Sonic: Project Chaos v2.5

I've known about the statues being in Sonic CD for ages, but I can never find the damn things. I've only ever found the Eggman statue once, but now I rarely see bad futures that late into the game. When I said I drew it, I meant I redrew it into SonED to fit a palette. Like I even said in the post before, it came off a hoax screenshot. Of course, I'm making the other statues myself, based off characters poses, which I'm trying to recolour to make them look a similar style to the Eggman one.

EDIT: On a side note, does anybody know how to change the background start positions. When I was putting the background in this zone, I had to start it about 3 128's down and adjust the mappings of the 128's for it to work properly. I've just noticed form the pic that 2 lines of pixels on the background pics appear to be scrolling again. If I can get all the background start positions the same as EHZ, it would be perfect. Does anybody know how to do this?

 

Grinding is 90% implemented now. So far I've got the sprite in place since I now know how to do character mappings. I've used one of the S3 snowboard sprites for the grinding animation, and so far it only supports 2 directions - Down-Left and Down-Right. I'm still debating whether to keep it as this or to allow grinding up rails as well, which would take quite a lot more code editing. I'll probably go with the 4 direction grinding, but I'll see how it goes. I'll probably be making the finished code open source so people can add it to their own hacks and modify it any way they want.

 

The slides are told to just use 1 animation regardless of direction. Obviously I need to make it have 2 animations, so that they change if you're going uphill rather than downhill. I need to adjust the friction as well so that they don't act like water slides and actually give you the ability to go up them easy enough. There's quite a bit more to it than the oil slides when it's done, but it is originally based off the oil code.

 

It'll probably be a bit of both, but I think it'll end up more like Sonic Advance 1 than anything. I've not gonna do what SA2 and 3 did and have rail after rail constantly. There will only be a few rails lying around each zone. I might try and make them award points bonuses like Sonic Adventure 2 as well, but I'll have to see what I can do.

 

After reading up on that, it doesn't sound that hard to do. I'll see if I can translate that into ASM and use that system if I can.

 

Strangely enough, I was thinking about the water skimming earlier today (yes I was bored in work) and was going to try and put that in tonight. I've got quite a lot planned for the game so far, and I wanna try and get all that done within the next month or 2. Then I can concentrate more on the art side fo things.

 

You gotta be having a laugh at that one. I looked at the old special stage and the amount of VDP work involved. Every other line of code was a VDP instruction. I nearly had a heart attack just looking at it, so I don't think I could do anything on that scale.