Necman wrote:Very interesting stuff about the lighting. I read it many times but I only came up with it being a bust. Is this so? I was just wondering if there were any other side projects of interest as well!
As far as lights go, there are basically four(ish) types. PSU uses two of them, but it includes some code to make the other two types work... but you can't place them without major exe changes, so it's not amazingly useful.
Most recent couple of things:
1. stuff with vehicles. This ties to two things:
a. Before I made Distant Dream, I'd thought about doing a Sonic-themed airboarding mission as a way to demonstrate the model importing. It never got off the ground (ha ha) because I couldn't figure out how to enable vehicles in a mission, but I have now, and it turned out that it would be terrible because airboards are terrible. Whoops? I did manage to find out (approximately) how the vehicle physics can be altered, though, so maybe someday...!
b. I hate transport PAs. I consider "mash the attack button to move faster" to be questionable design at best (especially since you're stuck reserving one of your six weapon slots to a double saber or claw or dagger). So... what's the obvious solution that nobody asked for? Airboard item! Expected it to be almost impossible since it looked like they were tied to a set object (as in, part of the actual mission, like a door or a box), turns out the script call to create a vehicle doesn't actually need one, so this is actually possible, but fairly low priority.
2. Silly thought: "what if there was a third Svaltus variant?" Looked into it a bit, turns out that Orgdus was intended to be a Neudaiz version (it appears on Parum in the released game), while Lutus Jigga was intended to be a Moatoob version (this is really obvious given the name; it appears on Neudaiz in the released game, though), so the hypothetical third version would be a Parum variant. Brief attempt at hue shifting it gave me this creature. Looks fairly okay, ends up looking a lot like Lutus Jigga in awakened Relics lighting. Think I would've preferred if the body was red, but... ehh. Not much choice on the lights, anything close to blue ends up looking like a Svaltus, while anything near red or yellow ends up hard to tell apart from Orgdus or Lutus Jigga, respectively.
3. See shade's topic.
When it was just going to be "episode 3, but offline", it'd started a couple weeks before that (the first mission pack was a byproduct of that work).Necman wrote:I was also wondering when you started working on this project. I know you posted Despair and Hope in April 2012 and joined months before. I never played the story missions until I played offline with your mission packs. It took me till today to find out that is also the mission name for episode 3 story mission 1. I just thought an annual celebration for Despair and Hope's birthday would be nice unless it's become a pain in your backside. Either way thanks for listening or (reading) my crazy thoughts.
(Ambition of the Illuminus is named after the final chapter of episode 2. An offline episode 3 would in theory be named after the last chapter of episode 3, "For Brighter Day", but that name was already taken by the soundtrack. "Despair and Hope" ended up being the most fitting chapter title.)
Nothing's public yet, sorry. At some point I'll try to clean them up so they're not a complete embarrassment and upload the sources, just not gotten to it yet.Shadowth117 wrote:Wow, with school and everything I guess I forgot to keep checking back on progress here, but I see you've gotten a Speed Highway port of all things done and a whole bunch of other crazy things in the works. Do you have a Github link or anything for the tools you've been working on?
Thanks! I haven't had the chance to look into that yet, still plan to at some point. PSP models and external models are still my main focus for the time being, although I keep looking at the PSO areas in PSU and getting frustrated because they all look horribly wrong for reasons that I can't fully articulate, so who knows what I'll actually end up doing next.Shadowth117 wrote:(PSO2 model stuff)