AcePremier's Experimental Thread

[Ace Premier]

I was neglecting the Message Board for years. So, here I am.

Note: The work presented is not obligated to not be part of Team Blue Springs' (Team Springs') Projects, maybe even other community/personal projects. The point of this thread is to showcase my newest work regardless of any correlation.

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Good evening! Random media #1

From Pipe Kingdom Zone; Game Styles;

https://imgur.com/xwq2CWp

https://imgur.com/wzHrFA2

https://imgur.com/vrcj2yx

 

[Othius]

HOW DOES A THREAD LIKE THIS END UP WITH NO ENGAGEMENT

You know my thoughts already Ace, because of the TBS discord server.

However I'll put it here regardless; The amount of time, effort, care, and craftsmanship put into all of your projects is actually astounding

 

[RoimWolf]

Woah! I was never notified of the creation of the thread. Was wondering if it was an old thing that was left alone for long but... No! Some of this stuff is really impressive, I agree with Othius' sentiment!

 

[Leo_3]

I was neglecting the Message Board for years. So, here I am.

Note: The work presented is not obligated to not be part of Team Blue Springs' (Team Springs') Projects, maybe even other community/personal projects. The point of this thread is to showcase my newest work regardless of any correlation.

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Good evening! Random media #1

From Pipe Kingdom Zone; Game Styles;

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https://imgur.com/xwq2CWp

https://imgur.com/wzHrFA2

https://imgur.com/vrcj2yx

You are a member of the blue spring?

 

[Ace Premier]

HOW DOES A THREAD LIKE THIS END UP WITH NO ENGAGEMENT

You know my thoughts already Ace, because of the TBS discord server.

However I'll put it here regardless; The amount of time, effort, care, and craftsmanship put into all of your projects is actually astounding

To be pretty fair, most of the community is pretty much accustomed to my projects. -- Otherwise yes, thank you.

Woah! I was never notified of the creation of the thread. Was wondering if it was an old thing that was left alone for long but... No! Some of this stuff is really impressive, I agree with Othius' sentiment!

You are a member of the blue spring *team*?

Yes.

 

[Leo_3]

To be pretty fair, most of the community is pretty much accustomed to my projects. -- Otherwise yes, thank you.



Yes.

Uooo there must be a lot of work to make a mod, right?

 

[Ace Premier]

Uooo there must be a lot of work to make a mod, right?

A lot of work is an understatement in my case. Though, depends.


28.10.2023 or 10/28/2023, whatever you fancy.
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I have been on the side working on the JCZ1 revamp for MRCE.

https://imgur.com/0y1AcDZ

https://imgur.com/DogZHjW

https://imgur.com/pPrwByF

Mostly work went into gimmicks. The map itself is not exactly presentable yet.
I wanted to make it more coast like the original v5 incarnation before I streamlined the heck out of it in v6.
It won't be anything too big, just something to make it interesting enough to play through and ease players playing as Sonic into new thok.

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Pipe Kingdom Zone on the other hand, well at this point, truly Mario Mode ++ is more fitting.
I can't reveal much, but Super Mario Bros Wonder and Mario Movie had a bit bigger effect on the project.
In a directional way. It is still a mess, in my opinion. Eyeballed assets throughout the entire franchise, but slowly project is distancing from that.

PKZ1 1-1 (Grassland) was truly a showcase of what I mean. I plan to scrap the whole 1-1 skybox and a bit more...

However, there were a few influences from Super Mario Bros Wonder. Just have this little snippet.

https://imgur.com/9t7dWMr

I have been also playful with animated skin colours.

https://imgur.com/YtsuNTC

Meanwhile, I know it won't get answered again but I would like to request for like 8th time... if someone would like to take PKZ project from the audio and musical side. The remixes of SMB1 1-1 and 1-2 won't cut it anymore. With ideas that are yet to shape the future, said remixes won't fit at all anymore. Thematically and tone-wise. If you are interested, I am not even asking for SRB2-styled music, it could be anything, I just want it for it to fit.

-- Please contact me on Discord either in Springs' Team server or in DMs.

 

[Leo_3]

A lot of work is an understatement in my case. Though, depends.


28.10.2023 or 10/28/2023, whatever you fancy.
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I have been on the side working on the JCZ1 revamp for MRCE.

https://imgur.com/0y1AcDZ

https://imgur.com/DogZHjW

https://imgur.com/pPrwByF

Mostly work went into gimmicks. The map itself is not exactly presentable yet.
I wanted to make it more coast like the original v5 incarnation before I streamlined the heck out of it in v6.
It won't be anything too big, just something to make it interesting enough to play through and ease players playing as Sonic into new thok.

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Pipe Kingdom Zone on the other hand, well at this point, truly Mario Mode ++ is more fitting.
I can't reveal much, but Super Mario Bros Wonder and Mario Movie had a bit bigger effect on the project.
In a directional way. It is still a mess, in my opinion. Eyeballed assets throughout the entire franchise, but slowly project is distancing from that.

PKZ1 1-1 (Grassland) was truly a showcase of what I mean. I plan to scrap the whole 1-1 skybox and a bit more...

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However, there were a few influences from Super Mario Bros Wonder. Just have this little snippet.

https://imgur.com/9t7dWMr

I have been also playful with animated skin colours.

https://imgur.com/YtsuNTC

Meanwhile, I know it won't get answered again but I would like to request for like 8th time... if someone would like to take PKZ project from the audio and musical side. The remixes of SMB1 1-1 and 1-2 won't cut it anymore. With ideas that are yet to shape the future, said remixes won't fit at all anymore. Thematically and tone-wise. If you are interested, I am not even asking for SRB2-styled music, it could be anything, I just want it for it to fit.

-- Please contact me on Discord either in Springs' Team server or in DMs.

It's really a lot of work but I understand blue spring's work is incredible

 

[ShinjiNyan]

i love the mario wonder hud ;)

 

[Henry3230]

Nothing has been posted here since the October of 2023.

 

[Ace Premier]

Nothing has been posted here since the October of 2023.

Speaking about the fact won't help it anymore. Exams, inability to allocate time, various visits and a broken sink won't help in my own case.

i love the mario wonder hud ;)

Wonderful!

It's really a lot of work but I understand blue spring's work is incredible

Thank you.

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Since it has been a while, I could write up something.

10.03.2024 - 03/10/2024
Nothing too exciting, I am pretty much aware.

SRB2 Source Code - I opened up 3 merges, and one of them had to be closed. (visual menu changes, won't talk about it)
1) https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/2380

Not necessarily done with the custom console commands menu, but something had to be done.
Instead of submenus, I would go for the search function that would allow for specification of from which mod or category would you like to get the query. And offer "substitute" for the submenu, simply macro menu items as submenus that would instantly insert a tag into the search for controller users.
2) https://git.do.srb2.org/STJr/SRB2/-/merge_requests/2366
This one would allow for extensive changes to end-level intermission with Lua and finally make it reasonable for custom intermissions to be made. Even allowed you to decide whenever a player gets a score award. Or stop level end event entirely!

4?) I am currently messing around with allowing custom UDMF variables to be accessible by Lua and Lua ONLY in a sensible way, Console display's scaling, and drawing graphics by altered by mask. Just to say nothing can even appear on SRB2's Gitlab, it is in private. No hopes up, please.

Pipe Kingdom Zone -
Nothing truly exciting, there were some *interesting* leaks on our Discord, but the general focus right now is miscellaneous stuff. Before mapping again.
A) Ensuring that Multiplayer works fine
B) OpenGL fixes (as of now there are few oddities)
C) Eyecandy
D) Random stuff
E) Ambience
E) Some refactors (Most uneventful stuff that requires a lot of effort in this case :V)

Hopefully future goomba.

My Contributions to Mystic Realms Community Editions -

1) Optimization - I attempted to optimize the hud and especially the Midnight Freeze Zone and there is about 10,7%~ gain in the heaviest earliest spot in MFZ.

2) Midnight Freeze -

Not still happy with this, but Borealis did change. I would wish I had some nice movement algorithm for this.

3)

Spoiler: Spoilers

As you may know, Hyper Sonic got a visual lift-up, just something quick because it was horrible on the eyes. Also, the emerald display was revamped.

4) Jade Coast Zone Act 3 -

Yes, pretty aware that it is a very unusual style of arena, only to spice up the current boss fight that is likely to get replaced. So the arena will change regardless. No more thoughtless thoks :).

5) Random quick mockups

 

[Leo_3]

This is very incredible

 

[Ace Premier]

This is very incredible

Thank you.

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Seems like some media links from Discord died, oh well.


9.04.2024 - 04/09/2024
Again, not much excitement here, my focus was again on MRCE and SRB2 hardcoding.

Sonic Robo Blast 2 Hardcoding:

SRB2, was merely messing around by hooking Lua into the render itself, as you can see it wasn't the best idea. (Implementation was lightweight, just Lua is quite slow for fast compute functions)

The console variable menu was expanded by the search bar and macros.

I also put out more merge requests mainly surrounding custom UDMF fields and hook event to any addon load.
I was experimentally attempting to load Lua scripts into custom UDMF fields but that has to wait for now.

Mystic Realms Community Edition:

There is now a very experimental synergy between chilla and the environment.

Of course, framerate optimizations in MFZ1 continue... I don't think I will continue optimizing anymore the zone though.

I reskinned the Catterkiller Jr. from AIZ by extension my old AIZ project to be a bit more fitting to FRZ.

New emeralds.

Endgame spoilers!

https://imgur.com/IVAUtCl

https://imgur.com/vYbdb6L

https://imgur.com/AxhbTLi

I did a bit more with Endgame, but either you likely got spoiled, played the changed section or you aren't spoiled yet. So I will keep it to myself.



Styles:

I am heavily considering preparing Adventure Style for release, mainly due to concerns of time allocation, people playing with available Springs' Team public discord beta outside of the discord group and me reducing the scope of the project. I won't hold it hostage to other more unfinished styles.

Other:

Was developing for myself some tools. But I think they are slightly cool to showcase.

-- Debugging tool I can hook to any function.

And as you can see the radial menu or pie menu, it doesn't matter. It is fairly configurable and I would like to make it more public once it is online-friendly.

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That's it for now, hopefully, I will have something interesting next month. Today I will go to sleep, so until next time!

 

[Ace Premier]

23.05.2024 - 05/23/2024

I have been working on MRCE a lot again. And I avoided my want to work on PKZ again and it dissatisfies me. I know it is due to the lack of motivation I am facing. Even considered dropping it, because lack of input from other contributors, even feedback is lacking. I don't know what to do really at this point, I am contributing a lot to MRCE due to it's activity...

I won't blame anyone working on it, it is their time they decided to spend with me on the project and I appreciate that. Though however PKZ looks in your eyes, I do not see it as anything I wouldn't be able to invite a newbie, I am hella willing actually! Even though project needs mainly music composer as it is outside of my skillset.

Anyway, I will feed my usual WIP media drops then. This time without descriptions, to not give you whole Essay to read with this.

And... to at least attempt to elicit some interest. I will reveal something I wanted to keep under wraps. It saddens me, but with lack of interest, I need to do something risky. I won't reveal everything, but from screenshot it should be obvious, what is going on.

 

[Dee]

23.05.2024 - 05/23/2024

I have been working on MRCE a lot again. And I avoided my want to work on PKZ again and it dissatisfies me. I know it is due to the lack of motivation I am facing. Even considered dropping it, because lack of input from other contributors, even feedback is lacking. I don't know what to do really at this point, I am contributing a lot to MRCE due to it's activity...

I won't blame anyone working on it, it is their time they decided to spend with me on the project and I appreciate that. Though however PKZ looks in your eyes, I do not see it as anything I wouldn't be able to invite a newbie, I am hella willing actually! Even though project needs mainly music composer as it is outside of my skillset.

Anyway, I will feed my usual WIP media drops then. This time without descriptions, to not give you whole Essay to read with this.


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And... to at least attempt to elicit some interest. I will reveal something I wanted to keep under wraps. It saddens me, but with lack of interest, I need to do something risky. I won't reveal everything, but from screenshot it should be obvious, what is going on.



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Woah, a top down world map? All of this stuff is genuinely pretty impressive, a part of me wonders (ha) how you even did all this with just SRB2 as a base. One question though, will "Mario Mode" override all character abilities, or is it just an option?

 

[Ace Premier]

Woah, a top down world map? All of this stuff is genuinely pretty impressive, a part of me wonders (ha) how you even did all this with just SRB2 as a base. One question though, will "Mario Mode" override all character abilities, or is it just an option?

Thank you. Aside from Vanilla SRB2's "Mario Mode" changes like air meter removal, the only character change is increased jump height and everything that comes with power-ups and item holder, otherwise to keep character compatibility sane, no other intrusive changes were made.

 

[Dee]

Thank you. Aside from Vanilla SRB2's "Mario Mode" changes like air meter removal, the only character change is increased jump height and everything that comes with power-ups and item holder, otherwise to keep character compatibility sane, no other intrusive changes were made.

Nice! Just so you know, I like your work, and it's inspiring me to do some pretty big things with SRB2 too. Even though it may not feel like it, rest assured I support all of your technical marvels. Looking forward to your projects and their development!

 

[Ace Premier]

Nice! Just so you know, I like your work, and it's inspiring me to do some pretty big things with SRB2 too. Even though it may not feel like it, rest assured I support all of your technical marvels. Looking forward to your projects and their development!

Thank you, wish you luck on your dev journey.

26.08.2024 - 08/26/2024

I took now soon at the 2-month-long landmark break but I am still not sure if I want to return. Considering a new development that someone is willing to take the chop at music for Pipe Kingdom Zone, I am having a harder time deciding. Especially in the current situation in my life.

Nonetheless, I did in the past few weeks while I was building my portfolio a lot of YouTube uploads. To be exact, 13 YouTube uploads (the majority of them are shorts). However, you are free to watch them. They might be new to you or not. It didn't matter to me much, it is Dev Log not a corporate showcase of a product. See you, when I see you.

& more, in the channel.

 

[MK.exe]

Liking the Radial menu for Ringslinger!

 

[Sls64LGamingBro]

I'm surprised someone achieve the impossible.

Although, I'm impressed that you made the Blue Spheres from Sonic 3 & Knuckles. Even the Title Card looks accurate to the original! I guess sometimes modding can be impressive when it's done right (If it's possible by any means)!