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- On Thu, 14 Dec 1995, Magnus Kollberg wrote:
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- > > Flames is a 2D effect, unfortunately. That is, the standard way of doing
- > > them (using DSP, the only way to do it 50 times/second, while screen).
- >
- > Can't you use the same technique in some way? What about just send random
- > coloured pixels in the right direction. The plasma gun have something similar.
- > Just change it a bit and the colour.
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- Flames if definately not just sending random pixels (I'm doing duck a
- routine now). In order to make it look good and realistic, you have to do
- pretty heavy calulations (it takes about 80% DSP time to do it full screen).
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- Elias Martenson
- elias@omicron.se
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