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You know what I always wanted to make? I have no idea how to code, but I always wanted to make a modular pattern grid.

05:44

Something like this, concept made in Adobe Animate

05:46

Something that evolves and morphs, much like a cellular automation, but with many shapes and forms

game of life but with cool animations

It doesn't have to be just rectangles though, it can be diagonals, quarter circles, corners only... I want it to be super flexible and yet mesmerizing at the same time. My plan is that each cell can communicate with its neighboring cells to determine which transition it will play and at what time. If I get far enough, I'd also want there to be multi-cell transitions, where the cells can temporarily merge and have its own animation for a few phases

05:51

The inspiration for this is I want to make an aid for graphic design. It might just be an active background element, but it gives so much life.

05:52

I just don't know how to approach this problem if I were to make this an application.

sounds like a unique animation for each merge case

yea

05:55

well, multi cells would have to have a specific set-up in order for it to activate, which would require a buffer / signal to tell the respecting cells to wait until activation if given

i don't see this ever in DDNet, way too complicated

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Voxel

It doesn't have to be just rectangles though, it can be diagonals, quarter circles, corners only... I want it to be super flexible and yet mesmerizing at the same time. My plan is that each cell can communicate with its neighboring cells to determine which transition it will play and at what time. If I get far enough, I'd also want there to be multi-cell transitions, where the cells can temporarily merge and have its own animation for a few phases

Teeworlds might be able to use meshes as a way to animate, but the way the animation side of the editor stands, it won't cut it. With an external editor like Teeditor on Google Store or TeeUniverse, It might be achievable.

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06:39

why do you guys think this is ddnet related

Voxel

well, multi cells would have to have a specific set-up in order for it to activate, which would require a buffer / signal to tell the respecting cells to wait until activation if given

so signaling animation start / end and giving meshes a script to run, when signal is triggered. Currently I'm working on optimisations and what I found is, you can indeed use signals, but the signals are also be called every frame. A get set function would be more appropiate

if this was ddnet related this would go into #developer

ddnet is all about exploring the #developer side of things, since it is more advanced on development, than teeworlds itself

06:41

and also, the script should contain the positions of each point of the mesh, and time of when the mesh is being moved accordingly and the interpolation of it

Voxel

Something like this, concept made in Adobe Animate

i mean this whole thing is going to be standalone, so i know for a fact there's going to be grid snapping

Doesn't matter if we use float points as a base of coordination

06:43

it'll just align with the world's scale

06:44

but now the question is, how ddnet would intercept the design of the editor as such, so that they can implement those features? answer: they won't

its too late for this greenthing

Or too early to start a new tool perhaps

cellegen you dont understand i think

Oh sorry, I talk about making that kind of animation in the tw editor too

i mean yea but that would involve masking

which is a problem?

i mean, can you mask two quads together in the ddnet editor?

ofc, the question is, how efficient can you make it, so it won't lag out?

06:47

even if you merge them together into one point, the textures won't be cut to two sides

06:47

unless it's uv mapping which is bs

i imagine for ddnet masking it'd detect the points of opacity on one quad and only apply that to the other quad

06:48

like this

hm, I guess for different shapes, opacity will have different effects, such as the circle, where it won't have clear edges, but the opacity should only effect the inside and the outside of the circle.

06:49

It is conditional, but if you cut the mesh, it becomes a new shape, which is not accountable

06:50

it might be real difficult to program circles into the editor

my example might have been poor, one second

No I get what you mean, interpolating colors

06:51

so blue and red touching each other will be merged into a green texture, seeing from the right

06:51

Now, you cannot do that with the textures, can you?

Cellegen

Now, you cannot do that with the textures, can you?

i mean, if you somehow scan each pixel of the mesh for its opacity percentage, and use that for the masking on the other object

There can be a solution, which is basic shapes, so it won't have a texture, but only rgba and the interpolations

Voxel

i mean, if you somehow scan each pixel of the mesh for its opacity percentage, and use that for the masking on the other object

too much processing at once (edited)

yeah thats the problem

tens of thousands of pixels scanning is a problem in low end pc