% BALANCE % PRESENTS A 40K-INTRO FOR .. THE PARTY III .. YOU CAN'T PRECALC ANYTHING IN 40K I GUESS THAT'S WHY WE NEVER SEE 40K INTROS FROM LONE STARR... I % TUNNELS! Just another lightsourced cube? Ofcourse... Noooope! A lightsourced SNOWMAPPED cube... Realtime calculated in one frame ofcourse.. ******************************************** ******* * * ***** ***** * * ***** * * * * * ** * * * * ****** *** *** * * * * * * * * * * * ** * * * * * ***** ***** * * ***** ******************************************** a BALANCE production in 1993 Code: Coca Music: Terminal Silence Graphics: Chagall, Coca, Cola Now just some text written to fill up the extra empty bytes... Partyarrangers can turn this crap off now! - Press right mouse to speed up text - Merry christmas everybody! I hope you enjoyed this small production.. I spent a lot of time the last days before the party to get it finished. If you think all that fading between parts, planes flying in and out revealing other parts etc.. looks easy, think again! It is REALLY time- consuming to make, it isn't just a matter of slapping together four-five routines and hope that it looks nice! It needs planning and patience, not to talk about all the fucking bugs that seem to creep up everywhere! Dum di dum di dum... What should I write? Well, perhaps I should tell you that it's christmas eve, and I'm sitting here coding on this damned thing to get it finished in time for the party... By the way, did you notice the 'State of the art'-animation with Beavis & Butthead? That was no more than 23 lines of code!!! So please THINK the next time you vote for State of the art! Anyway, here is my adress in case you want to contact me: - Coca of Balance - Thore Bjerklund Karlsen Grasmyrveien 15 4033 Forus Norway Bla bla bla... Let's send out some personal messages.. In NO order at all. Mindfighter / Psionic: How is it going at Kungliga Tekniska Hoegskolan? Electronics rulez!! I'll code that part soon! Razta / Oblivion: Stinger RULEZ!! Please make the finished version soon! Tyrant / Cadaver: No no no no no no ... You know what I'm talking about. Kais / Platin: Hey Martin! Nope, I haven't coded Bezier curves yet.. But as you can see I coded some splines! Took me 1 hour for the whole jelly-cube part... Zapotek / ???: Sorry!! I will write soon, I promise!! My mother sold our VCR, and some other things got in the way.. I'll send soon! Backfire / Alchemy: Hey man!! I'm really sorry I couldn't make it to the party too meet you, but you know.. My mother can be a pain in the ass some (most) times... Virus / Zenith: Same to you!! And ofcourse I'll help you learning MC!! Who knows, perhaps I will be very kind and send you the sources for this intro too? Vin / Cadaver: Wriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite!!! Coke / Stone Arts: Helllllloo! Write soon, you thief! Cyde / Balance: Hey Steinar! I hope you recover from your illness soon! You are a really great and friendly guy, and a talented coder! Speed Demon / Decnite: Speed?! Speeeeed?! It's been over a week since I wrote to you! Major Asshole / Spaceballs: I really hope you win the compo with State of the art 2... NOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! Sylver / Solaris: I got a HD-crash myself recently! I lost all the newest versions of this intro plus some other sources, so I had to code it all again! Arggggh!! Khul / Defekt: Hey pal! You're a really great guy, and you answer really fast! Hope you like this intro! I guess you can see that it's pretty different from the preview I sent you? Thomas Johansen: Ha ha ... Boeee... Barf... Spy... Puke... Happy birthday on the 20th of December! I'm 6 whole days older than you! Anyway, you are a quite fast coder, and I really think you should join a group one of these days.. Or are you too busy with ALLMEN?!?! Mobb mobb.. Necro / Banana Dezign: You are a totally crazy guy! I like that!! But you can't compare with me... When I want to be crazy, that is! Isn't that right, Thomas? 3M / TCA: Hey, cut off that long hair of yours! Necro thinks so too, don't you Necro? Kim / Asylum: What happened? Fizban / Compact Inc.: What can I say, it's christmas eve and I'm writing messages to my contacts... Sad, eh? The Occupier / Trance Inc.: Hey, did you get mad at me because of my delay? Write back and I'll teach you some more MC! Capman / Majic 12: You haven't written in ages! Write!!!! Lorimar / Trance Inc.: I'm sooorry!! I'll write soon, I promise!! Cesium / Balance: Do you think you can boss me around like you want?! Do you?!!? Do you?!?!?! OK... Nastro / Agency: Stig Are! I know a guy called Are, and he has an Atari! Boy, that was saklig informasjon! I'm sorry if I forgot anyone, but it IS christmas eve, and it is 2:39 in the night so I am very tired.. I'd better get some sleep before I open up ALL those big, hard presents waiting for me... (Who said dreaming wasn't allowed?)... I'll give you a full report tomorrow! Ehrm.. Make that: later TODAY... (I said it was christmas eve, and technically it IS, but THE christmas eve with dinners and presents and stuff is in a couple of hours...) Ahh.. Fuck.. I have to write something, because I have nothing to do... The coding is finished, so I just wanted to relax and write this scrolltext. I still have about 5000 powerpacked bytes to fill... I must surely be the first one to complaining about 40k being too much! Even though I used a picture from Chagall which was med-res 16 colours, AND a logo from Cola which was lowres 32 colours, I still have more space!! By the way, the unpacked size of this intro is about 100,000 bytes... Long live Powerpacker!! The size of the source is 78764 bytes, and I ran out of HD-space LOTS of times during the making of this intro! I only have 37 different versions of this intro on my harddisk... (This is true!) Crap.. I won't write more until after I have opened up my presents (judging by the size and shape of one of them, I think that I'm going to get a monitor! If it is for me, that is...) I'm baaa-aaack! I was right.. I did get a monitor! A brand new Philips 11342 (or something like that). About bloody time I got a monitor! Trying to make a decent design on a portable TV is impossible! Other than the monitor I didn't get much... Two books, a sweater, some disks and a diskbox. But I won't complain.. For the first time in my life I have been satisfied with everything I got! But seeing that my mothers boyfriend is the owner of Netto Norge and Amiga Shop, I think the least he could have done was to get me a 4000... Anyway, over to some info about this intro... Burning logo: Nothing special... About 300 shade-dots and extensive use of the VHPOSR register... Jellycube: Consists of 4 REALTIME calced splines controlled by three vector planes for the control points of the splines.. Twistpyramid: OK, OK... I DID rip the idea from 'Extension'! Linetunnel: Would have taken 180224 bytes to precalc, so needless to say: it is NOT precalced! Beavis-anim: I just had an old digitized anim of Beavis and Butthead lying on my HD, so I thought 'why not?'... Snow-cube: REALTIME calculated and drawn in only 1 frame! A world record!! Oh yeahh.... Ahh... Nothing more to write today.. I'd better quit CED and assemble the shitty intro.. By the way: the intro fully supports AGA, and you can ofcourse run it both from CLI AND from an icon on the WB... Nothing much, you might say, but try it on any other intro from the compo! And: this intro contains NO special AGA features, simply because I don't have an AGA machine myself (yet)... That's it from me! See you in another production... If you can't wait until then, just drop me a letter! Bye!! Text restarts ...