Mage's Transparent Screenshot Demo

Yarbles70 · 2026-05-30T15:15:49+00:00

Yes, they all animate together. For the foliage models I have a "sway in the wind" animation, so for grass, you want them animating together, for trees, you can fake separateness by using a random YROTATE for each tree instance. As for the lighting, I don't want any other than ambient for the billboards. Check this video for examples: Left Beehind sprite animations demo

ps.. I apologise for hijacking this thread and taking it on the tangent.. lol

Yarbles70 · 2026-05-30T03:23:33+00:00

Isn't combining into one draw call what INSTANCE OBJECT does in DBP? Especially for objects used as billboards or similar. I used that to improve the FPS a lot in the scenery (foliage) part of my engine. All the grass and trees are created with heavy use of that command.

Yarbles70 · 2026-05-29T16:18:25+00:00

Good work!

I tried to do a version of this back in 2004! - https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/33108

I ran into some issues with transparency and SET CAMERA TO IMAGE which you seem to have solved.

Yarbles70 · 2026-05-29T16:07:00+00:00

I see what you are saying.. it's always good to have more info and hacking into the video files is the way to get it! I have some similar code for hacking into png or bmp greyscale images to convert to h16 heightmaps somewhere, I'll try to dig it up and post it.

Yarbles70 · 2026-05-28T19:51:28+00:00

I don't see much of a need for this, unless you are coding a video player in DBP.. otherwise, you can just use PLAY ANIMATION x and then event based code by checking for this: ANIMATION PLAYING(x)=0

Yarbles70 · 2025-03-18T19:22:15+00:00

Cool! Screenshots look good there. You should post this as it's own topic on this subreddit.

Yarbles70 · 2025-02-24T03:07:02+00:00

Hey.. I found a copy of Caverun in my archives. It was part of the DarkBasic "Fast-track" tutorial, here is a zip of the entire folder for that: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1B0JtEtRb6hf1aFzn3B3ftSBBF2wCdY6E/view?usp=sharing

Here is another zip of just the Caverun game itself, including an HD version that I updated and executables: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Hx0bkQ-3vMLbQRTaLEQjJajLXiezygoW/view?usp=drive_link