OOOOOhhhhhh!! Pretty! I Love it! How can I get this as my screensaver? Looks like your using 3D points combined with some kind of 2D area sampling?

...of course after I read your comments more carefully I realized you already answered my questions. Sorry. :-)

I AM SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS!!!
I can make a better particlesystem then that..!!

but their english is better ;)

very nice. I like the fountain.

Nice particle engine. Did you code it for the whole year? Or just on and off?

I can write much better comments. I am just not trying. No, really!

-Greg

"I can make a better particlesystem then that..!!"

Well, learn to spell first.

No need to say anything more, or do I ?

STOP THIS NONSENSE !

See ya

"One of the principal Hindu deities, worshiped as the destroyer and restorer of worlds and in numerous other complementary forms. Shiva is often conceived as a member of the triad also including Brahma and Vishnu."

Th demo is very cool. Just wish you had simply zipped it up instead of making it a self-installing binary (rather annoying).

I particularly (no pun here, folks!) like the snow, though I felt the rain was not very convincing (the droplets should be round and more bubblegum colour than blue). Anyway I think this'd be neat atmospheric effects in FPS's etc. As well as the obvious environmental stuff like fountains and lava.

Just wondering. Are you using MIP mapping properly? It seems to slow down on insane resolutions a little... Heheh.

Later,

- Betelgeuse

This is a nice demo. I really like the waterfall.
Rain does resemble shag carpet in a draft, rain isn't really blue but it's still a nice effect.

Good job.

"Surrounded by clones..."
"I could make a way better EGreg than that"

Nice Particle FX. How does Collision Detection work? isnt this very slow with so many particles?

anyway.. Well, that are for sure the most amazing posts i've ever seen! Good work! j/k

Hey ! It looks like particle effect ! But... mind the gap ! Maybe you need more particles ?
What effect you're trying to show in the picture at the bottom left ?
BTW, I can only understand waterfall effect, it's not clear what's going on in other pictures.
How the hell you managed to care about Shiva ?

One more post is here:

I've downloaded your Shiva Screensaver. Usually I don't care about screensavers, I never use it. Today (I do not know why) I decided to change my mind and installed it.

It DOES NOT WORK ON WIN2K !
I hate it. But still nobody can change my love for win2k.

A great IOTD, I find particle systems very fastinating, although they can range from simple to quite advanced effects, I found the gamasutra.com article by Buckshag on particle system's to be quite enlightning, its quite amazing what you can use particles for, snow, rain, smoke, and loads of other things! Its not often that a 3d title doesn't use them, with any luck, the screensaver will work on my lousy 3dcard, *growls at 3dfx and opengl compatibility*

Anyway, slight off-topic note, did anyone see Cybernet on telly last night? (UK viewers! :) They did a feature with Lionhead Studio's, and black and white looks hot! oh, and it has cool particles. :)

cheers

So, how do you do collisions? Per-particle or do yuo subdivide somehow?

-Greg

"I do not respond to foolish comments like these. I can write much better comments and responses to my comments."

EGreg your website doesn't work. Fool.

and besides where you end up very much depends on which direction you start off in

I AM SURROUNDED BY IDIOTS!!
I can make a better comment than that..!!

Oh man, c'mon..

..it's even less funny when it's not even your gag.
You must have posted this expecting to be flamed?

Well, that are for sure the most useless IOTD comments i've ever seen! Good work!

It does work on Win2k. I just had to download the GLUT .dll.

And the othetr way around, too, I'm sure.

What website are you talking about? gamecode.tripod.com?

Okay. Now I seem to have "upgraded" my flipcode.com forum account, and you can see my correct information, remo (and whoever else :)

Cheers,
Greg

no no, the year means, that i've started to code it a year ago, but i did not spend all the time on it, just a few hours a week, when there was time left besides working ...

i use per-particle collision...

then show off your skills and don't just flame around, ok?

I was just wondering, how many times does Vorteks check flipcode each day. Don't you have something better to do Vorteks?

dis iz da m0st amasing tr3ad on fl1pc0d !!1!
r0x0rz

Okay, guys, stop picking on the guy. I think he's had enough. He just wanted to continue the gag, I guess.

Plus, something tells me he is not a native English-speaker, so he may have found it funnier. (Sorry if I'm wrong.)

-Greg

"I can make a better comment than that!"
Don't just say it! Do it! hehehehehehe

-Greg

PS: I am surrounded by intelligent people. Freaky.

I check flipcode between 2 and 7 times a day. Usually I am at work and getting paid to do it too. :-) Yes, I do have something better to do (work, for example), but looking through the forums dosn't take long.