General Project Screenshot/Video Thread

Looks awsome, keep it up.

 

Would be better to have only the blue one if you play as Sonic, the green one if you play as Manic or both if it's 2P mode.

 

Good idea, might look into that, thanks

 

The most awesome thing is the mirroring moon in the water. But basically, this thing is pure eye-candy. I have really no idea what you could do better.

 

So, I decided to share not 1 but 4 new screenshots from my S3K hack.


Which way do you go? Just as you'd expect from S3K, there are path seperators for Sonic and Knuckles to go their own routes.


Showing off my slightly revised (Yet again) palette and a bit of level layout I started here.


Knuckles gliding through a part of his level layout in Mushroom Hill Zone. I like the dark colours I used here, gives the level a more depressing feel, which I like.


Sunset themed Sandopolis and a start to the level layout here. (Can't see much in this shot though)

As usual, comments and criticism are always welcome and appreciated.

 

Sandopolis is a bit strong on the eyes, but don't change it.

My stars, I love you. These are nice. Can't wait to play it.

 

The sandpolis bg looks very simular to Utopia's sandopolis bg.

 

Unfortunately with the way the colours are used in this level, it's hard to edit them without the whole level looking a mess. I've tried several different iterations and many turn up problems.
That being said, if UtopiaUk has a problem with my palette being similar, I'll happily look for an alternative.

 

I had a dream once where Sonic Heroes had an extra team of Sonic, Manic, and Sonia and went through a level that looked identical to that, but in 3D.

 

...rumoured S-Factor lock-on? :P

*runs*

 

I lol'ed

 

Hey, it's Marble Garden Zone: Desaturated version with a bright orange sky!

Hey, it's... Launch Base Zone: Desaturated version with a bright orange sky.

Hey, it's... Mushroom Hill Zone: Desaturated version... with a pale blue sky.

 

HUD is good, my friend. Titlecard is something new, something scary >:F so not sure if I want to comment on it yet.

 

Uh, is this supposed to be a dig at the palettes or something? They are a lot harder to work with than Sonic 1 and 2 and I tried to do my best to give each one a different feel. I didn't just desaturate the existing palette and smack in a orange/blue, regardless of how it looks. You will notice that most of the levels have a dark tone to them and the colours I have chosen compliment that, I believe.

Marble Garden's palette was tricky to work with due to not many colours working over the originally used green for the grass and clashing issues with the background. That and Act 2 also uses the same palette with diferent art which causes all manner of problems.

Launch Base Zone 1's palette is set in the evening because Act 2 is set at night. Yes, I will admit that I wasn't very creative with the colours on the bricks, but all other colours that can be edited without severe problems have been and I think for the better.

And Mushroom Hill Zone suffers from the typical S3K palette problem of colours being tied to others so editing one thing affects something entirely different. The Mushrooms are purple(not seen in shot) and the colours look overall darker and moodier.

I know they aren't the best palettes in the world, but at least a point in the right direction would have been more constructive.

EDIT: After re-reading what I said, I realised I was a bit harsh and am looking at editing the palettes a bit more. I don't think Marble Garden looks as bad as you said, but the other 2 are defiently going to be looked at.

 

Your palettes are boring to look at. Everything looks the same as it used too, only paler and slightly off tone.

I did my share of palette hacks, but did stuff like make Oil Ocean look like Star Light Zone or change Mystic Cave to be icy.

Be original. If the level originally has green grass, try blue grass instead. So what if other stuff changes color too? They become blue too, don't they?

...lol what

a) Since when are we not allowed to complain about other people's work
b) If you tell me we are allowed to complain, just constructively, I can't figure out a better way of driving the point home
c) Do I care yet?

Honestly, you're acting like I just said "this fucking sucks" and was done with it. It does, but I went beyond that :v:

 

You know, for all the times we've seen Blue Hill Zone Act 47, you'd think one of these wannabe-hackers would've realised that despite the surreal context of running blue hedgehogs and entire roadways suspended high in the sky, one thing they always managed to maintain was a realistic colour scheme (ignoring Mushroom Hill because that completely defeats my point).

You'd think, being in the community long enough to be called Oldbie, you would've noticed that too, moron

 

Mushroom Hill had some realistic colors. It had a Spring time, a fall... but I'm not sure what that third part of the stage is. I want to say early winter before the snow falls but I'm not sure.

 

Your definition of 'original' sickens me.

Am I going to have to get ranty about colour theory for the benefit of people's palette hacking? :P