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Reflection + Gradual Alphablending on a Layout
youki:
2 preview of layouts that are "Work in progress" inspired from shock_ one too , featuring reflection, gradual alpha etc.....
These are done by a real Artist (not me!!!!) , totoleouf..
shock_:
sing out if you need the original .psds!
Organic Jerk:
That's pretty sweet.... how does it look from a system performance level, though? does it affect scrolling speed and such? In fact on an unrelated note does using Movies affect scroling speed in Atomic?
--- Quote from: Aurich on February 15, 2007, 06:06:11 pm ---Nice. I find it frustrating that Mala doesn't support true alpha channels personally.
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Yeah, me too actually... It's especially frustrating when I'm creating custom messages or console pictures to be used, because I have to coordinate the BG of the entire layout with the BG of the "snap", when I would much rather just being able to make it transparent..
youki:
--- Quote ---That's pretty sweet.... how does it look from a system performance level, though? does it affect scrolling speed and such? In fact on an unrelated note does using Movies affect scroling speed in Atomic?
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Of course performance depends on how much reflection zone you use , the size , if you use alphablending or not..etc.. But it does not consume more processor power that other effect in Atomic.
The reflection itself does not use lot of processor , the thing that consume more power is alpha blending. (gradual or not) .
In clear if you make a layout using 4 layer differential scrolling, 7 reflection zone, 15 videos , and if you use alpha blending on each object. You will need a P4 4GigaHz...
If you do a reasonnable layout, with said one background scrolling, video snap , one or 2 reflection zone , and few objects moving , a 700 mhz machine will be enough.
For instance, the layout with the reflection only the snap. (the first image i posted) , use a video as "selection" in the list. Runs perfectly on my Celeron 533Mhz.
The first one (the video) is not really usable on the celeron , the video have been taken on my P4 3 Gighz. , but processor used is only at 50% . So i guess it still should be ok on a 1.5ghz computer.
--- Quote --- In fact on an unrelated note does using Movies affect scroling speed in Atomic?
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If your machine is good enough not. If the layout is too complex for your machine yes. it really depends of the layout. Knowing that Layout are really scalable , and there are lot of "tips" we can apply to optimize layouts.
Havok:
--- Quote from: OrganicJerk on February 16, 2007, 04:43:41 am ---That's pretty sweet.... how does it look from a system performance level, though? does it affect scrolling speed and such? In fact on an unrelated note does using Movies affect scroling speed in Atomic?
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I'm running Atomic on an AMD Sempron 3300+ and have video snaps - my scrolling speed is great. The movies also come up instantly when I select them on the list.
Youki - this is looking great!
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