Looks good!

Agreed! Very nice!

Definitely looks great, but personally I think it takes a little too long to finish materializing. If it's just extended to show off the mechanic, awesome! Otherwise, if this is going to occur as a cutscene, it should definitely be sped up.

Long just for testing purposes; eventually it'll be accompanied by dialogue and a flash and a bang for effect; so the gates will materialize faster and in succession.

Looks very nice indeed. Your web graphics in the posts below are stunning, by the way. I must have missed those posts last week. That orbit shield thing is pretty cool as well [smile].

Nice and cute. Not just the pixel shader is cool, but the sound effects too.
As for the time it takes, it's ideal for cutscenes. But I agree that if they're going to happen often in-game it shouldn't last so long.

As a tiny criticism, you may have noticed the wave effect suddenly stops at ~0:10
Pherhaps it may look better if it the waves have decreasing amplitude over time.
If you use an offset like tex2D( tex, uv + offset ) try dividing that offset by an increasing number each frame (to achieve a similar effect), or start increasing it only in the end (to achieve the same effect, but smooth without the sudden stop).

Cheers.
Dark Sylinc

Quote: Original post by Matias Goldberg
Pherhaps it may look better if it the waves have decreasing amplitude over time.

+1 to that suggestion.