Ballooning

A balloon traveling to the strange lands beyond the sea.

A balloon traveling to the strange lands beyond the sea.

Wilson made a fantastic new balloon sprite. Here’s how it looks in the game! Dwarves can send shipments to and from the motherland on balloons or ships.

3 Responses to “Ballooning

  • Your water shader is really cool. Did you code it yourself?

    • mklingen
      11 years ago

      Thanks! I wrote the shader myself with some guidance from looking at open source examples from Shawn Hargraves (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/shawnhar/). The reflections/refractions use the standard stuff (from fesnel’s law), and I added a couple of things to make it look more “cartoony”. The first was to multiply in a pixel art texture. The second was to draw a white outline near the edges of the water in the pixel shader. There is also a subtle vertex shader on the water which moves it up and down in “waves”.

  • Cool. I was looking at vertex shaders today, they seem interesting.

Leave a Reply

%d bloggers like this: