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Kris Allen
Member #4,639
May 2004
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very blooby, congrats ...Johan your code style is almost identical to mine! - Kris |
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Richard Phipps
Member #1,632
November 2001
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DemoHack! Ahh.. I'm feeling nostalgia for the ST/Amiga Vectorball demos. |
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X-G
Member #856
December 2000
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So... are bloobs and blits related in any way? -- |
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Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Very nice Quote: It's basically additive lightning
Then it's a similar effect to blobs. With blobs, you sum the squares of intensities, so you get an attraction effect. This and that you use a lookup table (good idea, btw, I'll try it, too) explain the speed boost in your demo I attach mine. The effect is not as spectacular as yours, but if you run the blobs_inv.exe one, the effect is cool If you want to compile it yourself, the only difference between the two exes is the call to bs.draw() at the end of main, if the last parameter is true or false. -- |
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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both EXEs crashed for me oscar.
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Oscar Giner
Member #2,207
April 2002
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Does your card support 640x480x16? I don't do any error checking, so if the call to set_gfx_mode fails... crash! I don't see any other reason that would crash on your computer but not on mine (but I'm in win98 [edit] -- |
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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Works extracted from the zip, my bad. Anyway, as I mentioned in the Asteriods thread in the Game concepts, blobs are good for modelling certain things, asteriods for example. With enough blobs you can create organic structures that don't look too terribly blobby. Blobs are good for trees that have that kind of fused truck look (2+ trucks fused together). Taken to the extreme and with some nasty-good physiscs you could very well simulate rain and water with them as well. Not to mention some neato ghost-through-wall effects
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Johan Peitz
Member #9
April 2000
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Heh, glad you like it! da_flo: You're right. winalleg.h is not supposed to be there. I tried something and forgot to remove it. Oscar: I think the main speed boosts I get is from the lookup table. I was fairly slow before that. But also, I'm running 8bit in 320x240 which is always fast and nice to work in. -- |
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flares
Member #3,463
April 2003
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can you make it into a screen saver, seems like i can starred at it all day, also it reminds me of the mac OS X screen saver, lots of graphic joy. [nonnus29]Plus the api is crap ... I'd rather chew broken glass then code with those. |
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Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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da_flo: stick to your guns, man, I had exactly the same problems as you. Thanks for the fix! I saw a very 'jumpy' effect - was this intended? Look at this bit of code 'tick' is an integer that gets incremented 100 times per second. But, sin and cos wrap round every 2*pi (approx 6) so the bloob will oscillate very rapidly indeed. imo it looks better if you put make tick a float (line 44) and put tick+=0.1 (line 95) Maybe I just like my bloobs more chilled out that Johan Pete
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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Don't forget to divide by a float if you do that peter. And probably multiply by a float too, but I'm not sure if multiply will cast it out to integer like division does.
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Peter Hull
Member #1,136
March 2001
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WH: we're all friends here; a little implicit up-conversion can be excused, I hope. Actually, several warnings are detected but none because of that: [iBook:~/Downloads/bloobs Folder/src] peterhull% g++ *.cpp `allegro-config --libs` -O2 -W -Wall CBloob.cpp: In member function `CBloob::CBloob(int, int, int)': CBloob.cpp:17: warning: unused variable `int a' CBloob.cpp:17: warning: unused variable `int b' main.cpp: In function `int _mangled_main(int, char**)': main.cpp:51: warning: `text_mode' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/allegro/alcompat.h:167) main.cpp:57: warning: missing initializer for member `RGB::filler' main.cpp:113: warning: `textprintf' is deprecated (declared at /usr/local/include/allegro/alcompat.h:189) main.cpp:42: warning: unused parameter `int argc' main.cpp:42: warning: unused parameter `char**argv' Pete
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Johan Peitz
Member #9
April 2000
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Hah, I had no idea this piece of code would get so much attention. I tried to make it a screensaver, but I couldn't get it to exit normally by just moving the mouse or hitting a key. Do I have to put that in manually or does windows handle it? -- |
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Billybob
Member #3,136
January 2003
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scrsave.c says: 1/* ______ ___ ___
2 * /\ _ \ /_ \ /_ \
3 * \ \ \L\ \//\ \ //\ \ __ __ _ __ ___
4 * \ \ __ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ /'__`\ /'_ `/\`'__/ __`\
5 * \ \ /\ \ _\ _ _\ _/\ __//\ \L\ \ \ //\ \L\ \
6 * \ _\ _/____/____\ ____\ ____ \ _\\ ____/
7 * /_//_//____//____//____//___L\ /_/ /___/
8 * /____/
9 * _/__/
10 *
11 * Example program showing how to write a Windows screensaver. This
12 * uses a fullscreen DirectX mode when activated normally, or the
13 * GDI interface functions when it is running in preview mode from
14 * inside the Windows screensaver selection dialog.
15 *
16 * Compile this like a normal executable, but rename the output
17 * program to have a .scr extension, and then copy it into your
18 * windows directory.
19 *
20 * By Shawn Hargreaves.
21 *
22 * See readme.txt for copyright information.
23 */
24
25
26#include <time.h>
27
28#include "allegro.h"
29#include "winalleg.h"
30
31
32
33BITMAP *buf;
34
35int xline;
36int yline;
37
38
39typedef struct BOUNCER
40{
41 float x, y;
42 float dx, dy;
43} BOUNCER;
44
45
46#define NUM_BOUNCERS 3
47
48BOUNCER bouncer[NUM_BOUNCERS];
49
50
51
52/* initialises our graphical effect */
53void ss_init(void)
54{
55 int i;
56
57 xline = 0;
58 yline = 0;
59
60 srand(time(NULL));
61
62 for (i=0; i<NUM_BOUNCERS; i++) {
63 bouncer<i>.x = rand() % buf->w;
64 bouncer<i>.y = rand() % buf->h;
65
66 bouncer<i>.dx = 0.5 + (rand() & 255) / 256.0;
67 bouncer<i>.dy = 0.5 + (rand() & 255) / 256.0;
68
69 if ((rand() & 255) < 128)
70 bouncer<i>.dx *= -1;
71
72 if ((rand() & 255) < 128)
73 bouncer<i>.dy *= -1;
74 }
75}
76
77
78
79/* animates the graphical effect */
80void ss_update(void)
81{
82 int i;
83
84 xline++;
85 if (xline > buf->w)
86 xline = 0;
87
88 yline++;
89 if (yline > buf->h)
90 yline = 0;
91
92 for (i=0; i<NUM_BOUNCERS; i++) {
93 bouncer<i>.x += bouncer<i>.dx;
94 bouncer<i>.y += bouncer<i>.dy;
95
96 if ((bouncer<i>.x < 0) || (bouncer<i>.x > buf->w))
97 bouncer<i>.dx *= -1;
98
99 if ((bouncer<i>.y < 0) || (bouncer<i>.y > buf->h))
100 bouncer<i>.dy *= -1;
101 }
102}
103
104
105
106/* draws the graphical effect */
107void ss_draw(void)
108{
109 clear_bitmap(buf);
110
111 line(buf, 0, 0, buf->w, buf->h, makecol(0, 0, 255));
112 line(buf, buf->w, 0, 0, buf->h, makecol(0, 0, 255));
113
114 vline(buf, xline, 0, buf->h, makecol(255, 0, 0));
115 hline(buf, 0, yline, buf->w, makecol(0, 255, 0));
116
117 text_mode(-1);
118
119 textout_centre(buf, font, "Allegro", bouncer[0].x, bouncer[0].y, makecol(0, 128, 255));
120 textout_centre(buf, font, "Screensaver", bouncer[1].x, bouncer[1].y, makecol(255, 128, 0));
121 textout_centre(buf, font, "<insert cool effect here>", bouncer[2].x, bouncer[2].y, makecol(255, 255, 255));
122}
123
124
125
126/* shuts down the graphical effect */
127void ss_exit(void)
128{
129}
130
131
132
133/* dialog procedure for the settings dialog */
134BOOL CALLBACK settings_dlg_proc(HWND hwndDlg, UINT uMsg, WPARAM wParam, LPARAM lParam)
135{
136 switch (uMsg) {
137
138 case WM_COMMAND:
139 switch (HIWORD(wParam)) {
140
141 case BN_CLICKED:
142 EndDialog(hwndDlg, 0);
143 return 1;
144 }
145 break;
146 }
147
148 return 0;
149}
150
151
152
153/* the settings dialog function */
154int do_settings(HANDLE hInstance, HANDLE hPrevInstance, HWND hParentWnd)
155{
156 DialogBox(hInstance, "ID_CONFIG_DLG", hParentWnd, settings_dlg_proc);
157
158 return 0;
159}
160
161
162
163/* the password dialog function */
164int do_password(HANDLE hInstance, HANDLE hPrevInstance, HWND hParentWnd)
165{
166 MessageBox(hParentWnd, "Sorry, this screensaver doesn't implement the password stuff", "Allegro Screensaver", MB_OK);
167
168 return 0;
169}
170
171
172
173/* window procedure for the screensaver preview */
174LRESULT CALLBACK preview_wnd_proc(HWND hwnd, UINT message, UINT wParam, LONG lParam)
175{
176 PAINTSTRUCT ps;
177 HDC hdc;
178
179 switch (message) {
180
181 case WM_CREATE:
182 SetTimer(hwnd, 1, 15, NULL);
183 return 0;
184
185 case WM_TIMER:
186 ss_update();
187 InvalidateRect(hwnd, NULL, FALSE);
188 return 0;
189
190 case WM_PAINT:
191 hdc = BeginPaint(hwnd, &ps);
192 ss_draw();
193 set_palette_to_hdc(hdc, _current_palette);
194 draw_to_hdc(hdc, buf, 0, 0);
195 EndPaint(hwnd, &ps);
196 return 0;
197
198 case WM_DESTROY:
199 KillTimer(hwnd, 1);
200 PostQuitMessage(0);
201 return 0;
202 }
203
204 return DefWindowProc(hwnd, message, wParam, lParam);
205}
206
207
208
209/* the screensaver preview function */
210int do_preview(HANDLE hInstance, HANDLE hPrevInstance, HWND hParentWnd)
211{
212 WNDCLASS wndclass;
213 HWND hwnd;
214 MSG msg;
215 RECT rc;
216
217 if (!hPrevInstance) {
218 wndclass.style = CS_HREDRAW | CS_VREDRAW;
219 wndclass.lpfnWndProc = preview_wnd_proc;
220 wndclass.cbClsExtra = 0;
221 wndclass.cbWndExtra = 0;
222 wndclass.hInstance = hInstance;
223 wndclass.hIcon = LoadIcon(NULL, IDI_APPLICATION);
224 wndclass.hCursor = LoadCursor(NULL, IDC_ARROW);
225 wndclass.hbrBackground = NULL;
226 wndclass.lpszMenuName = NULL;
227 wndclass.lpszClassName = "sspreview";
228
229 RegisterClass(&wndclass);
230 }
231
232 if (hParentWnd)
233 GetClientRect(hParentWnd, &rc);
234 else
235 rc.right = rc.bottom = 256;
236
237 install_allegro(SYSTEM_NONE, &errno, atexit);
238 set_palette(default_palette);
239 set_gdi_color_format();
240
241 buf = create_bitmap(rc.right, rc.bottom);
242
243 ss_init();
244 ss_update();
245
246 hwnd = CreateWindow("sspreview", NULL, WS_CHILD,
247 0, 0, rc.right, rc.bottom,
248 hParentWnd, NULL, hInstance, NULL);
249
250 ShowWindow(hwnd, SW_SHOW);
251 UpdateWindow(hwnd);
252
253 while (GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) {
254 TranslateMessage(&msg);
255 DispatchMessage(&msg);
256 }
257
258 ss_exit();
259 destroy_bitmap(buf);
260
261 return msg.wParam;
262}
263
264
265
266/* display switch callback */
267static int foreground = TRUE;
268
269static void dispsw_callback(void)
270{
271 foreground = FALSE;
272}
273
274
275/* run the saver normally, in fullscreen mode */
276int do_saver(HANDLE hInstance, HANDLE hPrevInstance, HWND hParentWnd)
277{
278 HANDLE scrsaver_mutex;
279 int mx, my, t;
280
281 /* prevent multiple instances from running */
282 scrsaver_mutex = CreateMutex(NULL, TRUE, "Allegro screensaver");
283
284 if (!scrsaver_mutex || (GetLastError() == ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS))
285 return -1;
286
287 allegro_init();
288 install_keyboard();
289 install_mouse();
290 install_timer();
291
292 /* try to set a fullscreen mode */
293 if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_DIRECTX_ACCEL, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0)
294 if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_DIRECTX_SOFT, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0)
295 if (set_gfx_mode(GFX_DIRECTX_SAFE, 640, 480, 0, 0) != 0) {
296 ReleaseMutex(scrsaver_mutex);
297 return -1;
298 }
299
300 set_display_switch_mode(SWITCH_BACKAMNESIA); /* not SWITCH_AMNESIA */
301 set_display_switch_callback(SWITCH_OUT, dispsw_callback);
302
303 buf = create_bitmap(SCREEN_W, SCREEN_H);
304
305 ss_init();
306 ss_update();
307
308 mx = mouse_x;
309 my = mouse_y;
310
311 t = retrace_count;
312
313 while (foreground && (!keypressed()) && (!mouse_b) && (mouse_x == mx) && (mouse_y == my)) {
314 while (t < retrace_count) {
315 ss_update();
316 t++;
317 }
318
319 ss_draw();
320 blit(buf, screen, 0, 0, 0, 0, SCREEN_W, SCREEN_H);
321
322 poll_mouse();
323 }
324
325 ss_exit();
326 destroy_bitmap(buf);
327
328 ReleaseMutex(scrsaver_mutex);
329 return 0;
330}
331
332
333
334/* the main program body */
335int WINAPI WinMain(HINSTANCE hInstance, HINSTANCE hPrevInstance, LPSTR lpszCmdParam, int nCmdShow)
336{
337 HWND hwnd;
338 char *args;
339
340 args = lpszCmdParam;
341
342 if ((args[0] == '-') || (args[0] == '/'))
343 args++;
344
345 if ((args[0]) && ((args[1] == ' ') || (args[1] == ':')))
346 hwnd = (HWND)atoi(args+2);
347 else
348 hwnd = GetActiveWindow();
349
350 switch (utolower(args[0])) {
351
352 case 'c':
353 return do_settings(hInstance, hPrevInstance, hwnd);
354
355 case 'a':
356 return do_password(hInstance, hPrevInstance, hwnd);
357
358 case 'p':
359 return do_preview(hInstance, hPrevInstance, hwnd);
360
361 case 's':
362 return do_saver(hInstance, hPrevInstance, hwnd);
363 }
364
365 return 0;
366}
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Marcello
Member #1,860
January 2002
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Am I the only one who keeps misreading this topic title? Marcello |
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It's basically additive lightning. Anyway, I like the result and I wanted to share. Demo and src attached.
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