Anyone up to make a Lava Lamp model?

[SplinterSim4]

I don't think I've ever seen it before, and I know some models have animations, so is it possible to make a looping animation of the lava moving around?

I would definitely like to see this, and I'm sure some other people would too.

If anyone is up to it, I can give some details.

[Arkhana]

i have one on accident,came with my gmod file.Maybe i can turn it into an addon for you?

[Silver Spirit]

Animated textures are doable yes, if you have a static lava lamp texture (or even better the frames of it moving) I could try and make one for you.

[SplinterSim4]

Silver I do not have any of those.

But nimaratu if you could show it to me, that would be lovely. :)

[SEKCobra]

I would make it a animated model.
But it would be a little bit high poly

[Arkhana]

I'll take a screeenshot

[editline]08:44PM[/editline]

[Img]http://gadgets.boingboing.net/gimages/mathmos_fireflow_r1_lava_lamp_blue.jpg[/Img] is that lava lamp,the background was made with some Phx and some weird items i got with my gmod O_o
Its a combine thingy with a lava lamp feel to it.But i cant promsie i can turn it into an addon

[SplinterSim4]

whoa, that's pretty awesome, is the lava in there animated? And how big is it? Go ahead and try :)

[editline]04:22PM[/editline]

[QUOTE=SEKCobra;16778673]I would make it a animated model.
But it would be a little bit high poly[/QUOTE]

I don't mind, let's see what you can do. :)

Thanks.

[Arkhana]

Its animated,and i have 3 of them one small(big enough to fit in a ragdolls hand) Medium (Big enough to be like a real one) OR the "SUPER LAVA LAMP!" which fills ground to slightly below the skybox

[DanielPinoy]

show a video please

[Arkhana]

Well then,i'll have to find the appopritate Video Recorder

[SplinterSim4]

FRAPS demo, or maybe camtasia?

[Arkhana]

Fraps sucks i only get 30 seconds and camtasia really slow

[SEKCobra]

source recorder? :O

[jason278]

Wegame?

[SplinterSim4]

[QUOTE=nimaratu;16814059]Fraps sucks i only get 30 seconds and camtasia really slow[/QUOTE]

Well I think 30 seconds would be enough just to show us the model and stuff.

[Nitro-Trucker]

[QUOTE=SplinterSim4;16820572]Well I think 30 seconds would be enough just to show us the model and stuff.[/QUOTE]

The guys obviously trolling. You cant tell the image was photoshopped?

[SplinterSim4]

Nitro, I do have a very big suspicion that he/she is trolling. That image looks far too real to be from Gmod. That's why we're asking for proof. Now I'm sad because I see no proof. *sigh*

[Hybrid 4F]

Look what we have here.

[img]http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/147/mathmosfireflowlavalamp.jpg[/img]

[SplinterSim4]

would ya look at that. Thanks Hybrid, now I can rest easily knowing that this whole thing has been proven to be a fraud.

But I'm still sad there's no lava lamp model :(

[Silver Spirit]

I could attempt a very basic one. Though it won't be good but it might work :)

[editline]03:02AM[/editline]

Ok I had a go:

[url=http://silverspirituk.deviantart.com/art/Lava-Lamp-V1-134267418][img]http://fc00.deviantart.com/fs47/f/2009/233/6/0/6014e85acc2bb7ade6278713c4b3fd4e.jpg[/img][/url]

(click on the pic for details)

I tried to make animated lava by making the idle animation the moving lava (destorted spheres) but it didn't play it and i'm not sure why @.@

[SplinterSim4]

It looks pretty Good, so it doesn't animate you say?

well, other than the animation thing, I think that the body of the lamp could use a different texture.

I like it, nice to see some effort going into this. :)

[Silver Spirit]

[QUOTE=SplinterSim4;16849527]It looks pretty Good, so it doesn't animate you say?

well, other than the animation thing, I think that the body of the lamp could use a different texture.

I like it, nice to see some effort going into this. :)[/QUOTE]

I'm working on getting the animation working. The textures are temporary as it was just so I could get it in to test. I will proberly keep the black though (as its what colour my lamp is i'm basing it off) but i'll throw on an env map or something to make it shaney, also I need to find the glass texture in the GCF files so I can use that (or a version of it) for the clear bit. Might make the lava glow aswell, but these are all things for fine tuning need to make it work first :)

[SplinterSim4]

*thumbs up* A lot more effort it going into this than I thought :)

Thanks!

[Silver Spirit]

Version 3, still can't get the anim working and the collision model still defies logic @.@ but i've improved the textures to be more like my lava lamp (that i'm basing it off). Click Pic for more details.

[url=http://silverspirituk.deviantart.com/art/Lava-Lamp-V3-134504418][img]http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs49/f/2009/235/2/e/2e85a25466214911b82b5d119a86fc07.jpg[/img][/url]

[Silver Spirit]

This is the QC file, I tried adding some bits to make the anim work but to no avail :( if anyone can help me with why its not working I would be most gratutous :P

$modelname "Silver_Spirit/Lava_Lamp/lavalamp.mdl"
$scale "2"
$body prop "lava_lamp_reference.smd"
$cdmaterials "models/Silver_Spirit/Lava_Lamp"

$surfaceprop "glass"

$sequence idle "lava_lamp_sequence.smd" fps 10 loop

$collisionmodel "lava_lamp_collision.smd" {
$mass 100.0
$inertia 1.00
$damping 0.00
$rotdamping 0.00
}

[Hysteria100]

[QUOTE=Silver Spirit;16903212]This is the QC file, I tried adding some bits to make the anim work but to no avail :( if anyone can help me with why its not working I would be most gratutous :P

$modelname "Silver_Spirit/Lava_Lamp/lavalamp.mdl"
$scale "2"
$body prop "lava_lamp_reference.smd"
$cdmaterials "models/Silver_Spirit/Lava_Lamp"

$surfaceprop "glass"

$sequence idle "lava_lamp_sequence.smd" fps 10 loop

$collisionmodel "lava_lamp_collision.smd" {
$mass 100.0
$inertia 1.00
$damping 0.00
$rotdamping 0.00
}

[/QUOTE]

It's your sequence line. Try putting:

$sequence idle "lava_lamp_sequence.smd" autoplay fps 10 loop

[MisterQuiggles]

You know what'd be cool? A moving lava lamp as a GMod background.

[Silver Spirit]

[QUOTE=Hysteria100;16903584]It's your sequence line. Try putting:

$sequence idle "lava_lamp_sequence.smd" autoplay fps 10 loop

[/QUOTE]

I'll try it, ty :D

[QUOTE=MisterQuiggles;16903634]You know what'd be cool? A moving lava lamp as a GMod background.[/QUOTE]

Can you animate backgrounds, if so, just make a lava lamp animation and make it into a background :)

Edit: yup that worked :D thankyou sooooooo much ^.^

[url=http://silverspirituk.deviantart.com/art/Lava-Lamp-V4-134602611][img]http://fc09.deviantart.com/fs46/f/2009/236/0/f/0f6e4735c40628ce09fb8b0333a5d374.jpg[/img][/url]

Still needs some tweaking, as my first animation it is not that fantastic and sometimes it comes out of the glass, but at least it works now :)

[Hysteria100]

[QUOTE=Silver Spirit;16904864]I'll try it, ty :D

Can you animate backgrounds, if so, just make a lava lamp animation and make it into a background :)

Edit: yup that worked :D thankyou sooooooo much ^.^

Still needs some tweaking, as my first animation it is not that fantastic and sometimes it comes out of the glass, but at least it works now :)[/QUOTE]

VTFs can be animated, so I don't see any reason why the background VTF couldn't be. And no problem! You should record a video with wegame or something (google it if you don't know it, it's very good).

[Silver Spirit]

[QUOTE=Hysteria100;16905884]VTFs can be animated, so I don't see any reason why the background VTF couldn't be. And no problem! You should record a video with wegame or something (google it if you don't know it, it's very good).[/QUOTE]

Ok, I didn't know if you could use the same settings for a background because i've never seen an animated one on garrysmod.org :)

Whats wegame? (nm found it, looks interesting)