[T-Bone]

That'd be damn amazing man. You did an incredible job with the 1x1 one. So if I do decide to do a 2x2 Link, I'll letcha know.

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 09 December 2006 - 08:05 AM

[T-Bone]

Success! I've finally mange to make the board scrolling look as identical to the snes version as possible. I may upload a little demo of how it work in the near future. But for now... I have a lot of work to do on this game! So back to it I go!

[Maxim]

T-Bone, this is the best thing I've ever seen

Keep it up

[T-Bone]

I've decided to shrink the viewport down and shrink the sizes of rooms to about 14x7 blocks. Originally, the rooms appeared as if they were cathedrals or something on a larger scale. The screen is rather small but it certainly looks a lot more realistic and neater than before. A bedroom will actually look like a bedroom.

I also added doors that actually work similar to the old NES and Snes ones. Whereas if you have a key you can open one of any of the doors. Opening a door removes one key.

I'm pretty pleased with how this game is coming and certainly how its turning out graphically. Hopefully I can get some extra help when i want to start perfecting the sword and boomerang. But for now, I'll continue doing my own thing working on fixing up the levels and overall mechanics of the game.

[Old-Sckool]

This is sure to be an awesome game. I just hope we can see some bosses and levels soon.

[T-Bone]

With Pyro apparently leaving the community I'm going to have to figure out how to improve the sword engine on my own; from what code he left me. So you will defiantly see levels but im not too sure about enemies just yet.

[Goshi]

He'll be back in two or so weeks, you know.

[commodorejohn]

He'll actually be back in a couple days, most likely. He just finished BMT on Friday and shipped off to tech school yesterday morning, where he has internet access (he sent us email alreayd.) So...he'll be back.

[T-Bone]

Oh coolies, I wont attack him right away upon his return, with this lol

[T-Bone]

Okay guys, I need your help!

I've gone back to work on the color scheme for a room which in turn will effect the entire game's overall appearance. Reading some of your older comments it seems like you guys had some issues with the floor and wall calling. I've decided to come up with a couple of alternative images so that you guys can vote which one would suite this game best, and which one looks the most impressive out of the four here:



The last image, I've changed the actually graphics of some of the objects in the room. I may use this "cell-shading" type of effect on most of the game. But even though it helps bring out the objects, I think it kind of dumbs everything down a bit and makes it look cartoon. I'm not sure... and thats why I've decided to once again return here again to ask for you guys to lend me your visual skills.

[Kom]

This game is looking great so far!

I would say the upper left image looks best, because the black outline on the walls makes the room seem more unnatural, and with a darker floor, the boxes around the other objects' chars are harder to notice. This causes the overall room's grpahics to seem a bit better.

Even if you don't do that, I wouldn't suggest going for the cel schading look, either. It makes some things stand out more than others, and if you did that with some, you would have to do that with pretty much all of it to have it look nicer.

[Micah]

I would say go with the top right.

It definately looks the best.

This post has been edited by Micah: 12 April 2007 - 01:42 PM

[Pyro1588]

yeah, i'm with micah on this one. the second image really outlines everything the best. the "cell-shaded" one kind of worked, but you couldn't do outlines on everything (pots, chests, etc.) because not everything fills enough of the tile to do so.
so yeah, second image looks good. oh, and lemmee know what you're in need of with the sword engine and i'll see what i can get done in my spare time =)

[Dr Lancer-X]

I like the top left one more.

[Val]

The bottom one is the best by far, if only because of the updated chars. If you use any of the other ones, keep the updated chars at least.

[asiekierka]

Top right with the updated chars from the bottom image.

[Mr. Apol]

top right

[hob nado]

Top left, but with the darker shade of brown altered to have more red and less green.

[T-Bone]

Pyro1588, on Apr 12 2007, 05:51 PM, said:

yeah, i'm with micah on this one. the second image really outlines everything the best. the "cell-shaded" one kind of worked, but you couldn't do outlines on everything (pots, chests, etc.) because not everything fills enough of the tile to do so.
so yeah, second image looks good. oh, and lemmee know what you're in need of with the sword engine and i'll see what i can get done in my spare time =)

Good to see you back! I'll let you know if / when I need any help. Trying to get link and the enemies to act accordingly to the sword's actions is a little tricky, so in due time I may need your help there once again.

I'm actually surprised not many of you choose the brighter floors. I also noticed that one of the darker browns was a little off and a bit too green, so I've done what Es suggested and added a bit more red and damn does it look a hell of a lot better.

[T-Bone]

So I've pretty much just combined all your guys interests in to one; this is the out come:


I'm currently working on the enemies since they need some serious work. Its almost impossible to get a shot on them, without em ripping your face off. I also added various types of rupees that have different values.

Green Rupee = 1 Rupee
Blue (cyan) Rupee = 5 Rupees
Red Rupee = 20 Rupees
Yellow Rupee = 50 Rupees

I'm also working on the menu system and communication system, for interactions with other people and for when accessing other items.

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 21 April 2007 - 04:59 AM

[Razerboy]

This is looking like a really good, really faithful remake/spin-off. Keep up the good work, T-Bone!

[Frobozz]

Yeah looks like you'll have your remake done before Ken has his remake done. Can't wait to play.

[T-Bone]

Thanks guys! I'm pretty passionate about this one.

At this moment, I'm currently having some troubles with bombtype detection. Its pretty odd for me to ask such a simple question... but ah... how do I tell what bomb type the player is currently set to, in robotics? I couldn't find any counters, nor conditions in the help file. Perhaps there should be a counter. It be really awesome if we could change the players bombtype (low/hi) in robotics. Thus avoiding the use of the insert key for changing up bomb types. Plus, say we wanted to display in a HUD what current bomb type we were using, then we'd need a feature like that.

This post has been edited by T-bone6: 21 April 2007 - 10:10 AM

[SmartRutter]

T-bone6, on Apr 20 2007, 11:55 PM, said:

I also added various types of rupees that have different values.

Green Rupee = 1 Rupee
Blue (cyan) Rupee = 5 Rupees
Red Rupee = 20 Rupees
Yellow Rupee = 50 Rupees

In the actual zelda games, wasn't the yellow rupee worth 10 while the purple rupee was worth 50?

[Frobozz]

I don't remember there being a yellow or purple rupee. All I remember was green, blue, and red. And whenever the game gave you a lot of rupees, it just spat out a lot of red ones.

[T-Bone]

According to Zelda Universe (bottom page) there were gold and purple rupees somewhere down the line in the series.

I just decided to replace the purple rupees with yellow rupees, since I don't have the color purple in any of the game's palettes.

[CHEZZY]

Yeah I found a few purples in Ocarina of Time, I believe they are worth 50.

[SmartRutter]

CHEZZY, on Apr 23 2007, 01:42 AM, said:

Yeah I found a few purples in Ocarina of Time, I believe they are worth 50.

I know that in the zelda for the gamecube and the one for the wii there is also an orange one for 100 and a silver one for 200.

EDIT: Now that I think of it, there actually was an orange rupee in ocarina of time too.

This post has been edited by SmartRutter: 23 April 2007 - 09:27 PM

[Goshi]

SmartRutter, on Apr 24 2007, 07:25 AM, said:

CHEZZY, on Apr 23 2007, 01:42 AM, said:

Yeah I found a few purples in Ocarina of Time, I believe they are worth 50.

I know that in the zelda for the gamecube and the one for the wii there is also an orange one for 100 and a silver one for 200.

EDIT: Now that I think of it, there actually was an orange rupee in ocarina of time too.

You forgot Majora's Mask

>=(

[T-Bone]

I almost completely forgot about this project. I've been way to busy with work. Hmmmmm...