I'm trying to make an effect similar to this for my title screen
I wanted to make it vertical, and with an animated texture of a crowd. I'm not really familiar with shaders, I'm not really sure where to start. I did use a shader to make a texture rect scroll, so I have that all set, I'm just wondering if a shader like this can bend the texture in a sense, and if it could be done with an animated sprite so the crowd could move. Thanks!
For some reason the timestamp in the link didn't show up, the effect in question is at 4:00
OMG that video is making me dizzy. If you want the exact effect, you would need to write a shader for it. I don't think it would be too hard, but you'd have to know how to write shaders. The easier thing would be to have a cylinder 3D mesh and use 2D to 3D to map a 2D tilemap onto the mesh texture (using a viewport render target). This wouldn't require any special shader, but would take some time to setup.
@cybereality said: OMG that video is making me dizzy. If you want the exact effect, you would need to write a shader for it. I don't think it would be too hard, but you'd have to know how to write shaders. The easier thing would be to have a cylinder 3D mesh and use 2D to 3D to map a 2D tilemap onto the mesh texture (using a viewport render target). This wouldn't require any special shader, but would take some time to setup.
Yeah, I couldn't find any way to actually manipulate parts of the side of a sprite, so it seems like using a mesh is the way to go, even if it's less authentic to the aesthetic I'm going for. Thanks!
Also, you don't have to render from a tilemap either. You can just use a low resolution texture with filtering disabled and do UV animation. Should be the fastest thing performance wise.
@cybereality said: Also, you don't have to render from a tilemap either. You can just use a low resolution texture with filtering disabled and do UV animation. Should be the fastest thing performance wise.
Yeah, I actually ended up making an inversed cylinder with a rotating camera inside of it with a texture that changes on a timer. Then I just put it and a viewport into the scene in the background. Pretty simple, thanks!
