PYRODOOM'S PROFILE

Col. Cryo's Cruelly Cold Cathedral by halibabica:


A part of me can't wait for when a bunch of levels get updated.
Another part feels like I'm crazy for wanting that. I can't mess with the settings of Hypercam 3 anymore, it's too unstable.

Anyways, hope you enjoy the video. I wish I could have done it blind proper, but so many recording problems. ;-;

author=halibabica
Yes, Cryo's Cathedral is a finished stage. Where did you get stuck?

Also, I'd like to watch that video, but it's flagged as private.

Well. I got stuck in the second section. Couldn't tell where to go, and any pipes that could lead anywhere were either blocked off supposedly(only accessible from the next section as I found out) or I just couldn't reach them without a leaf/tanooki. I'm assuming there's a switch that reveals a platform leading up to that pipe going to section 3, right?

Also, I made sure to un-private the video. Sorry about that. .3.

author=Animebryan
pyrodoom's A Cheesy Level (W9):

"51 mushrooms"
The second I heard your "WTF" reactions, I knew immediately what you saw - you always seem to have the debugger open. How come you don't look at it that often? .3.
Seriously, it was a humorous reaction, but to be honest, most of the issues I heard from here were oversights on my end, which is still bad, but they were also very minor.

I thought putting the Toad/Agent Toad(I have the graphics pack for the game in my folder, and while the checkpoint and end goal appears, my toad isn't different. Weird.) on Random got it to face you no matter what direction you talked to it from. Maybe I accidentally set it to Right? IDK.
Notably, I usually put everything on Random, which is also notable when considering enemies that don't turn on cliff-edges, meaning sometimes they'll fall, other times they walk away from the cliff. I don't know why I do this, it just feels right. However, it's obvious that isn't a smart idea, because carrying it over into this project, it's lead to A LOT of issues with animation.
Given the issues I had with my other two levels, I'm surprised I didn't make sure the checkpoint and goals were facing properly here. Shit.

With the section around the switch blocks... oh boy.
OK, before that, the alcove with nothing in it? It was originally going to hold a leaf, I think, before I put in the mindset that you should be able to finish the level without hitting the cheesy ground(which DID include bouncing off of enemies heads. .3. ), which would have been impossible there based on how I designed it. It was better to remove it than to try and completely bend the gimmick to the will of Mario's insatiable love for power-ups. Guess I never really bothered removing it.
And... finally, the switch blocks. First off, given I actually haven't beaten SMW(I really need to, but I was always a Sonic guy before Mario, and I fucking suck at Mario World), I didn't KNOW about the mushroom block thing completely. I knew switch blocks held some power-ups and I THOUGHT the yellow switches held mushrooms, but I wanted to be dang sure before I tried to do it. Originally there was a space off to the side that you could have gotten under(say, you had a leaf or a flying Yoshi) just to hit all the blocks because WHY NOT, you can, but I removed that after removing the ratty that would have acted as an obstacle to that small section.
That part of the level was the hardest to work on. I feel like there's an easy way around it, but seriously, it's a PAIN IN THE ASS. At first, I was worried about Luigi, but even afterward, acknowledging I shouldn't design around Luigi having a higher jump than Mario, I still had issues with that section because of the damn flower. It's meant to be a mini-puzzle where you press the switch to go across and continue the level, but you also do it so that you can reach the flower. Of course, like Animebryan loves doing, you can just fly for it, but the point is to hit the switch. I still need to adjust the placement of a few things there so that Mario can't reach it without hitting the switch.
Also, what the FUCK is wrong with SMW Koopas?! Just... just why. ;-; Maybe I'll just put a Koopa spawner there specifically so you can rack up lives, as it is also technically a bonus room, because otherwise they will all despawn and you get nothing. :(

@AnimeBryan

Yeah, nothing about that video was doing good, btw. I couldn't even reply to your comment for... some reason.
"Alright.
It was quite a bitch to get Bandicam, though. .3.
Think Camstudio is good? Have you heard of that one?

The lag is potentially just a result of me running the recording program at the same time as SMBX. I would have checked the 'max fps' box as well, but I'm not sure that would've been a good idea. Probably would have made things more skippy and stuff, because the game would be running faster than what was being recorded, you know? Kind of like how when people recorded the classic Sonic games, the shield usually looked freaking weird.

Yeah, I don't have a good recording set-up for voice stuff, and while voice wasn't necessary, I know you did commentary as well and I always felt commentary made things more interesting. Given the amount of trouble I had when just going through editing in general, the video's audio quality was GOING to be shit no matter what, sadly.

I tried to edit the sound quality using audacity to remove the background noise the best I could. Probably another reason the audio came out so shit. .3.

Still, the point of the video was to show how I played my own level, I'm just bothered by the amount of BS that went into everything about the video. What editor do you use, or do you just upload the recording directly after recording, with no editing?"
This is what I was going to say in the reply.

author=Animebryan
@pyrodoom: Wow, is your computer really that bad? I've never heard of the Recording Curse but it sounds like simply the recording program is too taxing on the CPU or RAM Memory.

Nah, it's not like that. I was just mentioning it because I thought it'd be interesting to note. Basically, when you're recording something, anything can go wrong, even coming down to your gameplay.

Guess there wasn't really a need in me mentioning it in that case.
Hm. Well. ._.

Anyways, what recording program do you use again?