GRAYFOX wrote:Hey hey, I paid for a full show. I'ma need sum backup, to head over to them mountains. Lol

you did indeed.
It has been a touch and go week as i said it would be last time lol.
But now that things have settled down irl, and the initial coding setup is done which i wont post here since its pointless, the real show begins!
As we enter the next phase - the lifebars.

Now the most important factor that we keep in mind here as we continue with the creation of the Fight.Def elements,
Is the complexity and order of approach to the lifebar system.

You see, A lifebar system comprises of several elements - all of which need to be designed, coded and imported individually.
The components are as follows:

1.Single Mode Lifebar HP template
-P1 side
-P2 side

2. Simul/Tag Mode Lifebar HP Template
- p1 side
- p2 side
- p3 side
- p4 side

3.Turns Mode Lifebar HP Template
- p1 side
- p2 side
- p3 side
- p4 side

4.Single Mode portrait template
-P1 side
-P2 side

5. Simul/Tag Mode portrait Template
- p1 side
- p2 side
- p3 side
- p4 side

6.Turns Mode portrait Template
- p1 side
- p2 side
- p3 side
- p4 side

Then after that we have the basic font/counter systems:

7.round timer template

8.combo hits template

9.name fonts template
- p1 name
- p2 name
- p3 name (tag/simul)
- p4 name (tag/simul)
- Turns mode names

10.Power Bar Template
- Guage charge anims
- frame anims
-max lvl anims custom code

11. Round win counter template
- no of wins
- winner name display end of round

12.round animation template
- round 1
- round 2
- round 3
- round 4
- round 5
- ko
- draw
- final round etc


SO as you can see, here we have a minimum of 12 templates we must design, animate, import, code, and position into our fight.def/sff to enable the complete system to be operational!

12 designs, means at a bare minimum, we are looking at 12 hours work minimum ahead of us to get this next phase done.
And we need to be careful not to burn up all of our remaining funds before we even get to the screenpack menu screen stuff lol.

Fortunately, crowd funding had helped us with most of the stage,
So far, we have only actually used 6 hours of grayfox $$ on this commission which was for the logo,
and we have 6 hoursd worth of crowd funding still left, meaning we still have 20 hours left on the clock!

So with that said, lets continue!
Now the way we are going to go at this, is by getting the most time consuming parts out of the way first - that being the Simul mode bars.
That is because simul/tag bars take more work than the latter mode bars which can be done last.

The first and most important thing that needs to be done to build a strong foundation for our lifebar design, is to create what is known as the
"universal HUD boundary".
The HUD boundary is a guideline that ensures that our designs do not in any way interfere with mugen fight screeb/correctly coded stages, so that it can work universally with all correctly coded assets.
The general rule of thumb is that HUDs with power bars on the BOTTOM of the screen (like SF) should NEVER overlap the zoffset of a stage set an 200 pixel increments.
For example:
correctly built 1.1 HIRES stages generally use/should use a 400-420 zoffset.
72op use 600, and 1080p HD use 800 etc.
This is because of where chjaracters appear on screen in traditional 2d commercial games.
You will notice they never stand on the edge of the screen.
They are always generally spaced out from the lower screen around this zoffset area within the 200x multiplier value.
So that will be step 1.

GRAYFOX wrote:Man you have said a mouth full, good job on breaking that input down. Now, that your going to build a base foundation. Then it out with all the fancy tremings. Lol I can only imagine the round announcer voice, being engage for each round. Will you be using the announcer voice samples, I sent over or you have something else sinesster cook up. Just asking, do your thing master builder number one. Lol

CancerManXIII wrote:
I know from experience when i commissioned some lifebars and rnd.anim stuff a few months ago why it gets done like this.
as it was explained to me, The round animation part is last since its the simple part.
The meat and potatoes of the costs and time are the coding and placement and sprite creation of all the moving bars and stuff.

GRAYFOX wrote:I ran out off original, so I got me seasoned popcorn. For the rest of the show if course, other folks have to wait their turn. Lol

GRAYFOX wrote:I can digg it man, you have shown me how much out of sync I have become over time. Yet, seeing this pumps me up to get back into for real again.