Bornemix, is working hard on a really cool looking extension for MMF2, the Active Voxel extension! You can try it out and read all the features and info about it here.
In relation to this, Nick has plans for including the use of this extension on his upcoming game, Project: Roller Coaster! Hopefully we wont have to wait too much longer for the finished versions!
well simply scanning up and down would produce a 3d response. Very awesome extention demo, looking forward to actually implimenting this into something.
um. are you serious? it will add detail and extra dimension to anything rendered with the voxel extension. ie-more beautiful. still cant wait for this to come out. nick stop toying with us!
At points the track in project rollercoaster turns on its side, before this extension the entire transition phase from upright to sideways of the coasters animation was done using active objects which did not add up to a very smooth animation, especially when the coaster was moving slower. This extension will smooth out the transition between upright and sideways by rendering all the frames in between in realtime. Also better lighting effects can be achieved with this because it supports normals such that the color intensity of each pixel in the voxil object can change based on what direction the object is facing, that allows for directional lighting and shadowing.
I didn't say they were bad, just not as smooth, kinda like the original rollercoaster tycoon animations. You could tell they weren't rendered in real time because the animations would kinda "snap" in place when the correct position was reached. Rewatch the project's videos again and you'll see what I mean when the coaster is turning sideways with the seats facing towards the screen, its very evident that the rotation of the coaster was prerendered.
EDIT: Actually scratch that, I was looking at an older video(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsF7N774WSg), so this problem may have been fixed. Comment edited by UrbanMonk on 10/23/2008
I just realized what this could be used for. Here I was thinking people were going to try to make rudimentary 3D games with it, but then I realized that it's ingenius for making smooth animations-- especially turning ones. If it's all on a pixel-scale, it won't look funny.
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Bornemix, is working hard on a really cool looking extension for MMF2, the Active Voxel extension! You can try it out and read all the features and info about it 
Here I was thinking people were going to try to make rudimentary 3D games with it, but then I realized that it's ingenius for making smooth animations-- especially turning ones. If it's all on a pixel-scale, it won't look funny. 
