- Projects Tasklist

I'd like to learn how to design some electronic devices. Specifically, gamepads and other peripherals.

I'm gonna put some of this stuff into a separate Task List, so I can set different column views too.

A thread on good map design for RPG style games.

From there, just make attempts to learn some of the specific softwares.

My goal to learn these softwares is to use the Camel Rider animation as abase, and attempt to recreate them in various formats.

But before jumping in to the Alison Camel Rider animation, go on Youtube and follow some basic tutorials on how to learn a good workflow in each SOFTWARE first.

Best to have solid fundamentals.

Current Progress: Lesson 3

Playlist Link:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn3ukorJv4vs_eSJUQPxBRaDS8PrVmIri


This tutorial has a step by step process on the basics of Blender. This guy's channel also has TONS of other useful tutorials.

Brandon sent me this link. It looks like a pretty straightforward guide to mapping a texture 1:1 pixel style to a cube.

A good start. Let's check it out.

I want to see if I can recreate a shader that does shading similar to Mario & Luigi game's artwork.

For a possible video:
https://youtu.be/dtdx4GRI3dc

Check out this mod. It basically does it, but with pure textures. I want to see if I can get dynamic shaders.

Regardless, this is a good base to start from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3MrxQS7PI&t=0m45s

And the Mod page here:
https://gamebanana.com/skins/148139

A good video sample on how to recreate the art style, in 2D.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnfbZxMiLi8

See if you can figure out how to do a thick brush stroke outline shader.

Try to recreate this style.

A cool guide on how the Jet Set style works.

Interesting example link.

Success!

Basically completed in under 2 hours.

It was a simple program, but has lots of use.

The Sonic Mania sprite extractor program I built.

It's basically done, just needs a bit of polish and exporting.

I need to write some more notes here, as well as some tasks below.

The goal here is to create the ability to mesh-deform a sprite simply and quickly.

A simple program which displays a hotkey image helper on your second monitor.

It automatically switches based on the current window focus.

The idea is to create pulsating digital button frequencies using an analog joystick. This will allow any "key" to be simulated in an analog way.

A program which can remap tiles GID values, for easy organizing.

I need to settle on a final name for this program.

I think "Tiled Sorter" is kinda working right now. I like it.

The JASC PAL pallette file converter that I wrote.

Lets you convert PNG images into JASC palette files.

This program is basically done. I just need to give it a few quick look-overs, and then package it up and publish.

Last Task:

Implement some sort of "project folder" structure. Some way to organize the fonts, and categorize them. And allow simple import and use.

Some ideas:

Use the Palette Selector from PIX ARMY KNIFE as a template.

I want to re-work the "Nifflas Sample Browser" into my own sample browser.

I could likely redisgn it from scratch, to better suit my own use case.

Some possible features to add:

* Icons for samples, to better visually distinguish them.
* Waveform images, also for better distinguishing.
* Tagging maybe?
* Some sort of "clipboard" list, where it saves a few different samples so you can quickly compare.

Map Colors to a texture, which can be used to store level maps, or other data, as BITMAPS (png's).

Make a simple tool that lets you change the color values for windows in Window's Registry.

Basic walk through on firefox extension.

Make an extension version of my bookmarklet?

Maybe in the near future.

Info on turning VIDEO files into GIFs, and vice versa.

http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html#content

Link to resources for writing native windows apps.

This list entry isn't a project itself, just a resource.

Not a program, but published on Itch.io in the same way.

It's a modification to a program, so I'll just treat it like the other programs I make.

This one is basically complete. Not much else to add -- unless there's a major GUI change in Aseprite.

I kinda started this, but never finished it. I might want to create a long loop, or possibly dub over some poetry or vocals of some sort.

That massive photoshop file where I dumped all my character sketches from highschool on upward?

Finish that.

Use those characters in animation shorts or something?

Scan any loose drawings or sketches.

Animate this!

A real simple head turn animation, in a detailed anime manga style.

My goal here is to recreate the look of the book, and make something as "officially anime" as I possibly can.

As far as tasks lists, I think it's probably best to keep bigger project tasks in their own ToDoList files. It just makes it easier to see at-a-glance.

But make sure to copy it over to this master file occassionally, and when done!

NOTE:
I need to add some secondary animation with the hair. I'll probably come back to this after some more practice.

https://youtu.be/KR32pHIE7mk

I'll probably do a couple loops just in this one Timeline.

Then I can integrate them into the broader 3:02 minute song loop. But since the BPM is basically consistent in my FL render, the animation loops should be consistent too.

I want to get back to this one eventually. I need to figure out how I'm gonna do that.

I started this in Flash years ago, then moved it to Toon Boom. But I may eventually port it over to Clip Studio, or Blender's Grease Pencil.

I don't have experience with Grease Pencil yet, but it looks like it might be a very solid choice.

I should clean this animation up, and make a polished sprite out of it.

I have a bunch of old sprite sheets that I should convert into ASE files.

https://twitter.com/rathaelos/status/1365469699920822279

Some modified Sonic Mania sprites, that I've tentatively called "Nu Blu Sonic" mod.

I like to put some effort into this every now and then, but it isn't a high priority.

I could probably make a simple GIF out of my Majora's Mask voxel thing.

This website has up-to-date sizes for the various banner and profile icons of different social media sites.

Useful for reference.

A series of keyboard and joystick assets. Can be used for anything.

I'll be making use of them in my own projects too.

I published this on pixel joint, but never posted it around anywhere else.

Update: I posted on Twitter and Instagram. Will probably post around a few more sites.

Tilesets for GameBoy Land mockup.

I'm able to define a horz/vert image in SkinStudio, but it doesn't seem to actually load the Vert image when the taskbar is vertical.

So I guess I'll just have to modify the Horz buttons to how I want them.

A pixel art template for making aluminum drink cans -- like soda, coffee, or sparkling water.

I also made a version that's setup like a texture map, for easy use on low poly 3D models.

Some sort of custom can design. The other two cans I did were studies based on real product designs I bought at a store.

But I want to make my own non-copyright can designs too, for fun and personal use.

I haven't been time tracking this, since it's not really my own art. It's kind of more of a relaxing hobby. But I would estimate that I've spent probably over 100 hours, at least.

I might add some subtasks under this task though, just to get a rough idea of what % completion I'm at.

Practicing illustration, and using the 3D model poser in Clip Studio.

I didn't track this for most of it. And since it's experimental, the time doesn't really mean much.

EDIT: I need to just add the sword, and finish this up. It wouldn't take long, I just need to block off some time and do it.

Draw this character. It's really cute.

https://twitter.com/graskip

I need to fill out more info here later.

I've done a bit of artwork so far.

This tasklist has all the steps I took to create the Goddess Statue.

My goal was to make a mold, and quickly make duplicates of the statue. But that didn't really work out, as the shape made it difficult to mold.

Regardless, this task contains all the steps necessary to recreate a Goddess statue, as well as time estimates.

This was mostly a hobby project for myself. Not sure if I'm gonna publish this, or in what capacity.

I might even sell the thing. Not sure yet.

Also demo reel?

I might just use this site, instead of the one at ByetHost6.

Honestly, the PHP and other integration of ByetHost6 would probably be superior. But there's something really stimulating about having to work within the constraints of "pure HTML" and simple static pages.

Graphics, sounds, and other resources.

Search your own site to check how pages appear in search.

WebP is consistently larger filesize, with comparable (or worse) image quality to both GIF and APNG.

Lorem Ipsum of various sizes, pre-formated as paragraphs, lists, etc.

Useful for web prototyping.

Generate CSS Grids automatically with this tool.

Found this site at this reddit URL:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/lsslbl/ytmdl_web_a_webapp_that_lets_you_download_music/

Make sure dark reader is off.

Also a good design for such a simple page. I really love the colors and simplicity of it all.

Info on turning VIDEO files into GIFs, and vice versa.

http://blog.pkh.me/p/21-high-quality-gif-with-ffmpeg.html#content

Emulate the wii shop HTML Design.

Online Javascript Programs and experiments.

It seems to me CodePen will be invaluable for making small HTML project pages.

2021.02.26

I can't really focus right now, so I'll come back to this later.

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This is a layout I generated using the tool at:

https://grid.layoutit.com/

I should attempt to write the layout from scratch, instead of copying the Example layout. This way I'll learn it better, and will understand the examples better in the future.

An example file I found online. Pretty robust.

Generate CSS Grids automatically with this tool.

(this task is a copy, delete this when done. It's just here as a quick reference)

Try to create a cool planet atlas, with options.

With options to change time period.

The planets in our solar system.

This is basically exactly what my "Cocaine accessories" project was, except in realtime HTML5, instead of pre-rendered in After Effects. (Which takes a ton of time)

https://substack.net/

This Neocities page is LOADED with all sorts of visual effects pages. This is EXACTLY the kind of pages I want to create.

https://www.vizzed.com/vizzedboard/retro/user_screenshots/saves12/120424/SNES--Super%20Mario%20RPG%20Expansion%20v11_Apr12%2011_41_34.png

I want to create an RPG style "9-slice" message box.

Here's some resources:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/border-image-slice

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css3_pr_border-image-slice.asp

Info on Stop n Swop:
https://banjokazooie.fandom.com/wiki/Stop_%27n%27_Swop

SoundFX packs! :
https://www.therwp.com/downloads

God dammit. I wasted several hours because Aseprite has a stupid GIF palatte crushing glitch. Low contrast indexed images (like GIF) get quantized poorly, and look like shit.

So I tried a GIMP, and I run into a damn glith where GIMP won't render any animations with the "replace" parameter. It just refuses to work, and creates a huge smear of all the frames. It also plays at a slightly faster speed than it should.

Fucking god damn waste of time.

I'm just gonna export the egg gifs from Aseprite, and fix them later. But note that this is a major bug.

See if I can find a way to copy tumblr's way of laying out images on a post. Since I have that "experimental" tumblr page, which would integrate well with NeoCities.

I might be able to just copy/paste from the source.

Could probably test this on CodePen.

They claim to use HTML5 CANVAS for all their cool effects.

This site embedded a workflowy document somehow.

iFrames ?

Figure out how!

Figure out a way to recreate the clocktown clock. Possibly use this as a base reference:

https://googol.neocities.org/clock/

It would be cool to see how all the different neocities site are connected.

https://www.scraping-bot.io/how-to-build-a-web-crawler/

Sitemap Gen:
https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

I have it uploaded on SoundCloud, but I'd like to properly publish it around online.

Basically done.

I'm not gonna copy over the task, because it's so massive. But I will leave this entry here as a placeholder.

This project is temporarily shelved for now. I want to re-assess some of the design before approaching it again.

A sort of auto-biographical snapshot tale.

Note, add some more tasks and info here later.

Add some unique art to the Phaser 3 tutorials.

This could be a good place to use that Alien Running animation I made.

I realy love the Mario RPG 3D isometric platformer style.

Something worth trying out.

Here's a neat Scratch game for reference: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/21556260/

Slide the UVs of an object's own texture, and watch it tile/wrap automatically.

Hmmm. I couldn't really figure it out myself. But there was already a shader that did all this stuff.

I'm just gonna use that, and tweak how it works a bit.