I've decided to be a little less of a jerk (credits)

[Mazer]

I'm a big fan of the ice cream cakes.

[jamonathin]

Very, very nice. I like the concept of making the dots darker, the further back they are. I'm not sure how you made it so that two stars always flew together, I'm not sure if thats an error ot what, but it looks good.

Nice text fading. Very well done.

Oh, and I also like the widescreen view.

[Notoroge]

WTF? I swear I could actually see depth in the scrolling stars background. Crazy.

[Bacchus]

ya i kno what you mean. pretty sure its just the different speeds of the starts moving so it looks like some are farther away

[Mazer]

Notoroge wrote:

WTF? I swear I could actually see depth in the scrolling stars background. Crazy.

That's one of the things I pointed out in the tutorial. Each star is given a random speed, and based on that speed, they are drawn with an appropriate colour.
A star that appears to be moving slowly (due to perspective) is further away from our viewpoint, and thus the light it emits should be less bright than a star that is closer to us.

I've been doing the same thing since my snowflake programs earlier that year (and before). So you like it?

[Bacchus]

very much so, which did you do to make it a bit darker? R, B, or G? im guessing that u used RGB commands cause it doesnt look like its enouph for a set color

[Mazer]

Well, actually yeah I did use Turings colours. Usually, it's too much trouble to have to use the RGB colours in Turing. From what I remember, colours 16 to 31 will fade from black to white.

[Bacchus]

ah i see, i was thinking like the first 12 or something like that, and for some reason i was thinking you were using a yellow or some sort...

[Notoroge]

I decided to see if I could get the same effect. How does this look?

Turing:

View.Set ("offscreenonly, title:stars, graphics:300;300, nobuttonbar") colourback (black) cls Draw.FillBox (0, 0, maxx, 59, gray + 10) Draw.FillBox (0, maxy - 59, maxx, maxy, gray + 10) var stars : int := 600 %number of stars var deleay : int := 25 %put whatever delay you want here var x, y, speed, colours : array 1 .. stars of int for i : 1 .. stars     x (i) := Rand.Int (0, maxx)     y (i) := Rand.Int (60, maxy - 60)     speed (i) := Rand.Int (2, 4)     for r : 2 .. 4         if speed (i) = r then             colours (i) := RGB.AddColour (r / 4, r / 4, r / 4)         end if     end for     Draw.Dot (x (i), y (i), colours (i)) end for loop     for i : 1 .. stars         if x (i) >= 0 then             x (i) := x (i) - speed (i)             Draw.Dot (x (i) + speed (i), y (i), black)             Draw.Dot (x (i), y (i), colours (i))         elsif x (i) < 0 then             Draw.Dot (x (i), y (i), colours (i))             x (i) := maxx + 2             y (i) := Rand.Int (60, maxy - 60)         end if     end for     delay (deleay)     View.Update end loop

Update: Whoah! I just moved the "View.Update" to somewhere else after realizing that it was somewhere that was using unecessary resources and now it flies (super speed). So fast, in fact, that I ended up having to add a delay to it. Otherwise everything just zooms accross the screen.

Update2: I updated the code to show 200 stars at a time, and no slowdowns yet, whereas before it would slow down and bog the system at 40 stars.
The real power of View.Update is demostrated here.

Update3: Oh snap, you want to see crazy? Run the code at 600 stars (the new default )

[[Gandalf]]

Very nice - did you make it the same way that Coutsos did?

Try it at 2000 stars . Or better yet, 4000000 heh... It slowed down a bit at that point.

[Notoroge]

I didn't copy his code. I looked at the binary and decided to see if I could make the same thing. I recall him saying he didn't use RGB colours so I purposefully did, just that will change the code a bit.

And I did run it at 100000, no slowdown. But it does look wierd.

[Notoroge]

Since I have no life, I decided to add one that exits when you hit any key (both compiled and source). Uh, sorry for the quasi thread-hijacking.

[Bacchus]

ya thats really nice and you get the same nice effect. who knows i may use a similar idea in a game of mine in the futur. wont copy ne code. ill do it from scratch later, but the color-distance thing is good to remmeber