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    and_remember_tomorrow_collapsing_map.jpg

    So I had the lighting plugin off for testing, and I forgot how cool the disintegrating map is... I mean it's usually just shrouded in darkness. I also learned that the Lighting plugin is the heaviest effect... Follow by QMovement. But do you know what's weirdly not heavy? My character being literally 60 images every second. Not going to lie, I would have lost that bet. :kaoback:
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    There's apparently a joy I never knew existed..... Creating 8 directions of animation (224 frames), only to discover one pose was 10 degrees off so the whole thing wobbles. Oh well, only half a hour of rendering to fix it. :kaoswt:
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    So er... yeah... about Daz3D. :LZScool:
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    I linked you the 4 minute video that explains how to animate stuff. It's literally open the timeline, click keyframe, pose the character. Go to a later frame, click keyframe then pose the character differently. It will then automatically create the frames between. As a bonus Daz comes with a lot of free premade poses, so you can just click those. :LZSwink:
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    @BK-tdm Actually, this is one of the first instances where it's an eventing problem. See it's spawning them in, and they essentially running multiple proximity checks with priority given to the portal, then the paths, then denial mode. However it only runs that check every other frame to reduce strain, which means they kind of jerk a bit.
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    ImaginaryVillain
    I'll have to devise a solution, often I just use a ticker instead of the not very good wait command. But here that would give the same result. It's possible I could have them check multiple times every handful of frames and stack movements. So this way they're still moving while the wait happens... Hmm... I'll come up with something.
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    I decided to teach myself Daz3D tonight. :LZScool:
    and_remember_tomorrow_new_character.jpg

    ...This may eventually lead to me creating models for my game, we shall see... I still need to figure out how to export the animation frames. Soon though, soon I won't need a silly inbetweener.. It will be just legit animations. :LZSexcite:
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    You should see the thousands of dollars worth of stuff I have on the Epic Store, both in free games and Unreal Engine assets. Man I wish I'd realized about the free Unreal stuff sooner. I was on the silly platform six months before I noticed... So much free swag lost! :kaocry:
    The Stranger
    The Stranger
    EPIC just giving games away without tying it to a sub like Playstation does with PS+ - if you drop your PS+ sub, you lose all your free games. Not that simply having free games forever is a bad thing. I know I have a bunch of games on GoG simply because they were free. I have no intention of ever playing them. lol.
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    ImaginaryVillain
    At this point.... I only open Steam for RM. But Epic doesn't even have my financial info, I've never paid them anything. I have absolutely no idea what their end game is. But I'm down with free, plus they give out some really great games! :kaoback: ...Though I've only played like 2 of the literally 100+ game's they've given me... I take them all though.:LZSwink:
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    and_remember_tomorrow_omnia_tea_fields.jpg

    I've only made half the assets for the next randomly generated area and it already looks crazy! :LZSexcite:

    This area I'm going to experiment more with the blocks themselves having behaviors and particles. I don't see any reason the randomly generated areas can't have moving parts on stuff as well. :LZSwink:
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    I'm considering doing a video series on how I make maps, including collision, lighting and particles. Would anybody be interested? It won't be for the faint of heart as it's going to require the use of... QPlus, QMovement, QMap, QM-Collision Map, QMap Editor, Particle Emitter, Particle Emitter's Online Editor, Community Lighting and an Event Spawner of your choice.
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    No edits, just gameplay from one area to the next. Plus all my new shiny interface stuff... And I even remember to bolt down the portal so it won't escape this time. :kaopride:
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    and_remember_tomorrow_more_redesigns_4.jpg

    edit: The complete redesign of my player HUD, Time rewind message, mini map and puzzle map.... I'll toss up an animated version later. :LZSexcite:
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    You only mentioned one particle effect, thats way less than expected go and add more particles :p
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    ImaginaryVillain
    Oh don't worry, there's always time to toss in more particles. :LZSwink:

    Also I ended up liking the Time Rewind red so much, that I colored them all that way. Much more striking and easier to see over the levels, plus it's a bit more sinister. :LZSexcite:
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    In hindsight... I could have probably made them all smaller initially. Turns out each one is a 42x42 map.... And far too intricate to even show the kind of detail I put in. Not going to lie... I'm sooooo going to sneak them into maps later. With that much work put in, it would almost be silly not to. :kaoswt:
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    I should probably step away from the sparkles... but they're soooooooo shiny! :kaoswt:

    Anyway stuff of note:
    New interface.
    The puzzle pieces now a build a puzzle in the upper right corner.
    The Nihil is represented by the line with skulls. That represents where the map no longer exists at the moment.
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    BK-tdm
    BK-tdm
    What do you mean with "non-particle enemies"? Everything must have particles and sparkles, everything.
    ImaginaryVillain
    ImaginaryVillain
    That's true, I could add particles to each enemy even though they're animated. :LZSexcite: I also need to make my own particle system so the particles can appear in the picture layers, then I can make a tiny version of the particle appear on the mini map as well. :LZScool:
    BK-tdm
    BK-tdm
    And then you add particles to the particles for the ultimate sparkly experience.
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    Hyouryuu-Na
    Hyouryuu-Na
    Probably the best to stay optimistic about the situation. So let's hope it actually is a rebranding even though deleting everything without leaving a hint seems too drastic. I hope everything's fine on their end.
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    Oh I know the truth, Mog's.....
    //Knocking at the door
    ...Oh hey one sec, my pizza's here. :LZSexcite:
    //Goes off to get the door, shouting is heard, along with sounds of a scuffle, then a loud thump and silence.
    //An obviously different voices responds.
    Yes, I hope Mog is fine too.
    Juanita Star
    Juanita Star
    Same, really xD hope everything turns allright.
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    Swag collecting in the new randomly generated area. Now the mini map also shows the randomly generated features... And even illustrates the whole "bubble" system" that I made to manage memory... Though that part's inadvertent. We'll just call that "the fog of war"... Yes, that's what we'll do. Nobody will be the wiser! :kaopride:
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    and_remember_tomorrow_beside_myself.jpg

    The worst part about making custom stuff is, I can't really ask any of you why a second copy of the character randomly appears only when going SW, S, or SE and changing directions. Been bugging me for the last two days. On the plus side, look at the new random map pieces I made while thinking about it.:LZSexcite:
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    @The Stranger Honestly... One of my favorite things about game design is the endless programming puzzles it creates. That's why I've gone so far off the deep end tinkering with stuff. :LZSexcite: Admittedly learning to code via breaking things in RM pretty much taught me to code like a 3rd rate hacker. So I'm much happier to just go around RM's awful programming than use it. :LZSwink:
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    Alright... turns out that all I needed to do was tell my Image plugin itself to have a function that dynamically adjusts Z coordinates based on the target's Y coordinate and whatever number I wanted to adjust by... Instead of having my secondary plugin do it. Problem solved! :LZSexcite: Somewhere I in all that I messed up the jump animation though. :kaoswt: Oh well... after 5am here, don't care till later.
    Featherbrain
    Featherbrain
    I know what you mean. Having enough plugins will get you to the same point, too, but once you write your own stuff, you're truly on your own. But it's satisfying when you figure it out.
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    Here I am writing a jumping collision checker for QMovement's colliders, only to discover QM-Collision Map uses colors, not colliders to determine passability. :kaoback:

    Specifically it converts all colors to black, then runs checks to see if it finds a black pixel to stop player movement. Quxios is a mad genius. :LZSexcite:
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    Jragyn
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    That would explain much of the way he coded things (the mad genius part).
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    The more I look into his code, the more I realize he really was on a whole other level.
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    and_remember_tomorrow_comfy_new_chair.jpg

    Check out my comfy new chair! :LZSexcite:

    It had a lot more parts than I expected.... I wonder if I assembled it correctly... :kaoswt:
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    Excellent! It's supposed to be unsettling. It's going to be interesting which world is most disturbing to people.... After all, after the world for Denial, there's still the worlds for Anger, Bargaining, Depression and Acceptance. The game's not outright horror or anything, but I definitely prefer to tell a very visual story. So each world is going to do a lot to represent those concepts. :LZSwink:
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    It had a lot more parts than I expected.... I wonder if I assembled it correctly...
    Click to expand...

    To sit or not to sit, were there leftover parts after assembly? ;)
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    //Holds up a bag of mushrooms, vines, organs and screws....

    Er... I couldn't figure out where they go. It seems to hold together, so it's probably fine. :kaoswt:
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    Closer and closer I get to my intro sequence being finished... I've got the initial fall, the impact, waking up in Omnia, the title comets, meeting your first inhabitant of Omnia. I just need the falling sequence now.

    After that I need scenes for sneaking out, watching the meteor shower, and the burning house. Then the first 30-40 minutes or so of game will be finished.
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    Bouncy, bouncy, bouncy. All this because I needed the character to jump for a cutscene... But it was just so easy to add the other directions in... So I did. :LZSexcite:
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    Effekseer 1.53c... vs my "Area 51" test...

    This brutal test includes 32 frames of character movement (in each direction)...
    1920x1080 resolution
    PIXI Bloom Filter
    24 continuous 3D Effekseer animations.
    36 portals which each cycle 3 Effekseer animations and a PIXI text.
    And of course a gross amount of PIXI particles.

    Today, I am impressed. :LZScool:
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    The really funny thing is, I switched it to "public" with no categories set and got a downvote within 30 seconds. In fact almost everything I post there publicly gets more downvotes than upvotes. However when not posted publicly, I've got a handful of viral images. Guess it's "not public" from now on so I can get more public views. :LZSwink:
    The Stranger
    The Stranger
    lol! It reminds me of how even the sweetest, most inoffensive video on YouTube will get downvoted. I just keep all my images on Imgur private.
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    Heh... I guess going forward I will too. Though for the 200,000+ viewers who clearly view my profile posts which originally was the only place this was posted. I'll need to include a game advertisement. At least this one had the title at the top, since I couldn't get the FPS to show due to my main monitor being a widescreen. Maybe I'll rename the project to include a website, so they can see it at the top.

    :rheh:
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    Oh YouTube... You feel like a lot of effort for less impressions than a Tweet ...worth it. :LZSexcite: Still I haven't updated it since I made any of these new maps. Guess I shouldn't totally ignore it. :kaoswt:
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    Playing with my new movement system... So far working pretty good, does a weird thing with Effekseer animations though. :kaoswt:

    Guess I'll need to study how MZ implements Effekseer effects. Been meaning to do that anyway so I have better access to it's properties.
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    Ah I see... Apparently for purposes of the tilemap, Effekseer animations appear at Z 3. Since my code is injected and largely ignoring MZ.... When my objects attempt to occupy the exact same point in 3 dimensions, it confuses the system. Easily fixed by adjusting the Z coordinate. Though as I have successfully injected this... Perhaps I can give it behavior patterns as well. RM Skynet here I come! :LZSexcite:
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    and_remember_tomorrow_attack_on_miranda_titan.jpg
    Well... I guess if I ever make an Attack on Titan fan game, I'm good to go. :LZSwink:

    Oh, and for those curious, it's the same image for all of them. I'm just able to adjust their Height and Width and dynamically adjust that new amount to make them shrink as well as they get higher up the screen.
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