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T2D Blending Demo

by Alex Rice · in Torque Game Builder · 09/10/2005 (6:05 pm) · 14 replies

SetBlending() options in Torque2D. ... Confused. So I started putting a little gui together to experiment with the blending options. I thought maybe others would be interested. Some may not realize you can get some cool effects from this blending stuff, and it's all done in OGL so it's super fast.

Alas, even after writing this demo; I still don't GROK blending options. I don't have a mental model of the framebuffer, the source and the destination.

After playing with this app for an hour or two, then hopefully I will just grok it and won't need to understand technically what's going on.

And one question:

Can blending effects be applied to Particle Effects? If so I have not been able to figure out how that's done. What object do you

Here are some screenshots. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post it as a resource or email it to you. I also need to add setBlendColour().

mindlube.com/garagegames-forum/screenshot_004-00001.png
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Torque Owner Jesse Hall
#1
09/10/2005 (7:03 pm)
Cool..

Torque Owner Alex Rice
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#2
09/11/2005 (10:46 am)
@Jesse- glad you think so. After I add the setBlendColor() functionality, I will zip it up and email it to you.

Torque Owner Ricky Taylor
#3
09/11/2005 (2:59 pm)
I tried to do this myself!!

-- And failed...

Good Work... :D

Can I have it now?

Ricky,

Torque Owner Alex Rice
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#4
09/11/2005 (4:00 pm)
OK i updated the screenshots above, and am wrapping this thing up in an installer now...

Torque Owner Alex Rice
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#5
09/11/2005 (4:16 pm)
Download windows installer
mindlube.com/garagegames-forum/t2d-blending-demo-setup.exe
Let me know if anyone wants a .zip file instead for mac or linux

I hope it's as helpful for others as it has been for me to understand blending.

Associate Melv May
#6
09/12/2005 (12:11 am)
Alex,

Nice work. The blending modes are a little cryptic and require a fundamental understanding of a certain section of the rendering pipeline to understand fully so an app like this can only help.

Thanks for the community help bud.

- Melv.

Torque Owner Josh Williams
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#7
09/12/2005 (1:00 am)
Very cool, thanks Alex!

Torque 3D Owner Tom Perry
#8
09/12/2005 (9:54 am)
Thankyou, this will be a great help!

Torque 3D Owner Matthew Langley
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#9
09/12/2005 (9:56 am)
Nice demo Alex, really helps demonstrate the difference between blending modes

Torque Owner Michael Harman
#10
09/13/2005 (12:09 pm)
Nice, thanks for that!

Torque Owner Hugeone
#11
10/20/2005 (8:54 am)
I have a question about the blending effect, following as:
www.garagegames.com/mg/forums/result.thread.php?qt=35829

Please give me a help, thanks a lot.

~HugeOne

Torque Owner Alex Rice
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#12
10/20/2005 (5:03 pm)
Hugeone- offhand I cannot think of how to accomplish that. Have you played around with the T2D Blending Demo? It should give you some ideas for getting different effects.

Torque Owner C. N.
#13
11/12/2005 (9:09 pm)
Very nice! That would be very useful indeed. :)

Torque Owner Alex Rice
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#14
04/08/2006 (10:12 pm)
This resource is about 6 months old - anyways I just noticed that the Windows installer doesn't setup a properly working shortcut in the start menu. if you are having trouble launching it, you can right click on the T2d Blending Demo shortcut in your Start menu and set Properties > Shortcut > Start in > C:\Torque2D\T2DBlendingDemo. Then it should start without an error about not being able to open main.cs

Anyways, glad this demo was useful for some of you.

Alex