Re: [glob2-devel] game idea

[Gabriel Walt]

> Well, I was just about to ask about the feasibility of having wave animations 
> for the water.  I wasn't thinking of anything as complex as having it be 
> governed by wind, but that might go also.

Was just an idea. If wind is after all too hard to implement, the waves 
may also be created by something more fake. But it's probably always 
more interesting to have some kind of "local" effect, not an overall 
effect. As if parts have more wind and other parts have less wind. If we 
don't have a wind model, it can probably be easily faked by simply 
making areas with a more agitated animations and other areas with slower 
animations. The areas can then move randomly but should somehow stay 
compact. If there is no wind model, there is no direction, just an 
intensity. This makes it easy to do with a few simple animations with 
for eg 3 levels of "wind" intensity.

> > http://www.lecielestbleu.com/media/puppettoolframe.htm
> Let me download macromedia Flash... I'll take a look.

Yes, this may suck for linux users, because it's not flash, it's 
shockwave. That's the big brother of flash, and about 2 years ago there 
were no shockwave player for linux. I sent a mail to macromedia saying 
this was ridiculous, they answered that they are" working on it" 
[liars!] but that there's also a way to make it work with wine, I gave 
up. Meanwhile, I hope they released something for linux!

> OK, so that is rather stupid, and really doesn't add much, but I will keep 
> thinking.

I also had some stupid ideas with the wind, like spreading seeds or 
smoking the enemy... I don't know if there is a real gameplay potential 
of wind.

Gabriel