"Water/credits" effect from Iguana's "Heartquake" demo  //  ARM
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WHAT YOU NEED TO USE THIS SOURCE AS-IS

    Accessible via Path:

    MAKE.EXE    (Borland's make utility)
    BINOBJ.EXE  (.bin -> .obj utility, comes with Turbo Pascal)
    TPC.EXE     (Borland's Turbo Pascal 6.0 command-line compiler)
    TASM.EXE    (Borland's Turbo Assembler, any version will do)

    ALCHEMY.EXE (Handmade Software Inc.'s "Image Alchemy" program,
                 Shareware version is o.k.)


HOW TO BUILD

    Type MAKE and wait :-)


HOW TO RUN

    Edit DROPS2.VTO to include the appropriate parameters to use DemoVT
    with your sound card (see original DemoVT documentation).

    Run NOSOUND.BTM to select silence mode (you might have to change the
    COM port settings in DROPS1.VTO). Run SOUND.BTM to select normal mode
    (with background music).

    Run RVT.BTM to load DEMOVT and run the program.



FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND

    The main files that form part of DROPS.EXE are:

    DROPS.PAS  --  Main program. Sequences the whole effect.

    WATER.PAS    --  "Script" and routines for the different water
                      perturbations.

    SKY.PAS      --  "Script" and routines for sky text.

    SURF.ASM     --  Draws surface and integrates 2D wave equation. This is
                      where the secret to this little effect is... you'll see
                      that it is a whole lot simpler than you might have
                      imagined O:-)

    ASMFX.ASM    --  Some routines for "perturbing" the water with any
                      pattern.

    USKY.ASM     --  Some routines for placing letters in the sky.


    Some "configuration" files:

    FONTS.VGA    --  FontEdit 9x16 font file. Program paints sky characters
                      using this font. You can also load it directly onto
                      your VGA via FontEdit!

    COLORS.DEF   --  Defines color palette to use. Colors are interpolated
                      between those defined in this file and a "gamma
                      correction" is applied to each channel R, G, and B.


    Some auxilliary program sources are:

    FONTBIN.PAS  --  Converts FONTEDIT files to raw 256*16 binary format.

    MAKEPAL.PAS  --  Reads colors.def and creates a 3*256 byte RGB palette
                      file.

    RAW2SRF.PAS  --  Reads raw file created by Alchemy from a 320*200 GIF
                      and outputs a bitmapped binary file.

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As you can see, you don't need 32-bit protected-mode code to catch people's
attention, even good ol' TP can do the trick! ;-D

Take one little wave equation, the cheapest "3D" projection you can
imagine, some nice background music, a palette with a couple of color
gradients... and that's all there is to it! :-)

Enjoy!

                                                        September, 1994
                                     (Released January, 1995... lazy me!)

Arturo R Montesinos (ARM)
arami@fi.upm.es
2:341/27.7 (FidoNet)