Beautiful's Rotoscoping Process
Happy Magical Girl Monday!
I had some difficulty* getting VEGAS to work on my college laptop, but I finally got it to work! I'm able to show you my progress on Beautiful's Rotoscoping! Remember in the past when I've shown sprite sheets of blue stick figures? This is how I do it!
(I'm putting this here in case it happens again, or if anyone reading has the same problem: VEGAS kept stalling on the launch screen at "Initializing DirectX plug-ins." In order to get it to work, you have to right click on the icon, select "Properties," and in the "Target" section add a space and then "/NODXGROVEL" to the very end, without the quotes. Then, if it stalls on "Initializing External Monitor," you have to unplug everything from the computer's ports. I found the first solution in a YouTube video, and the second in the comments of another video, but figured it would be best if both solutions could be found together.)
So besides rotoscoping, what have I been up to?
I may have figured out a better solution to Youko and other NPCs not facing the correct direction while loading -- previously, I had uploaded a video with a solution, but sometime between then and upgrading to 2.3, it stopped working properly.
I've been rereading and revising the light novel's first episode, as well as fleshing out scenes for future episodes. (There's some parts that I'm really excited to share!) In addition to this, I've been migrating my character sheet information from Excel, Scrivener, and my notebook to Campfire Pro for easier access and readability.
Finally, I've been working on PROXtober -- I plan on uploading my first seven as separate posts to Tumblr, Instagram, and possibly Twitter throughout the day on Wednesday (10/7). The next seven I plan to post 10/14, and the final three I'll post 10/21. They'll all be in the first Magical Girl Monday post of November.
Shout out to Tumblr user Jukio8o who has posted something for every prompt so far! Here's some flan, 'cause you're epic! 🍮
The next build I upload, if everything goes to plan, should include the fixed NPC facing code, Beautiful's battle sprites and her particle effects, and Pretty's particle effects if they weren't in the last build. It might even have the tutorial enemy's sprites!
Want a download key for the debug build? Want to read the first chapter of the light novel? You can find both on the PROXYFLANS Linktree! (Until all the download keys are taken, I won’t make The Magical Girl in PROXY a public download.)
Thank you for following the stories’/games’ development! If you like what you see, reblog, comment, and share with your friends and anyone else who you think needs some magical girl positivity in their lives!
Thank you all, and I hope you have a flantastic day! 🍮
🍮PROXYFLANS🍮