Plan for Jacob Dankovchik
by Jacob Dankovchik · 05/03/2005 (6:14 pm) · 14 comments
As some ma have heard me discussing in the IRC channel, I am working on a particle content pack. This pack will consist of several particles and sample effects, using each one in some form of useful effect. Each particle will come in (if used in a sample effect) a colored version and a non-colored one. The pack is still much in work however.
The pack won't use any sort of modified engine code. While the effects will be a bit weaker then possible because of this, I want the particles and their effects to be usable by everyone. Perhaps later down the line i'll create an Advanced Pack with modified code and more complex effects. But i'll worry about this one for now. ;)
Its still very early in production and there is a long ways to go, but here are a few sample shots.
This is the Electrical Web. It forms a pretty smooth sphere with the particles.

This is the Fire Cloud. Its a very soft, smooth rolling fire effect.

This is the Electrical Storm effect. It has the blue bolts with larger bolts shooting outward and emits sparks.

This is the Fire Spell effect. I made this as something that may look nice as a spell effect of some sort perhpaps.

This is the Ice Spell effect. Made this for an ice spell of some sort.

This is the Falling Leaf effect. I made this for nature scenes, leaves slowly falling from trees.

This is one of my favorite effects, the Hell Aura. I think the picture speaks for itself. ;) Looks awesome in motion though.

This is the Blood Effect. A simple little blood cloud effect. Going to be tweaked though.

And here is one big pic of the whole scene.

Theres still much to come of cource. This is just a small peice of it. I already made an explosion, probably going to tweak it up. Then I'm going to do things like dirt puffs and simple effects too. The biggest effect that'll be in this pack is the waterfall. It'll be massive! I'll be sure to keep updated. :)
The pack won't use any sort of modified engine code. While the effects will be a bit weaker then possible because of this, I want the particles and their effects to be usable by everyone. Perhaps later down the line i'll create an Advanced Pack with modified code and more complex effects. But i'll worry about this one for now. ;)
Its still very early in production and there is a long ways to go, but here are a few sample shots.
This is the Electrical Web. It forms a pretty smooth sphere with the particles.

This is the Fire Cloud. Its a very soft, smooth rolling fire effect.

This is the Electrical Storm effect. It has the blue bolts with larger bolts shooting outward and emits sparks.

This is the Fire Spell effect. I made this as something that may look nice as a spell effect of some sort perhpaps.

This is the Ice Spell effect. Made this for an ice spell of some sort.

This is the Falling Leaf effect. I made this for nature scenes, leaves slowly falling from trees.

This is one of my favorite effects, the Hell Aura. I think the picture speaks for itself. ;) Looks awesome in motion though.

This is the Blood Effect. A simple little blood cloud effect. Going to be tweaked though.

And here is one big pic of the whole scene.

Theres still much to come of cource. This is just a small peice of it. I already made an explosion, probably going to tweak it up. Then I'm going to do things like dirt puffs and simple effects too. The biggest effect that'll be in this pack is the waterfall. It'll be massive! I'll be sure to keep updated. :)
#3
05/03/2005 (6:52 pm)
Wow, some very nice looking effects.
#4
05/03/2005 (7:13 pm)
The effects look damn nice!
#5
Done right, priced right, this is exactly the sort of generic, reusable content the Torque / indie community needs. Now I'm just wondering why nobody's thought of it before.
05/03/2005 (7:38 pm)
KICK BUTT! Done right, priced right, this is exactly the sort of generic, reusable content the Torque / indie community needs. Now I'm just wondering why nobody's thought of it before.
#6
05/03/2005 (7:43 pm)
I want this pack.
#7
05/03/2005 (10:05 pm)
I would LOVE to see a video of some of these in action. Doing particles well is an artistic form all of it's own. I spent three hours on a waterfall effect one time. These look great. Congrats!
#8
05/03/2005 (10:12 pm)
very nice !!
#9
05/03/2005 (11:43 pm)
Nice work!!
#10
05/04/2005 (3:15 am)
Heh, thanks for the awesome support! Startin to really inspire me to get off my butt and get to work. Theres still much more to go tool. I'm going to start hittin the more basic effects and then work back into complicated ones like the ones shown here. Thanks for your support! :)
#11
05/04/2005 (8:44 am)
Looks very cool! I'm gonna have to watch this one.
#12
This looks interesting but would be great if you also wrote a tutorial explaining how you got the effects. What price bracket are you aiming at? I'd have thought $9.99 would be a good price for this sort of thing.
05/04/2005 (9:00 am)
Looks interesting. Can I speak my mind (won't take long!, not much in there :) This looks interesting but would be great if you also wrote a tutorial explaining how you got the effects. What price bracket are you aiming at? I'd have thought $9.99 would be a good price for this sort of thing.
#13
05/04/2005 (9:23 am)
Looking very cool, man. A lot of people will be able to use these.
#14
05/04/2005 (12:13 pm)
Was thinking about 10 bucks, as you jsut said fruitbat. As for the effects, the code will be included of cource so i mean.. Just look at the code and you got it figured out basically. ;)
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