🚀Learn how to make a BETTER #shmup !🚀
It is the beginning of a new tutorial series for more experienced developers looking to enhance their skills. We'll go trough all the steps to create a PROPER shmup on #pico8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSx2YHy9Gp8
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On this episode we do a deep dive into the visuals of videogame shooting. We demystify phenomena like the Wagon-wheel effect and Strobing
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On this episode we start a multi-episode arc about how to create a sublime explosion. Today we study explosions IRL and in animation and lay down the foundations.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=UXICxGco3LA
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On this episode the quest for the perfect explosion continues as we explore our options to do the shading with #pico8 's dithering capabilities
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On this episode our plan for the perfect explosions comes together as we create clusters of blobs which we shall call "grapes". This is how the juice is made!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_89O9Atj8Q
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On this episode we polish the animation of our explosion grapes to make more of that sweet, sweet explosion juice
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On this episode we add color to our explosion and figure out a way to animate it for those beautiful fire color gradients!
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This episode is the finale of our explosion subplot. We finally have our fully procedural, fully juiced-up explosion. Don't tell Musk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LNLwVs4csU
@krystman Oh wait, maybe I'm misspeaking here. This is for your shmup, right? Top-down? If so my bad, it's not good advice after all.
But if there's a Y component intended to indicate height, I still think it'd be good.
@krystman Closest I could find to what I was thinking of is at 1:10 in this video. Sorry I wish I could find a non-war video, but that's the nature of the subject. No visible gruesomeness at least.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPJSsXnd7YI&t=1m10s
There will related Sun videos of other explosions that proceed in various similar, but different, manners. Maybe you can find a good method there if this doesn't suit you. I just think a gray/yellow mix works well rather than yellow->gray.
@krystman Not necessarily dark, but gray or even white. Basically not fiery yellow and orange throughout every frame. See at 1:10 in that video (helps to play at 0.25x) that you get a brief fireball that erupts gray smoke upwards and then dies out somewhere in the middle of it.
Like I said, there are multiple different ways this can go. Here are a few more with timestamps:
0:18 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xn_reyXARA&t=18s
0:13 here, top-down drone shot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cLb-hAR_MY&t=13s
@krystman I think generally you'd start all bright yellow and orange, or even white, and then go for variation as the flame dies out towards the middle or side or even top (could be procedural) while the original sprites turn gray as if extinguished into ash/smoke.
Might be dependent on what's being bombed too.
@Felice Yeah so at the beginning I'm going over the influences I was using. Generally I think we need to distinguish between actual explosions and Hollywood explosions. Real = brief combustion, lots of smoke. Hollywood = focus on long, billowing fireballs
@Felice My code is here
https://github.com/Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-advanced-shmup/blob/555a96795a6fbffbe9da52e84d74407aaa880cd3/expl.p8
As for the Alice, you got to ask her. She's AliceNewtype0079 on Discord
This is a repository of the Lazy Devs Academy Pico-8 Hero Advancved Shmup Tutorial. - lazydevs-pico8-advanced-shmup/expl.p8 at 555a96795a6fbffbe9da52e84d74407aaa880cd3 · Krystman/lazydevs-pico8-adv...
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