{"id":2289,"date":"2015-03-17T21:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-17T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/?p=2289"},"modified":"2015-03-10T11:52:47","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T11:52:47","slug":"atmospheric-effects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/?p=2289","title":{"rendered":"Atmospheric effects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Just added atmospheric effects to the lava world, to simulate burning ash in the atmosphere\u2026<\/p>\n

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I feel it adds a bit of life to the scene, and I can reuse the same concept for the snow and rain on other levels\u2026<\/p>\n

I\u2019m using a particle system that spawns on the camera\u2026 When the camera moves, the particles get spawned at a new location\u2026 If the camera moves too much (like a cut transition on a cutscene), it will spawn a lot of new particles at different stages in life\u2026<\/p>\n

There were other options to do the effect, using full screen rects for example (which would kill the fill rate), and I could probably do something smarter with the particles (only generate them in front of the camera instead of all around), but the performance is good enough this way\u2026<\/p>\n

Snow is easy to make with this system, although not so sure about the rain, though\u2026<\/p>\n

Now listening to \u201cSin\u201d by \u201cMoonspell\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Link of the Day: So this is what 75 million of development money buys you\u2026 Nice!<\/em><\/p>\n

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Just added atmospheric effects to the lava world, to simulate burning ash in the atmosphere\u2026 I feel it adds a bit of life to the scene, and I can reuse the same concept for the snow and rain on other levels\u2026 I\u2019m using a particle system that spawns on the camera\u2026 When the camera moves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,147,8],"tags":[264,265,72,242],"class_list":["post-2289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-development","category-chrome-hunter","category-technology","tag-ash","tag-atmospherics","tag-lava","tag-polish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2290,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2289\/revisions\/2290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spellcasterstudios.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}