GRAYFOX wrote:It more than cool, this is some beautiful craftsmanship going on folks. Keep up the hard work, keep it rocking.

Swagga Kings wrote:'ll have to agree it really don't look like it would be for Ds vs Sf but I understand you had be in alot of work on this screen pack lately

Swagga Kings wrote:Yea I saw that you said something about you doing the portraits and the character sprites, hmm that's gonna be more work there to be honest I guess its to fix the screenpack better.

Haha not exactly - what i meant was, in the future, when you added the fighters edge, and the stalkers edge,
and you have finished updating all of your characters,  you may want to update them all to mugen 1.1 sprites so you can use HD png portraits like in the NOZ Legacy screenpack etc.

It's maybe something for you to think about in the distant future - to really make your game look good.
But i wouldn't worry for now coz there is no point editing portraits until you have finished all your character roster to the final version.
But it isnt hard to do - you just have to resave them in fighter factory as mugen 1.1 sprites and add the palettes - really easy but leave it till after your game is complete to think about.

Swagga Kings wrote:Ahhhh ok cool cool, well imma show you a slide show video I did of the versus screen of Darkstalkers vs Street Fighter maybe you can make the vs look like this in the video.

Swagga Kings wrote:Ohh ok I undertstand we'll think about that, umm yes I rather you remake the versus screen it would look really cool in that kind of design and bring more of appeal to the game

No worries my man - like i said before, don't pay too much attention to the flashy gfx -I just put some quick flashy GFX there to replace the low res ones, so they are atleast better than what you had in the low res MFJ SP edit that Milt JR did for you.
The gfx stuff is easy to make and change how u want - it is the repositioning and coding of everything on the menu screens so it works correct in HD SP that takes the time. Once the positioning and stuff is all correct, we can swap out the graphics to anything easy peasy

Our important first goal, is to update the old LOW RES SP menu screens so the game is playable for you in BETA form first - then we can perfect it.

7ven wrote:You could actually get away with the ports as most of those characters have art.

7ven wrote:From what OP is saying I'd say a retro vibe is definitely the way to go. Nothing is wrong with your designs, they just tend to be really cyberpunk-esc.

For sure my man. I think retro is the way to go too.
like I was saying to swagga kingz but its kinda hard to explain lol sometimes i think i don't explain it clearly but:

Don't pay too much mind to those flashy fx screens and stuff so much - those generic HD gfx are just placeholders for the beta.
Almost EVERYTHING is going to change in the future builds - the menu - the lifebars, almost everything until its perfect like a real retro Capcom style.
The GFX stuff is easy - we can make it look like capcom actually made the game in the 90s very easily.
The time consuming stuff, is converting everything to the new localcoord space of 1280x960.
positioning/coding of gfx & animation sequences, and timings for transitions on menu screens etc.

Also the same applies for the lifebars.
Because we are literally rebuilding from scratch, all the old 640x480 stuff needs to be remade/recoded to fit on screen properly.

The first goal we have, is to convert 640x480 1.0 screenpack, into a 1280x960 HD 1.1 SP - Once we have a first ruff playable BETA with no screens missing etc, we can perfect it all in the retro style how swagga wants. But i like your ideas - we will def make it retro

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GRAYFOX wrote:Do the versus ports have a layer over them.

GRAYFOX wrote:Would be cool to hear vs in a computer female voice.

GRAYFOX wrote:Just food for thought, also have a outro with the vs screen before the match.

We do! the last screen showing the logo you see above, slams in over the 2nd vs transition screen. What nobody can tell from the screenshot...is that the last screen is also animated

GRAYFOX wrote:Like a breaking animation, or a ink out sf4. Digital breaking from left to right, of the screen contents. Sf4, ink like they use from the game. Keep it rocking.

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As for what I read about making it look like capcom did the game as if it was done in the 90's,
I like that idea cause it would make the game look official, which is what I wanted to begin with, and it would also make people more hyped about the game, so i say lets go for that    

So as you can see, We cant add anything too flashy like our usual club syn tech cyber tech stuff because Swagga Kings wants it to stay retro as if it was an arcade game made by capcom in the 90s. But we will still do everything within those boundaries to still stay flashy

Next I will finish the Simul/Tag mode portraits