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Amethyst by Traction [web] & deMarche
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More "unusual" traction.
rulez added on the 2006-05-20 21:15:57 by waffle 
Pritty darn nice. Nice laserbeams and diamonds? :)
To much shiny triangles in the tunnels sometimes..
Very crystalic demonstration ;-)
Crystalic Landscape aswell roxx.
Nice demo!!
To much shiny triangles in the tunnels sometimes..
Very crystalic demonstration ;-)
Crystalic Landscape aswell roxx.
Nice demo!!
quite nice.. not the usual traction style but still the usual style somehow.. i must agree with the comment in the infofile that it feels somewhat mfx'ish without the attitude.. may be because the lack of textures.. i donno really. anyway, keep it up. GOOD work!
some of the backgrounds felt a bit static in the first part, but other than that this is pretty decent in every respect
Tannhäuser Gate style :) ?
of course: rulings
the blur algo can be improved, but that'll be fixed in the final version ;)
the blur algo can be improved, but that'll be fixed in the final version ;)
something about all Traction prods i just <3
gimme a video dump already :))
sÜperstylÜsh! :) well done!
cute
The usual Traction eyecandy - makes me smile :>
ooops forgot me thumb
Preacher, your host seems to be down?
Stylish one... Great Tune :)
Nevermind! Cutie :)
traction demo by the book. lovely music.
nice one
feels a little unfinished, but still very cool
Shader works by Preacher.
Some direction is very cool.
And great tune.
The effect of glow is seen to be the best in the work of current Traction.
keep up good work!!
Some direction is very cool.
And great tune.
The effect of glow is seen to be the best in the work of current Traction.
keep up good work!!
nice , some scenes looked quite same as memories from mcp , but anyway nice shit
Yawn! Looks like many other demos with no character.
damn nice.
<3
top tips when doing a glow effect:
- try and CLAMP the image, dont WRAP, then you dont get crap at the top/bottom of the screen for example
- try not to make the rendertarget so low res that it looks nasty. (and that goes double for the original input image, try copying it off the backbuffer rather than a low res rendertarget)
- try to avoid making the jitter steps so huge that you can see lines in the result
- try and preserve colour bit res where ever possible so you dont get something that looks like a 3 bit image out of it.
hope that helps.
otherwise, if this was 4 years ago, had good music, had attitude, pace, sync and was called variform by kewlers, it would have been a good demo. :) as it is, it's a traction demo with ancient fx and glow on top. sorry.
- try and CLAMP the image, dont WRAP, then you dont get crap at the top/bottom of the screen for example
- try not to make the rendertarget so low res that it looks nasty. (and that goes double for the original input image, try copying it off the backbuffer rather than a low res rendertarget)
- try to avoid making the jitter steps so huge that you can see lines in the result
- try and preserve colour bit res where ever possible so you dont get something that looks like a 3 bit image out of it.
hope that helps.
otherwise, if this was 4 years ago, had good music, had attitude, pace, sync and was called variform by kewlers, it would have been a good demo. :) as it is, it's a traction demo with ancient fx and glow on top. sorry.
Video please, no ps 2.0 support here :(
PS 2.0 required :(
wow traction goes pop :)
i only wonder why the whole thing looks 640x480 when i'm watching it in 1280x1024
i only wonder why the whole thing looks 640x480 when i'm watching it in 1280x1024
I'm getting a strong bon voyage feeling.. but so not, I still like it.
some nice effects, but all in all too simple content (first of all geometry). could have been much better.
solid traction quality but did not invoke any special emotion. piggie from me this time.
outrackish overbrightened highlights, mfxish sky textures.
some brilliant ( or should i say jewelish ) color combinations here and there, but still left me indifferent.
some brilliant ( or should i say jewelish ) color combinations here and there, but still left me indifferent.
Zoom: Ah, so I'm not missing anything (watching it in 640x480 ;-)
Good job.
excellent!
Traction + deMarche = <3
Traction + deMarche = <3
well, this was rather cool! okay, some glitches, so listen to smash. the crystalized gridplane was way cool
I thot someone said 'some brilliant (or should I say JEWISH)' are there any more questions about why antialias blurring is bad?
Anyway. Liked.
Anyway. Liked.
There's an old saying that wearing an Amethyst prevents you from getting a hangover ;)
Very nice tune in there.
Very nice tune in there.
Fourtunately my work laptop has PS2.0 and I was able to watch it. Dope shit! I feel bad you guys didn't win because of those Next Empire losers and all the guys who voted for them. You are my winners <3.
what I remember from the screen was nothing special. this kind of stuff has been seen 2098230982140987508823 before this. was still the best demo from the compo tho.
nice one :)
why everyone is referring to mfx while there's nothing like mfx in this demo is beyond my comprehension... a bit like "typical haujobb" demo comments few years back in the road.
it may look tad old and blurry, but nevertheless a neat show and it's nice to see something different from the normal line vector galore from traction. :) that said, enjoyable to watch - all i need from a demo.
it may look tad old and blurry, but nevertheless a neat show and it's nice to see something different from the normal line vector galore from traction. :) that said, enjoyable to watch - all i need from a demo.
well, the colorscheme reminded me of kwl-variform in portions (the tunnel flights f.e.)
not a killer, but it's shiny
Very nice stuff.
The part that is shown in the screenshot is nice, but the rest I don't like so much. The overuse of the low quality glow ruins it pretty much. Sorry :(
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the beauty!
kewl music track
nice effects and composing..
reminds me alot of variform and iontraxx.
kewl music track
nice effects and composing..
reminds me alot of variform and iontraxx.
nice crystals. exchange them with cubes and you have the average haujobb demo - clear but beautiful design combined with a well fitting soundtrack.
KRYSTALS!!!
Great visuals, music and atmosphere.
Great visuals, music and atmosphere.
After I have seen the video version, I have to agree with the rest.
Didn't quite like the start, but it got much better. Very good. But.. please can we have some HDR in demos like this?
Needs some interesting 3d objects. Those random low-poly fly-things kinda sucked. :)
Enjoyable production, that has, however, the 'black background' syndrome. It is still enjoyable so..
pretty nice
sweetest demo by traction. though the same effects can be done easily without ps2, a thumbup
ehm, here it is, sorry
Good music and visuals, maybe bit more stuff for a demo would be nice.
coool! reminds me one of my favorite old demos by komplex a bit =)
brilliant
nice idea, very good music, but very poor demo...
soundtrack pulse tempo dosen't fit to motion:((
soundtrack pulse tempo dosen't fit to motion:((
nice idea, very good music, but very poor visuals...
soundtrack pulse tempo dosen't fit to motion:((
soundtrack pulse tempo dosen't fit to motion:((
Whee, very nice one! Stylish visuals and nice music. Like it.
really freaky, and a great tune :)
Neat and the music is quite good.
Not bad, but I'm fed up by demos that try to impose non native 4:3 resolutions on my 16:10 lcd.
In the end it looks like blured distorted crap.
In the end it looks like blured distorted crap.
Wow! The tune is truly A-Maze-Zing! Reminds me of Butterfly Thoughts.
I enjoyed it. It was pretty with all those crystal/diamond effects. Nice tune too.
my girlfriend say - sux
full of nice ideas - too bad no one was there to actually direct and properly synch this thing. well, at least it's etertaining, so there.
good
good
hypnotic
good work
has a nice feeling to it
pretty cool. I like that a lot programmer/math things happen in the effects as usual with these traction demos. Music was nice too.I felt a bit empty after watching it though, but may be my mood or something.
credits part is filthy, the rest was perfect.
credits part is filthy and the rest is perfect.
Weak thumb up because of the ugly post-processing passes. You should definitely revisit the way you do your glow, it has many ugly visual artifacts due to wrapping, huge texture fetch steps and it almost looks like it doesn't have a proper 2d gaussian filter either.
Besides that, it was nice :)
Besides that, it was nice :)
Beautiful, interesting & entertaining demo ... seems from the comments that it should have won.
Nice, but too much postprocessing.
wow, how did i miss that one
great visuals, great tune!
standard traction quality
great visuals, great tune!
standard traction quality
Well done, but nothing I´d still remember in a few days.
Beautiful.
nice
Traction <3
[+] the music
[+] the shinyness/glow
[+] the math and 'low poly' style
[-] it hurts my eyes, i should have watched it in 640x480
[-] SM2.0 requirements
[+] the shinyness/glow
[+] the math and 'low poly' style
[-] it hurts my eyes, i should have watched it in 640x480
[-] SM2.0 requirements
I'm blind.
cool effects
there are some very nice colors even if the whole prod is not exceptional
Close-to-perfection music and very, very lovely executed.
It all fits wonderfully together and the demo generally has a very nice flow.
It all fits wonderfully together and the demo generally has a very nice flow.
Very nice.
Sparkly
I'm just gonna be honest and say I hate it...but not deserving a thumb down.
the blur (hypnglow or whatever you wanna call it) is not overused so i like it.
and like sokoban said.. its not a exceptional demo, its in other words not a WOW demo :p
and like sokoban said.. its not a exceptional demo, its in other words not a WOW demo :p
Nice.
I have a gut feeling that my my widescreen LCD monitor is making this uglier than it's supposed to be. Apart from that, too much brightness for my taste.
Nice music, but it is the only plus of this production...
shimmering
I really like this glow. Beautiful.
ohhh yea!
Looks a bit like an oversaturated Amiga demo :S
beautiful demo!
Like the effects and style.
nice
Great music! Staging superb! A pleasure to watch!
The last tunnel sure needs sunglasses to be at disposal, though it's neat to see you moved ito new realms - the lines are sparingly used, and instead 3D objects take their place.
It's quite beautiful to look at, and the tune makes the journey a nice trip <3
It's quite beautiful to look at, and the tune makes the journey a nice trip <3
This was my first feeble try with shaders and I haven't really progressed much since :) The colors are awful with a modern TFT screen: I wrote this on a CRT that had much darker tones and it looked much better there. Some of the effects were left a bit substandard, unfortunately, as the party approached and I had very little time to tweak them. As it stands, I still kind of like the cheesiness here...
Well that's what I call a proper piriblur! A bit rough around the edges but still fun, especially the motive of constructing objects from thin air. The flat shaded look combined with glowing wireframe edges worked well.
Doesn't look that bad to me actually, except for the constantly clipping blacks and especially whites (piriblur indeed :)), ouch! Way too cheesy for me overall, the music is just... blaaahhh...
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