OLD Project Development and Discussion

Andross wrote:

Okay Fox; how'd you do it?

well.... i took my frame, and selected the empty space, i then used a white to transparent gradient in reflect mode to get the reflection look, and i wrote shield over top of that. and for the shield itself, i used a 3 color gradient (green yellow and red) and i put some stars on it using a special brush i have.

I more meant, how did you get the letters without them distorting.

Andross wrote:

I more meant, how did you get the letters without them distorting.

because the shield bar for VS is different from the main game shield bar. Main game is split up, vs is all one texture.

Ah, then it could still be a problem then...

Andross wrote:

Ah, then it could still be a problem then...

Hey, see if you can figure out who Mudloard is or where he resides on teh internet. if we can do that maybe he could get us a custom plugin that loads even higher resolution textures.

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Andross wrote:

Ah, then it could still be a problem then...

Hey, see if you can figure out who Mudloard is or where he resides on teh internet. if we can do that maybe he could get us a custom plugin that loads even higher resolution textures.

If you have higher resolutions you may crash the Emulator, but this is probably because my computer sucks.

If you could please give the percentages for the textures of each planet in this fashion, so we know how far you have gotten in the texture remapping.

Menu:?%
Overview map: ?%
Corneria:?%
Meteo:?%
etc.

Don't worry about being accurate just guesstimate. This will give us something else to talk about instead of having these forums just being Fox-McCloud3232 and Andross talking back and forth about what might seem to be a gibberish to rest of us.

^
That is the first thing in this part of the forum which I have understood.

Introduction 98%
Menu screen: 0%
Main Menu (select mode etc) : 60%
Training Mode: 100%
VS mode: 10%
Arwing: 100%
Landmaster: 100%
Blue Marine: 90%
Great Fox: 100%
Prologue: 100%
Text: 100%
Map Of Lylat: ???
Corneria: 90%
Meteo: 100%
Fortuna: 50%
Aquas: 50%
Sector X: 60%
Secctor Z: 100%
Sector Y: 60%
Titania: 100%
Bolse: 20%
Venom: 90%
Zoness: 50%
Macbeth: 80%
Katina: 75%
Solar: 0%
Credits: 10%
Comm Portraits: 30%

Overall: 65.1%

If i missed anything let me know. also these are just approximations.

so your not /can't edit the character model textures??

Upsizing the textures on the characters would be fairly useless as their original size is 4x4 (meaning their new size would only be
16 x 16) there wouldn't be enough improvement to justify re texturing them. but seeing as you never really see them in game, i don't think that re-texturing them is really necessary.

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Upsizing the textures on the characters would be fairly useless as their original size is 4x4 (meaning their new size would only be
16 x 16) there wouldn't be enough improvement to justify re texturing them. but seeing as you never really see them in game, i don't think that re-texturing them is really necessary.

I agree that the characters would be pointless to re texture, and I am impressed with the progress report. I'm sure more screenshots are on the way.

Side note: Maybe Someone will try and re texture FF13 then kill themselves after spending 50 years of their life making a blade of grass in game look different. Sometimes I find that games look too good for their own good, but unfortunately I plan on working in the industry and killing my self trying to make a blade of grass look good on the PiiWii, Sun Protection 15, or ZenBOX5000. Unfortunately thats after another 3 years of College.

... I wanted to do the characters though ):

What about on foot missions?
what about Snes64? ( need to change his eyes to blue ) xD

Slycan wrote:

... I wanted to do the characters though ):

What about on foot missions?
what about Snes64? ( need to change his eyes to blue ) xD

there ARE no on foot missions. what crack are you on? XD the only time you see the characters is during the title screen, opening cutscene(s) and the on foot vs which has to be unlocked XD

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Slycan wrote:

... I wanted to do the characters though ):

What about on foot missions?
what about Snes64? ( need to change his eyes to blue ) xD

there ARE no on foot missions. what crack are you on? XD the only time you see the characters is during the title screen, opening cutscene(s) and the on foot vs which has to be unlocked XD

I meant foot VS mode
and with PJ64 it can be unlocked easily cuz of the cheats options.

but your right... we don't need to do em...
so you should just send me over the unless textures anyway >w>

Actually, I have to confess I was wrong, I must have had an older version of the Rice plugin before, because according to the documentation, the new one I downloaded can handle up to 32X the size of the original textures.

BTW, I'm currently redoing a lot of the skyboxes to meet with the new size limits... including the Sector-X,Y & Z images.

....oh lord...

You missed Area 6!

Area 6 10%.

and Andross you do realize this solves our "Stretching" problem for the "Shield" XD i'll test it when i get back from a trip into town.

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Area 6 10%.

and Andross you do realize this solves our "Stretching" problem for the "Shield" XD i'll test it when i get back from a trip into town.

This might also mean that my computer may crash while loading the texture pack, but enough about my crappy computer. Does this revelation mean that you are going to start back at square 1.

SacrificAbominat wrote:

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Area 6 10%.

and Andross you do realize this solves our "Stretching" problem for the "Shield" XD i'll test it when i get back from a trip into town.

This might also mean that my computer may crash while loading the texture pack, but enough about my crappy computer. Does this revelation mean that you are going to start back at square 1.

No no, this is only for ones that will NEED a bigger upgrade. like the shield bar to solve the stretching problem, and the skyboxes which appear slightly pixley. other than that it won't be necessary to upgrade past 4X the original size. as well, i can say safely that your computer won't crash because it Pre loads the textures (it doesn't load them at random) and said images are pretty small in disk space so i wouldn't worry too much.

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

SacrificAbominat wrote:

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Area 6 10%.

and Andross you do realize this solves our "Stretching" problem for the "Shield" XD i'll test it when i get back from a trip into town.

This might also mean that my computer may crash while loading the texture pack, but enough about my crappy computer. Does this revelation mean that you are going to start back at square 1.

No no, this is only for ones that will NEED a bigger upgrade. like the shield bar to solve the stretching problem, and the skyboxes which appear slightly pixley. other than that it won't be necessary to upgrade past 4X the original size. as well, i can say safely that your computer won't crash because it Pre loads the textures (it doesn't load them at random) and said images are pretty small in disk space so i wouldn't worry too much.

I'm glad you are not thinking about making every texture you have done so far bigger, and please note that I understand that my computer will not crash. I'm just saying that it will because my computer sucks.

Yeah I remember that my former computer didn't even handle the original SF64 wery well on emulator. I hope this one will make it.

For anyone who wants a new computer, especially a high end-lap top like mine, beg! Beg for YEARS, literally, and comply with any proposition your parents may offer. It took 3 years of hard labor and begging to finaally get the amazing machine I have now.

Grenadier wrote:

For anyone who wants a new computer, especially a high end-lap top like mine, beg! Beg for YEARS, literally, and comply with any proposition your parents may offer. It took 3 years of hard labor and begging to finaally get the amazing machine I have now.

lol some times that doesn't work there G :haha:

I myself had to actually apply for a job from my dad. like a REAL job. i was his assistant in contracting.

and now i have to find a job considering this piece of crap that i have now is probably going to shit the bed soon. once again don't worry i've been doing dailey back ups.

Fox-McCloud3232 wrote:

Grenadier wrote:

For anyone who wants a new computer, especially a high end-lap top like mine, beg! Beg for YEARS, literally, and comply with any proposition your parents may offer. It took 3 years of hard labor and begging to finaally get the amazing machine I have now.

lol some times that doesn't work there G :haha:

I myself had to actually apply for a job from my dad. like a REAL job. i was his assistant in contracting.

and now i have to find a job considering this piece of crap that i have now is probably going to shit the bed soon. once again don't worry i've been doing dailey back ups.

Since I am in college and I am going to be working with 3DSMax and Maya sooner or later it is actually required that I get a very high end laptop for college. Unfortunately that might be another 2 years from now. For now I have 2 computers. A Pentium 4 with a crappy graphics card and low memory, and a Pentium D, an experimental dual core, with a good graphics card and 3GB of memory, unfortunately that computer got a virus that did some hardware damage that forces it to shut off when the computer is processing too much and it has Ubuntu on it which I have no f**king Idea how to use properly. Oh well 2 years isn't too long.

By the way