⭕⭕ Lens Flare ⭕⭕

Socks

A dynamic lens-flare set up . . . (file attached below) . . . for games, title sequences and, of course, large alien motherships coming to destroy the earth with their giant otherworldly laser cannons.

Two ways to control it - double click the main control (the light source) and chose either 'move by hand' or 'automatic move', 'move by hand' is basic drag it around with your finger/mouse and 'automatic move' is a simple pseudo-random movement (just to demo the flare moving) - but obviously if you wanted to use the lens flare in your SuperSpaceDeathWarriors™ game you'd dump both these controls and constrain the main control to a light source (the Sun, a rocket, missile, explosion . . . etc etc)

Flick the video over to 720p as you can't see the subtle details at the default 360p.

gyroscope

Ha, that's the biz, @Socks! B-) Excellent. :-B

Socks

Ha, that's the biz, @Socks! B-) Excellent. :-B

Cheers @gyroscope >-

I'll stick it in Spare Code too, might be useful for someone somewhere.

JSproject

Cool one @Socks

Zombiebrains

very impressive stuff...

jamie_c

pretty fancy!

Braydon_SFX

Top notch as always, @Socks! Keep it up!

Socks

@JSproject
@Zombiebrains
@jamie_c
@Braydon_SFX

Cheers >-

Here's one for all the Sci-Fi fans out there . . . . 8-X

firemaplegames

That is so sexy!!

jonmulcahy

very very cool.
would be perfect for a long way home 2

vuifah

Amazing!
Thank you very much for sharing.

Socks

@firemaplegames

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very very cool.
would be perfect for a long way home 2

Help yourself ! >-

Amazing!
Thank you very much for sharing.

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matarua

@Socks made my own one for one of my games a while that through placement and movement according to the hero looks good - but it doesn't do what this does - damn impressive sir

This is one area where screen blending mode works well in GameSalad eh

Merry Christmas to us >-

Thanks!

SnapFireStudios

Very cool!
- Thomas

Sparkyidr

Pretty


and awesome.

-Timo-

Thanks for sharing

Socks

@Socks made my own one for one of my games a while that through placement and movement according to the hero looks good - but it doesn't do what this does - damn impressive sir

Cheers @matarua, yeah it's all about placement of the light source when it comes to making lens flares look good.

This is one area where screen blending mode works well in GameSalad eh

Yeah, good old 'screen' and 'add', a compositors best friends, pity the equally useful 'multiply' can't join the party too.

Socks

@SnapFireStuios
@Sparkyidr
@timolapre1998

Cheers :-B

matarua

@Socks made my own one for one of my games a while that through placement and movement according to the hero looks good - but it doesn't do what this does - damn impressive sir

Cheers @matarua, yeah it's all about placement of the light source when it comes to making lens flares look good.

This is one area where screen blending mode works well in GameSalad eh

Yeah, good old 'screen' and 'add', a compositors best friends, pity the equally useful 'multiply' can't join the party too.

Yes I had multiply on the brain before too - oh man it's a head banging brain sapping thing.

Anyway - here's some news - you know the unicode work you did - funny thing is you can change the colour of those emoticons - if you make the text black they come out black - and if you make it green it kind of multiplies over the top - then inside the colour picker of GameSalad you can make the colour transparent it makes the whole character transparent - so it's not fixed but uses the multiply we love in regards to colour. :-B

Socks

@matarua

funny thing is you can change the colour of those emoticons . . .

Cool ! >- Good to know, pity GS's text colour doesn't accept expressions, which would open it up a little, but it's good that you can play around a little with unicode's colour nonetheless.

beefy_clyro

Love that

Flamingbanana

Awesome stuff man! @Socks

lebiscuit

woooooow

matarua

@matarua

funny thing is you can change the colour of those emoticons . . .

Cool ! >- Good to know, pity GS's text colour doesn't accept expressions, which would open it up a little, but it's good that you can play around a little with unicode's colour nonetheless.

The downside I found was symbol alignment across blocks of characters can be a bit off - so in a really long timer expression I had with the floor( technique - I placed unicode characters in there as icons and the alignment was a off on circle icons.

Anyway off topic, even tho they are in the title but of interest - can't wait to see your skills come together in a game!

This flare shows your flair extraordinare!

quantumsheep

*Thinks this'll be in everyone's games now and cancels "Lens Flare: The Return"

Socks

Slight update, the gradients in the individual elements suffered from that issue where gradients can sometimes appear 'stepped' when played on an iOS device, so I've applied the 'force 24bit' trick (adding a transparent pixel) to keep the gradients nice and smooth.

Socks

This flare shows your flair extraordinare!

Reported to the pun police, expect a knock at the door. :-B

viking

This is really nice I would like to "attach" it to the setting sun in my texture as the background layer is scrolling right to left. Then have the lens flare move across the screen at a faster speed to simulate what a lens flare would look like. Any suggestion as to how this can be done easily?