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schwit1 (797399) writes "Rumors are flying that some of the individuals who gave Virgin Galactic deposits for space tourism flights on SpaceShipTwo are demanding their money back. It appears that the most recent delay, revealed by Branson on David Letterman, is the cause." How much would you pay to go to space, if the ticket was only good starting 10 years from now? How about 20? How about, as Branson claims, if it was early next year?
A "flawless" launch early Sunday from Cape Canaveral has sent a load of supplies on its way to the International Space Station aboard a Falcon 9-lofted SpaceX Dragon capsule. Food, care packages and provisions for NASA's astronauts make up more than a third of the cargo onboard Dragon. But the spacecraft also has experiments and equipment that will eventually help scientists complete 255 research projects in total, according to NASA. In Dragon's trunk, there's an instrument dubbed RapidScat, which will be installed outside the space station to measure the speed and direction of ocean winds on Earth. Among the commercially funded experiments onboard Dragon is a materials-science test from the sports company Cobra Puma Golf designed to build a stronger golf club. Dragon is also hauling the first space-grade 3D printer, built by Made in Space, which will test whether the on-the-spot manufacturing technology is viable without gravity.
MTorrice (2611475) writes Bioengineers can harness DNA's remarkable ability to self-assemble to build two- and three-dimensional nanostructures through DNA origami. Until now, researchers using this approach have been limited to building structures that are tens of square nanometers in size. Now a team reports the largest individual DNA origami structures to date, which reach sizes of hundreds of square nanometers. What's more, they have developed a less expensive way to synthesize the DNA strands needed, overcoming a tremendous obstacle to scaling up the technology.
An anonymous reader writes with this report from The Verge linking to and excerpting from a newly released report created for a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, including portions of eight "damning emails" that offer an unflattering look at the rollout of the Obamacare website. The Government Office of Accountability released a report earlier this week detailing the security flaws in the site, but a report from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform released yesterday is even more damning. Titled, "Behind the Curtain of the HealthCare.gov Rollout," the report fingers the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which oversaw the development of the site, and its parent Department of Health and Human Services. "Officials at CMS and HHS refused to admit to the public that the website was not on track to launch without significant functionality problems and substantial security risks," the report says. "There is also evidence that the Administration, to this day, is continuing its efforts to shield ongoing problems with the website from public view." Writes the submitter: "The evidence includes emails that show Obamacare officials more interested in keeping their problems from leaking to the press than working to fix them. This is both both a coverup and incompetence."
MarkWhittington (1084047) writes "According to a Thursday story in Investment Business Daily, Boeing, whose CST-100 spacecraft was one of the two winners of NASA's commercial crew competition, will reserve one seat per flight for a paying tourist. For a price comparable to what space tourists now pay for trips on the Russian Soyuz, anyone will be able to take a jaunt to the International Space Station. The move places Boeing in direct competition with the Russians, who are working through a company called Space Adventures for their tourist space jaunts."
cold fjord writes: Phys.org reports, "The life sciences have come under fire recently with a study published in PLOS ONE that investigated the level of sexual harassment and sexual assault of trainees in academic fieldwork environments. The study found 71% of women and 41% of men respondents experienced sexual harassment, while 26% of women and 6% of men reported experiencing sexual assault. The research team also found that within the hierarchy of academic field sites surveyed, the majority of incidents were perpetrated by peers and supervisors. The New York Times notes, "Most of these women encountered this abuse very early in their careers, as trainees. The travel inherent to scientific fieldwork increases vulnerability as one struggles to work within unfamiliar and unpredictable conditions."
gbjbaanb writes: This year's Ig Nobel prize was won by Japanese researchers investigating why banana skins produced a frictionless surface compared to apple and orange peels. (Apparently, "The polysaccharide follicular gels that give banana skins their slippery properties are also found in the membranes where our bones meet," so its not all fun and jollity). Other prizes were awarded for noting that dogs only defecate when aligned with north-south magnetic fields, and that "night owl" people are more likely to be psychopaths than early risers. Yes, that probably includes you.
Lasrick writes Three researchers from King's College, London, walk through the security threats posed by synthetic and do-it-yourself biology, assessing whether changes in technology and associated costs make it any easier for would-be terrorists to pursue biological weapons for high-consequence, mass- casualty attacks (and even whether they would want to). "Those who have overemphasized the bioterrorism threat typically portray it as an imminent concern, with emphasis placed on high-consequence, mass-casualty attacks, performed with weapons of mass destruction (WMD). This is a myth with two dimensions."
Taco Cowboy writes A recent study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the University of Tübingen in Germany has found that present day Europeans are descendants of three different groups of people — A near east farmer group, an indigenous hunter gatherer group, and an ancient North Eurasian group from Siberia. "Nearly all Europeans have ancestry from all three ancestral groups," said Iosif Lazaridis, a research fellow in genetics in Reich's lab and first author of the paper. "Differences between them are due to the relative proportions of ancestry. Northern Europeans have more hunter-gatherer ancestry — up to about 50 percent in Lithuanians — and Southern Europeans have more farmer ancestry." The most surprising part of the project, however, was the discovery of the Basal Eurasians. Before Australian Aborigines, New Guineans, South Indians, Native Americans and other indigenous hunter-gatherers split, they split from Basal Eurasians. The study also found that Mediterranean groups such as the Maltese, as well as Ashkenazi Jews, had more Near East ancestry than anticipated, while far northeastern Europeans such as Finns and the Saami, as well as some northern Russians, had more East Asian ancestry in the mix.
sciencehabit writes A major new study of warfare in chimpanzees finds that lethal aggression can be evolutionarily beneficial in that species, rewarding the winners with food, mates, and the opportunity to pass along their genes. The findings run contrary to recent claims that chimps fight only if they are stressed by the impact of nearby human activity—and could help explain the origins of human conflict as well.
astroengine writes Analysis of 41 billion cosmic rays striking the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer particle detector aboard the International Space Station shows an unknown phenomena that is "consistent with a dark matter particle" known as a neutralino, researchers announced Thursday. Key to the hunt is the ratio of positrons to electrons and so far the evidence from AMS points in the direction of dark matter. The smoking gun scientists look for is a rise in the ratio of positrons to electrons, followed by a dramatic fall — the telltale sign of dark matter annihilating the Milky Way's halo, which lies beyond its central disk of stars and dust. However, "we have not found the definitive proof of dark matter," AMS lead researcher Samuel Ting, with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and CERN in Switzerland, wrote in an email to Discovery News. "Whereas all the AMS results point in the right direction, we still need to measure how quickly the positron fraction falls off at the highest energies in order to rule out astrophysical sources such as pulsars." But still, this new finding is a tantalizing step in the dark matter direction.
vinces99 (2792707) writes Using modern statistical tools, a new study led by the University of Washington and the United Nations finds that world population is likely to keep growing throughout the 21st century. The number of people on Earth is likely to reach 11 billion by 2100, the study concludes, about 2 billion higher than widely cited previous estimates. The paper published online Sept. 18 in the journal Science includes the most up-to-date numbers for future world population, and describes a new method for creating such estimates. "The consensus over the past 20 years or so was that world population, which is currently around 7 billion, would go up to 9 billion and level off or probably decline," said corresponding author Adrian Raftery, a UW professor of statistics and of sociology. ... The paper explains the most recent United Nations population data released in July. This is the first U.N. population report to use modern statistics, known as Bayesian statistics, that combines all available information to generate better predictions.
Most of the anticipated growth is in Africa, where population is projected to quadruple from around 1 billion today to 4 billion by the end of the century. The main reason is that birth rates in sub-Saharan Africa have not been going down as fast as had been expected. There is an 80 percent chance that the population in Africa at the end of the century will be between 3.5 billion and 5.1 billion people.
alphadogg (971356) writes At Harvard University's Sanders Theater this evening, a collection of the most off-the-wall, bizarre and lurid scientific efforts of the past year will be dubiously honored with an Ig Nobel Prize. The Ig Nobels are awarded annually by Improbable Research, an organization devoted to scientific education that publishes the Annals of Improbable Research magazine six times a year. Past honorees have included:*A study about homosexual necrophilia in ducks; Competitive analysis of breakfast cereal sogginess; The discovery that dung beetles can navigate using the Milky Way galaxy. The ceremony begins at 6 p.m. EST, and can be viewed online for free here.
First time accepted submitter samalex01 (1290786) writes "I'm 38, married, two young kids, and I have a nice job in the IT industry, but since I was a kid I've had this deep love and passion for astronomy and astrophysics. This love and passion though never evolved into any formal education or anything beyond just a distant fascination as I got out of high school, into college, and started going through life on more of an IT career path. So my question, now that I'm 38 is there any hope that I could start learning more about astronomy or physics to make it more than just a hobby? I don't expect to be a Carl Sagan or Neil deGrasse Tyson, but I'd love to have enough knowledge in these subjects to research and experiment to the point where I could possibly start contributing back to the field. MIT Open Courseware has some online courses for free that cover these topics, but given I can only spend maybe 10 hours a week on this would it be a pointless venture? Not to mention my mind isn't as sharp now as it was 20 years ago when I graduated high school. Thanks for any advice or suggestions."
onproton (3434437) writes The journal Nature released a study today that reveals a link between the consumption of artificial sweeteners and the development of glucose intolerance [note: abstract online; paper itself is paywalled], a leading risk factor for the development of type 2 diabetes, citing a critical alteration of intestinal bacteria. Paradoxically, these non-caloric sweeteners, which can be up to 20,000 times sweeter than natural sugars, are often recommended to diabetes patients to control blood glucose levels. Sugar substitutes have come under additional fire lately from studies showing that eating artificially sweetened foods can lead to greater overall calorie consumption and even weight gain. While some, especially food industry officials, remain highly skeptical of such studies, more research still needs to be done to determine the actual risks these substances may pose to health.
coondoggie writes Lack of money, management structure and staff are hampering NASA's ability to effectively identify and track comets, meteorites and asteroids that might threaten Earth. The space agency's Inspector General, Paul Martin, issued a scathing report this week that said while NASA's Near Earth Object program has done substantial work in identifying the sometimes massive rocks hurtling around the planet it is substantially behind in its goal of cataloging 90% of those 140 meters in diameter by 2020, among other issues.
An anonymous reader writes During an event at the National Press Club, Bezos announced an agreement with Blue Origin and United Launch Alliance, the joint venture of Boeing and Lockheed Martin, to continue development of a new rocket engine for ULA's Atlas and Delta rocket lines. From the article: "Called BE-4, the engine has been in the works at Blue Origin for three years and is currently in testing at the company's West Texas facilities. ULA, founded in 2006, has supplied rockets to the US Department of Defense and NASA and will now co-fund the BE-4 project to accelerate its completion. The agreement is for a four-year development process with testing slated for 2016 and flight in 2019."
University of Arizona grad student Matt Bunting doesn't come across as a mad scientist. That's a very good thing, because his robot hexapod creations are easy to imagine crawling across the USA in large hordes, devouring everything in their path and using all the electricity they come across to feed their Queen Hexapod, a 3-D printer mounted on a hexapod chassis that turns everything fed to it into more robots. Luckily, the real life Matt is an affable (self-described) "Roboticist, Electrical Engineer, Musician, and Rock Crawler" who freely admits that at this time his robotic creations have no practical application whatsoever. This is probably true, except for the fact that they can liven up a music video like mad, as you can see on YouTube in Pedals Music Video (featuring REAL robots) . Our little video is a lot simpler, of course. In it, we interview Matt and he tells us what he's up to with his robots, and gives some 'how to get started with robotics' advice for budding young engineers. (Alternate Video Link)
mdsolar writes with the latest plan from the U.S. government to fight the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, and a call for more help from other nations by the President. President Obama on Tuesday challenged world powers to accelerate the global response to the Ebola outbreak that is ravaging West Africa, warning that unless health care workers, medical equipment and treatment centers were swiftly deployed, the disease could take hundreds of thousands of lives. "This epidemic is going to get worse before it gets better," Mr. Obama said here at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, where he met with doctors who had just returned from West Africa. The world, he said, "has the responsibility to act, to step up and to do more. The United States intends to do more." Even as the president announced a major American deployment to Liberia and Senegal of medicine, equipment and 3,000 military personnel, global health officials said that time was running out and that they had weeks, not months, to act. They said that although the American contribution was on a scale large enough to make a difference, a coordinated assault in Africa from other Western powers was essential to bringing the virus under control.
As the science consultant for The Big Bang Theory for the past seven seasons, Dr. David Saltzberg makes sure the show gets its science right. A few weeks ago, you had the chance to ask him about his work on the show and his personal scientific endeavors. Below you'll find his answers to those questions.
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Blaine unveils new offensive options in season-opening loss to Ferndale
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After a jittery start to the season under Ferndale's Friday night lights, Blaine settled into a groove and revealed some exciting new offensive weaponry, but it wasn't enough to overcome the first half blowout.
Blaine lost their first game of the season 47–21 on September 6.
Ferndale won the game with productive, persistent rushing on offense, and with periodic breakthroughs for long touchdown runs. The Blaine defense was beaten on the perimeter, and was fooled three times by a double-handoff play that misdirected aggressive defenders and led to two touchdowns.
"Our defensive technique improved a little bit throughout the game. We did a better job of reading their offense, anticipating and reacting in the second half," said head coach Jay Dodd. "Obviously we need to see that improvement continue."
On offense, Blaine unveiled a new look with diverse options that is a major departure from years past, when running back Mario Gobbato carried the ball on most plays.
"In the past we relied on Mario because he was so darned talented, but also because we didn't really have other options," Dodd explained. "This year, we have more than one playmaker. We have three to five guys we want to spread the wealth to."
Blaine executed a variety of packages on offense, with receivers sometimes lining up three or four deep outside. Quarterback
Nathan Kramme showed his ability to operate out of the shotgun for productive quarterback scrambles. He also completed several passes for major gains. One of those passes, a gorgeous 30-yard spiral into the hands of sophomore Josiah Westbrook, yielded a 67-yard touchdown in the fourth quarter. Westbrook also made a diving catch for a first down in the third quarter, followed by a spectacular 11-yard touchdown catch in tight coverage.
Regarding Westbrook's receiving skills, Dodd said, "He has good hand-eye coordination and agility combined with great awareness."
Josh Fakkema and Cody Gobbato also made catches for significant gains. Kramme passed for 173 yards and two touchdowns.
That's not to say Blaine's pro-style spread offense relied solely on passing. In fact, a slight majority of Blaine's offense came in the form of running plays by senior Cole Muder, who ran for 107 yards, and Kramme, who ran for 73 yards and a touchdown. Kramme's yardage would have been 100 if not for two big sacks in the final seconds of the game.
Blaine struggled to connect on offense in the first half. Kramme completed only one of seven pass attempts, and although Muder carried the ball 10 times for 67 yards, Blaine only gained four first downs before halftime.
"We came into the game very excited," Dodd said. "A lot of our guys were starting for the first time and we made some silly mistakes. There were a few drives with penalties that hurt us."
The electric atmosphere of a season-opener in Ferndale, where the crowd is big and the lights are bright, may have contributed to Blaine's mistakes early in the game, Muder said.
"It's a pretty exciting atmosphere here [in Ferndale], and for a lot of kids it's their first big game, so it's easy to get jitters," he said.
Ferndale ran the score up to 26–0 before the Kramme–Westbrook connection in the third quarter broke the ice for Blaine.
Blaine's first scoring drive began when Westbrook returned the kickoff to the 25-yard line. Muder drove up the middle for five yards, then an offensive false start penalty made it second-and-10 for Blaine. Kramme scrambled for the first down, then completed a pass to Gabbato before running for another first down.
An incomplete pass and a stuffed carry attempt were followed by a defensive penalty. On the next play, Westbrook made a diving catch at the sideline for a first down deep in Ferndale territory.
Two incomplete passes brought a third-and-long situation, and Muder carried the ball into the red zone for a first down. Operating from the shotgun, Kramme dropped back and threw an arching lob to the left side of the end zone. Westbrook went up for the ball in lockstep with a Ferndale defender, who also got his hand on it. Both players fell to the ground, but Westbrook came up with the ball.
Blaine's first touchdown marked a turning point in the game, and from that point on the two teams were more evenly matched.
"As the game progressed, our offense got into the groove," Dodd said. "We were able to run a variety of packages and we started making plays."
Muder said rallying talk at halftime sparked better play in the second half, when changing the offensive matchups proved more successful.
"We tried setting me up outside, with Brian [Ferrer] running the slots. Mixing it up seemed to work in the second half," he said.
After Blaine's first touchdown, Ferndale responded with a four-play drive to the end zone, including a 47-yard run made possible by a big block from Daniel Jones, who scored on the next play.
Blaine's following drive was kept alive when Muder converted a fourth-and-two scenario into a first down. Kramme scored on a bootleg, and the extra point made it 33–14.
Ferndale's Joey Akers scored after a well-executed stiff arm, and the Golden Eagles forced a fumble on Blaine's ensuing drive. Ferndale scored again, making it 47–14.
Steven Krafts returned Ferndale's kickoff to Blaine's 33-yard line, and on the following play Westbrook lined up on the right-hand side, outran his coverage and caught Kramme's excellent pass for a 67-yard touchdown.
Peter Benne's booming kickoff following the touchdown pinned Ferndale at their own 15-yard line.
"Our special teams did an outstanding job in the game," Dodd said. Penne, who is also a soccer player, made all three of his extra point attempts and nailed the kickoffs. "He's going to make a huge difference on our football team," Dodd said.
Blaine forced a fumble and recovered it to end Ferndale's last drive. Fakkema caught a long pass for a first down, but the clock ran out two plays later, with the scoreboard reading 47–21 Ferndale.
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[-Mapping -] Animated Water, How to animate water using photoshop.
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This tutorial will explain how to animate water for parallax mappers, using photoshop.
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It looks A LOT better in game then on youtube.
So I strongly recommend you try the Tech Demo HERE.
This demo is just to show the water in game, Please DO NOT decrypt this demo and use it's contents!
Adobe Photoshop
Modern Algebra's Animated Parallax script
Woratana's Multiple fogs script (Optional Script)
Celianna's Farm and nature Tileset (Optional resources)
Ying's Trees (Optional resources)
Some time and a little patience.
This is quite a long tutorial, so please make sure you have plenty of time.
There are probably a billion better ways of doing this that produce far grater results but this is just one method and I hope it helps.
I don't have a Mic so I will have to post smaller videos and comment under them.
Also you won't see much in the embedded videos, it's far too small. Please watch them on youtube itself, much bigger screen.
STEP 1 - Starting up
- Open Photoshop and create a new page with the desired map size.
- For this tutorial we will stick to one standard resoulution VX screen, 544x416 pixels.
- Next make and Insert your ground layer (I'll leave this to you)
- And open up any resources you want to use.
- I strongly recommend Celianna's Farm and nature Tileset and Ying's Trees.
STEP 2 - Making the Water Pool
- Go to Celianna's tileset or the resource of your choice and find a water like image, something with wavey lines in it, like in the video.
- Copy and paste it in to the page you're working on, above the ground layer.
- Keep doing this like in the video untill you have filled the page, Try to mix it up abit so you don't see any obvious blocky patterns.
- Once you have filled the page, you should have something like in the video below.
- Keep in mind, you can save this image and re-use it for all your other water maps so you don't have to do this process ever again!
- Re-color the water if you want.
- Duplicate the water layer, Very important Incase you mess it up! (like i often do) and then work on the copied layer.
- Now, select the eraser tool with the rounded soft brush and erase out the shape of your pool like in the video above.
- Move the pool to the desired position, if need be.
STEP 3 - Adding a border
- Go back to to Celianna's tileset or the resource of your choice and find a 'Edge' like image, like in the video.
- Copy and paste it in to the page you're working on, going all around the border like in the video.
- Ok, you must be thinking WTF? right now, but please, trust me, it will work out in the end.
- So now it should look like the video below.
- Duplicate the border, Incase you mess it up and then work on the copied border layer.
- Select the eraser again and the soft rounded brush and go around the Inside of the border smoothing out all the rough edges.
- Then still with the eraser select the splatter brush, but this time go round the outside of the border, use lots of clicks instead of draging.
- Once that is done you should have some what of a decent border, I did mine very roughly. You can spend alot more time and make yours really nice.
- Of course you don't have to make a border like this and just use your 'cliff' tiles instead which is done in the same method. (I'll leave that to you)
STEP 4 - Making the Animation Frames
- Duplicate your water pool layer 3 times, name it Frame1, Frame2, Frame3
- I used 3 frames you can use however many you want but I don't reccomend too many.
- Select each frame individualy then go to Filter > Filter Gallery > Distort > Ocean Ripple
- For the first frame change the Ripple size to 2 and keep Ripple magnitude on 1.
- For the second frame change the Ripple size to 4 and keep Ripple magnitude on 1.
- For the third frame change the Ripple size to 6 and keep Ripple magnitude on 1.
- You can adjust the Ripple size value in larger increments if you want the water to be more hostile.
STEP 5 - Saving The parallaxes
- There are many ways to display the animated frames in the game, one option would be to use the multiple fogs script. (which will be needed for waterfalls that you can walk through)
- But for this method we will use Modern Algebra's Animated Parallax script.
- So make sure you have Modern Algebra's Animated Parallax script already in your game.
- Select only frame 1 and the rest of the layers and save the image as "WaterTut_1 .png"
- Do the same for frame 2, this time name it "WaterTut_2.png"
- Do the same for frame 3.
STEP 6 - Inserting in to the game
- Open up your project.
- Make sure you have Modern Algebra's Animated Parallax script inside.
- Put the default speed to 10, you can assign a speed for each individual map, but we'll just go with the default value for now.
- I put 10 but you can make it faster if you want.
- Open Resource Manager, In parrallaxes import the 3 images you created.
- Set the map properties up like in the video, Make sure the map is the correct size!
- Once that's done we can test it. Watch on youtube itself or fullscreen! sucks embeded.
- Ok, lets compare it to the default RTP water.
- Don't know why I showed you that.
- Above is the comparison, not too bad I geuss.
- Again please watch on youtube.
STEP 7 - Adding Water Features
- How about we spruce things up abit?
- Let's add some nice water features rather then having a plain old boring pool of water.
- Please watch on youtube!
- Open up your resources. Celianna's and Ying's resources are awesome for this, thanks guys!
- Copy say the rock feature like in the video and paste it into your page, paste it again on top of it.
- Name one layer Rock Top and other Rock bottom or something just so you can identify them later, if need be.
- On the top layer select the soft round eraser tool, yet again, and erase around the bottom of it.
- Then select the bottom layer and turn down the opacity. It should look like it's underwater.
- Then on the bottom layer erase the most bottom parts like in the video to give it more depth.
- Do the same for some more features like in the following videos.
- Another water feature.
- That should be enough for now.
- Please remember. when you have done this once you can re-use all of the stuff you created again for later maps so it will be much faster next time.
- Now you need to re-save all these parallaxes again like before.
- Select each water Frame and save it individually just like before, and just overwrite them.
- Now we need to insert them in our game again.
- Do the same like before as in the video above.
- Now let's test it!
- Please watch on youtube, I know I keep saying this.
- It works!
- You can even animate the features aswell using the same method, for exmaple a fountain, but i'll leave that to you.
STEP 8 - Adding a Waterfall that you can walk through.
- Coming soon!
- Can't be bothered right now but I'll show you how to do this soon.
STEP 9 - Build the rest of the map.
- I'll leave this to you.
- In the end It could look something like this.
- Please watch on youtube
It looks a lot better in game then on youtube so I recommend you try the Tech Demo HERE.
That's it for now.
Thank you for your patience, I know it was quite long but hopefully it gave you some idea of one method of animating water.
A very quick example with a little "wave" effect around the edges of the water, which makes the water look more like it is moving.
You can do this using the same method, I'll show you how it was done a bit later.
A quick exmaple of adding water depth.
-Make a new layer above the Water animation frames.
-Select the white color.
-Select the soft rounded brush tool.
-Brush along the border of the pool.
-Once done turn the opacity of the layer down to like 25% or whatever you like.
-Thats it, just re-save your animation frames again with this new layer aswell.
Example Screen
Example Video
Please make sure to credit the following people if you used their scripts and resources!
Adobe Photoshop
Modern Algebra - Animated Parallax script
Woratana - Multiple fogs script (Script)
Celianna - Farm and nature Tileset (resources)
Ying's - Trees(resources)
AK47 - (Tutorial) Some credit would be nice for the time spent making these tutorials.
Found this tutorial helpful?
You can support it if you want or you can support my game Amulet of Athos: Legend of the Sarian Knights which inspired this tutorial.
This post has been edited by ak47lol: Dec 4 2011, 03:23 PM
Aug 3 2011, 06:01 PM
Post #2
Type: Writer
Alignment: Lawful Evil
Yessss, this is totes helpful! It's weird actually 'cause I'd managed to figure out how to animate the water and it was just the edges I was having trouble with before D: thanks for this dude!
Aug 3 2011, 06:14 PM
Post #3
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Neutral
Jheez man that looks amazing, I'll give it a go and this will really help me with my remaps
Aug 3 2011, 06:26 PM
Post #4
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Hope it helps, I know it can take some time initially but the more times you do it, the faster you get.
Also If the tutorial wasn't too clear about anything please let me know.
Aug 3 2011, 07:00 PM
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Igzo Mina!
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Looks amazing,
going to try and make later on^_^
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Aug 4 2011, 12:07 AM
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So much awesome oozing out of this tutorial! This is really helpful and easy to follow Thanks very much ak!
You know Lightning is awsome ;)
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Alignment: Neutral Evil
Again, you are really pushing RMVX's limits here. Kudos.
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Aug 4 2011, 12:43 AM
Post #8
Type: Designer
Alignment: Neutral Good
Thanks for the tutorial Ak47lol, this will very helpful to me....
I always wonder how you make the animated water that look so beautiful ^^
Awesome =3
Aug 4 2011, 01:58 AM
Post #9
Type: Artist
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
If it were me, I'd just recommend actually using the animated water that is my huge tileset (it's in the temple tiles). It's a transparent water-tile with 3 frames, you can put it on top of any blue watertile, and it acts a lot more natural than using the filter effect in Photoshop. I personally think this effect only works with non-detailed water, with detailed water like that, the water has to actually move around, not just ripple. But, it's nice alternate method.
Just a tip; next time you make a tutorial ... put everything in one video.
Aug 4 2011, 01:02 PM
Post #10
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Thanks guys, I'm glad it helps.
@Celianna: I tested your method, that works too, instead of using the filter effect you can use the water tile animations instead, and add a shadow yourself.
Like I said, there are many methods of doing this, so I urge people to experiment and find something they are most comfortable with.
Also here is a very quick edit with a little "splash" effect around the edges of the water, which makes the water look more like it is moving.
Compared to without it
That was a very quick and simple edit, I'm sure you can get it looking alot better if you spend a little more time on it.
I will show how to do this a bit later on, thanks to Celianna for bringing this to my attention.
Also thanks for that tip, that would have saved me alot of time instead of uploading like 20 videos.
This post has been edited by ak47lol: Aug 4 2011, 02:12 PM
Aug 5 2011, 02:00 PM
Post #11
Type: Spriter
Alignment: Unaligned
It looks really great ak47lol!
I am definitely using this in my game, it looks beautiful ~
Hope you make the "going under waterfall" tutorial for us soon, would be really useful
Thank you so much for this ;-)
Aug 7 2011, 09:03 PM
Post #12
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
@Vyora: You're welcome, hopefully soon I'll be able to do the waterfall part.
A quick example of using cliff walls instead of pond border.
This post has been edited by ak47lol: Aug 15 2011, 05:52 PM
Aug 8 2011, 05:48 PM
Post #13
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Good
Where is Modern Algebra's script? I can't find it...
Aug 8 2011, 06:40 PM
Post #14
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
You can search for it in google or at rmrk.net
Aug 11 2011, 12:10 AM
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Type: Designer
Alignment: Lawful Neutral
Amazing tutorial, this got me into parallax mapping, where can I find the trees you use on your map though?
My first attempt at parallaxing a map ever I think it turned out pretty decent considering i've never tried this before.
This post has been edited by Kaze`: Aug 16 2011, 01:54 AM
Aug 16 2011, 08:14 PM
Post #16
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
@Kaze`: Great job for your first try!
You could erase the outside border with the splatter brush a little more so it seems a bit more natural.
Them trees were edits/recolors of Hanzo Kimura's trees or BenBen trees.
This post has been edited by ak47lol: Aug 16 2011, 08:20 PM
Aug 16 2011, 08:28 PM
Post #17
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Type: Designer
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I shall definitely try that ak47! Thanks.
Could you link or send me the trees by any chance? I can't find them anywhere. ;__;
Aug 17 2011, 01:01 AM
Post #18
Type: Undisclosed
Alignment: Unaligned
ak47, got any tips on how to make distinguishable depths in the water? Such as a beach where it's lighter near the shore and gets darker the farther you go out.
I think Kaze's picture is a good example of the awkwardness of only one tone of depth. (not to say it isn't a good use of photoshop water) ;p
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Aug 17 2011, 02:24 AM
Post #19
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You could try using some sort of ground or deep water layer under the water then put another water layer over it with the opacity jacked way down bubble, in my head this works but i'm half awake right now so i'm too lazy to try it. xD
Aug 17 2011, 04:56 AM
Post #20
Type: Designer
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Sorry for the late response, wasn't at home.
@Kaze`: You can find the orignial trees in the resource section on this site, I think.
@Mr. Bubble:
Thank you for bringing this up, I never thought of that.
There is one very quick and easy method of doing this, as follows...
-Make a new layer above the Water animation frames.
-Select the white color.
-Select the soft rounded brush tool.
-Brush along the border of the pool.
-Once done turn the opacity of the layer down to like 25% or whatever you like.
-Thats it, just re-save your animation frames again with this new layer aswell.
Example Screen
Example Video
Note: It doesn't suit this map very well because it's just a small pond, but it should suit Kaze's map quite well.
Again, this was just a quick solution, there are probably better ways of doing this, but hopefully it does the job.
Another way would be to actually map the underwater level of the pool.
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