Help with Timer

[Oyama]

Well, don't know what's the right section to post this, so here we go : (Boris tell me if I have to move the topic... ?)

When using Timer to make a value increase in intensity / amount, etc... for example :

" value " + frac(Timer.x * 2000.0 + Timer.x)

how can I avoid this value coming back straight to min before starting raising again ?
Is it possible to have Increase >>>> Decrease >>>>> Increase again smooth cycles and how ?

Sorry for being such a rookie ...

[ENBSeries]

First of all, cycle repeat after 4 hours, so one frame per 4 hours will change result. Not much chances to see thing for lens flares. Anyway, if you want to make smooth changes, here is an example:

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float timepassed=Timer.x*2000.0;//2000 is time speed multiplier
timepassed=frac(timepassed) * 2.0 - 1.0;
timepassed=abs(timepassed);

Hope i didn't make mistake. Btw, you can use changes depending from screen uv and intensity of rays read from texture line shifted in time. May be i'll do examples for modders like you.

[Oyama]

First of all, cycle repeat after 4 hours, so one frame per 4 hours will change result. Not much chances to see thing for lens flares. Anyway, if you want to make smooth changes, here is an example:

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float timepassed=Timer.x*2000.0;//2000 is time speed multiplier
timepassed=frac(timepassed) * 2.0 - 1.0;
timepassed=abs(timepassed);

Hope i didn't make mistake. Btw, you can use changes depending from screen uv and intensity of rays read from texture line shifted in time. May be i'll do examples for modders like you.

Thanx Boris ! Once again...

If time multipliers high enough, changes on flares are very visible. Indeed, I managed to make EVERYTHING (even colors ! ) variable in time. This is pretty simple, even if the maths are everywhere I need to CLEAN the files.

Will try that piece of code RIGHT AWAY !!
JawZ' s involving in very realistic lenzes and flares, we're on something right now

Didn't choose what's the right method for blurring right now... maybe I have something with gaussians offsets in mind, don't know yet....


EDIT : Boris, you' re ABSOLUTE GENIUS !! And yep, forgive the ass licking ! This WORKS to perfection ! Now entire lines of flares go to Sun, then from sun to eye and back. And it's SMOOTH ! Setting time multipliers (I created vars for these, such as fDepthDisplacementVelocityDraw1, ect... then defines) up to 1000 is more than enough to clearly get the effect.
It's gorgeous ! 100 are good enough values.
I can also set it sprite per sprite in the same line... possibilities are endless !!