Maya Fey posted:

I'll make the web site

Lpzie posted:

post the Dome

Lpzie posted:

post the Dome

Lpzie posted:

post the Dome

Lpzie posted:

post the Dome

Lpzie posted:

post the Dome

BoothBaberGinsburg posted:

please 🙏

the canning is very cool too btw. trying to think of any projects that i could post but i'm coming up short

AxGrap posted:

CURRENT STATE


Was gonna be different but $$ and time, so this is where we are at. Next steps, getting the windows secured in and water right, and sealing any potential leaks with heat applied tar tape (?). Also door, but for that I'm just gonna buy a used door and rip it down to size.

AxGrap posted:

Dome updates will go here as well, BUT I WANT MORE PROJECTS, POST PEOPLE!

AxGrap posted:

I'll send you a microcontroller

Dr_0ctag0n posted:

I've got another empty tank to get set up for the froggos soon, I'll post when I start that. Here's a pic of the current one all overgrown.

BoothBaberGinsburg posted:

setting up and maintaining bioactive tanks is one of my favorite hobbies, shame i haven't had room in my new place to really get into it again. looks lush, great job! you keeping darts?

AxGrap posted:

Ah yeah, I heard you can blast it with air to get bubbles out before they set, but I'd have to ask my finisher friend if that's true. Sucks, but you got a good start.

Dr_0ctag0n posted:

Yeah I got a pair of Rio Cascajal Auratus darts.



I think I want to get some Citronella Tinctorius for the new tank just because they look really cool.

AxGrap posted:

Ah yeah, I heard you can blast it with air to get bubbles out before they set, but I'd have to ask my finisher friend if that's true. Sucks, but you got a good start.

AxGrap posted:

CURRENT STATE


Was gonna be different but $$ and time, so this is where we are at. Next steps, getting the windows secured in and water right, and sealing any potential leaks with heat applied tar tape (?). Also door, but for that I'm just gonna buy a used door and rip it down to size.

19 o'clock posted:

During the pandemic I got really into playing some Super Metroid rom hacks. SM Redesign: Axeil Edition was especially good in my opinion. Vitality really showed off how gorgeous the game can look and was also fun to play. Play both if you get a chance.

I ran out of roms to play. Then I started getting really dumb and creating my own. Then I realized it was really gonna be hard, so I threw myself at making a generator to create Super Metroid ROMs instead. I wanted to create the most horrendous maps I could. Here's where I'm at right now:

Big map (~150 keys) looks like:


Bigger map (~190 keys) looks like:


for fun, this map came to:

code:

Added 2470 Room Data Buffer(s).
Added 2470 Room Header Buffer(s).
Added 5646 Door Header Buffer(s).
Added 2470 Enemy Population Buffer(s) w/ 6829 Enemies.
Added 5 Enemy Set Buffer(s) w/ 8 Enemies.
Added 2470 PLM Population Buffer(s) w/ 4109 PLM(s).
Added 2470 Room Scroll Buffer(s).
Added 30 Load Station Buffer(s).
Added 5 Region Map Buffer(s).

...so probably not fitting on an SNES cart.

"Can fit on a Super Nintendo ROM" map (~20 keys) looks like:


...and here's a map making demo:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRDOpdinFn0

I'm using a built-in mechanic to tie e-tank pickups to unlocking sets of doors to expand the exploration throughout the game. up to this point it was mostly ironing out the technical details of turning the map into a reliable rom patch. the map making process is what I'm going to be improving on next by expanding architecture (arches, better tower/tunnel designs, circles/pyramids/whatever I want) to vary the landscape some more and creating more disparate spaces and employing elevators...basically there's a boatload of things to be tweaked so it could get pretty hectic pretty quickly. dropping boss rooms into the maze is going to be a high priority. happily it's mostly creative work like "how do I want tiles and rooms to look?" and "what kind of weird shape rooms do I want the maze maker to produce?"

I made it a point to make this all as loosely coupled and abstract as possible so that hopefully I can plug this type of progressive exploration/backtracking/crisscrossing map building to work in Zelda, Castlevania, or (my favorite) Cauldron 2. Until i can routinely produce 50-day Super Metroid Hell Maps my work won't be finished.

(seriously play Vitality though it's gorgeous)

19 o'clock posted:

Lately there's been lots of low-hanging fruit so adding fun stuff has been easier. Added grapple/bombable/speed booster/x-ray blocks, point-and-click enemies/items, and a boatload of keyboard and mouse macros. Making a toggled larger cursor for carving out rooms was a huge relief. Here are some more gifs of the builds/plays:

X-Ray Path + Item + Grapple Blocks:
https://i.imgur.com/cZbOseb.mp4
Play:
https://i.imgur.com/oorYJYD.mp4

Speed Booster Shortcut + Enemy Deaths:
https://i.imgur.com/dVFpOUW.mp4
Play:
https://i.imgur.com/fa8Y5q3.mp4

19 o'clock posted:

Right now I have all of the map/room data living on my webhost. My desktop app is compiling all of the current builds every 20 minutes and reuploading them to the webapp. You can see the timestamps/links of the IPS patches as they become available for any given build.

For now you have to right-click and save-as because despite how complex this has become I can't figure out fixing content-disposition for download links. If anyone can help I'd be grateful!

Keys/Regions
The Matte button will change colors on the world map to indicate explorable regions by key. Keys are numbered blocks: 1 == game start, 2...n are keys to progress. Green region is your start, get key 2 opens up blue, get key 3 opens up yellow, etc. Keys are energy tanks that will unlock gray doors to the next set of rooms.

Known bugs:
• Probably any number of navigation sequences I haven't anticipated yet that will stop the webapp.

TO DO
• Add water/lava. Not nearly as hard as the slopes. Need to add the ability to set these like on the desktop app.
• Add more navigation! In-game maps are weird. I coded a lot of it but it's still weird and I need to get that across the line.
• Everything else. I haven't even touched tiling (and likely won't) beyond what the build process auto-applies. Rooms can have states each with tilesets, music tracks, environments, triggers - it's incredibly customizable.

The interface is sluggish/clunky at times because I taught myself all of this stuff and it's a lot of data on one screen. Hopefully it isn't too obnoxious. The double clicking to move in-and-out means I/you mistakenly leave the room editor without saving, so be careful for now until I come up with something better and change it. Mouseover on items/enemies lets you know what is placed.

Seriously loads of work to do but it's pretty crazy to just have an old laptop in the corner of my office area building patches based on the webapp stuff. I modified some maps and tested a couple downloaded patches this morning and all seemed to work. I used the NTSC Japan/USA "(JU)" ROM to patch and play.

https://i.imgur.com/ac5b25b.mp4
eroding:
https://i.imgur.com/wZofYv2.mp4
creating a shinespark run by adding slopes:
https://i.imgur.com/cCT2qcN.mp4

19 o'clock posted:

The idea was to make an overworld planning app to create metroidvania worlds. To me this meant a central starting point with crisscrossing paths and expanded exploration etc. I got the map planner working and then made it work with Super Metroid. This meant taking these worlds and translating them to work with the SNES game itself which presented a bunch of challenges. Once that happened I started pushing all of this into a web database and then created a webapp to let several users work on any number of maps/rooms at any given time. This way it can be a collaborative effort because to me making games is difficult.

Cross-posted from the ROMhack thread:

...afterward I started getting into modifying the actual rooms themselves...

…and eventually got things on the web...

DM me for a link/readme if you want to play! I'll hopefully get a dedicated domain up sometime soon but this is just for fun right now.

petit choux posted:

I got to show you this table I just scored. I'm very slowly turning the carriage house into a workspace/lair and I just scored a table stout enough for me to put a vise on it. Dumpster score of the month!

Dr_0ctag0n posted:

you should cover the dome in strips of 'spacer mesh' or wicking mesh fabric and get some vining plant all over it.

Vim Fuego posted:

Vim Fuego posted:

Leroy Diplowski posted:

Hell yeah, the only thread started by project dad's for project dad's.

I built this sailing canoe over the winter and have been exploring the Salish sea. Took my smallest kid on a camping trip to a nearby island a few weeks ago. It owned.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I also made cool gay bench with Mr Rodgers quote. The iron bits were found in the woods.

Leroy Diplowski posted:

I also made cool gay bench with Mr Rodgers quote. The iron bits were found in the woods.