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Before the advent of per pixel shaders, developers were creating faux-3D textures for things such as grass and fur by giving the target object several layers. If the layers are close enough together and the object is far enough away from the camera a texel will have the illusion of being a 3D strand.
Reproducing this in Flash was simple. Take a single texture, in this case tiger fur, and for each layer do a pixel dissolve, keeping less and less of the original texture intact as you work your way to the tip of the fur. Darken the layers depending on their depth to further the effect.
ViewportLayers are utilized to prevent the inevitable Z-depth fighting that would occur as a result of such close triangles. Finally a light blur is added to the group ViewportLayer to soften the edges.
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Jun 26, 2009 @ 3:04 am
Milan Orszagh (TheAustrianGuy)
Nice way to refactor old technics, very cool job and thanks for sharing!
Jun 26, 2009 @ 3:57 am
William Grand
Excellent!
Jun 26, 2009 @ 10:24 am
Tyler Wright
I love seeing exploration like this. This looks fantastic! Job well done.
Brings back my childhood wish of having my own pet tiger.
Jun 26, 2009 @ 11:49 am
TK
This is freaking genius. Good work!
Jun 26, 2009 @ 12:38 pm
samBrown
very cool experiment - thanks for sharing
Jun 26, 2009 @ 12:44 pm
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Jun 27, 2009 @ 4:27 am
pete shand
Awesome!!!
great work
Jun 28, 2009 @ 7:17 am
Rob
Very nice! I made a similar experiment not long ago simulating grass - but I much prefer your example.
http://rmd.com.au/archives/papervision3d-grass-fur-effect
Jun 28, 2009 @ 8:18 pm
Ben
Thanks! Your grass experiment is great as well, also that Shadow of Colossus article you link to is awesome - alot of tricks can be learned from looking at past technical achievements on lesser hardware.
Jun 29, 2009 @ 10:49 am
timb
gorgeous
Jul 01, 2009 @ 7:34 pm
Manu
Great experiment! Maybe a CPU killer, but it still looks great and it’s a good lesson from the past.
Jul 03, 2009 @ 3:43 am
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Jul 13, 2009 @ 2:06 am
rakeshmali
great worke and gorgeous
Jul 15, 2009 @ 9:53 am
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