A small bonus video to say thanks for the many new people that have shown up here!
Barrier visual effects! Little extra visual touches when you activate an elemental barrier ability.
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Sonic Studio is officially canceled.
I'd like to announce its simple and fun replacement:
Drawing a stage in MSPaint: and tracing it with your finger Studio!
What object interactions do you want to see in
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?
For example:
"I want rings to bounce off springs and bumpers!"
(But more creative 😉).
Even if you havent seen a certain object confirmed so far, would be happy to hear what y'all want!
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About Sonic Studio's Release (not an announcement):
SS will release when the editor is fully functional and I have a fair amount of zones feature-complete. I will potentially add more to it after initial release if I decide to release it before all planned content is done. (1/3)
Are you curious about any aspects of the already announced features, objects, mechanics, artwork, or zones of Sonic Studio you'd like to see a blog post about?
Ofc, as new features are announced, they will also be covered on there.
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Psst: Big reveals and updates are on their way still.
Meanwhile, I created a blog, and wrote a lil post about the main challenges of creating Spring Yard's visuals:
Let me know if you're interested in more posts like this in addition to updates.
You can save your poor clicking hand from adding thousands of shape nodes for lush zones...
In Sonic Studio, grass bumps automatically along terrain edges! (the exact look/execution of this is subject to change)
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So, decorations are going to be automatic
In previous vids you might have seen trees being added individually but this is simply no fun to do, espec. for an entire stage. Working on ways to be able to customise this as much as possible.
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You can save your poor clicking hand from adding thousands of shape nodes for lush zones...
In Sonic Studio, grass bumps automatically along terrain edges! (the exact look/execution of this is subject to change)
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Correct!
Marble Zone (Sunset) is inspired by a version of Marble Zone with "Reversed Frequencies" (where low notes become high notes and vice versa)
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brings Marble Sunset to life with his own flair and compositions, and produced the masterpiece you hear today.
Psst: Big reveals and updates are on their way still.
Meanwhile, I created a blog, and wrote a lil post about the main challenges of creating Spring Yard's visuals:
Let me know if you're interested in more posts like this in addition to updates.
The recently shown Corner Curve tool also allows for curving corners with irregular edges. It will still produce perfect arcs for straight edges, or if the existing curve isn't too wacky.
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New Tool Alert!
The Corner Curve tool will allow you to drag individual shape corners (connecting 2 straight edges) and round them off! Both concave and convex.
aka: Instant quarterpipes!
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Sonic Studio's original inspiration: Sonic Level Creator
An official stage editor from PlaySega back in 2009 where you could place premade chunks and objects.
Also obvious shoutout to
@ClassicSonicSim
which does the same thing but 1000x better
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Sonic Studio is officially canceled.
I'd like to announce its simple and fun replacement:
Drawing a stage in MSPaint: and tracing it with your finger Studio!
Here's how you can customise your stage decorations in Sonic Studio!
(Wip! Changes affect selected edges. First menu item changes the surface style like grass/edge/border etc which has been shown off before)
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You can add curves with the pen tool. Neglected to show it off in the main video, so here's a demo of that in action!
You can curve a new line by dragging after placing it. You can also undo your placed points if you make mistakes.
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The Recent Item Palette for quick access to your favourite items.
Pretty standard functionality, but never before seen in Studio so here you go.
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What existing Classic Sonic Items / Gimmicks / Hazards / Badniks / Etc do you want to see in Sonic Studio?
Feel free to leave a suggestion or list of suggestions in the replies! Even if you think it's obvious, maybe it's not to me!
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Ahh, the smell of Mega Mack in the air.
(DEFINITELY not final terrain art or ...anything, this is quite unfinished!
Enjoy the early preview and poorly remade ChemPlant)
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You can load an overlay image to aid in building stages you've planned out elsewhere, or replicating existing maps from other games.
(Everything here is heavily work in progress)
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Marble with its signature hilly hills automatically (more hilly than GHZ!). Here's an example of some of those in action - and some flat grass for yall who might want to disable it, yes you can.
Shots of the editor in replies
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You can save your poor clicking hand from adding thousands of shape nodes for lush zones...
In Sonic Studio, grass bumps automatically along terrain edges! (the exact look/execution of this is subject to change)
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#SonicTheHedgehog
Sonic Studio is back on YouTube!
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I'm uploading some archive videos there, then re-uploading some Twitter videos.
New videos that would normally go here will be posted there (and linked here)
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There's mixed feedback to this theme.
The goal is a fun silhouette challenge for this one zone theme where you can use lighting in cool ways, and I want that to remain.
Please let me know your thoughts on how the implementation could improve! I'll consider all feedback.
Sonic Studio 1 month after beginning development of the current project.
From September 2017.
No items, no curves, no graphics. Many glitches.
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New Tool Alert!
The Corner Curve tool will allow you to drag individual shape corners (connecting 2 straight edges) and round them off! Both concave and convex.
aka: Instant quarterpipes!
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Official artwork for Burrobot has yellow instead of red, should they be yellow in Sonic Studio?
(No, I'm not adding an option to switch the colour, lol)
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A figure 8 loop design conceived purely for a Sonic Studio youtube video is included in before unseen concept art from way back in the early development of Sonic 2.
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Anyone here ever used a typical tile/chunk based Sonic level editor/hacking tool? If so, what did you like and/or dislike about the experience? Just curious!
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So update about updates:
Originally planned, you'd have had many detailed updates on the project by now.
Unfortunately, though, things just take longer than hoped.
As... I'm sure you all well know by now.
To anticipate some comments/concerns:
-The editor does have SFX - though I replaced the audio to make the cuts less annoying.
-You can still rotate springs, what you see in the item menu are just handy presets.
(1/2)
Updates may be slower for a few months - but don't worry, many cool reveals years in the making are planned to be shown in the near future that will change everything...
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Official artwork for Burrobot has yellow instead of red, should they be yellow in Sonic Studio?
(No, I'm not adding an option to switch the colour, lol)
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I hope you can all be patient and in the meantime enjoy the fluctuating flow of updates from this one man development team of this free fan project. Thanks for all the love and feedback so far since 2017, the patient and supportive fans of this project are what drive me! (4/4)