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I'm about 80% done with her animations and graphics but it's difficult finding skilled PSA coders now that Smash 4 is out. Once I get some coding help on her specials I should be able to give a release date estimate.
Thanks a lot! My goal from the very beginning was to capture the very essence of how Dark Samus acted and attacked in Echoes and bring her to Smash/Project M.
Great suggestion. I think it would definitely look good for the visor and arm cannon, but for the shoulders I wanted to find someone to make an STRO (texture animation) simulating flowing lava, just how it looks in this video:I would recommend create new object that would be on top of those blue dots using texture from shoulders, but with only phazon parts of the texture (make separate one with black part of texture transparent) and use SSBB Ridley boss' eyes materials for it because it would make them glow in the dark. Then do same thing with the visor. I will edit this post few minutes later to show how it would look like.
EDIT: here:
I obviously didn't really cared about grey bits remaining because i just wanted to show how it would look like. Fourside is a pretty dark stage, so, those should be dark, but they are glowing instead. Well, not really glowing and more like they just are not affected by lightning of the stage. Do same with the visor and canon's barrel. You can saturate textures if you want. You'd better just saturate all textures to fit rest of the cast.![]()
That would be great. By the way, phazon laser sweep's gfx looks kinda weird - beam isn't thick enough (you can still see barell of arm cannon) or that FS glow is too big. Fully charged beam looks great.
I need to add a particle effect to cover the barrel of the cannon. Watch this video, the beam is supposed to be very thin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XEGYIdJv6Q
Anyone have any idea how to rig/map bones to individually animate each tentacle? As of now I can only manipulate the entire model.
This ^ and instead of having it as a single model, add them as separate GFX in the coding. It will take a lot less space and you won't have to animate every tentacle.
Absolutely. Fortunately Drogoth is helping me with the tentacle dilemma so this is should get done soon.
Thanks. A Dark Samus CSS icon would be great. Feel free to make more lolThis PSA is looking great! I can't wait to make a CSS icon for this!
She's over Marth for the moment but hopefully someone knows how to "clone" Marth using the BrawlEx engine so that Marth and Dark Samus can coexist.
To make the icon I'll need CSP's based of your model (when it's finished and polished) and I know someone by the name @PyotrLuzhin who can use the PMEX engine (PM's clone engine) to add her in {though until the PMDT is comfy with their engine out in the open, the method is still behind closed doors and non-public]; as for Brawl Ex there should be plenty of tutorials on how to add clones.
I'm using a png render from Echoes right now actually. It looks really good...
Could you make a project m version of that
Awesome character call! I made one myself and edited my voice using Audacity but I like yours too. And the CSP pic is looking snazzy as well.
It does looks very good except for blurry textures. Too bad it will be butchered if turned into CSP without some heavy editing.I'm using a png render from Echoes right now actually. It looks really good...
So I don't know if work needs to be done to actually create a custom CSP... But yeah once I get the model looking prime (yay pun) and ready I'll send it your way.
Needs purple aura around character.You mean like this?
Good to know. I have a suggestion for it - use Dark Samus' theme either from here or here for the video by replacing one of the shown stage' music tracks. Use Brawl music replacement tutorials if you don't know how to do that. That would be more fitting and wouldn't require any editing done to loop its theme.I figure it's about time I get a USB capture card and upload a new video; there have been drastic improvements to graphics and moves from the video in the original post and I'm really pleased with the progress I've made on the project. So be on the lookout this coming week...
I can't recreate the purple aura, so... I'll leave the CSS icon as it is. (plus I really don't fancy the aura all that much either)
Its not fancy or anything. Its just that it will look different compared to other Project M CSS icons.
Which is why I'm creating Smash 3 icons without the aura in PM purple along with other variations.
Add glowing effect to the barrel of the cannon from something like Ridley's metal sparks, Meta Ridley's mouth when he charges up that giant fireball, Mario Final Smash's fire remaining on the ground, etc. to make it look better.Dark Samus has absorbed Ghor's PLASMA BEAM.
*Beam position will be moved forward.
No, I have no plans on making her usable in vBrawl. One, because I don't even know what that is, and two I don't know how to use the BrawlEx engine. If someone knowledgeable in this arena wants to work with me on integrating her for vBrawl though, I wouldn't be opposed to it.
vBrawl = Standard Brawl.
lol oh, didn't realize V= vanilla. And thanks!
op pls nerfDark Samus has absorbed Ghor's PLASMA BEAM.
*Beam position will be moved forward.
No its too weak, buff it now! Make it full screen, with blackjack and Metroids.op pls nerf
jk lol
op pls nerf
jk lol
Ha, I knew this question was going to be asked but over the past week I've discovered codes to implement in an attempt to balance the moves out. When I release the next preview video I'm gonna make a detailed write up explaining the new mechanics I've integrated onto Dark Samus but here's an abbreviated explanation of how the moves work so far:
Well, then thats fine i guess. I would suggest using Meta Ridley' small charged fireball (that one he shoots when holding Blue Falcon) recolored to be blue because current phazon...sphere GFX looks weird and too blurred.Ha, I knew this question was going to be asked but over the past week I've discovered codes to implement in an attempt to balance the moves out. When I release the next preview video I'm gonna make a detailed write up explaining the new mechanics I've integrated onto Dark Samus but here's an abbreviated explanation of how the moves work so far:
-The Special N Air Charged- Big Phazon and Plasma Beams (shown in the last two preview posts) can only be used over a certain damage % or else it will be just be an enlarged version of this:
-The Plasma Beam is a stronger version of the Phazon Beam and has a cool down so that it cannot be constantly used. DS's arm cannon will ignite will a flame graphic to indicate that she can use the move again.
-DS points the Plasma Beam directly below her and sweeps it forward like this (watch the DS clone to the left using the beam):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDKaz_ZHWgw#t=314
Still thinking about how to make this move better but this is how it is so far.
It doesn't look too bad because it's small and the particle effects I added make it looks aesthetic. Plus, I can't really waste more file space on a graphic for just one move.
Actually, very little of this PSA is similar to Samus. The first few posts should discuss technical differences.