T2D Particle Effect Goodness...
by Jon Frisby · 03/02/2006 (11:26 am) · 3 comments
[Edited to correct broken URL]
[Edited to remove links to Quicktime movies that only work on Mac]
My graphic designer is coming up with a new skin for my game that's got me salivating. Literally. A key component of this skin is going to be a bunch of fruit falling in the background and splashing down at the bottom. So, I begin to work with the particle effects system in earnest.
Here's a screenshot of what I've got so far:
Yes, I know, screenshots are kinda worthless for particle effects. Hopefully I'll be able to provide some QuickTime goodness in the not-too-distant future.
In the meantime though, I've made a couple MacOS X screen savers using the same sprites my graphic designer provided to me. Now, the particle effects system in Quartz Composer is nowhere near as flexible as the one in T2D so they don't look nearly as cool as the ones I've made in T2D, but hopefully this will whet your apetite.
(Note: This 373KB zip file contains two MacOS X screen savers. They WILL NOT WORK ON WINDOWS! They WILL work fine on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs.)
www.mrjoy.com/JuicyScreenSavers_OSX.zip Enjoy, but please don't redistribute these screen savers.
-JF
[Edited to remove links to Quicktime movies that only work on Mac]
My graphic designer is coming up with a new skin for my game that's got me salivating. Literally. A key component of this skin is going to be a bunch of fruit falling in the background and splashing down at the bottom. So, I begin to work with the particle effects system in earnest.
Here's a screenshot of what I've got so far:
Yes, I know, screenshots are kinda worthless for particle effects. Hopefully I'll be able to provide some QuickTime goodness in the not-too-distant future.
In the meantime though, I've made a couple MacOS X screen savers using the same sprites my graphic designer provided to me. Now, the particle effects system in Quartz Composer is nowhere near as flexible as the one in T2D so they don't look nearly as cool as the ones I've made in T2D, but hopefully this will whet your apetite.
(Note: This 373KB zip file contains two MacOS X screen savers. They WILL NOT WORK ON WINDOWS! They WILL work fine on both PowerPC and Intel based Macs.)
www.mrjoy.com/JuicyScreenSavers_OSX.zip Enjoy, but please don't redistribute these screen savers.
-JF
#2
03/02/2006 (7:12 pm)
I'm trying to view the movies on WinXP. I have qt 7. It says that i dont have the proper plug-in/video codec. Which one is needed?
#3
David: I did a little digging and it seems that the "export to Quicktime" option in Quartz Composer just sticks the Quartz Composer data into a .mov file -- Quartz data is supported by Quicktime directly on OS X, but only on OS X since the Quartz API isn't available on Windows. So, I purchased a copy of Quicktime Pro to try exporting to a more specific format but the only export option I can find that doesn't wind up a jumbled mess (compresison artifacts so severe that the results aren't even recognizable) results in a 12MB movie clip. *sigh* Sorry!
03/02/2006 (10:48 pm)
Matt: Sorry about that. I've corrected the link now.David: I did a little digging and it seems that the "export to Quicktime" option in Quartz Composer just sticks the Quartz Composer data into a .mov file -- Quartz data is supported by Quicktime directly on OS X, but only on OS X since the Quartz API isn't available on Windows. So, I purchased a copy of Quicktime Pro to try exporting to a more specific format but the only export option I can find that doesn't wind up a jumbled mess (compresison artifacts so severe that the results aren't even recognizable) results in a 12MB movie clip. *sigh* Sorry!
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