Mark, make me a floor sprite and I'll make you a seeeg?

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I was looking forward to seeing that in action when you showed me the first time. :)

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Soo, I'm going to start reworking on that stage I had going for the competition

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Imo could try using the more detailed fireworks from a XIII stage also whats up with those tiled stars? O_o

I could also make some cool looking fireworks for you, if you want.))

That fence should be removed. It doesn't fit.


What version of mugen will this be for? 1.0? You may seriously want to reconsider the size, then. Realistically speaking who's going to be up that far besides an occasional marvel character?

Watta wrote:Mark, make me a floor sprite and I'll make you a seeeg?

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Fine. Describe what you want.

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I'll get enough practice later on. Could you make it look like the deck of a boat? with the railings and all?

Early Concept

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As you can clearly see, I'm still adding/removing/editing lots of stuff. I'm trying to emphasize depth here which explains the blurring. I'm going to add a lot of clouds at different deltas as well to help. Still not sure about the fireworks though, it's a maybe at this point.

Gimee feedback peoples

The front buildings look nice.


The rest of it bothers me. The lights seem too bright and consistent and they're not showing any kind of affect off the water either. They're just oddly placed there.

Also that long black line under the city and between the water doesn't look like any kind of dryland or something in between the water and city. you should move the water up some or the city down some or even try to find something that can blend those together.

The dark purple buildings in the back look bad. Really clashy, they don't seem like they'd be a part of the city in front of it. Try searching for more fitting skylines.

sky is way too plain and purple. maybe a moon? or some clouds? along with some better color variety fireworks. maybe even some larger fireworks. (not xiii fireworks)

powerlines clash and don't make sense. I'd remove those. you can find better things to add in there and make it a bit more city like. maybe a water tower? some boat docks? etc.

better floor pls.

any other ideas? i know it's being tiled. what else will be moving around?

Suggestions:
- Maybe adding mountains can make it look better? Then Add a Hollywood sigh on the mountain BAM NEWAGE IN HOLLYWOOD PT. 1
- Small cars moving on the road?
- After some time passes, you'll be able to catch up to another boat that has people partying in it? Add a boat with Miku on it BAM LUMINACE CITY PT. 2
- Observatory? Antenna? Clouds? Spotlights? HOTEL GENESIS!?



The buildings in the background clash IMO.

Thanks for the feedback

I'm still going to add a lot more things. All those different building suggestions are very helpful guys!

I updated it a tad bit more.
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I'm still in the process of applying all your feedback like a moon and whatnot.


@Mark: Mountains yes, I'm adding them (chinese ones at this point like the one in the screencap)
Moving cars? Probably not, maybe a train though :P

What do you guys think of the color idea for the building reflection? I know the sprites are screwed and I'm still working on that, but does the color look alright?

EDIT: One more thing, those buildings in the back, yay or nay?
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Somewhat looks more for a noon stage instead.

I don't know man, I personally hate making tints on sprites :P

- Building reflection looks great! But IMO the buildings themselves look too bright. It's like it's mid morning there even though it's not.
- Window lights?
- I like the far buildings.

Reflection does look nice. I personally do not like the far buildings. I still think they're too dark and clashy.

Okay sooo

-Far back buildings will probably get removed, unless I can edit them to be better blending.
-I've already started putting the sprites into the stage template I made for this beforehand
TBH, it looks like shit right now, but I'll fix that. I'll give y'all a screenshot of that once I get more stuff     put into it.
-So I made some decent water, but I used the wrong template -_- Forgot to rasterize the layer style lol.

Right now, the whole sin.y thing is making the stage look quite messy man. I think it may be my coding but I'll post the template soon so you can see what I'm talking about

I might make it into a non moving stage, or possible add some BGCtrl coding to make it move only at certain times...


So after a while of looking at the stage in motion so far, it seems really dull. I think it's due to the lack of lights and glows in the city part. I'm not going to add any glows to the buildings, but I have an idea. How about a large white glow sprite which I could put over the city area to make the whole thing look as if it's glowing, giving it that city lights effect, y'all think it could work? I've seen Exshadow do it nicely, but I guess it comes down to my PS skills  

Hoooold on people,

Did a lot of editing today.
Here's the results

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Not finished, but getting there slowly... Moon and sky are still looking clashy though

I also have a nice big cargo boat that will come in the stage at some point too

One thing that stands out to me is the buildings: they have what seems like varying light sources. Some building have brighter sides than others, yet the moon is the main source of light here, no? Maybe the moon is too large as well, but it looks a lot better off than it did before.

Question: your floor, does it have a cut out area in it, or is that just my eyes playing tricks on me?

- Like Kenshin pointed out your light source is awkward.

- Took my moon.  

- Needs more clouds with varied movements.

- Back buildings still look bad.

- Is there going to be differently appearing objects? Or is it this city over and over?

-I'm not sure what I can do about the light source, but I'll try fixing it.
-Nigga, I didn't even touch nor even notice your moon :(D):but if you thought it was yours, then I must be doing the right thing
-Yep, gonna add some more clouds. I had an alpha for the stage competition stage ready which had some great clouds in unique movements and deltas, I'll try recreating it again.
-Gonna remove them back buildings asap
-The city is over and over BUT it will (and does) have some stuff that come less repetitively. Some of those odd buildings you see in there are an example. There might also be a boat too, depending on if I can blend it in just right.

The screenshots I'm posting are of everything that are going to come in the stage. This means that it will be much more spaced out in the actual thing. It looks cramped up in there because I wanted to show the different parts and cuz I'm too lazy to upload multiple screens and my net is shit

More updates coming soon

Oh look, The Twin Towers on the left.

Anyway you have too many buildings going on. It's already looking clashy as a motherfucker. Perhaps add mountains instead behind the foreground buildings?

There's water and a city. You gotta figure there'd at least be some sort of vegetation, or even some other boats/boat docks, something to indicate it's a water festivity of some sort.

A docking area would definitely work.

Omg people, don't you read my posts? I just said that it will be a lot more spaced out in the actual stage itself which Im already working on. I put all the buildings in the concept to show you what they all look like :P

I do have mountains, I'm still rendering them right now.

Boat sprites are good, I have some I mean to use
Docking part sounds good but I'll need to find some sprites :P

Then get back to work boy and show us. :sandow: