Game Update Tracker #1 - Anniversary Update

[NoizyPuppy]

We want to change it and give you something we think is quite frankly better by far

Well after people get used to it, we'll see what people think. of course the community may differ in opinion... but thats as expected.

I personaly cannot wait to try this out for some time to come, i'd like to find out if it starts to stick in my mind, subconsious and heartplaces.

 

[Enethil]

Another thing is, it will be easier to make sprites for the new gen 6 pokemon if we decide to make them.

 

[C4st1gator]

"The biggest thing is that they just don't work with the new camera system
which we(the staff) want you all to use EXCLUSIVELY" -Darkfire
Wasn't the new camera system designed with fully animated and rendered 3D models in mind? I can imagine, that new system would get infinitely more positive feedback, if the overworld sprites are just a placeholder. I know, that 3D models and textures for each of the current 678, almost 700 Pokémon is a giant project, that can't be done by the team of Pokémon 3D. You had to stop all the work on bugfixes, content and the core game, just to make models. Therefore, modeling all the pokemon could be a long term community project.

 

[Darkfire]

"The biggest thing is that they just don't work with the new camera system
which we(the staff) want you all to use EXCLUSIVELY" -Darkfire
Wasn't the new camera system designed with fully animated and rendered 3D models in mind? I can imagine, that new system would get infinitely more positive feedback, if the overworld sprites are just a placeholder. I know, that 3D models and textures for each of the current 678, almost 700 Pokémon is a giant project, that can't be done by the team of Pokémon 3D. You had to stop all the work on bugfixes, content and the core game, just to make models. Therefore, modeling all the pokemon could be a long term community project.

We will not be making models for pokemon
the system we are using is self designed to be used with sprites

 

[C4st1gator]

I am not suggesting, that you make models. I am asking whether or not it'd be possible to add 3D models into the game. As we will only be using the overworld sprites from now on, I could just make the models and tell the program to render the model instead of drawing the sprite. It should be achievable and it would give me incentive to start blender and try to figure it out. Either that, or I could import HD Sprites, that are always facing me, but that's an acceptable break from reality. By the way, will the overworld sprites also be used in the pokedex from now on, or will it use static but more detailed sprites?

 

[Darkfire]

I am not suggesting, that you make models. I am asking whether or not it'd be possible to add 3D models into the game. As we will only be using the overworld sprites from now on, I could just make the models and tell the program to render the model instead of drawing the sprite. It should be achievable and it would give me incentive to start blender and try to figure it out. Either that, or I could import HD Sprites, that are always facing me, but that's an acceptable break from reality. By the way, will the overworld sprites also be used in the pokedex from now on, or will it use static but more detailed sprites?

places where a static image of a pokemon is normally displayed(pokedex, party veiw) will use the first image from the battle animation(we will be keeping the front and back for each pokemon)
I think nilllzz was willing to eventually allow 3d models inplace of sprites for content packs but that is something we will think about doing as we go through kanto and beyond
you could also make HQ or HD sprites for the pokemon and make that into a content pack(and share it I really want to see higher res sprites but none of us have the time nor ability to make our own sprites )

 

[C4st1gator]

That sounds great, the only things I'd need now are polycount hints and actual modeling knowlege. When you have completed Kanto, you could call a modeling contest for the community. There are 678 models, for gen 5, and the winner would be the one, who makes the best and the most of them. They should have a reasonable polycount and texture size, so they look somewhat uniform. Size and appearance can be taken from the wiki, so they shouldn't look too different.
We have over 20.000 registered members, so I guess there will be some people, who are familiar with modeling.
But that's all idle speculation. I hope, that you make good progress with pokemon 3D and I try to figure out some modeling software.
For now I'll raise the mood with JoshR691's animated charizard.

 

[FenixDown]

There's always the sprites from Mystery Dungeon... Not sure how many are in there but it might cover up to 4th-5th gen.

 

[alyjah]

i cant believe this game has been out for a year, i remember the first time i played this lol time goes by so fast

 

[NoizyPuppy]

i cant believe this game has been out for a year, i remember the first time i played this lol time goes by so fast

I know right! I was in shock seeing the game for the first time back when I picked up my Squirtle from Prof. Elm, no matter how high you trained your starter the only moves it would know would be tackle.

 

[Darkfire]

We have had the files ready to be added for awhile now(I had a download of these files from mid jan that i took down recently)
we will add them in as we feel that some are waranted
~40 are already in

 

[NoizyPuppy]

We have had the files ready to be added for awhile now(I had a download of these files from mid jan that i took down recently)
we will add them in as we feel that some are waranted
~40 are already in

Will we be abe to gamble in this update Darkfire? I swear i wasted away hours of my life in the slots in goldenrod when I was young.

And I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

 

[DevoidLight]

We have had the files ready to be added for awhile now(I had a download of these files from mid jan that i took down recently)
we will add them in as we feel that some are waranted
~40 are already in

Will we be abe to gamble in this update Darkfire? I swear i wasted away hours of my life in the slots in goldenrod when I was young.

And I would do it all again in a heartbeat.

Yeah, none of this Voltorb Flip or finding coins in the machine garbage.