This one has been sitting around since last month. Did this one after I made my Chem Trails mode. This mode’s full name is ‘International Cargo Shipping’ but that’s a real mouthful so we’ll just call it ‘CARGO’ and move on. This one is actually where the Kraken/Cthulhu first appeared but sadly he’s been written out of this scene. You can dial in the number of ships chugging along east and west as well as the three layers of audio-reactive waves. Originally they were alpha channeled but that slowed things down a lot so they are opaque waves now. I am not even going to tell you how long I spent getting the smoke trails and bow waves to be lined up properly with the ship sprites. The ships travel at different speeds and bob along at different frequencies. A lone jet flies by in the background.
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Control layout:
🎛️ Knob 1: Controls the number of waves on the screen, layered 1, 2, 3.
🎛️ Knob 2: does nothing
🎛️ Knob 3: also does… nothing!
🎛️ Knob 4: Controls the number of ships on the sea. (9 max if I recall correctly)
🎛️ Knob 5: Changes the sky color

What was I thinking? I just wanted to try using sprites to make an animation. But then the Kraken reared his ugly head. 🐙