Topic: CV AOS Future Alucard

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

- UPDATE -

Well here is a bit of a update with the hack, it is pretty much 99% done and I'm just trying to figure out a way to get the mist transformation to work correctly since I ran into issues with getting a correct palette to look right ingame, I may just do away with it and release the hack as is but I plan to give it one more shot real soon and the hack should be released before the end of the weekend.

Here is a gamelay video, for those who don't like filters they will have to wait until the official hack release video that I am going to make real soon to release the hack and show off more features, in that video there will be no filters.

[MooMilk]

I guess there's only so much you can do with the limited animation. Not as smooth as SOTN, that's for sure.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I guess there's only so much you can do with the limited animation. Not as smooth as SOTN, that's for sure.

What are you referring to specifically?

And the smoothness/fluidity loss may be due to the free cam I used, it looks much more fluid ingame on the emulator but the FPS is lower with that litecam which makes the animation not look as good in the video.

[Jop]

I can see that the walk and the wolf form lose some parts of the animation, most of the time looks like the wolf slide XD.

 Good to know more of your project.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

I can see that the walk and the wolf form lose some parts of the animation, most of the time looks like the wolf slide XD.

 Good to know more of your project.

Yea that may be due to the panther run and the lack of animations for it, the wolf only has 4 animations and they all move really fast thanks to how fast the panther soul is so its not going to look that great in motion since some of those animations move so fast that you barely catch a glimpse of them lol, the low FPS for the video did not help this either.

Its the same with the walk animation, he is moving so fast since technically its supposed to be the the speed of running and as such his animations are going so fast that you can't really see the fluidity of it clearly.

I still think it came out nice, and thanks.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

-UPDATE -


Ok so here is the long delayed update concerning this hack lol, I am pretty much at 98% done with the project at this point, All I am waiting on is for caminopreacher to get done with the story and also how to figure out a way to get the palette for the Alucard dialogue portrait loaded correctly.

Here is a picture of how the portrait looks currently,


As you can see part of the palette did not load on some parts of the image at all which is why some of it is see through while the rest just is not mapped correctly, worse comes to worse I may just have to leave it as black and white, at least that way its not Genya Arikado's portrait for a Alucard hack.

[MooMilk]

Can't you just roll it back to another version? You must have backups right?

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Im at work on my cell phone so i cant get in to details now but i fixed the issue and im using a new portrait instead of the SOTN one, will show pictures and give more details later when i go on my lunch break.

[MooMilk]

Ok, good work.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

-Update-

Ok so I was having a problem with getting the image portrait replaced correctly because I was using Tile Molester to edit the palette instead of Advanced Palette Editor, once I switched over the colors loaded ok, the problem was that the SOTN Alucard portrait used far to many colors in its palette to look passable (I think it was over 20 colors in the palette and GBA only supports 16) so I went and used a different Alucard portrait instead.

Here are some images of some of the portraits replaced,




The top one is from the future Alucard hack, I used the same image as the one in my youtube video but like the SOTN portrait it uses so many colors that it did not load perfectly, but in comparison to the SOTN one that I was using this one came out looking passable so I decided to keep it.

The second image is from a hack I plan on making after this that I am going to call Castlevania Dawn of Symphony which is going to replace Soma's sprites with new Alucard sympony of the night inspired ones although they will be more unique and different from his from Symphony of the night since they are being made from scratch by Julian/Jop.

[MooMilk]

Looking forward to the SOTN one.

[VladCT]

The portrait for the first one kinda looks like it was squashed horizontally.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

The portrait for the first one kinda looks like it was squashed horizontally.

All portraits have to be resized to fit the native gba portrait resolution of 78x78 otherwise its not going to load right ingame if its to big, I will look into seeing if I can somehow touchup and fix the image myself to make it more presentable but in the meantime if you guys know anyone would would be willing to make a drawing of the original image using only 16 colors so it loads correctly within gba that would be great.

[VladCT]

You should redo the cropping on the first one so that it's square to begin with.

[DarkPrinceAlucard]

Update

Ok I managed to tweak the Future Alucard portrait myself, first I decreased the colors for the palette to exactly the amount supported by gba (It had around 40 different colors lol) so now its only working on a palette of 16 colors, because of that the quality of it is not perfectly aligned with the original but thanks to lowering it down instead of importing it as is I was able to get a much more better put together portrait than the last one, I also used cropping for the image in order to keep the image as close to possible as its original shape and not have it squashed down to fit the 78x78 resolution like I did with the previous portrait,

Here is my work, I think its the best I'm going to get at this point given the limited palette, at least its better than what I had before.