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It is red only, so it can be easily recolored, it have got 5 frames differing in strength of glow, so they can both be used as animation, and for auras of various strength.
I think it is finished, so here are first three frames of female aura: I'll post rest of frames on replies (why must there be maximum of 3 attachments?)

Nice idea, we can realize special auras with that. But it would look better if you use less/thinner glow

Please use a different thread for every single one of your projects. This will make it much easier to find something you made. For this reason I renamed this thread to [WIP] Player Glow

Now for this work itself: It looks quite impressive considering how easy it is to make, but I wonder fow well it will work when the character isn't nude but wearing equipment.

It could be made more awesome by adding a pulsating animation for the "immobile" animation phases (yes, our animation system can do this).

and how great that wold fit with realm of feath and the underground

great idea thanks

Regards

EDIT: Deleted my post, now here are last two frames of female glow, and first of male glow: note: in fact it is stronger, than previous one, it just looks so on white bg. Rest of frames will be posted on my next posts (argh, that stupid limit of 3 attachments)

EDIT: deleted post, now there will be 2nd, 3rd and 4th frames of male glow.

A question, would walking cause the aura to increase slightly more on the back side of the avatar and become narrower on the front side of the avatar?

Hi,

an aura effect would make a great addition, particularly if coupled with spellcasting animations (*cough*). However, wouldn't it be preferable to compute the aura programmatically, on-the-fly? (Caching the results, of course). That would make it easy to include equipment sprites.

(Yes, I do realise that no-one is probably bored enough to implement that just because I suggested it. I thought I should mention the idea, though, since it would be a preferable solution.)

-- fate

fate wrote: an aura effect would make a great addition, particularly if coupled with spellcasting animations (*cough*). However, wouldn't it be preferable to compute the aura programmatically, on-the-fly? (Caching the results, of course). That would make it easy to include equipment sprites.

Yes, it would be, but use of pixel shaders would increase hardware requirements, and as far as I know this game is supposed to run on old PC's.

And in fact I created it, because I wanted to create something for this game, and I am too lazy to create something, that requires much work. Computing it basing on character equipment will probably not be necessary, as my aura is a little blured on inside too, so it should not be so striking, unless as I said earlier - helmet would be much bigger than head.

Sorry for doubling my post, and for deleting previous one, but I needed to post frames of animation somewhere, and there is limit of 3 attachments per post, so here s last frame (others are on my other posts)

Crush wrote:Now for this work itself: It looks quite impressive considering how easy it is to make, but I wonder fow well it will work when the character isn't nude but wearing equipment.

Crush, what if it was just a solid layer (with no hole in the middle) that is drawn under the player sprite, possibly even a separate sprite. That might make it easier ...

zick wrote:

Crush wrote:Now for this work itself: It looks quite impressive considering how easy it is to make, but I wonder fow well it will work when the character isn't nude but wearing equipment.

Crush, what if it was just a solid layer (with no hole in the middle) that is drawn under the player sprite, possibly even a separate sprite. That might make it easier ...

I really like the idea but if the glow doesn't really match the equipement the player wears I think it will look like crap.