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Golden Sun: Venus Lighthouse stage released!

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Friesnchip

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You don't come off as rude or ungrateful or anything. You come off as helpful and such. Constructive criticism is always welcome and I appreciate the comments. Thanks a lot.

I might go back and try to spruce up the bricks a bit. I was always just nervous about doing so as I can't change their layout/position too much... and it's very easy to make something look like a repeating texture when you do stuff like this. I would rather the bricks look somewhat bland than have them very obvious where/how they tile.

The other side of that, is I'm used to being able to use Normal Maps and such... I'm pretty sure that I can't do that in Brawl.... and Normal maps go a long way with this type of stuff. Then again, those bricks were the first texture that I made for this project before I got really into the style that I was going for. I might go back and redo them...
I'm afraid I can't offer any advice when it comes to texture mapping in Brawl, but if you do decide to redo them eventually I would certainly appreciate the effort. Regardless, I'm satisfied with the quality of this amazing stage you've provided the community, and I look forward to your future endeavors.
 

Llama Juice

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I think the bricks look very nice, the entire stage looks amazing! In my opinion I think it's perfect, exept of when the light house leaves, when your in the middle you don't get crushed, but that is totally fine by me :)
With the modding tools that we have, I don't have any way to "crush" players when they get in the middle. Instead I have it trap them in a "box" that has no bottom. This way they'll still fall to their death naturally.

@ Friesnchip Friesnchip I appreciate the criticism buddy. Offering thoughts or ways to improve things without being insulting is a hard line to balance on especially on a forum. I appreciate the honesty and the feedback man.
 

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With the modding tools that we have, I don't have any way to "crush" players when they get in the middle. Instead I have it trap them in a "box" that has no bottom. This way they'll still fall to their death naturally.

@ Friesnchip Friesnchip I appreciate the criticism buddy. Offering thoughts or ways to improve things without being insulting is a hard line to balance on especially on a forum. I appreciate the honesty and the feedback man.
I never knew they got trapped! This stage is now perfect! ^-^
 
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SmashBrosPM

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OMG!!! This stage looks So Amazing!!! It NEEDS to be in Project M in the place of Kongo Jungle!!! (The Team, if you this) Really great job! Congratulations!!!
 

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This is pretty swag.

If you do Mars lighthouse in the future that would be pretty awesome with the Doom Dragon in the background.
 

Llama Juice

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With as much time as I put into this one, I don't think I'll be doing any of the other lighthouses. they'd basically be texture swaps at this point.... and with all of the work that I put into making the background of the stage match the actual geography of the Venus Lighthouse... I just don't see making The Mars lighthouse as a realistic thing haha.

That being said, this structure isn't a true "Venus lighthouse"... it's more of a mix between the Venus and the Jupiter lighthouses. The real structure of the Venus lighthouse is basically a Final Destination clone and we already have 293482390432 of those in the Brawl Vault. I took most of the Jupiter lighthouse's shape with all of the Venus Lighthouse's decorations and color schemes.

I wanted the stage to basically just fill the void of Golden Sun love... and so I added a few other small things into the textures of the stage to nod at parts of the game.

The carpet and the green floor tile both have outlines of the Djinn from the games. The golden crest in the middle is based off of the Golden Sun: The Lost Age's logo crest. The tree in the archways and on the carpet texture is an emblem that you see in a few places throughout the Venus Lighthouse tower in the game, and so I wanted to include that icon throughout my version of the art.
 

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When I tried to load this my game froze. Any recommendations?
 

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Played a lot of matches on the final version of the stage last night.

This needs to be in PM 4.0. It's just too good to ignore imo.
Thanks so much for your hard work Llama Juice.
 

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How do you change the icon so it shows the stage .-. I know you use brawlbox, but idk what you do once you're on it.
 
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SmashBrosPM

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Aww, I was assuming every one wanted to replace jungle japes with this amazing golden sun stage
I finally played to PM! And, that's right! Kongo Jungle is just better than Jungle Japes! This stage must be replaced by Venus Lighthouse! If there's a way to show the image and the name/change the music of the stage, i'll added it!
 

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I finally played to PM! And, that's right! Kongo Jungle is just better than Jungle Japes! This stage must be replaced by Venus Lighthouse! If there's a way to show the image and the name/change the music of the stage, i'll added it!
I also replaced jungle japes music with Golden sun's boss battle music and it fits perfectly ^-^
 

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Oh wait, where does the custom folder go if I'm not on dolphin?
If you're not on Dolphin then just skip the part about dolphin. Dolphin isn't needed, but a lot of us use it while making content to be able to test things super quickly. Your "custom build folder" is just your Project M build folder. You probably could even be able to just point it to your SD card if you have that plugged in.
 

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I'd also like to add to that Isaac's Battle Theme. In fact, I already looped one version of it for anyone who wants to grab it from my Vault. http://forums.kc-mm.com/Gallery/BrawlView.php?Number=202420

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Llama Juice

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Hey guys, just wanted to post and say that I'm not dead. I know I lived here for like three months, and then just kinda blinked away, but it's because of good news!

I'm the newest artist on the PMBR, and so now I'm working with the team. I wanted to come back and post saying that I'm super happy for everything you all helped me with and very thankful for how great this community is. You'll be seeing stuff from me in the future, just not nearly as incremental as it used to be haha. Much love. :D
 

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I don't really know how much I can say about what's going on back there, so I think the best answer would be to secure your wrist straps and prepare for hype.
 

UltimateWario

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I absolutely adore this stage. Being a Golden Sun fan (and having recently played through the original duology), I've always been a bit sad that it never did (and unfortunately, probably never will) get the love it deserves in the Smash franchise.

Everything, from the faithful textures, to the insane amount of love and care put into the background, makes this the best custom stage I've ever seen, bar-none. This level is a testament to the love that the fanbase brings to the series, and I genuinely hope that, assuming Isaac is chosen as a Clone Engine Character, this stage becomes his home. Excellent work, and I hope to see more of your stuff (official or otherwise) soon!
 
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isaac confirmed 3.5? and maybe we will be getting this stage along :D??? one can only dream!!
 
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Wish I had more to say about this other than "This is awesome!".
 

THE_MAAFIA

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Guys I'm having a problem, so in PJ:M 3.5, jungle japes is no longer there, and I replaced jungle japes with this stage, so I decided to redownload the stage, and instead I replaced STGPLANKTON.pac with Venus light house, I renamed Venus lighthouse stage to STGPLANKTON.pac and replaced the plant stage, and I made it so the Venus stage has battle music from golden sun (I replaced the plant stage music with golden sun music and renamed it, R03, ) BUT when I click on the plant stage it freezes, and I noticed the plant stage isn't in the my music list, some one help please! @ Shin F. Shin F. Or @ Llama Juice Llama Juice help me make the stage work with replacing the plant stage, or help me get the plant stage back because I don't want my friends to freeze the game by mistake :(
 

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Guys I'm having a problem, so in PJ:M 3.5, jungle japes is no longer there, and I replaced jungle japes with this stage, so I decided to redownload the stage, and instead I replaced STGPLANKTON.pac with Venus light house, I renamed Venus lighthouse stage to STGPLANKTON.pac and replaced the plant stage, and I made it so the Venus stage has battle music from golden sun (I replaced the plant stage music with golden sun music and renamed it, R03, ) BUT when I click on the plant stage it freezes, and I noticed the plant stage isn't in the my music list, some one help please! @ Shin F. Shin F. Or @ Llama Juice Llama Juice help me make the stage work with replacing the plant stage, or help me get the plant stage back because I don't want my friends to freeze the game by mistake :(
Try using Brawl Stage Manager and Brawl stage module converter to make sure you have the correct .rel files in your module folder, otherwise the stages will crash your gammz.
 

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I'm sorry but I'm like extremely new to this stuff, how do I use this to help? I'm sorry if I sound like a moron
Btw I have full set hackless
You need to have the proper rel file. Venus Lighthouse uses Final Destination as the base, if I remember correctly, so you would go to this page and choose Final Destination as the base rel, and Hanenbow as the one to replace. Hit Download, then put the file it gives you into pf/module.
 

THE_MAAFIA

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You need to have the proper rel file. Venus Lighthouse uses Final Destination as the base, if I remember correctly, so you would go to this page and choose Final Destination as the base rel, and Hanenbow as the one to replace. Hit Download, then put the file it gives you into pf/module.
Oh! Thanks! Then what do I do?
 
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