{"id":1686,"date":"2012-02-14T14:28:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=1686"},"modified":"2012-02-14T14:28:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T14:28:24","slug":"gratuitous-shield-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/02\/14\/gratuitous-shield-effect\/","title":{"rendered":"Gratuitous Shield Effect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I sneakily stuck in a new effect today as I was play testing. I used some cunning distortion shader cleverness to give a ripple effect to shield bubbles when they take incoming fire. You can see it happen here on a medium mech:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shield_distortion.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1687\" title=\"shield_distortion\" src=\"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shield_distortion.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shield_distortion.jpg 530w, https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/shield_distortion-300x141.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Looks really good in-motion, with everything else going on. It&#8217;s also effectively free, in performance terms due to the overhead of the shader pass happening anyway.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently tweaking a few variables, and improving a few minor things like this. Then I have the final manual, final performance optimisations etc, and then it&#8217;s pre-orders + beta. I&#8217;m looking forward to doing a few final trailer videos showing off the game in all it&#8217;s gratuitous explodey glory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I sneakily stuck in a new effect today as I was play testing. I used some cunning distortion shader cleverness to give a ripple effect to shield bubbles when they take incoming fire. You can see it happen here on a medium mech: Looks really good in-motion, with everything else going on. It&#8217;s also effectively<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; Gratuitous Shield Effect<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2012\/02\/14\/gratuitous-shield-effect\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gratuitous-tank-battles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1688,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1686\/revisions\/1688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}