After playing gridwars for the 20 billionth time, I began to look at the game from a programmers POV as I usually do, and so I attempted to recreate the background grid in gm6 (Being the only version on my computer at this time, as my laptop with gm7 is with microsoft now :P. This is also the reason I'm uploading this file to media fire rather than my website for those few of you who are wondering).

So after looking a bit into arrays and the such, I came up with this:

Doesn't look like all too much in the screenshot, but then again - It's not moving, which is the entire effect. Also, the render's are all line based for now, but since I'm using gm6 which doesn't have surface functionality, using shaders with this to make a 3D ripple effect would be death to the CPU.

But without further adeu, here are the basic controls for what I'm calling the 'gridripple engine'

Left mouse click - Cause a forceful outward ripple

Hold left mouse and move - Cause a slight ripple

Hold right mouse - Create a worm hole at the mouse position

Press spacebar - Turn off the render (Only if your cpu is running too slow to do anything else)

There are also a few controls I threw in there for the sake of knowing how people's FPS's relate to the number of grid's drawn, so -

Press 1/2 to change the spacing between gridlines

Press 3/4 to change the number of gridlines drawn (If they're created out of the screen they will be destroyed)

Press 'Enter' to generate a new grid based on the values above. (May cause a bit of lag if the number of gridlines is above 150)

So here's the download link, please tell me how many gridlines are being drawn and your current fps ^_^

http://www.mediafire.com/?5c9tyejyhgg