What are you working on?

[toneddu2000]

Thanks for the link sock! A good particle tutorial would be needed in this community. I'll try to do my best to find time to tinker with it a bit!

[mankrip]

Sock, those enemies are great. They seem like something that could have been in Quake from the start. Like a mix of the horned ogre from Quake's pre-release screenshots, and the mjolnir from one of the official mission packs.

Seven, thanks for your dedication to the particle effects. It also gives inspiration to implementing support for those effects in other engines.

[mankrip]

The finalized emitter shading effect.

All of these are the vanilla 3D flames from Quake, with absolutely no content replacement.

[JasonX]

[mankrip]

Yes.

[qbism]

[JasonX]

Mankrip, that's awesome. Really. Is that work being done on a new Makaqu?

[mankrip]

It's for a fork/spin-off of Makaqu.

[frag.machine]

@mankrip: This thread is full of awesome stuff, but I honestly can't remember being so impressed with a visual effect like this, specially considering it's all software.

[sock]

@mankrip, thanks, the hammer wielding ogres are designed to be additions (sergeant/captains) of an ogre army. I am bit confused about your flame effect, is this a custom engine/client? Can it be used in any other engine? Is your goal to replace the models with software particle effects?

Early prototype for a weapons inventory:

[ceriux]

very sexy sock

[toneddu2000]

beautiful work sock, excellent idea!
mankrip: are those flames...particle effect in software? If yes...just wow!

[mankrip]

Those flames are in software, but they're not particles. They're the vanilla 3D models.
It becomes clear when they're seen animated. They're really poorly animated... but a well modeled&animated 3D flame model would look really good with this effect.
I'll record a video of it in action after fixing a couple bugs in the engine.
It's a custom engine by the way. The effect is hardcoded in the model renderer and in the palette mapping code, so there's no easy way to get it working in other engines.

Sock, that looks great. It reminds me of the Turok 2 weapon selection system (maybe the best weapon selection system ever made for a console game), but with a Quakish Hexen II feel.

[sock]

[mankrip]