Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Calastigro on October 12, 2002, 08:52:49 PM
Post by: Calastigro on October 12, 2002, 08:52:49 PM
man.... great thinking on Chronic Logic's part on this one.... here are some examples of drawbridge goodness:
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/theaterensemble/temp/greatmot.pfb I love the way this one moves
http://www.angelfire.com/indie/theaterensemble/temp/vertical.pfb Pulls straight up, fun
you can see why i want to make a cool drawbridge level... medium three is too small......
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Dreadnough on October 31, 2002, 04:40:16 PM
Post by: Dreadnough on October 31, 2002, 04:40:16 PM
What is the best free/shareware program to do magic with .gifs?
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: baggio on October 27, 2002, 10:15:24 AM
Post by: baggio on October 27, 2002, 10:15:24 AM
Strange, they don't work perfectly on mine. On vertical for instance, the bridge breaks at the joints. Either in the vertical support there, or some other span. Instead of using the vertical supports on either side, of the lifting section, I added two more drawbridge sections that pull away from the middle and now it works. It looks even better in my opinion because it adds a little more complexity to it.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Klei on November 01, 2002, 07:03:44 PM
Post by: Klei on November 01, 2002, 07:03:44 PM
It's not freeware, but Macromedia Flash is quite good.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Gray on October 27, 2002, 08:18:19 PM
Post by: Gray on October 27, 2002, 08:18:19 PM
Calastigro, I suggest you compress (zip) the bridge files (they shrink to a few K) to make them more accessible.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Gray on November 01, 2002, 08:33:47 PM
Post by: Gray on November 01, 2002, 08:33:47 PM
Flash is not about .gifs at all.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Calastigro on October 28, 2002, 01:46:03 AM
Post by: Calastigro on October 28, 2002, 01:46:03 AM
i realised that after i did it, but you see, i'm too lazy to go back and edit it. i'll compress in the future.
thanks though.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Calastigro on November 02, 2002, 02:55:46 AM
Post by: Calastigro on November 02, 2002, 02:55:46 AM
if you can get your grubby mitts on a copy of JASC animation shop (comes with Paint Shop Pro), it has a really neat wizard that makes it exceedingly easy. there's a trial on Jasc's website, http://www.jasc.com
go
for it, homie.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: phjardas on October 29, 2002, 02:36:42 PM
Post by: phjardas on October 29, 2002, 02:36:42 PM
I've got a problem with your bridge that I also have with my own bridges: How do you tell the program, which of the beams connecting to a joint belong to which part of the deck?
See http://people.ee.ethz.ch/~phjardas/vert.zip Thanks
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Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Klei on November 10, 2002, 02:50:13 PM
Post by: Klei on November 10, 2002, 02:50:13 PM
You put each picture in a frame, then click Puclish Settings and choose gif and only gif. Click Publish and voila!
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Dreadnough on October 29, 2002, 03:47:39 PM
Post by: Dreadnough on October 29, 2002, 03:47:39 PM
Here's what I've noticed.
If a beam is connected vertically upwards to a joint, then it is connected to the left side. And if a beam is connected vertical downwards it is connected to the right side. And of course beams tilting left from the joint is connected to the left side and vice versa.
If a beam is connected vertically upwards to a joint, then it is connected to the left side. And if a beam is connected vertical downwards it is connected to the right side. And of course beams tilting left from the joint is connected to the left side and vice versa.
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: ralmin on October 29, 2002, 05:32:48 PM
Post by: ralmin on October 29, 2002, 05:32:48 PM
I'm also enjoying making drawbridges in Pfx2. Here's one weird one, it starts out as a rectangle then deforms into an arch:
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Calastigro on October 30, 2002, 03:26:37 AM
Post by: Calastigro on October 30, 2002, 03:26:37 AM
spiffy. drawbridges are fun......
Title: i love building drawbridges
Post by: Klei on October 31, 2002, 03:08:51 PM
Post by: Klei on October 31, 2002, 03:08:51 PM
Just a side note: If you want your bridge image more clear you can takee a few images and put them all together to one slowly moving gif.