{"id":966,"date":"2018-12-03T10:17:53","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/blog\/?p=966"},"modified":"2018-12-03T10:17:53","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T18:17:53","slug":"great-balls-of-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/03\/great-balls-of-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Balls of Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x4Fbi0CS7T4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another video, this time of the fireball spell. I did a video in the older game engine some years back, it was by far the most popular video I did. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s also the one that comes up most frequently in search engines.<\/p>\n<p>One advantage of writing up an FX testing program is I can actually refine the FX a lot easier. I noticed before my fireball&#8217;s circle of sprites was moving too slowly and creating a blocky effect. By speeding it up, it actually makes a proper circle.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also noticed, with the speed of my effects, that four sprites actually looks like a LOT more on the screen, because I&#8217;m moving them fast enough to create the optical illusion of more.<\/p>\n<p>And if I change colors at 1\/60 of a second rate, it actually creates a pleasing weird hybrid color on the actual TI monitor! (Classic99 doesn&#8217;t do this, it in fact occasionally creates a weird optical effect that looks like two sprites of different colors slightly out of sync with each other.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve still got debugging to do though with the actual effect map of the spells; fireball worked fine but cone attacks didn&#8217;t. They are directional so they&#8217;re a little more complicated. Onwards&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another video, this time of the fireball spell. I did a video in the older game engine some years back, it was by far the most popular video I did. \ud83d\ude42 It&#8217;s also the one that comes up most frequently &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/2018\/12\/03\/great-balls-of-fire\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crpg","category-design","category-ti-994a","category-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgaeMJ-fA","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":967,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966\/revisions\/967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.adamantyr.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}