Comments on: Growing Homegrown Tentacles

By: Ricki

Ricki — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:12:51 +0000

This is cool, You actually made the opposite of what I was going for:) I tried to make them
look organic, these ones look like they are made of metal (which surely adds to the “evilness” of the tentacles).
Im on OS X so sadly no FD for me, but I can peek in the source.

Cheers!

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:13:23 +0000

Yeah, it was a bubbly effect, kind of like those “snake” firework-ish things. I think it could be better fine-tuned than I did, but it was fun

Do you use flashdevelop? I could send you the project most easily.

swf here

src zip

By: Ricki

Ricki — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 17:49:10 +0000

Hi Kaolin

That is great:) I like that you took screen shoots, I always forget to do that…
The one in the bottom left looks like it is giving out strange radius values?
Is it because the joints grow and then shrink, like a bubbly effect? That would be awesome, can I see it live?

Thanks for sharing!

By: Kaolin Fire

Kaolin Fire — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:35:53 +0000

Just wanted to share playing around with different radius values. I think ((_index – c) / LENGTH) * N is basically what Justin had. The one in the bottom left… is a lot cooler to watch than to see statically.

4 different formulas for radius. I don’t know why, these are awfully sexy to me right now.