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Transformers: Jazz, Barricade, and Starscream

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highonfunnystuff

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Hey there, here's the first build of the playable Autobot transformer: Jazz. The design is inspired by his 2007 TF1 Bayverse incarnation.

Feel free to post your feedback and things you might want to be added in the thread, yes I will read every single one of them :shitsfree::shitsfree:.
 

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Tanooki116 said:
I think this mod is really cool so far!
If I could recommend one thing, it'd be to change the car form's steering, since it's a bit stiff.
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Thanks for leaving your feedback and glad you've liked the mod! The steering is still in development and I can't quite grab hold of the most optimal control scheme. Is there anything specific that is stiff about the steering?
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Blackout07 said:
Looks really good so far. do you plan to add a wall climbing ability, like he had in the video games?
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Thanks a lot for your feedback, it's great to hear that people like it!

Regarding wall climbing, I was thinking about whether it is was a good idea to give them climbing ability, and it looks like a very good idea. So yes, it is most likely the case that in the next update Jazz will be able to climb on walls!
 
highonfunnystuff said:
Thanks for leaving your feedback and glad you've liked the mod! The steering is still in development and I can't quite grab hold of the most optimal control scheme. Is there anything specific that is stiff about the steering?
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Thanks a lot for your feedback, it's great to hear that people like it!

Regarding wall climbing, I was thinking about whether it is was a good idea to give them climbing ability, and it looks like a very good idea. So yes, it is most likely the case that in the next update Jazz will be able to climb on walls!
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Along with the climbing, i suggest giving him his ROTF game ability set. 2 unique shooting weapons, climbing and a burst of speed. look up his gameplay on youtube if you don't know about it.
 
Blackout07 said:
Along with the climbing, i suggest giving him his ROTF game ability set. 2 unique shooting weapons, climbing and a burst of speed. look up his gameplay on youtube if you don't know about it.
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Bet. I'm working on climbing rn, and I'll most likely add a second weapon with the burst of speed.
 
highonfunnystuff said:
Hey there, here's the first build of the playable Autobot transformer: Jazz. The design is inspired by his 2007 TF1 Bayverse incarnation.

Feel free to post your feedback and things you might want to be added in the thread, yes I will read every single one of them :shitsfree::shitsfree:.
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You actually managed to figure out how to make the shooting sprites for midair and ground work consistently! The character itself is also pretty unique mechanically, wish you luck on your mod!
 
Dee said:
You actually managed to figure out how to make the shooting sprites for midair and ground work consistently! The character itself is also pretty unique mechanically, wish you luck on your mod!
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Great to hear that the character seems to be mechanically unique, it was one of my hopes to be that way. Thanks for the feedback!
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The Unknown Watcher said:
I've been waiting for someone to try and make one of our favorite Cybertronians! Glad it's Jazz too! I wish you best of luck!
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Nice to know that I wasn't the only one who felt the lack of Transformers franchise modded into this platforming game. Jazz is also one of my favorites, too bad he was killed off so soon, and thanks for your wishes :3
 
Here's a new update v0.2 of a moderate size. These are some features and bugfixes below:

--- Jazz v0.2 ---

Features:
- [x] Car Mode:
- [x] Honk at pedestrians! (Custom 3)
- [x] Bump those pedestrians after reaching high speed, monitors get destroyed, and enemies are sent flying
- [x] Bot Mode:
- [x] Sassy voice lines during the boss fight!
- [x] New ability: Climbing!
- [x] General:
- [x] Fixing and adding some visuals for all modes
- [x] Bugfixes


Fixed bugs:
- [x] Monitor Destruction
- [x] Don’t allow transformation while carried
- [x] Skidding on the stream of running water animation is too high
- [x] Wall climbing has to move alongside the platform
- [x] The car is not damaged by lava or some sources that should damage it
- [x] Dust on the side spawns incorrectly at flipped gravity


Thanks to people in the comment section for giving your feedback on the project! I really read every single post about your thoughts and criticism of the project, and I try to respond to most of them. I encourage you all to share your feedback because it greatly contributes to how the project is developed and what features it has!
 

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Here's my newest update V0.3 for the mod! It is focused on improving and adding many mechanics, and some new abilities
:shitsfree:. Additionally, I've added a readme file into the pk3, highlighting the project's main parts.

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V0.3


Highlights of this update include:
- [x] Two new passive abilities: Power Up and Special Speed Boost
- [x] New weapon: Cresent Blaster


Features:

- [x] Car Mode:
- [x] Special Speed Boost ability affects this mode by increasing the Top Speed (you will notice it by new flaming marks left by tires)
- [x] Bot Mode:
- [x] Weaponry Rehaul!
- [x] ——>>>>> New weapon: Crescent Blaster. It is a heavy secondary weapon that is activated by holding the spin button on the ground or airborne. A slower, larger projectile affected by gravity will explode on contact with objects or surfaces. Explosion deals AOE damage to anyone in range, including the player who fired it, so be careful when using it!
- [x] The primary weapon Slug Repeater got minor timing changes due to the addition of Crescent Blaster
- [x] Falling on the ground while in the weaponry state will not cancel the state
- [x] Special Speed Boost ability affects this mode by increasing the Top Speed (you will notice it with the afterimage of Jazz)
- [x] General:
- [x] ——>>>>> New passive ability: Special Speed Boost. It is a temporary speed boost applied whenever Jazz interacts with special objects, such as collecting rings, damaging enemies and monitors, and using springs!
- [x] The boost is applied differently depending on the mode: Car mode will increase the speed gap for faster traversal, and Bot mode will increase acceleration for precise improved airborne & on-ground movement control
- [x] ——>>>>> New passive ability: Momentum-based Power Up. Reaching minimum speed requirements (around 30 Fracunits) now allows you to bust any walls and floors, break spikes, and empower springs
- [x] Bugfixes
- [x] Finishing the level won’t allow transformation and car movement

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The concern is that increased mobility features possibly make Jazz's car mode uncontrollable in some scenarios due to the increased speed cap.

For the future of this mode, I plan to expand the sprites to include more rotation (not just the front) and improve animations to give them a sassy personality (especially for transformations). There should be updated car mechanics sometime in the future because current driving seems to be quite stiff in some ways. Also, it is possible that one more ability will be added, it would be a second more stylish way to transform into a bot mode into breakdance by spinning on his head and hitting enemies around Jazz. Think of that ROTF game transform ability.

And of course, your feedback would be highly appreciated, I read and reply to every comment!
 

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Hey guys, just wanna let you know that I’m in process of revamping the car mode to feel much more like in racing games. And of course, the new sprites with all rotations will be out as well 🔥
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Update V0.4 is here everyone. As mentioned update had a major focus on updating the car mode, there are a lot of changes!

---------------- Features for the Car Mode ----------------

- [x] Traction system allows to simulate the tire grip of the car for oversteering, allowing for better drifts and more!
----- [x] Controlled grip: car is in full gas and steering control of the player
----- [x] Oversteered grip: car's steering angle is very high, controlling this state will allow for sick drifts!
-------- [x] Tip: Holding Gas and Brake will always put your in the oversteered state, allowing for even better maneuver
----- [x] No grip: car is either airborne or submerged in a liquid. There's no grip so you better transform :shitsfree:

- [x] Gear system allows you to switch between Drive, Park, and Reverse gears. This includes gear HUD visuals
----- [x] Activate Drive by just pressing Gas
----- [x] Activate Park by stopping
----- [x] Activate Reverse by Holding the Brake while parked and then Gas

- [x] Added W and S key controls schema for Gas and Brake respectively

- [x] The angle math has been overhauled, allowing the player to have a dynamic camera movement while driving. This allows for a feeling of playing a "racing" game, at least a little bit :3

- [x] Car sprites are improved and expanded, now containing all 8 rotations. Though rotations 2 and 8 are not good at all, so bare with me I draw them as well as I can (I'm not an artist):dramahog:

---------------- Other features ----------------

- [x] Crescent Blast's explosion now won't trigger behind walls, or it still does and I'm not aware :3
- [x] Gun thing on the Jazz's hand is now more THICC
- [x] Some car sounds now won't play after finishing a level
- [x] General bugfixes, code and revisions that nobody really cares about :knuxsmug:



Thanks everyone who's following the mod so far! Your feedback would be greatly appreciated too, I read every post.
 

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Announcement on inviting people to the project the bottom!

Hey there, here's a more minor update V0.5 that focuses on rebalancing the current mechanics of the character. Here's the list:

---------------- Gameplay Changes ----------------

- [x] Weapon reloading is introduced, now shooting too much will require some reload time
----- [x] Currently, the weapon mag is pretty low (9 bullets for Slug Repeater and one Blast for Crescent Blaster), but in turn the reloading times are short (1 and 2 seconds respectively)
----- [x] Getting hit by an enemy will immediately empty the mag and trigger the reloading time. As a punishment, all reloading times during the hit will be increased by one second

- [x] Park gear will now have a state of constantly starting a spindash that is not shown visually. This is done in order to trigger some areas that require spin dashing to open the walls (for example middle-end section of Deep Sea 2)
- [x] Power-up requirements are changed
----- [x] As a reminder, the power-up state will break walls, floors, ceilings, spikes, and empower springs
----- [x] Now power-up will only be triggered in the car mode after reaching high-speed requirements
----- [x] Power-up will not be triggered in Bot mode

---------------- Visual and Sound Changes ----------------

- [x] Added a voice line upon destroying the Life Monitor, and I intend to increase the volume of all voice lines depending on your feedback
- [x] Added weapon reload hud, it is quite basic but it gets the job done
- [x] Jazz will now be standing with his arms crossed (just like in his walking animation)

---------------- Bug fixes ----------------

- [x] Joystick turning in the car mode is now smooth
- [x] Park gear now doesn't stop your momentum on moving platforms
- [x] Car will now face correctly when using a spring
- [x] Split-screen controls are separated, but not the UI yet

---------------- What is Planned for the Future? ----------------
-[x] I think base abilities are implemented (probably except for one) is implemented in the current update mechanically, so I'll just be doing bugfixes and rebalancing existing abilities.
-[x] The Final ability planned that I think would be great to implement is one of his on-ground transformation variants where Jazz would start break-dancing while maintaining momentum and hitting enemies around. But it would require a great deal of sprite work
-[x] Jazz is not the only character I would like to be created, I have plans to create work on a Decepticon transformer next. My choice leans toward 2007 movie incarnations of Barricade (a car), Blackout (a helicopter), or Starscream (a jet). It would be interesting to experiment with fitting such gameplay into this speedy platformer, but the work will start only after completing Jazz first!


---------------- Announcement ----------------
Other than that, I would be focusing on improving and expanding the visuals such as sprites and hud. As you can see from existing sprites, I'm quite far from an artist, so it will take quite a long time to complete if I work solo. That is if I will work solo! I'm considering creating a group of developers who would want to work on finishing working on Jazz, and possibly start adding more transformers into the game. My stronger side is the LUA coding, so I primarily focused on inviting artists to help me draw sprites, but it would be cool for anyone who is passionate to join! The vision of the mode is focused on the early Bayverse incarnation of the franchise, such as the first two movies and their inspired games (Transformers: The Game and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen).

How far the Transformers mod will be expanded will be varied, it might just be Jazz if I'll work solo, or it might expand into many transformers for both Autobots and Decepticons. It will all depend on whether I will be able to find people to help me out.
 

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This is a 11/10 mod. But like, im a bit of a mobile player when im not using my Pc ._. soo this mod on my phone is a bit too hard at the car transformation (sadly I can't move around with the car and it's a bit bad for me on mobile not being able to move around) but still 11/10 mod.
 
Thanks for bringing my attention to the mobile devices. I’ll make sure to account for that in the future updates, just need to figure out how people are playing mobile.

And thanks for the feedback, really glad you liked it!
 
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