Computer readable recording medium recording a program for causing a light source to be displayed on a game screen and the program, and game screen display method and apparatus

• US 20020004421A1
• Filed: 03/29/2001
• Published: 01/10/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2000
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Square Co Ltd (Square Enix Holdings Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Block, Inc. (f/k/a Square, Inc.)
• Inventors: Itai, Katsunori
• Application Number:
  US09/819,713
• Publication Number:
  US 20020004421A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/31
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/52 involving aspects of the displayed game scene
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/66 for rendering three dimensional images
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/6692 using special effects, generally involving post-processing, e.g. blooming

Abstract

A light trace expressing a trace generated in a case where a light source is moved in a virtual three-dimensional space can be displayed with higher reality. An initially used table or the like is initialized. Next, a light source or the like is moved by an operation input or the like. Subsequently, perspective transformation is carried out to obtain a position of the light source on a display screen. Next, a polygon having a predetermined width is generated along a new movement locus of the light source on the display screen. Then, transparency of all the generated polygons is raised. In the polygon generated earlier, the transparency increases. Then, a texture in which the brightness is high along the movement locus of the light source and the brightness of a position decreases as the position departs from the movement locus, is mapped to the polygon. Thereafter, α blending is used to draw the polygon on the movement locus of the light source. The drawn image is displayed on the display screen. This is repeated for each display frame until a game ends.

Claims

1. A computer readable recording medium recording a program for causing a light source to be displayed on a game screen, the program causing a computer:

to acquire update history of a position of the light source moving in the game screen;

to judge a movement locus of the light source based upon the acquired update history;

to generate a semitransparent object for which brightness corresponding to a distance from the movement locus is set, on the judged movement locus;

to set transparency corresponding to a distance from the position of the light source for the generated semitransparent object; and

to display the generated semitransparent object with the set transparency.

2. The recording medium according to claim 1, wherein:

the game screen is updated for each frame display period;

generation of the semitransparent object is carried out for each of the frame display periods; and

the displaying further comprises setting the transparency of each of the semitransparent objects generated for each of the frame display periods close to transparent as time elapses, and displaying each of the semitransparent objects.

3. The recording medium according to claim 2, further comprising previously providing a texture image in which brightness on an arbitrary line segment is highest, and brightness decreases as a distance from the line segment increases;

wherein the generating further comprises relating the texture image to each of the semitransparent objects at a positional relationship so that the arbitrary line segment is parallel with the movement locus of the light source; and

wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the related texture image on each of the semitransparent objects.

4. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the semitransparent object disappears when transparency of the semitransparent object equals or is less than a predetermined value.

5. The recording medium according to claim 2, wherein the generating further comprises corresponding a width of each of the semitransparent objects in a direction orthogonal to the movement locus to a size of the light source on the screen.

6. A program for causing a light source to be displayed on a game screen, the program causing a computer

to acquire update history of a position of the light source moving in the game screen;

to judge a movement locus of the light source based upon the acquired update history;

to generate a semitransparent object for which brightness corresponding to a distance from the movement locus is set, on the judged movement locus;

to set transparency corresponding to a distance from the position of the light source for the generated semitransparent object; and

to display the generated semitransparent object with the set transparency.

7. The program according to claim 6, wherein:

the game screen is updated for each frame display period;

generation of the semitransparent object is carried out for each of the frame display periods; and

the displaying further comprises setting the transparency of each of the semitransparent objects generated for each of the frame display periods to transparent as time elapses, and displaying each of the semitransparent objects.

8. The program according to claim 7, further comprising previously providing a texture image in which brightness on an arbitrary line segment is highest, and brightness decreases as a distance from the line segment increases;

wherein the generation further comprises relating the texture image to each of the semitransparent objects at a positional relationship so that the arbitrary line segment is parallel with the movement locus of the light source; and

wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the related texture image on each of the semitransparent objects.

9. The program according to claim 7, wherein the semitransparent object disappears when the transparency of the semitransparent object equals or is less than a predetermined value.

10. The program according to claim 7, wherein the generating further comprises corresponding a width of each of the semitransparent objects in a direction orthogonal to the movement locus to a size of the light source on the screen.

11. A game screen display method for causing a light source to be displayed on a game screen, the game screen display method comprising:

acquiring update history of a position of the light source moving in the game screen;

judging a movement locus of the light source based upon the acquired update history;

generating a semitransparent object for which brightness corresponding to a distance from the movement locus is set, on the judged movement locus;

setting transparency corresponding to a distance from the position of the light source for the generated semitransparent object; and

displaying the generated semitransparent object with the set transparency.

12. The game screen display method according to claim 11, wherein:

the game screen is updated each frame display period;

generation of the semitransparent object is carried out for each of the frame display periods; and

the displaying further comprises setting the transparency of each of the semitransparent objects generated for each of the frame display periods to transparent as time elapses, and displaying each of the semitransparent objects.

13. The game screen display method according to claim 12, further comprising:

previously providing a texture image in which brightness on an arbitrary line segment is highest, and brightness decreases as a distance from the line segment increases;

wherein the generating further comprises relating the texture image to each of the semitransparent objects at a positional relationship so that the arbitrary line segment is parallel with the movement locus of the light source; and

wherein the displaying further comprises displaying the related texture image on each of the semitransparent objects.

14. The game screen display method according to claim 12, wherein the semitransparent object disappears when transparency of the semitransparent object equals or is less than a predetermined value.

15. The game screen display method according to claim 12, wherein the generating further comprises corresponding a width of each of the semitransparent objects in a direction orthogonal to the movement locus to a size of the light source on the screen.

16. A game screen display apparatus, comprising:

a computer readable recording medium recording a program for causing a light source to be displayed on a display screen;

a computer for reading out at least a part of the program from the recording medium and executing the program; and

the display screen for displaying a game realized by the program,

wherein the computer causes;

acquisition of update history of a position of the light source moving in the display screen;

judgment of a movement locus of the light source based upon the acquired update history;

generation of a semitransparent object for which brightness corresponding to a distance from the movement locus is set, on the judged movement locus;

setting of transparency corresponding to a distance from the position of the light source for the generated semitransparent object; and

displaying of the generated semitransparent object with the set transparency.

17. The game screen display apparatus according to claim 16, wherein:

the game screen is updated each frame display period;

generation of the semitransparent object is carried out for each of the frame display periods; and

the displaying further comprises setting the transparency of each of the semitransparent objects generated for each of the frame display periods to transparent as time elapses, and displaying each of the semitransparent objects.

18. The game screen display apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising:

a previously provided texture image in which brightness on an arbitrary line segment is highest, and brightness of a position decreases as a distance from the line segment increases, the texture image being related to each of the semitransparent objects at a positional relationship so that the arbitrary line segment is parallel with the movement locus of the light source, and

the displaying further comprises displaying the related texture image on each of the semitransparent objects.

19. The game screen display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein the semitransparent object disappears when transparency of the semitransparent object is equal to or less than a predetermined value.

20. The game screen display apparatus according to claim 17, wherein in the generation of the semitransparent objects, a width of each of the semitransparent objects in a direction orthogonal to the movement locus corresponds to a size of the light source on the screen.