[AnimDefs] Texture Blending

[Tormentor667]

Just a neat idea I had while playing around with new features for TNT4 and KDiZD: What about an animdef texture blending option? Just imagine the possibilities. We have one texture with 2 frames, and we need 2 additional numbers, one for the delay of each frame and one for the blending time. I think this shouldn't be too hard to add and beyond make ZDoom even more powerful. Here an example:

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blending britex1
pic 1 tics 3 5
pic 2 tics 3 5
pic 3 tics 3 5

This would make a texture animation out of BRITEX1, BRITEX2 and BRITEX3 in which each of the patches stay for 3 tics and then fade/blend to the next patch within 5 tics, you know what I mean?! This should be possible for FLATS and TEXTURES, imagine the possibilites

Another example:

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blending britex1
pic britex1 tics 3 5
pic britex2 tics 3 5
pic britex3 tics 3 5

[Phobus]

That would also allow for smoother xFALL animations. I like it

[Nash]

I concur.

Fancy ports like jDoom has it, ZDoom should, too!

Not sure if this feature is hardware-dependant, though...

[HobbsTiger1]

Fancy ports like jDoom has it, ZDoom should, too!

Doesn't mean its good... However, I approve. It's features like this that bring ZDoom up to the editing capabilities of some of the not quite as old FPS games, even if it doesn't match in graphics or sound.

[Lexus Alyus]

It shouldn't be too difficult as we have that massive burn effect when the screen changes... man, that blood dripping effect that Doom has always had was one of the best things in Doom IMO... that's the coolest thing ever, and Doom is the only game to do it .

[Nmn]

I think this is a cool feature ...

PDP man...

[TOGoS]

I think this falls into the category of 'things that would be easy to implement if zdoom didn't used a color palette but it does so it's tricky'. You'd probably have to precalculate the image for each between-frame frame.

[Nash]

Well, if you don't mind having the space to waste, you can always pre-generate a fade animation in JASC Animation Shop or something, then import the textures...

Would take up a lot of space, though...

[Hirogen2]

ZDoomGL has this sort... for BFALL and stuff. You probably seen the mpeg from timmie.squabble.org.

[Chris]

It shouldn't be hard to do. Just draw a wall as normal, then if the texture is blended draw the other texture right on top of it using translucency. Of course the only tricky part would be to have ZDoom consider the blended texture a masked texture if either texture contains transparent areas.

[Tormentor667]

A statement from Graf or Randy would be interesting...

[Sphagne]

I think it would be "Wait for GL version."

[Graf Zahl]

It can't be harder than the warping stuff. The only problem I see is that something like this may not look as good as expected due to palette limitations.

[Tormentor667]

Well, I think if it looks good or bad depends on the persons which play around with the possibilities of the feature. It's the same with the warp effect, that one also doesn't look good always

[Tormentor667]

*bump*
Any news on that?