Ok, so I was checking out the glsl features and I wanted to see if I could “mimic” some features for us non-glsl users. So here’s a quick test at motion blur. I’m going to write some more scripts and do some more enhancing later on, but for now I’m using alpha and slow parenting. It works great! I made this for The Chronicles of Liezel so when you do your final attack it quick renders an image of your player, maps it to 2 planes with different alpha’s and viola!
For now it’s just a simple demo, but I’m working on now a “bloom blur” and “gaussian blur” scripts.
Tutorial:
Create a cube and apply a texture to it
Duplicate it 5 times and line them up one by one.
Make them all have lower and lower alpha values ie: the first 1.0 the second 7.0 the thirg 6.43, etc.
And them parent them in this order: The main one <—2nd <–3rd to second <— fourth to third <— fifth to fourth.
Now enable slow parenting and set frame offset to 5 (for a mellow effect) or 10 for a violent blur.
Now align them all together again. and tah-dah! Hit play and fear the blur!
Oh and don’t forget to set them all (except the main) to ghost.
Ok, I’m updating this post with all the files I have all the most recent downloads in this post.
Thanks guys! It’s a very simple technique, but this is my first attempt. As I said I’m working on other blurs now. With the gaussian blur I’m just going to have it so if you push a button it blurs, so it can mimic DoF without glsl.
@Free_ality: Go right ahead! It’s all open source stuff.
I added a new blur. Violent motion blur. It’s a dramatic motion blur.
What I’m working on is a script to load a GUI in the Space > Effects > Motion Blur, in my Grape build. I’m not ready to release a build (most everything is broken atm) but I’ll add a GUI so you can add a motion blur to any object (it’ll be in the Scripts window)
