There's 3 parts of the code you're going to want to look at for that problem:

Verticalfollow is a parameter which goes from 0 to 1. It defines how much the camera will follow a player each time he jumps. So like, for MVC it'd be higher like "0.9" or "0.8" while for something with less camera movement "0.3" would suffice. There's always a lot of debate over this, I change mine every time because for me it depends on the stage.

Floortension defines how high a character must jump in order for the camera to follow him. This will go with the character, so if you like camera movement, have a low value. If not, use a high value like "80" or "90" if you want movement, use something like "30" or "20"

Tension should be left at 50. It's the horizontal distance a character must be from the edge before camera starts moving. This may be your main issue.

I learned most of the base codes now. I say we have a party to celebrate this grand achievement and milestone in my career as a rookie stage maker
I'll post a screen of the stage when I get the chance.

Okay there's been a whole bunch of problems with BG's and the whole train stage idea. I'm thinking about going back to the original plan to make it a elevator stage.

Honestly, mugen is being a strain on my mind for the last couple of days. I'm gonna take a break since I got loads of school stuff coming up.

Do what you gotta do. Don't force yourself to work on it.

Good luck with your school work, bro!

Well its not really a break, more like using less time on mugen stuff =/

Well, I got a bit more motivation after that chat with Mark last night and I made this. The original train/elevator idea isn't working well so I'm going to change it to something else, maybe a parallax? It's still the same stage so don't you go calling me a quitter Mark
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here's the concept so far,

Spoiler:

got any suggestions? Both of you guys suggested the glass barrier idea and Mark told me about the gray scale --> index --> recolor thing but I'll do that once I decide the concept.

Yo Mark, do you still have the original material that you used to make the ground and the pillar things?

Got any ideas? :mcmahon:

Less blur, floor perspective is quite flat itself, parallax might just be more work for you, lol. But a good experience.

WattaWright wrote:
It's still the same stage so don't you go calling me a quitter Mark
:orton:

:sandow:

WattaWright wrote:
Yo Mark, do you still have the original material that you used to make the ground and the pillar things?

Floor sprite was taken from Aesthetic's/Waffles' resources thread.
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As for the pillars, it was taken from the Chaos Code sprite rips by Insanius.
It can be found in his website. Just Google "Logical Bends".

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Got any ideas? :mcmahon:

- Rain/Storm/Ashfall
- Smoke
- Flying Vehicles

You can always just use ticks and have everything move upward using tileing and velocity. Also, now that you're part of the team I'm moving your topic to the team projects.

I actually tried the tiling idea in this before. It was actually pretty good but =/

Anyways, my plan now is to rest from Fighter Factory and just stock up on stage building materials, I think that's why I've been having a tough time.

Im gonna get waffle's stuff and those sprite rips from logical bends, is there anything else I should download? Don't worry about photoshop stuff since I'm stocking up on those as well.

Just check JustNoPoint's forum, they have a lot of resources there. Any resource board from any forum. Spriters Database, Spriters Resource, DeviantArt (for stage images, and gfx images), Konachan (stage images), Zerochan (stage images), Google (for everything),

[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] (there's some stage images here, you've got to do digging though, lots of cool stuff.)

Any program: Particle Illusion, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Gimp, Paint, Blender (difficult but it's good for 3D stuff).

You're the man GLB

Thanks bro

Okay heres some updates...

1. Added a nice banner for the thread :wolfcool:

2. My mugen stage making resources accidentally got trashed so I basically lost everything with the new WIP I had going, I even had a major update to show but it's gone now

3. With death comes birth and so I've actually started the concept for a new WIP. I will upload the screen as soon as I get it done.

4. I had some stuff backed up on my laptop so I didn't actually lose everything.

Thanks for all the support and feedback bro's :You Rock:

WattaWright wrote:1. Added a nice banner for the thread :wolfcool:

Looks great!

WattaWright wrote:
2. My mugen stage making resources accidentally got trashed so I basically lost everything with the new WIP I had going, I even had a major update to show but it's gone now

That happens, bro. Welcome to the club.

WattaWright wrote:
3. With death comes birth and so I've actually started the concept for a new WIP. I will upload the screen as soon as I get it done.

WattaWright wrote:
4. I had some stuff backed up on my laptop so I didn't actually lose everything.

Good luck with your future WIPs, bro!

Okay here's the new stage.

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Bros, the colorloss is pretty bad so I'll RGB the city BG next.

The ground seems fine so far, but as you can see, the cage is retarded. I need some help with that in particular.

NEW:
The cage should be much much smaller, not in height but in width, the holes on it are way too big to the characters in comparison. Background needs adjustments, very lossy, cage looks like you fucked up indexing or something. Characters should be put lower, ground should be a tad lighter, a darkness overlay could work quite well, some lights inside the building windows would be cool and some properly used blackjack layerno1 items would be cool. Some spotlights that don't glow but also move around would be nice, and so would some planes or jets. A light rain could work as well.


Tengoku:
It's pretty good, I'd call it about 98%. It's a very great stage, I can see the effort put into it and it's refreshing. Perhaps you could get some of the petal blossoms a tad bit more randomized, maybe have it fall past layerno1 occasionally.

Well here's what Im gonna do for the new one.

-Add glow animations to most of the lights but have one flickering on and off
-Add a light rain with squirls ripples on the ground
-Have a spotlight moving around behind the cage
-I'll try adding like a helicopter with tiling
-I'll also try animating that train

Don't worry about the colorloss in the BG, I'll fix that.

Could you explain how to do the darkness overlay and the blackjack thing?

The overlay is quite simple;

You're going to create a 640x480 image with a solid black color. After you've done this, create a 641x481 pink/whatever 0 color image and cut-paste the black on top, index, set your pink to 0.

Now in mugen, you're going to want something like this as your last code in the .def:


[BG Overlay]
type = normal
spriteno = 0,0 <--- Obviously edited to your use.
start = 0,0 <--- Do not change.
delta = 0,0 <--- Do not change.
trans = addalpha <--- Do not change.
alpha = 190,185 <----- Edited to your liking.
layerno = 1 <---- Do not change.

Nice WIP there Watta, keep up the good work.

Thanks Leo!

So after sorting out some colorloss issues, I'm proud to announce my next WIP now that most of the concept has been sorted out.

It's called "...Before the City Sleeps" (ty to Alp for the name)

Here's a screen of the concept (might tweak a few things later)

Spoiler:

I still need to put this update into the actual stage itself. I'll post more screens once I do so

Very awesome looking WIP you got there.

Thanks man. Your PSD saved my ass xD

Regarding your problem with the cage mesh, I suggest that you do this method. It's not that easy but it's doable through trial and error.

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Alternative:
Step 1. Get a cage sprite from your sprite resources sire, or someone's sff file. (Make sure to credit)


Step 2. Open it in your image editing software (I'm guessing that you use Photoshop)


Step 3. Using the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] tool, select the empty space of the sprite. Then invert the selection.


Step 4. make a new layer. Using the Paint bucket tool, fill in the selected region.






Good luck with your project!

Ok, I understand that method except for the part where he makes the image go really white

Nevermind, I'm trying it out now.

Edit:Shit Mark...it worked :You Rock:

I highly suggest you use ExShadow's alias rather than Jean's (it's also in the tips tricks and tutorials section)

Jean's alias tutorial is wrong.