Making New Hitbox System- suggestions?

[Stratocaster]

Most of you are probably familiar with Seanson's Hitbox System and the youtube videos made with the frames he gathered. Well I really hate the incompleteness of the hitbox system and the quality and format of the youtube videos. I can make MUCH better quality frame images really quickly and easy with some free software I found that can save screen captures to a folder directly. Its so fast and easy its ridiculous, so I'd like to start up some kind of new project and here are my goals-

-Compile all the images of every attack in a proportial manner such that you could take any of the images and overlap them and they'd be proportianal to the size they are in the game
(this would make them especially available for people making some sort of guide or wanting to see which attack has more range)

-Be able to have some kind of access for everyone to quickly view the full animation w/ hitboxes of every move, very organized and intuitive

My problem is Seanson's Java program does the second one soooo well, with a character and attack selecter, a slider, play option with different speeds, and all the notes on the attack to the right... I've looked into it and I can't seem to edit it at all to figure out how to add characters not currently supported, if anyone knows how to edit this Java program to support all the characters that would be my top option

My second option is have a thread that links to a thread for each character that I'd post in their specific boards. Then have gifs and info on each attack as well as downloadable packages of each characters attacks. This isn't as fancy but at least it would all be on-site

My third option is asking you what to do- so what do you think would be a cool option? Does anyone have programming knowledge? And if you wanna help compile the images, if I get this started than I could PM you all you need really easily

 

[KirbyKaze]

If you do this, I will give you a box of cookies at the next smash tournament we are both at.

You may need to inform me of allergies and whatnot via PM.

 

[Pi]

Most of you are probably familiar with Seanson's Hitbox System and the youtube videos made with the frames he gathered. Well I really hate the incompleteness of the hitbox system and the quality and format of the youtube videos. I can make MUCH better quality frame images really quickly and easy with some free software I found that can save screen captures to a folder directly. Its so fast and easy its ridiculous, so I'd like to start up some kind of new project and here are my goals-

-Compile all the images of every attack in a proportial manner such that you could take any of the images and overlap them and they'd be proportianal to the size they are in the game
(this would make them especially available for people making some sort of guide or wanting to see which attack has more range)

-Be able to have some kind of access for everyone to quickly view the full animation w/ hitboxes of every move, very organized and intuitive

My problem is Seanson's Java program does the second one soooo well, with a character and attack selecter, a slider, play option with different speeds, and all the notes on the attack to the right... I've looked into it and I can't seem to edit it at all to figure out how to add characters not currently supported, if anyone knows how to edit this Java program to support all the characters that would be my top option

My second option is have a thread that links to a thread for each character that I'd post in their specific boards. Then have gifs and info on each attack as well as downloadable packages of each characters attacks. This isn't as fancy but at least it would all be on-site

My third option is asking you what to do- so what do you think would be a cool option? Does anyone have programming knowledge? And if you wanna help compile the images, if I get this started than I could PM you all you need really easily

I may be able to help you compile the images if you want to PM me the stuff.

The one thing I ask is for you to compile angled attack data, angled smashes, angled tilts, also if moves have different mechanics in the air and on the ground..well...those too.

 

[Stratocaster]

I don't have any allergies Kirbykaze, and I'll hold you to that not thats incredibly likely Canada and Tennessee are kinda far apart

Ya angled attacks deserve they're own images, thats only some ftilts and fsmashes so it shouldn't be a huge deal

I was thinking recording Techs, Rolls, Airdodges, get-up-attacks, and such would be cool too

I'm leaving this thread for a few days and see if anyone comes up with a really cool idea or comes in and volunteers to program this/ edit Seanson's java, after that there'll be a new thread where we'll I'll do recruiting for image compilers and keep track of who's doing what and the progress

 

[X1-12]

I WILL HELP

I WILL EVEN LEARN JAVA FOR THE EXPRESS PURPOSE OF HELPING

I LOVE THIS IDEA <3333

I LOVE STRATOCASTER

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER

let me co-produce this pwetty pwease?

 

[Stratocaster]

Thanks for the lovin X1-12, today I figured out how to mass resize images, which is going to make this soo much easier

I'm going to make directions and a .zip w/ everything anyone needs to help, then I'm making a sign up thread to organize who's doing what

X1-12 if you can make a java to put this in that would be incredible, but until then I think I'm going to make them into gifs and have them organized in threads, feel free to help all you want

 

[ranmaru]

Awesome. I will look forward to this. I'd help but I don't have much programming language. : ]