ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Posted: **Tue Jul 16, 2013 6:43 pm**

After adding some shield shaders and fire-based effects I started working in team with rexorcorum who made sketches/mockups and textures for me while I programmed the shaders. Here's the result of our work, hope you enjoy it in-game:

Celestial Explosion aka Almagest:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP0MuWJNY1w

Explosive fireball:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZ633IDpyuo

Fire vortex:

Fireball:

Fireball(deprecated):

Flame aura(generated procedurally for any sprite):

Flame wings:

Cold variant:

Sun aura:

Explosion shockwave:

Not a fire effect but still:

Probably my favourite shader, no one knows what that is:

Healing shader:

Lightning shield:

Runic shields:

Target shader:

Explosion(still under development):

Minor flame aura effect:

Circular flame aura effect:

Double circle flame aura(flames of ur'hok?):

Double opposing flame aura:

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... ireALL.png

Here's the list of universal textures that can be used with any shader:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png

And the effects that are using two colors(like double circle and opposing flames shield) use textures like this:

Posted: **Tue Jul 16, 2013 9:33 pm**

Good stuff!

How about some differently oriented circles?
- On the ground, as a cylinder wrapped around the feet. (Or is that what the minor aura is? it looks more like a sphere than a cylinder.)
- Over the head, like a halo or crown, in a cone.

How about flames which are rendered BEHIND the character? Might be useful for thematic sustains which are not literally setting the square on fire. Not sure what shape would be best, a circle or oval seems obvious.

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 2:34 am**

How about a flame burst erupting from the ground and one falling from the sky onto the target?
Both with an optional flamey shockwave effects for radius effects.

Also could do with a blood red and black version (with some alpha) of the flame texture for shadowflame/demonfire and stuff like that.

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:52 am**

@Doctornull
> How about flames which are rendered BEHIND the character?
Well, that's pretty impossible on my side - DG has to change sprite rendering order to accomplish it. But think it's well worth it, because there's a vast potential of auras behind character.
> Also could do with a blood red and black version (with some alpha) of the flame texture for shadowflame/demonfire and stuff like that.
Yup, that's definitely gonna happen

@HousePet
> How about a flame burst erupting from the ground and one falling from the sky onto the target?
Hmm.. I think I can do two flames, let's say, black and violet, opposed to each other. It may look good, thanks! /me pets him

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 9:28 am**

Just to clarify, I wasn't after a burst of flame erupting from the ground and falling from the sky in the one vfx...

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 3:17 pm**

Uploaded new effects, their shaders and textures to zero post.

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 4:32 pm**

Have we thought about some AoE ones that might work better then the current 'autumn leaves' for a fire storm effect (Like what Varsha and Uruivellas currently do?) Or do those already look better with shaders and I'm just not aware of it?

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 5:08 pm**

Hmm, interesting! I have not thought about that effect. Though I have some troubles imagining how it could look =(

Posted: **Wed Jul 17, 2013 6:16 pm**

A spiraling swirl of fire sounds about right. Something that looks more like 'fire' then 'autumn leaves'. Issue is transparency/thickness/whatever, so you can still see what's going on around it.

Possibly thicker towards the center with some sort of 'eye' in the storm showing the creature generating it. Draw a few lines out from it (spaced relatively evenly), attach some fire particles, and rotate the whole thing in a swirl. Dunno how you would go about doing that, but something that looks better then our current effect is really necessary at some point. For brownie points, make the fire fade more towards the edges, though that's probably pushing GPU's and the limits of the existing particle system. Damned if I know what can/cannot be done. Feel free to tone the idea down.

(A better ice particle effect then 'bubbles' might be nice too, if you want to spread out from fire. I rather like the bubbles for things like poison, but it doesn't really look nice for ice.)

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:03 pm**

Ok, dg. These are some wings for ya:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... hield.frag
growRatio - change this uniform to make them grow(0.0 to 1.0)
ellipsoid
aadjust is currently ignored but I can make it active.
color is ignored as well because it's better to make a texture of each color instead of applying color to a white texture.
Particle with somewhat centered wings:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... shield.lua

You can use any of these textures:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... flame2.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/256 ... 0flame.png

And here's how it looks:

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2013 4:58 pm**

Somebody make an Elemental Angel/Demon class, now. Do it!

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:25 pm**

Those wings are gorgeous.

Posted: **Thu Jul 18, 2013 6:48 pm**

Flame of UhrRok is obviously a callout to Balrog form. I demand wings be added to it, as real demons should have wings of fire and darkness.

Also, noone appears to have suggested wings in this topic, so Thank you DG for that. Now we can just apply them to any number of upcoming races. Sooooo many uses.

And yes. Awesome awesome wings. Awesome.

Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2013 9:22 am**

Yesterday Suslik tricked me to make some variations for the gradients of the fiery wings gfx. So, here are the results so far:

Blue-greenish, tweaked hue of the original gradient

Purplish, tweaked hue of the original gradient

the LSD rainbow, for Suslik with love

First attempt on dark flames, not so good, but worth posting

Blood flames, in Suslik's own words

Some colours test with a default gradient in PS

More violets

Darkness and shadows, wooo

More darkness

Even more

... and the White

Light wings

Light wings with bloody stains

The sick wings

And lastly - the sickly green

Posted: **Fri Jul 19, 2013 2:19 pm**

Light wings with bloody stains for Areyn the Fallen Sun Paladin!

I don't care if it makes no sense, DO IT!

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