Greetings!

I have the following problem: I want to create a "Slow-Motion-effect" like the on in Matrix. I have a global slowmo variable and everything is working just fine, all movement in my level gets slow and speeds up as I change this variable.

All movement? No, there's still the sky which continues to animate as if nothing ever happened. *g*

So I tried to manipulate the values for sky_speed.x, sky_speed.y, cloud_speed.x and cloud_speed.y

And I could alter the speed there, even make the movement stop. BUT: the offset of the sky and cloud bitmaps are recalculated every time I alter the speed. You can try this yourself: enter sky_speed.x = 0.5; during gameplay. You'll see that the sky bitmap will make a "hop".

Now my question: is there any way to access the offset of the sky and cloud bitmap manually? This way maybe I can workaround the problem...

Gnometech

Hi,
There's one simple way to solve Your problem: Don't use moving sky textures - create a sky box with a plain blue - or grey - sky like it is in Half-Life.
Mahonroy's tutorial will show You how to do:
http://members.nbci.com/mahonroya4/lmt1.htm

Adrian

Gnometech:

One idea would be to gradually slow the sky down instead of all at once.

I already tried that, but it was even messier: it seems the offset of the bitmap is calculated with the speed and the ticks since gamestart. Thus, if I change the speed in mid-game, the offset is recalculated and the bitmap hops. If I slow it gradually, it hops even more, at each change of the variable a little (even if it is a rather insignificant small change).

Adrian: I thought of that, too, and I already used the tutorial. I just thought if anyone had a great idea how to solve the problem, I wouldn't have to avoid a moving sky.

Thanks anyway for the answers.

Gnometech

I think i might know...

You can use a sky sphere (make it in max or something), then simply change the rotation of my.tilt+= ????

this should do it!