explosions using OpenGL and textures...
Post: #17
thanks for all the explosion tips guys! I'm back with this explosion-drawing method, and I just have one concern. It seems that if the glBlendFunc is set to GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR, GL_ONE, it makes the actual explosion sprites look really good and fire-like, however the alpha set in glColor4f(r,g,b,a) seems to have no effect. this makes perfect sense, as the alpha is not mentioned whatsoever in either gl blend constant. So I ended up altering the r,g, and b of the coloring to attempt to fade in the explosions at the start, and fade out the explosions at the end. I have no real complaints about the fade-in, but my explosion fragments seem to "pop" out of existence when their frame count has expired, even though I smoothly reduce the rgb values to 0...
also, I need to learn how to load all these vertices into a VAR, since I'm beginning to lose frame rate once i get multiple explosions on the screen. If anyone has any good resources for glBindVertexArrayRangeAPPLE or whatever, Let me know.
Thanks again, this forum is super-helpful. I will post some screens once I implement window-mode, because i get crazy interlaced madness when i try to capture in full screen mode.
Code:
void UI_DrawExplosions (void)
{
int i;
int facetNum;
float fadeGB, fadeR;
OGL_BindImage( particleImg );
for (i=0; i<kMaxExplosions; i++) {
if (explosion[i].fwState == fwState_firing) {
fadeGB = (32.0f-explosion_fn[i]) / 32.0f;
//if (explosion_fn[i] < 20)
OGL_BlendFunc(GL_ONE_MINUS_DST_COLOR, GL_ONE);
for (facetNum=0; facetNum<16; facetNum++) {
if (explosion_fn[i] < explosion[i].facet[facetNum].framecount) {
if (explosion_fn[i] < 4)
OGL_SetColor4f( 0.25f*explosion_fn[i] + 0.25f,fadeGB,fadeGB, 1 );
else if (explosion_fn[i] < explosion[i].facet[facetNum].framecount-16)
OGL_SetColor4f( 1,fadeGB,fadeGB,1 );
else if (explosion_fn[i] < explosion[i].facet[facetNum].framecount)
{
fadeR = (explosion[i].facet[facetNum].framecount - explosion_fn[i]) / 16.0f;
OGL_SetColor4f( fadeR,fadeGB,fadeGB,1);
}
else continue;
/*if (facetNum<5)
OGL_DrawParticleInRectWithOriginRotation( particle_ice, UI_GetFWRectForExplosion(i),
enemy[i].x_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].x_position,
enemy[i].y_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].y_position,
explosion[i].facet[facetNum].rotation );
else if (facetNum<9)
OGL_DrawParticleInRectWithOriginRotation( particle_smoke, UI_GetFWRectForExplosion(i),
enemy[i].x_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].x_position,
enemy[i].y_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].y_position,
explosion[i].facet[facetNum].rotation );
else*/
OGL_DrawParticleInRectWithOriginRotation( particle_fire, UI_GetFWRectForExplosion(i),
enemy[i].x_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].x_position,
enemy[i].y_position + explosion[i].facet[facetNum].y_position,
explosion[i].facet[facetNum].rotation );
}}
}}
OGL_BlendFunc(GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA);
}also, I need to learn how to load all these vertices into a VAR, since I'm beginning to lose frame rate once i get multiple explosions on the screen. If anyone has any good resources for glBindVertexArrayRangeAPPLE or whatever, Let me know.
Thanks again, this forum is super-helpful. I will post some screens once I implement window-mode, because i get crazy interlaced madness when i try to capture in full screen mode.
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