Post by QuentinWH in Sneak-peeks

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Added another menu screen. The game now has three. One with no saves, one before finishing the game and one after finishing the game. The new menu screen shows when you have a save file but didn't finish the game yet. I even added simple animation that shows shortly after the main menu gets loaded.

It looks slighly different in the game since I had to chage the framerate and what not for the gif to fit here.

I will also add an option to switch between these three screens once you finish the game once.

osur1 year ago

that is wicked cool

perhaps consider an idle animation after that one? something like arms bobbing slightly, just so that it doesn't go from 'animation in the first second' -> no movement ever again

QuentinWH1 year ago(+1)

I tried that and it didn't look good because the movement was too exagerated (And I pretty much don't know what I'm doing since I'm not good at animating). What I did is moving one of the frames 1 pixel down compared to the rest, which looks pretty decent and makes a illusion of breathing.

osur1 year ago

is it a 3d model that you convert to a 2D animation, or something else?

QuentinWH1 year ago(+1)

Model with 5 frames of animation. Each frame is rendered into separate image. Last frame is duplicated five times so I have 10 images total. I aplied a filter to each image and saved it (Shaders are non existant in RMXP). In the game, first five frames show at the start and after that the last 5 frames keep repeating.

super_blackmail1 year ago

Holy smokes this looks amazing! What software did you use for this?

QuentinWH1 year ago

Model and animation was done in blender: https://www.blender.org/

Background is AI generated using this: https://nmkd.itch.io/t2i-gui

All of the editing, including the title text, menu options and the pencil filters were done in PhotoFiltre Studio X: https://www.photofiltre-studio.com/news-en.htm

This is a very weak program compared to photoshop or even gimp so if you use any of those daily, there is no need to use this I think. But I have been using it for almost two decades and it is really great for simple editing like this because of how easy it is to work with. I use gimp for more complex things.

As for the gif itself:

I recorded the game with OBS Studio (I didn't update it for years so I don't really know if it still works the same): https://obsproject.com/

I then uploaded it to: https://ezgif.com/video-to-gif

There I cut it to size, clip the length and converted it to gif.