Pyro's Apprentice

Are the shadows supposed to represent line of sight, or brightness levels? o.O Neither seems to fit, since you can see fires that are out of your line of sight, but you can't see daylight while in the caves.

Thanks! Glad you guys enjoy it. My programming mind doesn't like to stay in one place, so I've already started and am midway with another project. But I'm very excited at making this one which I'm hoping to add a story to related to the title. I will probably be back on this very soon!

I know exactly how you feel, I jump to and from projects, working on whatever interests me at the time. Can't wait to see more of all of your work :)

Basically the fire effect consists of having a 2d array of values of "intensities", where you add 0 & max intensities at the "bottom", then loop through the rest, where at each point - finding the average of what's directly below it and subtracting 1, then setting that to that point. I have a few modifications to making the effect look nice. But then you take the 2d array and loop through each point and translate the intensity onto a color spectrum (white -> yellow -> red -> black), which then is the pixel at that point. The Spark class is used so to not just be adding randomly 0 or max intensities to the bottom of the array. Basically there is a list of Sparks that cover the length of the bottom of the array, where each have a "home" that it must stay "close" to, but allowed to move randomly around. Also each can randomly change its "length". So using the Spark class, it makes the flames seem to waver, making a nice fire replication.

Nice effects! But... 13 is an unlucky number, so I'll be your 14th "stalker"! ;)