Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
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Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
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Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#2Very neat! Any ideas if this would run without much trouble in WebGL?
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#3neat effect i suppose, but i can't imagine it looking very good in-game. doesnt this go against the whole style of pixel art, being aligned to a grid, low palette colors and keeping the same pixel resolution throughout? i see way too many things that change pixel sizes even through the same sprite. i think this would be better suited to larger svg or even pre-rendered images.
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#4neat effect i suppose, but i can't imagine it looking very good in-game. doesnt this go against the whole style of pixel art, being aligned to a grid, low palette colors and keeping the same pixel resolution throughout? i see way too many things that change pixel sizes even through the same sprite. i think this would be better suited to larger svg or even pre-rendered images.
I had the same thought. If it's meant to look cartoony it might be better to just deform a simple box/balloon and map that to the sprite. This is worthy work, I just think it's a little too realistic for the whimsical context and ends up failing to satisfy either criterion.
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#5Very neat! Any ideas if this would run without much trouble in WebGL?
If it's running in a shader, which it is, it should work just fine via GLSL and WebGL
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#6Very neat! Any ideas if this would run without much trouble in WebGL?
I agree. This would be great in a WebGL implementation.
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#7this is awesome on so many levels. but a spaceship is the worst example! :) something organic would awe much more... well it does have more organic examples at the end.
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#8This might be useful in minecraft itself - to enhance a bit the animation.
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#9That spaceship looks... suggestive.
Nevertheless, this is a really interesting hack, good work!
Re: Simulating squishy pixel-art spaceships on the GPU
#10neat effect i suppose, but i can't imagine it looking very good in-game. doesnt this go against the whole style of pixel art, being aligned to a grid, low palette colors and keeping the same pixel resolution throughout? i see way too many things that change pixel sizes even through the same sprite. i think this would be better suited to larger svg or even pre-rendered images.
I guess it depends an the game itself, it might not look too good if you just drop the effect into an existing game, but if the game is designed with this in mind it might actually be quite interesting.