Sorry for the self whoring, but I'm about to animate a big shooting scene and even though I've scoured all the R-Type game openings etc, I can't see a definitive answer to pic related. So I threw it to a vote on twitter. Feel free to take a look and call me a faggot if you like.https://twitter.com/OtaKing77077
Or you can just tell me which one I should go for here. Or even better, tell me which firing method is canon in the games if your uncle works for IREM.
>>13952659
2 looks cooler IMO, but 1 is probably more realistic i guess.
still, i'd got with 2 just because rule of cool
I always thought it was #2. I also agree it looks better
Hnnnng.... /m/ is choosing 2, but twitter is choosing 1!
>>13952659
I actually think 1 would look cooler, but 2 will be easier for you to animate so I go with that one
>>13952703
I'm more bothered by the fact that the pilot is wearing a bloody t-shirt than the Force pod design.
>>13952659
>not 2 for regular shots and 1 for massive fuck you shots
1 is closest to R type final's shooting
2 is better
>>13952659
have you tried using dark magics of emulation to render Final in crazy high res? Maybe one of the higher poly count games has something buried at ntsc style resolutions
>>13952723
That's because of Last Starfighter-esque reasons.The idea that was given to me by my overlords at MASHED was that a guy is playing the arcade cabinet and gets sucked into the game.
That way the same story device can be used to do other old arcade games if this one proves popular.
>>13952659
>>13952659
#1 is explained and supported in the lore description in R-Type Final.
As the vulcan cannon fires shots, the Force Pod, with the various lenses attached (red/blue/yellow), modulates the shots into the various beams demonstrated in game.
Vulcan shots ---> [Force Pod + lenses] ---> lasers/beams of all sorts
>>13952659
1 is cooler and makes more sense.
>>13952750
But that sounds complicated, sempai~
I've actually got R-Type Tactics on an emulator here but it doesn't seem to run the background music and I can't really see the basic vulcan cannon attacks...
Making the force pod dynamically deform to allow the shot through is more visually interesting, but only when viewed from behind or in front of the pod
>>13952763
there ya have it, OP.
>>13952763
onlines claim this is a PS3 laser shooting through a uranium glass marble
I wonder how squishy stuff goes. Are Force Pods bloblike?
Whare can I download the Dr. Who short?
really? I have to do it?
fine...
faggot.
>>13952788
>>13952763
Well, I guess it's 1 then!
I was kind of hoping it was, because otherwise the vulcan gun just sits there all limp and impotent.
>>13952807
Why would you want to..? It's old and busted and even I don't have a copy anymore.
>>13952703
I feel like you've finally managed to emulate 80s SHADING properly
>>13952819
You mean in this picture >>13952812 , right?
I feel like that was my peak.
You can tell this whole thing was computer generated. Looks tacky. You can't try to go 80s retro then draw the shit digitally.
>>13952757
Would it be possible to make a pilot suit version sometime in the future?
>>13952866
>You can't try to go 80s retro then draw the shit digitally.
https://youtu.be/uh_Z43O7wrU?t=1m19s
>>13952866
>>13952866
>>13952978
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1ZUnJoKK9Y
>>13952866
It looking shoddy has nothing to do with it being drawn digitally. The animation is just really rough.
>>13952866
While I won't raise the bitch about things looking "tacky" because of CGI, I will say that the editing on the shot looks very odd. You have constant jumping around that, with the limited camera angles, look awkward, and then some cuts actually show the same events overlapping for a few seconds which just looks... weird.
That said, this is obviously early in the process so it shouldn't be expected to be finished.
So what's this about RType pilots being brains in jars?
What do the moon pplz think?
Your dedication is inspiring. Can't wait to see this.
Have a kitten.
>>13952782
Are you running R-Type Tactics/Command on PPSSPP?
God damn now I want to go back and play Tactics II again.
>>13952659
If you look super closely while using the Cyclone Bit on R-Type III, the shots are coming from the R-90 Ragnarok itself, and not the Cyclone bit. There's a tiny bit of transparency in it, and you can see your shots firing from it. I think #1 is also canon, but I have no idea of what the source.
>>13955387
Also on further experimentation, the muzzleflash from the R90 still goes off when you're using the Round Force as well.
>>13952703
Why isn't the pilot strapped or wearing a plot-suit?
![590_0c183_1345833544_494[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/W5t6I3e.png "590_0c183_1345833544_494[1].png")
>>13952659
I'm pretty sure number one is canon, the Force only shoots by itself while detached.
>>13952757
>The idea that was given to me by my overlords at MASHED was that a guy is playing the arcade cabinet and gets sucked into the game.
I'm really sorry.
>>13953961
Apparently the info comes from an artbook of some sort, and indicates that the R-9C 'War Heads' featured in R-Type II weren't piloted normally, but were controlled by mysterious black boxes called ANGEL PACs, loaded into the cockpits by the maintenance crews. In fact, these boxes contained the pilots' brains, which had been removed and installed inside. It seems that this was done against their will. Each R-9C was a one-off prototype, assembled in part by hand, and only three units were completed. After the success of the operation, the true nature of the fightercraft involved was hushed up, and the military's official story was that R-9As had carried it out instead.
