Saturday Morning Adventures Developer's Diaries and Teasers

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, and welcome to the first developer's diary for my new project, Saturday Morning Adventures! 

Developer's Diary #1: The Punk Frogs Vs. Leatherhead
This one is all about building some new characters for the mod, The Punk Frogs and Leatherhead, from TMNT.
https://bentongrey.wordpress.com/2024/06/15/saturday-morning-adventures-developers-diary-1-the-punk-frogs-and-leatherhead/

Also, I created a short video of the test fight between these characters to show them in action.

[cranlox]

It seems nice ! There is a version more similar to the frogs from the animated series, but the 4 are not already imported, only 1. Maybe they look better.
It also looks excellent, it was just a comment.

[BentonGrey]

Hey Cranlox, thanks!  Where is a different version of a Punk Frog?  I haven't seen one.

[BentonGrey]

Great news on Mondo Gecko!  SA was more of a genius than I thought, and he made Mondo compatible with male_basic keys, so I've got all the animation choices I need.  The only real issues are that he doesn't have a melee_idle, so there's not a neutral position that will reset his board to his hand if he goes from, say, riding to punching with an imported key.  This leaves the board on the ground, which really doesn't look too bad.  I don't know if this is possible, but if a skoper could manage to make a melee_idle deal with the board, then the anims would be pretty seamless.  The last issue is that his "run" animation has him riding his board, which is great, but it has him hovering a bit above the ground, which can look a bit awkward.  In the same vein, the board is bigger when he's standing on it than when he's holding it.  I don't know if those things can be tweaked, but if they could then I'd say he'd be about perfect.  I've already been able to import all the animations I need, and I've got him built.

[cranlox]

Hey Cranlox, thanks!  Where is a different version of a Punk Frog?  I haven't seen one.

here!
https://www.freedomreborn.net/forums/index.php?topic=48949.3420
page 115
The work is by Style who also made the turtle truck, which I also made on my part, basically the one that is mine is imported as I did with all the Cars characters that is why it is static without animations "which it should have"

[Randomdays]

I can't do anything with most of that, but I might be able to get the boards to be the same size.

[BentonGrey]

RD, that'd be great!  I've uploaded my new tweaked version to the working folder:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/q6czxovhl3twb4m/TMNT_MondoGecko.zip/file

Thanks, Cranlox!  I had forgotten about him.  Now I remember that Style imported a bunch of the meshes from that TMNT mobile game.  They look great, but the art style is a little too different from the rest of my resources, so I think it would look a bit odd.  However, I'm wondering if we might in some way be able to use that mesh's head in combination with Daglob's skopes.  That's something for me to think on.

[BentonGrey]

Howdy folks, and welcome to another developer's diary, complete with a new teaser video, this time featuring half (roughly) of the Mighty Mutanimals!


Developer's Dairy #2: Meet the Mighty Mutanimals
Introducing Ray Filet/Man Ray, Mondo Gecko, Leatherhead, and Ace Duck!

If you'd like to learn about these characters and discover how I went about designing them for the mod, you can read the developer's diary HERE!

If you'd like to see them in action, check out the video here:

[deanjo2000]

Very cool   I do like reading these and watching the videos.

[BentonGrey]

Awesome!  I'm really glad you're enjoying them, Dean!  You've done a huge amount to make this project possible, and I am extremely grateful for your contributions.  In fact, the next update is going to contain several assets you might recognize...


Howdy folks!  I've got a new developer's diary out with a new teaser video.  This one features a new batch of characters: Metalhead, Rex-1, Muckman, Usagi Yojimbo, Groundchuck, Dirtbag, General Traag, Lieutenant Granitor, and the rank-and-file rock soldiers!

Robots, Rock Soldiers, and Radical Mutants

Here's the video:

[Randomdays]

I've been out a few days. Checking on the numerous giants to work with for Krang, Gren's Giant Man has both ground bashing animations and foot stomping ones. I'll be trying to work with that.

[deanjo2000]

  More awesomeness!!!

[WyldFyre]

I obviously didn't watch enough TMNT over the years. 

These characters are amazing, even if I don't know who half of them are. (I do remember Usagi Yojimbo though.)

Amazing work Benton and Dean!   

Cross posted a bit from Dean's skin thread.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, guys!  Haha, yeah, WF, we're getting into more obscure characters now, for sure.  A lot of these guys only appeared in one or two episodes of the old cartoon, if at all.  If you read the classic Archie series, you might recognize some of them from there.  If not, they're probably pretty odd!

I'm going to wrap up my TMNT characters pretty soon and start on another setting that folks will probably be pretty familiar with!

[BentonGrey]

Quick questions for anyone interested in this project.  Given its literally cartoony subject matter and fairly cartoony aesthetic, would folks rather have the vanilla trails after arrows and the like or more realistically just have the projectiles themselves?

[deanjo2000]

Id go with the trails as its more cartoony and fits better i think.

[WyldFyre]

Id go with the trails as its more cartoony and fits better i think.

I agree.

[Randomdays]

Same

[BentonGrey]

Thanks guys, trails have it!

[BentonGrey]

Alright folks, here's this week's Developer's Diary:
Mutants, Aliens, and The Foot

And here's a video of the new characters in action, on my new Technodrome invasion map!

[cranlox]

It looks very cute on you, I don't know the powers of the mutantman, in your version he seems quite powerful

[deanjo2000]

Always a good read 

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, guys! 

Yeah, Cranlox, I've probably got him too powerful.  But, he makes for a really interesting character in the game.  I've been toying with ideas ot make him a bit weaker and more challenging to use.  I'm tempted to give him the attribute that would make him take progressive damage when he was out of energy, as Mutagen Man is dependent on a steady flow of mutagen to survive, but I'd have to cut his Lesser Regeneration.

[BentonGrey]

Hey folks, looking for some feedback: I made some custom "Turtle Mine" FX for the Party Wagon to deploy, using the Koopa shells that SA made.  What do y'all think?  Too Mario?  Too cutesy?  Cool?

[cranlox]

yes definitely very mario. I make some turtle-themed mines or grenades if you want and I'll send you to see if you want to choose any.

[BentonGrey]

Awesome, thanks, Cranlox!  That would be great!

[cranlox]

here's a quick little tmnt disk
https://www.mediafire.com/file/d5k9v91vbayhupi/zxTMNTdiskBomb.rar/file

a tmnt nail bomb and some garbage
https://www.mediafire.com/file/umrgrmiupfbvkeg/zxTMNTnailbomb.rar/file

a simple grenade tmnt classic
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2pwrtf02ds4wdlt/zxTMNTclassicGrenade.rar/file

[BentonGrey]

These are great, Canlox!  I think the disk one will work well for the mine.  Can you give me a version about twice as big that doesn't spin? 

[cranlox]

Ok, I'll send it to you today.

[BentonGrey]

Thanks, man!