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Fox Mc Cloud
07-15-2003, 09:22 PM
Hi there,

i got a question.How to make this awesome fureffect thats used
in Star Fox Adventures ? i know there is some trick in the
modelling and texturing and shader but i dont know how it
exactly works. Mayby somebody got a good hint or can tell me
how that works, a tutorial would be great too. Its for some lil
gameproject i work in my freetime.
And here some Screens that show what i mean for those who
dont know the game:
http://www.gamenikki.com/images/cube/starfox/screen1.jpg
http://www.gamenikki.com/images/cube/starfox/screen2.jpg


Greetz Fox Mc Cloud


PS. Sorry for my worst english im a bit out off praxis:hmm:
EricChadwick
07-16-2003, 03:11 PM
Looks like maybe shells and fins. Check out the work by Jed Lengyel et. al. ...

Blurb.
http://www.research.microsoft.com/graphics/realtime_fur.asp

Papers and demos.
http://research.microsoft.com/~hoppe/#fur

Cool stuff, but increases polycount and decreases framerate. Needs a lot of finesse to do it well.

The fox looks like he uses clipmaps, for perfect depth-sorting. Unfortunately it probably causes some aliasing and jitter. Probably OK though for his kind of fur.

Is this an Xbox game?
Invader Zim
07-16-2003, 05:06 PM
Is this an Xbox game?

It's a nintendo gamecube game
Fox Mc Cloud
07-18-2003, 07:00 PM
Ahh BIG thanks thats a good start for me i gona
check this out:thumbsup: But what about those
clipmaps ? Sorry im not Pro at all:blush:


Greetz Fox Mc Cloud
EricChadwick
07-18-2003, 07:12 PM
Clipmapping is using just one color for alpha, no soft edges. Also called 1-bit, stencil, screen-door, cutout.

This might help...
http://www.ericchadwick.com/portfolio/glossary/glossary.html#Chromakey
Fox Mc Cloud
07-18-2003, 07:30 PM
Wow thats an fast awnser much thanks posm you
really helped me :beer:


Greetz Fox Mc Cloud
EricChadwick
07-18-2003, 07:39 PM
You're welcome. Good luck with the game!
Levitateme
07-19-2003, 04:38 AM
fox, RARE is not just using like polygons with alpha maps? maybe they wrote something to do actual fur, i have not seen the game in action. i would look at it , i could tell you if there using polygons. but ....i havent seen it. that would be my guess thoguh.
Fox Mc Cloud
07-19-2003, 04:01 PM
Yo Levitateme i not only seen nice Screens of this game
i got an Gamecube and this awesome Game. And about the
technik that is used for his fur im looked some while in the net
but i wasnt able to find something usefull thats why i asked
here. I compared the technik from the link posem nicely posted
and this thing with shell and fins seem like is has been used for
Fox but i guess there is a little differece with the technik that has
been used for the alphmaps. But clipmaps seem to be good but
im still trying out maybe show some screens later. And Star Fox
uses many many Polygons bzw Triangels easy to see because
the little aliasing you see sometimes.

The hole thing is so intressting :love:


Greetz Fox Mc Cloud
Levitateme
07-19-2003, 08:07 PM
fox, i would probably own the game, but i heard it wasnt very good. so i cant judge unless i downloaded some video of it.
Fox Mc Cloud
07-20-2003, 12:16 AM
The only problem with the Game is the ending and that it is
a bit to easy these gamemagazines always talk rubbish :rolleyes:
But anyway some really nice game a Gamecube owner should
have (Sorry for the Offtopic but thats my opinion)


Greetz Fox Mc Cloud
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