Post #121 · Posted at 2022-03-22 12:45:50pm 2.5 years ago
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I just registered after 15 years reading the forums, just to cheer you up dude. Good to know you're still around here. This was a pretty illusionary project I was following, I wish to see more of you. till 10/30/22!!!
Post #122 · Posted at 2022-10-30 08:42:13am 1.8 years ago
Dang really? ^^ When did you first discover this?
Also here's a spoiler of a video that'll be showing up: --> <--
Also by now I took care of most of the clips that are used in 20 songs or more. These 16 are left.
Hopefully I have every single one of these taken care of before the date I mentioned but I feel bad for holding out on an update for so long so if not all of these show up I guess that's how things will be.
04/06/2022: Completed balloons1. 15 of these remain.
04/07/2022: Completed bubble1. Me right now. Now that just leaves 14...
04/10/2022: Completed water1. 13 left.
04/12/2022: Completed tunnel10. 12 left.
Aaaaaaaaaaalright. Question time...
How worth it do you think it is to have extremely large videos? This is a video that's 2.6667 seconds long and yet is nearly 18 god damn megabytes in my videos folder... with the few videos larger than it being double-length videos (5.333s) or longer. At least... that's the case for the 1920x1080 .mp4. I don't suspect the .avi will be much better though. [edit: turns out it is, 5.73 MB. not even joking. for 800x600, that's not... bad.]
Do you think NOTHING GONNA STOP's background script is a mistake? Would it have been better using like, MY SUMMER LOVE videos or something?
So... there are a couple of second guesses I'm having about handling custom videos such as disco5/egg6 (there is many more) and if I want to include them in the main pack or if they should be reserved for a separate pack.
When I started this project in late 2013, I wanted it to be possible to perfectly swatch it out for beware's video pack. The problem is, of course, not only do I have fanmade videos like the two I mentioned, I also have certain cuts/reverses of videos that aren't in beware's pack like timer1r, cube12br, or square5a/b/c/d/e... what is the right way for me to go about this?
Should I keep videos that don't show up in beware's pack in a separate .zip that people can download, or should I just continue including new, custom videos and a new handful of reverses/cuts?
Hello there.
I am just posting this now to let you know yes, I do intend to finally release this pack this week. However I have decided to postpone the release to November 1st just so I can get the .zips and readme [yes, it's going to be huge] ready. That would be on the 9th anniversary I released the first pack for this.
Also here's a spoiler of a video that'll be showing up: --> <--
Also by now I took care of most of the clips that are used in 20 songs or more. These 16 are left.
Hopefully I have every single one of these taken care of before the date I mentioned but I feel bad for holding out on an update for so long so if not all of these show up I guess that's how things will be.
04/06/2022: Completed balloons1. 15 of these remain.
04/07/2022: Completed bubble1. Me right now. Now that just leaves 14...
04/10/2022: Completed water1. 13 left.
04/12/2022: Completed tunnel10. 12 left.
Aaaaaaaaaaalright. Question time...
How worth it do you think it is to have extremely large videos? This is a video that's 2.6667 seconds long and yet is nearly 18 god damn megabytes in my videos folder... with the few videos larger than it being double-length videos (5.333s) or longer. At least... that's the case for the 1920x1080 .mp4. I don't suspect the .avi will be much better though. [edit: turns out it is, 5.73 MB. not even joking. for 800x600, that's not... bad.]
Do you think NOTHING GONNA STOP's background script is a mistake? Would it have been better using like, MY SUMMER LOVE videos or something?
So... there are a couple of second guesses I'm having about handling custom videos such as disco5/egg6 (there is many more) and if I want to include them in the main pack or if they should be reserved for a separate pack.
When I started this project in late 2013, I wanted it to be possible to perfectly swatch it out for beware's video pack. The problem is, of course, not only do I have fanmade videos like the two I mentioned, I also have certain cuts/reverses of videos that aren't in beware's pack like timer1r, cube12br, or square5a/b/c/d/e... what is the right way for me to go about this?
Should I keep videos that don't show up in beware's pack in a separate .zip that people can download, or should I just continue including new, custom videos and a new handful of reverses/cuts?
Hello there.
I am just posting this now to let you know yes, I do intend to finally release this pack this week. However I have decided to postpone the release to November 1st just so I can get the .zips and readme [yes, it's going to be huge] ready. That would be on the 9th anniversary I released the first pack for this.
Post #123 · Posted at 2022-10-30 01:17:36pm 1.8 years ago
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I just stumbled on this thread last night, saw the last post date, and assumed this was dead. Super cool to find out this morning that it isn't. A lot of good work here, keep it up!
Post #124 · Posted at 2022-11-02 12:25:42am 1.8 years ago
Okay... um... how do I put this...
...how did I put it last time...
I did it.
I finally did it. The development hell is over.
I didn't expect this to take eight years. But it comes with upsides. The video count has doubled and so many are so much better. Observe...
Click the image to download a sharper .mp4 file of this collage.
There is so much I have to talk about this, you can click here for the readme.
At some point, I want to release a supplemental pack that'll provide a few more cuts of the videos to cover console-exclusive songs (for instance, cube2 cuts used in BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE and Funk Boogie), hopefully it'll be in the next few days.
I'm thinking a 3.1 will arrive when I have about twenty new videos [and videos I had deprecated like cube12 or ring12 will count towards this]. Hopefully it'll be here in six months. Or nine.
I think this is more than enough to entertain you guys until then. Have fun and thank you for the support I've gotten over the past eight years.
EDIT: Fixed links. Wow. Can't believe I messed that up. Sorry to the two people that just got links to the images at first.
...how did I put it last time...
...oh yeah.
It is time.
243 REMAKES AND 40 CUSTOMS.
For a total of 283.
800x600 .AVIs [670 MB]
1920x1080 .MP4s [2.7 GB]
It is time.
243 REMAKES AND 40 CUSTOMS.
For a total of 283.
800x600 .AVIs [670 MB]
1920x1080 .MP4s [2.7 GB]
I did it.
I finally did it. The development hell is over.
I didn't expect this to take eight years. But it comes with upsides. The video count has doubled and so many are so much better. Observe...
Click the image to download a sharper .mp4 file of this collage.
There is so much I have to talk about this, you can click here for the readme.
At some point, I want to release a supplemental pack that'll provide a few more cuts of the videos to cover console-exclusive songs (for instance, cube2 cuts used in BIZARRE LOVE TRIANGLE and Funk Boogie), hopefully it'll be in the next few days.
I'm thinking a 3.1 will arrive when I have about twenty new videos [and videos I had deprecated like cube12 or ring12 will count towards this]. Hopefully it'll be here in six months. Or nine.
I think this is more than enough to entertain you guys until then. Have fun and thank you for the support I've gotten over the past eight years.
EDIT: Fixed links. Wow. Can't believe I messed that up. Sorry to the two people that just got links to the images at first.
Post #125 · Posted at 2022-11-02 12:39:59am 1.8 years ago
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i stan
Post #126 · Posted at 2022-11-02 12:43:21am 1.8 years ago
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Huge respect dude, I know how hard you have worked on this project. Congrats!
Post #127 · Posted at 2022-11-02 01:03:30am 1.8 years ago
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hell yeah dude
Post #128 · Posted at 2022-11-02 01:32:21am 1.8 years ago
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Absolutely incredible
Post #129 · Posted at 2022-11-02 02:57:11am 1.8 years ago
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Stuff I especially want to get done in 3.1:
*More of the remaining eleven videos above that are used in 20+ songs. snow4, spark1, grid4, thunder1, fish1, vortex1, blizzard1, light1, ring12(a), text8, and light6. I'm really not looking forward to dealing with snow4, thunder1, or text8. The others ones should be possible SOMEHOW though...
*Fix cube7, cube12(a), and add cube13.
*colors2
*Fix feather1
*Make the texture on kaliedoscope14 better
*spikes6 (will complete MAX 300 and Across the Nightmare)
*kl5 (will complete Kind Lady and Kind Lady -interlude)
*Make rotation5 not bad
*Improve stairs1.
*heart7
*jazz1 (will complete ON THE JAZZ and Superstar)
*amoeba2? (I stumbled across something that could be the big key in getting this clip created in May)
*Salvage fireworks6 and text35
*Improve egg6, egg9, fireworks6, text35, lines6, and fan3
*Get all of star4, 5, 6, and 8
*Redo sun3
*Rerender all of the 960x540 videos (blizzard3, grid6, and star11)
Anything else is just a bonus. I'm giving myself about 6-9 months for this... hopefully it can happen.
*More of the remaining eleven videos above that are used in 20+ songs. snow4, spark1, grid4, thunder1, fish1, vortex1, blizzard1, light1, ring12(a), text8, and light6. I'm really not looking forward to dealing with snow4, thunder1, or text8. The others ones should be possible SOMEHOW though...
*Fix cube7, cube12(a), and add cube13.
*colors2
*Fix feather1
*Make the texture on kaliedoscope14 better
*spikes6 (will complete MAX 300 and Across the Nightmare)
*kl5 (will complete Kind Lady and Kind Lady -interlude)
*Make rotation5 not bad
*Improve stairs1.
*heart7
*jazz1 (will complete ON THE JAZZ and Superstar)
*amoeba2? (I stumbled across something that could be the big key in getting this clip created in May)
*Salvage fireworks6 and text35
*Improve egg6, egg9, fireworks6, text35, lines6, and fan3
*Get all of star4, 5, 6, and 8
*Redo sun3
*Rerender all of the 960x540 videos (blizzard3, grid6, and star11)
Anything else is just a bonus. I'm giving myself about 6-9 months for this... hopefully it can happen.
Post #130 · Posted at 2022-11-02 05:27:28am 1.8 years ago
Finally seeing your hard work in full resolution is such a great experience. Thank you so much for all the effort you've put into this over the years.
I really love your original videos and variations included too; I'm hoping to see more in the future updates, m8~
I really love your original videos and variations included too; I'm hoping to see more in the future updates, m8~
Post #131 · Posted at 2022-11-02 06:54:25am 1.8 years ago
Thank you. :D
You know. There is actually something I ended up discovering a while back that may be useful for your upscales.
So you have a clip that is in bad quality like this.
You run it through an upscaler, but...
The quality is better, but still not that good.
But let's say you take the upscaled image and resize it to its original resolution... [pictured on the right]
The difference between the two is actually impressively massive.
...and then you ran it through the upscaler a SECOND time.
Using this method, you might actually be able to get sharper upscales. And especially versions that don't have a bunch of JPEG artifacting.
Here's what it does to drawings, by the way.
Tell me if this works. I remember you saying light4 and all of the spiral videos always looked bad when upscaled.
You know. There is actually something I ended up discovering a while back that may be useful for your upscales.
So you have a clip that is in bad quality like this.
You run it through an upscaler, but...
The quality is better, but still not that good.
But let's say you take the upscaled image and resize it to its original resolution... [pictured on the right]
The difference between the two is actually impressively massive.
...and then you ran it through the upscaler a SECOND time.
Using this method, you might actually be able to get sharper upscales. And especially versions that don't have a bunch of JPEG artifacting.
Here's what it does to drawings, by the way.
Tell me if this works. I remember you saying light4 and all of the spiral videos always looked bad when upscaled.
Post #132 · Posted at 2022-11-02 02:26:31pm 1.8 years ago
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Congratulations! You have dedicated a lot of time and effort to this project, is nice to see it completed. Also thanks for sharing it with us. I will be waiting for more surprises, also, you could create a custom pack with the project files of the recreations to take advantage of the work you have already done.
Post #133 · Posted at 2022-11-02 08:12:42pm 1.8 years ago
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Pinned. This is an incredible achievement.
Post #134 · Posted at 2022-11-04 01:09:36am 1.8 years ago
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I can't get the HD pack to work in SM5.1-new. Just playing some of the individual videos, they're brilliant. Using the 800x600 pack works just fine though and they still look really good.
Post #135 · Posted at 2022-11-04 03:28:00am 1.8 years ago
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Oh boy. (o_o;)
I will have to investigate that... They were working just fine with 5.0.11, which, for some reason, my new computer is allergic to so I'll have to update my StepMania anyway. I have not used any StepMania versions beyond that because I remember downloading a newest version a few years back where you had to compile it yourself and for some reason I couldn't figure it out so I just stuck with 5.0.11. If I also discover that the .mp4s are allergic to SM5.1-New and Outfox, I'll try to track down a bulk converter of some kind and see if I can convert them into an .mp4 format it does recognize.
Unless of course... 5.1-New just doesn't support .mp4s in the first place, but that's surely not the case... right? (I could also make 1280x720 .avis)
As a side note, special thanks to xRGTMx for pinning this. I really didn't think that would actually happen especially since this project still has so much to go.
I will have to investigate that... They were working just fine with 5.0.11, which, for some reason, my new computer is allergic to so I'll have to update my StepMania anyway. I have not used any StepMania versions beyond that because I remember downloading a newest version a few years back where you had to compile it yourself and for some reason I couldn't figure it out so I just stuck with 5.0.11. If I also discover that the .mp4s are allergic to SM5.1-New and Outfox, I'll try to track down a bulk converter of some kind and see if I can convert them into an .mp4 format it does recognize.
Unless of course... 5.1-New just doesn't support .mp4s in the first place, but that's surely not the case... right? (I could also make 1280x720 .avis)
As a side note, special thanks to xRGTMx for pinning this. I really didn't think that would actually happen especially since this project still has so much to go.
Post #136 · Posted at 2022-11-04 04:32:00am 1.8 years ago
I probably should have mentioned when I say they don't work with 5.1-new I mean that if they're the only thing in the RandomMovies folder it might as well be empty, it just stays on the song background image. It's probably something specific to the build that razorblade compiled in the A3 theme thread and has been fixed, because the pack does work with ITGmania which is a 5.1-new fork.
Edit: Nevermind, turns out I should have just gone to bed. I unzipped the 800x600 pack to ITGmania, not the 1080p pack. The 1080p pack doesn't work there either. Also I'm not trying to invalidate your work in any way. I've looked at several of them in media player classic and they're phenomenal. It's not your fault they don't work on this specific version.
Edit: Nevermind, turns out I should have just gone to bed. I unzipped the 800x600 pack to ITGmania, not the 1080p pack. The 1080p pack doesn't work there either. Also I'm not trying to invalidate your work in any way. I've looked at several of them in media player classic and they're phenomenal. It's not your fault they don't work on this specific version.
Post #137 · Posted at 2022-11-04 05:03:42am 1.8 years ago
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If a .sm/.ssc BGScript calls for a specific .mp4, does it work? I distinctly remember that even in 5.0.11, the automatic RandomMovies option ignores .mp4s altogether, but it'll still play them if the .ssc/.sm calls for them directly. Meanwhile, .avi files will always work.
Post #138 · Posted at 2022-11-04 05:58:33am 1.8 years ago
I'll script something real quick and test it.
Edit: It works. If anyone wants to see a little demo of how the 1080p videos look in action, try this. It's only like half the song but its 6 of the 1080p videos on a loop and you can get an idea of how they look in action.
Edit: It works. If anyone wants to see a little demo of how the 1080p videos look in action, try this. It's only like half the song but its 6 of the 1080p videos on a loop and you can get an idea of how they look in action.
Post #139 · Posted at 2022-11-04 06:42:20pm 1.8 years ago
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Wow, I gotta give you mad love and respect, Cuzco. After all our hard work almost 20 yrs ago when we first started capturing videos through computers to piece them together, to passing it off to those who could rip from the discs, to now you doing full recreations of most of them -- it's just phenomenal!
I'm glad you stuck with it and wow, it took 8 years. Great work! (Hi-five!!)
I'm glad you stuck with it and wow, it took 8 years. Great work! (Hi-five!!)
Post #140 · Posted at 2022-11-04 07:39:11pm 1.8 years ago
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It is time.
Super proud of you Well done x