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Laythe:

--- Quote from: LTC on March 08, 2021, 12:15:04 am ---ShapeShifter update?
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Haha, arright. It's been "Mostly Done" for a while, and I do have fully automatic transform working. Next big update is going to be some videos of that... so I wanted to polish up the DMD and main screen animations before I shoot those final "It's Done!" videos, and that process takes a while and doesn't make for very interesting updates along the way.

Current status, everything functionally works, but the eye candy isn't all there, there's just some developer debug screens showing numeric values all over the place so I can watch what's happening. What needs to be there is cool rotating perspective grids and stuff.

I'll update in earnest soon. Couple weeks I think.

--- Quote from: Malenko on March 10, 2021, 10:55:38 am ---20+ years on this site, and this is my favorite project.

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Wow. Thanks.

--- Quote from: Malenko on March 10, 2021, 10:55:38 am ---You give gingerballs too much credit.

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Regarding gingerballs - I disagree. I'm not exaggerating to say that if you hadn't sent that thing to Zapcon, this thing would not exist. The sad semi-commercial vpins that were on display there would not have given me the itch to build one, nor any faith that a good result is possible. Playing a good one was a tangible proof of concept moment that said to me, yep - this is great, go chase it, it'll work out worthwhile in the end.

So, thanks for doing that. :cheers:

LTC:

--- Quote from: Laythe on March 12, 2021, 12:47:46 pm ---Haha, arright. It's been "Mostly Done" for a while, and I do have fully automatic transform working. Next big update is going to be some videos of that... so I wanted to polish up the DMD and main screen animations before I shoot those final "It's Done!" videos, and that process takes a while and doesn't make for very interesting updates along the way.

Current status, everything functionally works, but the eye candy isn't all there, there's just some developer debug screens showing numeric values all over the place so I can watch what's happening. What needs to be there is cool rotating perspective grids and stuff.

I'll update in earnest soon. Couple weeks I think.

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Most of us don't mind seeing debug screens :cheers:

Laythe:
Since several people have recently asked about this project, I've gotten my butt back in gear for a "final polish" kind of pass.

I've fixed the residual debug screens that were showing, and have the DMD animations working the way I want.

Currently adding sound effects to the transform sequence. I'll post a large update soon.

Zebidee:
I've been reading through this build thread from the beginning - it is a great way to procrastinate working on my own cab.

It has been a pleasure to read, but I could never replicate what you do. Is like a fantasy novel. Got to page 6 then fast-forwarded to the end to see where you got to. Still only mostly finished lol, why am I not surprised? :laugh2:

Still, it has only been four years. My current cab build is at year 5 and much simpler than this, though I have been distracted by things like building a swimming pool and designing/building GreenAntz.

Like Ond says, it is good to have multiple projects on the go, so you can do something different as motivation and opportunity presents.

Well done :cheers:

Laythe:

--- Quote from: Zebidee on September 29, 2022, 12:40:22 pm ---Well done :cheers:

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Thanks, Zebidee! I do think it's within spitting distance of done; I'm just doing the last couple things to make it official, now.

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