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Ah....It's about time.
-To the average reader (non SFC members)
This is the collaboration of the Chaos Sonic series, unlike most collabs, this is one for an entire series consisting of 5 chapters, 1 completed, another in production.
The collab will be handled by the SFC (Sonic Flash Crew) who are;
Knuxrouge (me)
Mizox
WritersBlock
I handle the animation, Mizox handles the misc things (AS, custom sprites and BGs), and WritersBlock is our personal musician, who makes music specifically for the Chaos Sonic series.
Rules for readers
1. No spam, thats a given. For smartasses, spam includes (but is not limited to) flaming, off topic posts, gibberish, crap one liners, and picture spam.
2. No recruits. If you wish to be an SFC member, don't say so in this thread, PM one of the three members and give us a reasonable and competent reason and state your unique skills that you believe will be useful, like a resume.
3. Wanna help? If you want to help, you are free to, and you will be given the proper credit assuming we take whatever help you give. Circumstance changes alot and we may not need what you may be offering, keep this in mind if you choose to help.
4. Expectations. I don't want to sound like some hard-ass, but in all honesty, this is a 3-man collab and is expected to stay that way, again circumstance changes alot and exceptions may be made under any pretense, but as I said above...
If you wish to monitor this collab, then you are free to, everyone is able to give out support and advice provided that they are not a dick about it.

If you want to see some of the SFC's work, then;
We have Chaos Sonic Chapter 1
and the BVG collab, coming very soon.
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-To SFC members
Now that the BVG is finished, we can finally start on Chapter 2 of Chaos Sonic.
I finished the title screen and menu items.
As you know, I added a "Xtraz" section, Xtraz included, the BVG contest winner, a foreword, the Credits, and a little essay of how we started Chaos Sonic. The layout is magnificent, and I'd love to show it to you, maybe via email. Mizox, if I can get your email, then I can send it to you and WB for I already have his. The only real issue is at the moment, I'm running on Dial-up, but the swf is only
2 MB at the moment.
I can compress it and send it that way. But I swear, the way Dial-up runs, it should be free. Its a rip-off to pay any money for crap like this, but I digress.
With the title screen complete with character sypnosis, scene select, and extras (and extras material included) all finished and with the way it looks, I'm pumped to get started.
To get everything started, I need you to do something for me Mizox, this was planned months in advance too.
I need you to recolor some super Sonic Sprites to Chaos Sonic color, no glow needed though.
Here are the links.
Can you say coincidence?
And this is a must have!
I also need you to trace this.
That is actually for Chapter 3, but the sooner the better.
Take your time, I wont need the first 2 for a while.
Thanks, and I declare the Chaos Sonic collab, finally up!


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Ok, I'd like to say, first of all, my music will probably be almost entirely classical/orchestral, largely to do with the equipment I have at hand. The music in these following chapters should be a lot better, and more specifically written for pin-pointed parts in the movie. That being said, knux, could you send me .swfs of each scene as you complete them, because I'd like to create the music scene for scene. So I would like to do this one much different to chapter 1. It just came together from pre-existing stuff last time, so I think a bit more consistency should make it sound more professional.
Does that sound good?


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recoloring? easy, tracing? do you want it actually traced or simply with transparency added? E-mail? Mizox5@verizon.net oh, do you want to keep the Psycho eyes on the Fleetway Super or should I convert them to normal? (I'll leave them Psycho either way though because if you didn't want the psycho eyes you wouldn't have picked that sheet), I was going to work on a Sonic Short but production is stalled anyway until I can find someone to voice Sonic (the closest I can get sounds like half Tails half Cream), oh, and I'll need to E-mail you the finished sprites because ever since my dad stopped paying the bills for my site it's bandwidth has fallen far too low for sprite sheets no matter what the compression, it also suffered a great loss in storage, so pretty much all of the stuff I had stored there from the last episode is now gone

...

so, WB is going to compose the score around the scenes? cool!

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At 5/7/08 10:43 AM, WritersBlock wrote: Does that sound good?

Hm, that may be a problem.
I don't work for each individual scene, but all of it as a whole.
I won't be able to give you each scene individually, but we can improvise, I have two--no, three alternative ideas.
The first will be that I send you the movie as a whole and let you work with it, but you won't be able to do anything until I finish the flash, which can take up to months. I don't like this idea very much.
The other is, I give you key screenshots that can make it easy to sum up the situation, you have the script so, there shouldn't be too much of a problem seeing how words can speak alot for atmosphere.
The third is that I describe to you, to the best of my abilities, the enviornment of the current situation, I describe it as I know it, how the setting was supposed to be, then you can take that and make your own setting of it all, pretty much how you feel towards it, and make music like that.
As another note, I don't mind classical, makes for good epicness. I can preemptively tell you to stock up on battle music ideas.
Chaos Sonic Ch1 had 2 fight scenes, technically 1, Ch2 will have 5.
1 in act 6
1 in act 7
2 in act 9
1 in act 10
Act 8 will be short and will serve as a build up to 9.
But in any case, you have my utmost support and faith.
Make us proud WB!

At 5/7/08 05:00 PM, Mizox wrote: ...

I don't mind Mizox, you can keep the crazy eyes, and I don't mind the email thing. Thanks.
Thanks for the email, assuming Dial-up doesnt fuck me over, I will send both of you the emails, I will compress the swf and zip it up, then show it to you.
I'm really proud of my work with the title screen, the improvement make me feel more professional and makes the title screen seem more professional and worthy of a sequel, I used WB's "His World demo" and some other VG tunes, the last one I plan to use is at the end of Act 9 (Scene 4), and the rest is up to WB.
I swear Dial-up sucks, I'm getting At&t.
Not great, but better than this shit.


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At 5/7/08 10:22 PM, knuxrouge wrote:
At 5/7/08 10:43 AM, WritersBlock wrote: Does that sound good?
Hm, that may be a problem.

I won't get involved in this bit

I don't mind Mizox, you can keep the crazy eyes, and I don't mind the email thing. Thanks.

OK, almost done as a matter of fact

Thanks for the email, assuming Dial-up doesnt fuck me over, I will send both of you the emails, I will compress the swf and zip it up, then show it to you.

OK, looking forward to it

I'm really proud of my work with the title screen, the improvement make me feel more professional and makes the title screen seem more professional and worthy of a sequel, I used WB's "His World demo" and some other VG tunes, the last one I plan to use is at the end of Act 9 (Scene 4), and the rest is up to WB.

sounds great!

I swear Dial-up sucks, I'm getting At&t.
Not great, but better than this shit.

Fiber Optic PWNs all, I used to get it from Verizon, but my state is in the process of being transferred over to Fairpoint so... yeah, I have no idea who's running my internet right now, and even though I have the minimum package (5Mb/2Mb), it's still greased lightning compared with dialup (56k D:)

whatever you do, don't get Comcast internet, they do all kinds of horrible stuff to people's connections (like impersonating the other person's computer and telling your computer that they randomly shut off in the middle of the download/upload)

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At 5/7/08 10:22 PM, knuxrouge wrote:
At 5/7/08 10:43 AM, WritersBlock wrote: Does that sound good?
Hm, that may be a problem.
I don't work for each individual scene, but all of it as a whole.
I won't be able to give you each scene individually, but we can improvise, I have two--no, three alternative ideas.
The first will be that I send you the movie as a whole and let you work with it, but you won't be able to do anything until I finish the flash, which can take up to months. I don't like this idea very much.
The other is, I give you key screenshots that can make it easy to sum up the situation, you have the script so, there shouldn't be too much of a problem seeing how words can speak alot for atmosphere.
The third is that I describe to you, to the best of my abilities, the enviornment of the current situation, I describe it as I know it, how the setting was supposed to be, then you can take that and make your own setting of it all, pretty much how you feel towards it, and make music like that.
As another note, I don't mind classical, makes for good epicness. I can preemptively tell you to stock up on battle music ideas.
Chaos Sonic Ch1 had 2 fight scenes, technically 1, Ch2 will have 5.
1 in act 6
1 in act 7
2 in act 9
1 in act 10
Act 8 will be short and will serve as a build up to 9.
But in any case, you have my utmost support and faith.
Make us proud WB!

Also, I think it'd be cool to work with recurring themes, like I could have one tune, let's say "Knuckles' theme" or something like that, and each time a scene is focussed on knuckles it'll play his theme in a style to suit the mood, if you know what I mean?

Out of your ideas, I'd be willing to go with the screenshot idea, but would it be possible at all to get the movie at different stages, like once you finish the first scene, send it to me and I'll score it, and then add it in while you do scene 2, and then send me scene 1 and 2, and I'll score scene 2... would that work?

Anyway, I'm messing around with a general theme tune at the moment that'll probably sound really cool.


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OK knux, I sent the sprites to the Email address you used to join my forum, I hope it's still an active account, sorry I didn't actually "trace" the knux sprites, but you seem to do well as long as it's got transparency, so adding transparency is exactly what I did

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At 5/7/08 11:27 PM, Mizox wrote: whatever you do, don't get Comcast internet, they do all kinds of horrible stuff to people's connections (like impersonating the other person's computer and telling your computer that they randomly shut off in the middle of the download/upload)

Haha okay. Noted.
Comcast has been sucking recently.
4 years ago, they were the shit, not so much anymore.
In any case, my at&t modem is on its way and I'll install it myself.
I can't send you guys the swf (damn dial up), but I will soon.

At 5/7/08 11:42 PM, WritersBlock wrote: Also, I think it'd be cool to work with recurring themes, like I could have one tune, let's say "Knuckles' theme" or something like that, and each time a scene is focussed on knuckles it'll play his theme in a style to suit the mood, if you know what I mean?

You mean like that idea that we had in the production stages to ch1? I don't mind that idea.

Out of your ideas, I'd be willing to go with the screenshot idea, but would it be possible at all to get the movie at different stages, like once you finish the first scene, send it to me and I'll score it, and then add it in while you do scene 2, and then send me scene 1 and 2, and I'll score scene 2... would that work?

That is possible, all the way until the swf size exceeds 10MB, but I can compress it, so that idea is possible by theory. We'll have to see.

Anyway, I'm messing around with a general theme tune at the moment that'll probably sound really cool.

I've been really upset with these Cream sprites, they seem to glitch and slightly alter her appearence to that it's kinda wavey at times, its a piss off.
I might find a gif. file of her somewhere.
What I will do is post pics of the title screen so you guy can kinda see what I'm talking about.
*whew, done.
"Story Mode" is the button to play the movie.
"Options" is the scene select.
"Training" is the Character Sypnosis.
and the fire ball is the "Xtraz" button, when highlighted, you will see the word "Xtraz" appear.
The title screen opens up with Amy walking in an all black background and our logo sriding from one side of the screen to the other, then she looks up into the sky to reveal the death egg.
Screen flashes white and bam, title screen.
What do you think?

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Great news guys!
It took about a half hour, but I managed to send the swf to you guys.
take a look at it and tell me what you guys think.


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Great news guys!
It took about a half hour, but I managed to send the swf to you guys.
take a look at it and tell me what you guys think.

In the meantime, here is the scene selection screen.
It's self-explanitory

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Man, this is annoying.
I really don't like to quadruple (triple) post, but Mizox, can you get or make a simple standing animation for Cream?
If you accept, just post it as a gif in your post.


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1. Comcast TV isn't exactly great either, I'd much prefer Fios TV, but it isn't available in New Hampshire
2. after half an hour of struggling against my anti-virus software I was finally able to check out the .swf, it looks pretty good, but do you think you could beef up the resolution a bit? 400x300 is a bit on the small side, the performance seemed rather better than most of your flashes (although it could be the web browser slowing everything down) and you are still using that oversized version of the SFC logo which wasn't scaled properly even though I posted this smaller one months ago
3. did you get the sprites? I sent them to you yesterday
4. cream's standing sprites are all too wobbly? I guess I could have a look around, and if I can't find anything I could probably whip up something...

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erm... knux? where exactly were you getting these Cream sprites? I checked the spriter's resource under sonic advance 2, sonic advance 3, and sonic battle, and unless you were talking about the fact that Cream swings her arms back and forth I have no idea what problem you were having

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At 5/9/08 12:23 PM, knuxrouge wrote:
At 5/7/08 11:42 PM, WritersBlock wrote: Also, I think it'd be cool to work with recurring themes, like I could have one tune, let's say "Knuckles' theme" or something like that, and each time a scene is focussed on knuckles it'll play his theme in a style to suit the mood, if you know what I mean?
You mean like that idea that we had in the production stages to ch1? I don't mind that idea.

Yeah, except this time I'll actually get stuff done, because I know what I'm doing now.

Out of your ideas, I'd be willing to go with the screenshot idea, but would it be possible at all to get the movie at different stages, like once you finish the first scene, send it to me and I'll score it, and then add it in while you do scene 2, and then send me scene 1 and 2, and I'll score scene 2... would that work?
That is possible, all the way until the swf size exceeds 10MB, but I can compress it, so that idea is possible by theory. We'll have to see.

Yeah, but it shouldn't be too hard to keep it under 10 MB... maybe if that becomse a problem, you can just leave the music out of it instead of adding it when I finish it. Or else we could just worl from screenshots on the last scenes.
Anyway, the intro looks pretty cool, good work, knux!


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At 5/9/08 05:09 PM, Mizox wrote: 1. Comcast TV isn't exactly great either, I'd much prefer Fios TV, but it isn't available in New Hampshire

Never heard of it.

2. after half an hour of struggling against my anti-virus software I was finally able to check out the .swf, it looks pretty good, but do you think you could beef up the resolution a bit? 400x300 is a bit on the small side,

That's something that you should have mentioned before I got started. I'd have to edit alot, because most of the settings in the movie was made to fit the screen perfectly.
I'm really against this idea specifically for this chapter, I can do it for chapter 3+ though.

the performance seemed rather better than most of your flashes

What can I say, I'm putting 120% into this.

(although it could be the web browser slowing everything down)

Most likely, it's running at the same 30 fps as ch1 did.

and you are still using that oversized version of the SFC logo which wasn't scaled properly even though I posted this smaller one months ago.

I don't see the problem with the one I used.

3. did you get the sprites? I sent them to you yesterday
4. cream's standing sprites are all too wobbly?

Yes.

I guess I could have a look around, and if I can't find anything I could probably whip up something...

Okay, and to reply to your other post, I found most of my sprites at themysticalforestzone.com.
I'm half way through act 6.


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At 5/9/08 08:53 PM, knuxrouge wrote:
At 5/9/08 05:09 PM, Mizox wrote: 1. Comcast TV isn't exactly great either, I'd much prefer Fios TV, but it isn't available in New Hampshire
Never heard of it.

Verizon transmits DTV over the phone lines now

2. after half an hour of struggling against my anti-virus software I was finally able to check out the .swf, it looks pretty good, but do you think you could beef up the resolution a bit? 400x300 is a bit on the small side,
That's something that you should have mentioned before I got started. I'd have to edit alot, because most of the settings in the movie was made to fit the screen perfectly.

how was I supposed to know the resolution would be 400x300? the last one was flash standard 550x400!

I'm really against this idea specifically for this chapter, I can do it for chapter 3+ though.
the performance seemed rather better than most of your flashes
What can I say, I'm putting 120% into this.
(although it could be the web browser slowing everything down)
Most likely, it's running at the same 30 fps as ch1 did.

wait, never mind, after I downloaded the Firefox addon which disables Flash the first chapter and the preview of the second chapter started working better

and you are still using that oversized version of the SFC logo which wasn't scaled properly even though I posted this smaller one months ago.
I don't see the problem with the one I used.

same thing as was wrong with it last time, you messed up the aspect ratio when you resized it

3. did you get the sprites? I sent them to you yesterday
4. cream's standing sprites are all too wobbly?
Yes.

I assume you meant yes to both of those questions

I guess I could have a look around, and if I can't find anything I could probably whip up something...
Okay, and to reply to your other post, I found most of my sprites at themysticalforestzone.com.

I still don't really understand what the problem is, she just swings her arms back and forth and eats icecream, although that probably is the problem

I'm half way through act 6.

isn't that the same thing as scene one: Aftershock?

...

you do know how to trace sprites without image loss, right? only some of the sprites you have still seem to have a problem in that area (the edges become rounded) basically, when you trace the sheet, set the Curve Fit option to pixels, and if the sheet has alot of different but similar colors you should probably set color threshold to 0 instead of 1

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At 5/9/08 08:33 PM, WritersBlock wrote: Yeah, but it shouldn't be too hard to keep it under 10 MB... maybe if that becomse a problem, you can just leave the music out of it instead of adding it when I finish it. Or else we could just work from screenshots on the last scenes.

That's a good plan.

Anyway, the intro looks pretty cool, good work, knux!

Thanks.
I'll leave the theme songs entirely to your discresion. :)
Take that smiley with pride, because I don't use them alot.
This is the only distinct moment that I can recall, ha ha.

At 5/9/08 10:44 PM, Mizox wrote: Verizon transmits DTV over the phone lines now

Huh, the more you know.

how was I supposed to know the resolution would be 400x300? the last one was flash standard 550x400!

No it wasn't, it was 400x300, I know. Nimii requested that resolution.
I should know, I made the flash, ha ha.

wait, never mind, after I downloaded the Firefox addon which disables Flash the first chapter and the preview of the second chapter started working better

Okay, good.

same thing as was wrong with it last time, you messed up the aspect ratio when you resized it

No, I didn't mean it like that.
I meant, it seems fine as is. It's not anything to make a big deal out of--in my opinion, at least.

I assume you meant yes to both of those questions

Correct.

I still don't really understand what the problem is, she just swings her arms back and forth and eats icecream, although that probably is the problem

It's not the sprites per-say, but the flash. When it's playing, the program does this glitch in which the sprites playing is slightly disfigured. I believed that if I (or you) could find some already prepped sprites, then the flash player won't glitch out on me, because it might be the way I constructed the MC.
The quality is already set on low by the way.

I'm half way through act 6.
isn't that the same thing as scene one: Aftershock?

Correct.
It is the first scene in the movie, but the 6th act of the story as a whole--like a play.
I don't know why, but WB should know exactly what I mean.
I'm going to do it like that, 5 scenes per flash, which means 5 acts too.
Act 1-5 in chapter 1, Act 6-10 in chapter 2, Act 11-15 in chapter 3, and so on.

...

you do know how to trace sprites without image loss, right? only some of the sprites you have still seem to have a problem in that area (the edges become rounded) basically, when you trace the sheet, set the Curve Fit option to pixels, and if the sheet has alot of different but similar colors you should probably set color threshold to 0 instead of 1

Great advice.
I didn't know that. I tested (or experimented) with tracing once, but it didn't work out so well.


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At 5/10/08 08:17 PM, knuxrouge wrote:
At 5/9/08 08:33 PM, WritersBlock wrote: Yeah, but it shouldn't be too hard to keep it under 10 MB... maybe if that becomse a problem, you can just leave the music out of it instead of adding it when I finish it. Or else we could just work from screenshots on the last scenes.
That's a good plan.
Anyway, the intro looks pretty cool, good work, knux!
Thanks.
I'll leave the theme songs entirely to your discresion. :)
Take that smiley with pride, because I don't use them alot.
This is the only distinct moment that I can recall, ha ha.

cool, so we get the music kinda like what RARE did on their N64 titles (one basic theme for the level with variations depending on what's happening)


At 5/9/08 10:44 PM, Mizox wrote: Verizon transmits DTV over the phone lines now
Huh, the more you know.

Fiber > Coxial

how was I supposed to know the resolution would be 400x300? the last one was flash standard 550x400!
No it wasn't, it was 400x300, I know. Nimii requested that resolution.
I should know, I made the flash, ha ha.

oh, then when Newgrounds asked for the resolution you must have left it at 550x400 so it is displayed larger, not that I'm complaining :P

wait, never mind, after I downloaded the Firefox addon which disables Flash the first chapter and the preview of the second chapter started working better
Okay, good.

must be some other flash thing running in the background somewhere and causing trouble

same thing as was wrong with it last time, you messed up the aspect ratio when you resized it
No, I didn't mean it like that.
I meant, it seems fine as is. It's not anything to make a big deal out of--in my opinion, at least.

yeah, you're right, it's not important

I assume you meant yes to both of those questions
Correct.

good

I still don't really understand what the problem is, she just swings her arms back and forth and eats icecream, although that probably is the problem
It's not the sprites per-say, but the flash. When it's playing, the program does this glitch in which the sprites playing is slightly disfigured. I believed that if I (or you) could find some already prepped sprites, then the flash player won't glitch out on me, because it might be the way I constructed the MC.
The quality is already set on low by the way.

I'm assuming this is one of the sheets where you just loaded it into flash and hit "Break Apart", I'll look into it now that I know what I'm looking for, a visual example might help, I noticed that the version you sent me stopped just when you were about to use cream's standing pose, so, yeah, next time I use my PC and get some Cream sprites (this is not my PC :P) I'll get on it, probably

I'm half way through act 6.
isn't that the same thing as scene one: Aftershock?
Correct.
It is the first scene in the movie, but the 6th act of the story as a whole--like a play.
I don't know why, but WB should know exactly what I mean.
I'm going to do it like that, 5 scenes per flash, which means 5 acts too.
Act 1-5 in chapter 1, Act 6-10 in chapter 2, Act 11-15 in chapter 3, and so on.

OK, understood

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Great advice.
I didn't know that. I tested (or experimented) with tracing once, but it didn't work out so well.

yeah, I kinda figured you didn't know that from your sprite tutorial, it's amazing what can be learned from a couple of hours fiddling with the options and features and wondering "What does this do?"

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At 5/13/08 03:02 PM, Mizox wrote: oh, then when Newgrounds asked for the resolution you must have left it at 550x400 so it is displayed larger, not that I'm complaining :P

Oh no sir.
I just went to the edit page and checked.
It's 400x300.


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At 5/13/08 03:34 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Oh no sir.
I just went to the edit page and checked.
It's 400x300.

*uses screen capture to check resolution*
oh yeah, heh, guess the NG display interface makes it look bigger than it is, how odd, anyways, I'll go and see if I can reproduce your cream sprite problem, if I can't, then, erm, well, it can't be that major a problem can it?

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At 5/14/08 04:58 PM, Mizox wrote: I'll go and see if I can reproduce your cream sprite problem,

Thanks.

if I can't, then, erm, well, it can't be that major a problem can it?

True, but reviewers are nit-picky like that.


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hey, uh, how exactly did you get the Cream sprites into flash? did they have transparency or did you trace them? because if you traced them then you might have had some artifact as a result of not setting curve fit to "pixels", I don't know for sure because I couldn't replicate the effect which you described, but what's the harm in giving it a go? (apart from a couple of minutes of CPU saturation)

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At 5/14/08 11:33 PM, Mizox wrote: hey, uh, how exactly did you get the Cream sprites into flash? did they have transparency or did you trace them?

Transparency.


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At 5/15/08 11:19 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Transparency.

OK, well, then, um, the only thing I can suggest is for you to try tracing the sprites using the method I mentioned above, that's really the only thing I can come up with, the only explanation which I can come up with is that the possibility that when you broke apart the sprites, something happened to the standing animation and it ended up not lining up with the display on a pixel-by-pixel basis, which, in low quality, can cause sampling anomalies similar to what you described, in theory anyways, so if you trace the sprites properly then they will automatically line up perfectly with the display provided that they are not scaled, at least, I think so

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...and if you are wondering why I didn't do it myself and send it to you, it's because my PC is offline right now

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At 5/17/08 09:14 PM, knuxrouge wrote: Okay Mizox, thanks.

I'm guessing :P

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Almost done, I was working on smoe attack sprites for Tails, now I need some spres of clouds, for a better feel of airplane travel, afterwards, a few more attack mcs and the rest is history.


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I am just about done with Act 6.
I just need the fade out and the 1 liner from Sonic.

I will try to email it to WB so he can get to composing.
If that wont work, then I'll give screen shots.


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Okay WB, I couldn't get the file to upload, so I have to compensate with screenshots.
Sorry.

Pic 1.
This is the beginning of the Act, Cream walks up to Tails and they begin to conversate about Sonic.
If you still have the script, then it will be alot easier to get the feel of it.
For this point, a nice docile tune is great, something with a flute for simple innocence. A small loop is nice.
Imagine a beginning overworld tune of an rpg, kinda like that.
Pic 2.
This is then end of idle talk and the trackers come in. The trackers are the bee drones, they swarm by in droves and Tails and Cream stay in shock. At this point, the text passes with time for the most part.
I see not so much 'battle music', but more 'harbinger to danger' kind of feel here.
Pic 3.
Only a couple seconds after Pic 2, Tails tell Cream to get on the plane, you'll notice (if you still have the script) that this part contradicts whats written in the script when Tails and Cream run for the plane, I forgot about that part when constructing the setting.
Pic 4.
Tails takes care of a few robots, the same music intact.
Pic 5.
After Tails deliver some ownage, he hops on the plane as well and it takes off nicely, the green glow symbolizes the Chaos feedback the plane's getting.
Pic 6.
The chase is taken to the skies as Tails pieces out why the plane took off faster than usual.
Pic 7.
Tails jumps out the plane and takes down more robots and safely makes it back into the plane.
Pic 8.
I summed up this part in the previous description.
Pic 9.
Tails revs up the plane and picks up speed as the get away so Tails can execute his new plan to confirm the Emerald being shattered.
Pic 10.
Screen fades to black.

I hope this is sufficient information WB.
If you need any more info, do ask.
Remember that regardless what I perfer, the choice to what music you make is entirely up to you.


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