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HD Lanayru Desert screenshots

by Skeleton on 01/24/2014 at 8:48 pm

Posted In: 3ds Max, Art, Brawl mods, Smash Bros., Zelda

The Skyward Sword locale, now as a stage for Brawl or Project M. Videos and download below

Woo. Sandyland.

Timeshift stones are everywhere.

They're like... links to the past

Regrettably, I couldn't have characters ever potentially be behind or inside the time bubbles from normal camera angles, which meant platforms that appear and disappear inside them couldn't be done.

But I got creative and put this machine that activates the platforms' movement there instead. It doesn't quite jive with the way timeshift stones actually work in Skyward Sword but idgaf

That's a mine cart back there. The black line is its track.

You can just have pockets of lush greens in the middle of the desert, and no one ever told me??

When I textured the past version, I thought 'wow. It really does look like Hyrule Field when you put it this way.'

Stage select stuff:
Stage select preview
Stage select title. Not bothering with an Impact one

Download here if you want the BrawlVault download count to go up, doesn’t matter to me
Here’s a direct link
The announcer voice mod in the videos is this one

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Lanayru Desert in progress

by Skeleton on 01/23/2014 at 12:23 am

Posted In: 3ds Max, Art, Brawl mods, Smash Bros., Zelda

I’ve got an idea for moving platforms. So that’ll take a bit, and I have a little more model work to do and some animating. But it totally works and it’s totally badass.

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Lanayru Desert (Skyward Sword) teaser

by Skeleton on 01/21/2014 at 6:18 pm

Posted In: 3ds Max, Art, Brawl mods, Zelda

These are pictures of the test room I made for the timeshift stone bubbles. Excuse the placeholder models and textures, I just dismantled some of Bowser’s Castle for this.

Exploiting what is generally regarded as a glitch

The bubble hides the blue brick and orange platform, revealing the white brick and green one. The stage will have the same effect with the bubble hiding the “present” to show the “past”. Unfortunately I can’t make the time bubbles enter the field of play or the foreground. If they’re anywhere that they can overlap characters from a normal camera angle, they’ll turn them invisible as well. Unless I can change that, I can’t make the timeshift stones create platforms the characters can interact with… which is a shame, because moving platforms are in the realm of stage elements I don’t consider obnoxious hazards.

This test was to see if I could have the bubble reveal hidden objects that aren't actually behind the objects being made invisible, seen with the moon. This will be important for objects in the past like foliage and certain things that can't be hidden by objects in the present.

The actual stage will be set in the desert with elements from the mining facility, as platforms and as a means to move the timeshift stones around and milk the visual effects.

Expect this to be ready sometime this week. I try to get 3ds Max projects done by the end of a Wednesday. Most of the debugging has already been done–I know how to make the time bubbles work as I need them to, I’ll know how to solve most problems and the current model/texture importers could give me and how to achieve most effects I want from having just made Bowser’s Castle with them. And I’ve already done a considerable amount of model and texture work.

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