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From: Colin_Hughes@Playstation.sony.com
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Subject: Re: Getting a sprite to leave a trail
Date: 1 Jun 1998 14:26:23 +0100
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A lot of cool effects can be produced by using the previous screen as a
source...
I use this a bit in the snd2lt, and there are several feedback type
demos....

Colin.

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From: philip gooch <philg@easynet.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Getting a sprite to leave a trail
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Craig Graham wrote:
>
> Elliott Lee wrote:
>
> > The only problem with that is that the previous impressions of the
> > sprite don't fade out.  :(
> >
> > Phil, I take it that you're trying to do some kind of motion blur?
> > If so, I'd take your sprite and make about 4 or 5 copies of it at
> > about 20%                                   intensity and
semitransparent.  The overlapping
> > transparent sprites will make the ones closer to the middle of the
> > trail a bit brighter and the ends a little darker.  Then put a
> > non-semitransparent copy of the sprite over the "head".  That
> > shouldn't take up too much GPU time.
> >
>
> The same approach works on 3D objects as well, just draw a fewcopies with
the
> transparency bit set, clear it and draw again - as
> the last thing sorted is drawn first if all objects are level, the final
> 'solid' image will be drawn last (ie. on top).
>
> If you want a better effect (only easy with sprites), then use the RGB
> scaler to fade out the trailing images as well.....

Thanks guys

So its multiple sprites then to handle the trails. I should be able to
handle that.

But anyone know how certain other effects are done - for instance I've
seen Yaroze games where the whole screen melts away, starting from the
centre. Is there a way of addressing individual pixels in the frame
buffer to shift them around, apply different transparencies and RGB
values to them etc to create this effect?

Phil