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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 6, 2005 20:13:37 GMT -5
*takes a coconut to the head in his honor*
I loved that show.. it was so stupid it was hilarious XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 7, 2005 18:47:17 GMT -5
I am impressed!
You did a good job of making this model work. Although I had to fix one little error. Sonic's right shoulder bone seemed to include a vertex from the quill behind it, but that was no big deal and easily fixed.
Adding joints to his fingers would be tricky.. prolly would have to construct whole new fingers. The hands of this model (heroes Sonic, right?) seem to be optimized for use in the games, meaning all the extra vertexes have been removed and the model generally cleaned up and smoothed down to the 'proper' detail level. You could prolly subdivide the fingers and then re-assign the new vertexes to create more joints, but that might make his fingers look odd compared to the rest of the structure.
Great work^^
Ooh, heroes models! *downloads also*
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 6, 2005 19:39:26 GMT -5
I have the full-set of Sonic Heroes models (Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Big, Cream, Cheese, Espio, Vector, Charmy, Shadow, Rouge, and Omega), but their textures are weird. Some characters don't have textures (or, at least, textures I know how to easily apply without remapping the entire model) and characters that do have textures have funny colors (Sonic's normally-tan skin appears to be purple, for example). Eh, I'm looking for visual guide, not color guide. If I don't know what colors Sonic should be by now, I'm in very deep doo-doo XD. I dunno, I kinda like the look Heroes had, but that's mostly a case of personal aesthetics. Perhaps, though, you could tell me where I could obtain Sonic's Heroes model? Or if I say please enough times, could you send it to me? The best address for that would be keith (at) keithhemari (dot) com. My own web space and my own e-mail, no Yahoo messing with zip files. I'd appreciate it greatly^^ And I may be wrong, but the shoes for you SADX/Heroes model looks like the SADX shoes.. but I may be mistaken.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 6, 2005 16:56:53 GMT -5
you'd better ***ing well believe I'm interested in the models XD
Amazingness!
This would fullfill a long-desired dream to have an actual 3D model of Sonic (and company) to work with when doing my drawings.
Although, what I would really like would be the Heros sonic, although the models that were posted on the Sonic-Cult never actually listed Sonic.. only Shadow, Amy, Knux, etc.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 6, 2005 0:11:23 GMT -5
This scan leads me to believe you must control the Princess' emotions to get her to do certain actions. Infact, someone at the PA forums translated some of the page: Sounds... well, different. Hmm.. What I gotta wonder about is that happens if it's 'that time of the month'.. XD Sounds.. interesting..
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 5, 2005 10:50:24 GMT -5
Thanks, Jolly. I've downloaded the big version twice from that tails.milesprower.org site, and both times the file's been damaged. (Playable in Irfanview, but not WMP or WinAmp, and damaged.) Do any of the other locations host the large file, or am I stuck grabbing the smaller? I downloaded it and it plays just fine, so far. Only problem is that it seems to be missing it's extension so my computer doesn't know what kind of file it is, but WINamp doesn't seem to care XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 19:31:08 GMT -5
*jawdrop*
Impressive!
Sure, it's not polished professional style animation.. clearly the work of people at a desktop rather than an office, but still.. impressive none the less!
A nice tribute, I'd say!
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 19:58:57 GMT -5
Oh come on, aside from sonic, pretty much ALL sonic characters are like made-up fancharacters. "Okay, this new character, he's like Sonic, but he's Red, and he can climb walls. I shall call him "Knuckles the Spiderman!" Knuckles was pretty unique. I mean glide, climb walls, could Sonic do that? Was he the last member of an ancient race whose job it was to guard the Chaos Emeralds and protect floating Island? No, sonic was an adventurer with a cocky attitude and a thrust for excitement. Only one or two minor traits from Knuckles could be attributed to Sonic himself. Where as with Blaze, we can pretty much pull her main traits (as we know them so far) from the already existent Sonic characters. She's fast, ala Sonic (but we can excuse that as being required for a Sonic character to go up against Sonic) She's a guardian of special emeralds, ala Knuckles. She's emotionally withdrawn, like Shadow Her control over flames is new to the Sonic realm, but that, as far as to be seen, is it. Of course, we should also realize that most of all the major rolls in the Sonicverse have been taken up. We have: The Hero - Sonic The Villain - Eggman The Sidekick - Tails The Dark Version of Our Hero - Metal Sonic/Shadow The Cutesy Annoying Fan Who Tags Along and Always Gets in the Heroes Way - Amy The Cutesy Innocent Girl - Cream The Overly Busty, Supposed to be 'Sexy' Rogue - Rouge The Other Hero Who Has a Rocky Friendship With the Hero - Knuckles The Dumb, Yet Fearless and Warm Hearted Person Who Unwittingly Plays Hero From Time to Time - Big That's not even counting the Chaotix or the plethora of other Sonic Characters That Time Forgot. So it's not really a surprise, I guess that she seems unoriginal. They haven't much left to work with.. hmm.. maybe she will turn out to be a cross dresser XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 13:16:54 GMT -5
Sonic Shuffle Blaze does seem interesting though Ahhh, Shuffle, no wonder I didn't remember XD I didn't really play a lot of it. actually I don't think I ever got past the first stage. Of course if my dreamcast and it's games had not been stolen, I might have gotten further.. <.< I'm interested to see what they do with Blaze, but not hopeful. At least she's not a cutesy character like Amy or Cream and not the 'big breasts = sexy' type like Rouge. .. Maybe she's actually in drag and she'll turn out to be male... XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 10:46:24 GMT -5
Don't forget the precioustones, Keith! Precioustone(s)? *thinks* Ok, I've forgotten them. what game were they in?
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 10:35:24 GMT -5
Lesse.. 7 Chaos Emeralds 7 Super Emeralds 1 Master Emerald 7 Time Stones and now X 'Sol Emeralds' ? Hmm.. Blaze's name with H-Hog's powers.. XD Does this sound very fan-madeish to anyone else? "Ok.. she's fast, like sonic, but she's the guardian of emeralds like Knuckles and she's emotionless like Shadow.. OH! And just to mix it up, she can control flames! And I will call her BLAZE! YAYYYY!"
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 31, 2005 20:27:57 GMT -5
no, I just arrives at the destination collect, so that whoever recives it has to pay for it.. or so my experiance has been. Did that once by accident >.<
Although it's possible for it to slip through the postal service, if one or both of these things happens:
1: Noone notices it and just passes it on through.
2: Noone cares and just passes it on through.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 4, 2005 12:05:36 GMT -5
I dunno how much that has to do with 'blast processing' (which I think is just a fancy name for what the Genesis was really good at - moving graphics around), but Sonic 1 was not designed for the Spindash move to be used in it. It's not surprising then that using it in some places might cause some glitches.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 2, 2005 10:41:28 GMT -5
Also, hi. It's been a damned long time since I've been here. There's some new faces, but the old farts will certainly remember me =P You mean you were gone? But yeah, I poked my nose into the hacking/research forums recently and I couldn't recognize anything anyone was talking about anymore XD Not that I was all that knowledgeable in the first place, but still! I wonder what Naka or any of the original Sonic Team would think of this stuff. Yuji Naka: You mean they've disassembled the game in ASM? They did that? Like, in their spare time? Either they're dedicated fans or raving nutters. Flunkie: Whoa whoa! They could easily be both. Edit: Ohh, hundredth post! *does little dance*
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 31, 2005 12:55:36 GMT -5
I am very impressed!
I guess we can't make hoaxes about it anymore then XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Sept 5, 2005 10:47:17 GMT -5
Wow! It's a really big screen! So innovative! So what we're doing here is the Imax thing, right? Screen so huge it takes up the entire area in which a person can view. Are they going to use those weird glasses like they used in the Disney world 3D movie theaters? 'Cause if all it is is a really big, U-shaped screen, I'ma-gonna be really disappointed.. And, for the record: Holodeck: "The holodeck employed three-dimensional holographic projections as well as transporter-based replications of actual objects." This piece of information was taken from the Star Trek Encyclopedia. Further explanations, in the series itself suggested that forcefields were used to give solidity to the holographic objects. So, no, a big screen doesn't cut it XD
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 29, 2005 0:30:34 GMT -5
Side games. Many Sonic fans consider the main platform games canoncal--especially seeing that Sonic 2 directly takes place after Sonic 3 supposedly based on the manual stories. To my knowledge, Sonic 2 happens before Sonic 3&K. Sadly the link that would have answered all our questions is gone.. it was a site featuring translations of most, if not all of the Japanese Sonic game manuals... ( homepage.ntlworld.com/big_smile/web%20site/Sonic%20Stories/other_pages/story_page.htm if anyone might know what became of it or where a mirror of said translations might be) However, from what I can immediately recall the through continuity isn't exact, except in Sonic 3&K. There are no specific 'this happened two weeks after that' kinds of things, but we can make the general arrangement of S1, S2, S3&K, SA, SA2, SH and now Shadow the Hedgehog. Those are the games I consider to be 'cannon' with the addition of Sonic CD, whose continuity is questionable.. obviously before SA, and seemingly before Sonic 2 (hence the absence of Tails) we can prolly say that Sonic CD takes place some time after Sonic 1, but before Sonic 2. Which is fitting, since Sonic CD was based on a very early Sonic 2 engine (or so I have come to understand through listening to the researcher forums) So, we can conclude that the order most likely runs like this: Sonic 1 -> Sonic CD -> Sonic 2 -> Sonic 3 -> Sonic & Knuckles -> Sonic Adventure -> Sonic Adventure 2 -> Sonic Heroes -> Shadow The Hedgehog In the end though the lack of specific dates means that these games could happen at pretty much any time, although we specifically had flashbacks to Sonic CD in Sonic Adventure. Also in S3&K, when Metal mimicked Eggmans ball-and-chain attack from Sonic 1, we can certainly assume that that indicates that Sonic 1 came prior to Sonic 3&K, same thing applies to the Metropolis boss mimicking by Metal as well. I doubt that Eggman would copy an attack that one of his machines failed to defeat Sonic with.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 27, 2005 20:55:38 GMT -5
I'd buy just about any main-stream sonic game, simply because I like Sonic and not because it was going to be the next-generation-break-all-the-barriers-revolutionize-the-industry game that serious gamers want. Isn't this the type of attitude that promotes developers not putting their 150% in popular franchises simply because it is a popular franchise meaning it will sell even though it could be mediocre crap? Perhaps, but since I have enjoyed all the main-stream games so far, I think It's done pretty well. If you have a problem with that... get off my cloud please^^
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 26, 2005 21:50:34 GMT -5
Not really. Square-Enix, when they release screenshots, are usually 70% FMV footage. Microsoft was the first, if I recall, to specifically engineer a special "Screenshot" mode into their devkits that take a single, super-high-resolution photo of the game being played (usually at 1024x768 or above). Soon, Sony followed suit and now even Nintendo is doing it. ahh, I get what you're saying. Didn't know they did that.. As for the size of the guns, lets not forget that Sonic is something of the order of three feet tall, Shadow prolly about the same. These guns were clearly not made for him, but for humans and therefor are huge in comparison to our legal-midget-sized friends here. Now, how Shadow could fire something like a human-scale bazooka and not be sent flying by the kick, I don't know and don't pretend to know XD Frankly, I think it still looks pretty cool.. but then, popular opinion can take a flying leap as far as I am concerned. I'd buy just about any main-stream sonic game, simply because I like Sonic and not because it was going to be the next-generation-break-all-the-barriers-revolutionize-the-industry game that serious gamers want.
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Post by Keith T. Hemari on Aug 26, 2005 19:32:55 GMT -5
"Hey!" said a Sega Represenative, "Microsoft started this trend of releasing screenshots at resolutions far larger than the game actually plays at, and now even Nintendo is jumping on the bandwagon! Let's do the same!" Wasn't that actually Sony with the Final Fantasy series? as noted in number 3 on the Gamers Manifesto (found here: www.pointlesswasteoftime.com/games/manifesto.html )
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