[!! V.3 RELEASED !!] DDRMAX-Extreme Videos Recreation Project 2013-2022

ooh cool!

So, can i see work on some new animations? (conductor1 doesn't have to be in there, but if you made the body, that would be nice to see)

Oh yeah;



I made this a while back on December 7th. I threw together this awesome robot .blend file within 8 hours. Because of how geometric this guy is, it was actually easier than I thought.

wow, cool! expect 2 new textures btw

2 video textures and a png that is

The videos are useful for when a screen glitches. I'll make sure to keep them for that purpose.

Meanwhile, I'm gonna see what I can accomplish with the png...

Also;

oh my GOSH THAT IS SO AWESOME
he's a bit skinny, but that is fixable. Oh, don't forget the key in his back!!! i forgot!

I've decided to render the animation. However, I am experiencing problems with it;

I decided to render each conductor thingy as a transparent png sequence, however, the layering keeps glitching, which means I am seeing abnormal patterns like the entire collar of the shirt being visible in the chin.

I do not like this result, and the only thing left to try would be to export the exhaustive thing in a .mov format... and I think that'll take VERY long... :/

On top of that, there's been numerous occasions when I was a noob with Anime Studio in 2012 (making rather...'sketchy'...versions of the videos) where I couldn't render a video because of too much 3D. I cannot promise this video will make it without glitches if I can't fix this problem.

Bump: Ugh, that didn't work either. The layer glitches are still there. There's no way to get around them, it seems. I have no choice but to just deal with this problem. Sorry, guys, if the movie kinda bothers you.

Slightly off-topic, but moroEX is actually Tomochika Moroe, known also as MORO. Moroe was a designer for beatmania / IIDX, KEYBOARDMANIA and pop'n music.

*dissapears and goes back to lurk again*

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Huh, i wonder why it glitched

Well... granted, they aren't severe. The problems are mainly around the torso/robe. The transparency idea I had isn't entirely working out for some reason.

I'll try to get to that tomorrow, I want to try to work on another movie for the time being.

Good news i got Anime studio pro 9.5 so i can do more things!

AWESOME.

This means you have a much higher range of movies to make and can probably even get to making movies that I can't think of a good way to pull off (or ones I'm just not interested in).

Small problem.... I mainly use Anime Studio Pro 7, which can't open anything higher than 7. I DID get Anime Studio Pro 9, but I'm not sure if that can open 9.5 files. I want to be able to tweak your files if I see something wrong.

But otherwise, I finally have a TRUE co-animator for this project! I've been fantasizing on what it'd be like for a while now. I can't wait to see the movies you'll make!

I'll post a tutorial on how I make the movies to help you.




Man, making my own creative 3DTextura movies is much easier than copying the official ones. This is because I want to be as accurate as possible with the textures, and it's hard to do that when there are so many complex patterns that could really be a REALLY simple process, just like how I made the hexagonal swirl texture.

My goal is for there to be at least 200 of these movies... sounds exhaustive. My second goal is for there to be 450 more movies in total. Consider them "Max4" movies. I'm trying to adapt each and every category like Symbols4 and Spiral4 and make some original movies like Fireworks6.

It's a bit odd, it crashed, but i bet some managing can do it. i just today got it, but im still working on it


I'll make you some textures for you.

(I have to use an alt due to a dweebenheimer banning me for posting a PaRappa cutscene screenshot)

I have received a video from midone;



This looks pretty cool! ...albeit I've already remade the video in December 2013, but... I'm bundling this as an extra.

I've also received some textures from midone for these movies;





With this, these are now queued in my videos-to-make list.

Everything I can think of;



...hey...speaking of Wheel2;



YES!! FINALLY!

Timer1 finally has it's partner!

And it's a big thanks to Engine_Machiner, for ripping the pretty much impossible to make out on the actual movie background image on this thread. :3



Using the image as is because I don't know how to make it 3D in Blender. I might leave it 2D and trace it, but for now, the movie works! And this movie is FINALLY out of it's WIP stage.

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I'm sorry you got banned for something ridiculous. I'll work on some more BGVIDEOS and Textures.

Maybe I'll try to remake roku1.avi.

My newest masterpiece. View it's description here. This is the first background video I finished in a long time. ...well, there's Wheel2 above, but still. This one had a smooth recreational process.

I'll probably go for either Ferriswheel1 or TV1/Rocket1 next. Or maybe something completely random like Cross1.

September 28th, 2015; Oh, great. It turns out there were 2 items my eyes weren't keen enough to see due to the original source being in pretty bad quality. Some "lasers" that come out from the player, and a bell that comes out of a cloud and falls past the player. I'm going to fix this movie immediately.

In other news, I'm extremely curious as to why no one has questioned my interpretation of Disco1.






This one is easy to make so far. Some simple Anime Studio 3D modeling (I might even post the raw source), and the Ferris wheel is finished after 4 hours (not counting 10 hours of sleep). I'm going to like this movie.

I got some clues on what's behind the actual movie, by the way;

http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/jp/am/extreme/songbg_05.html


(If someone can provide a perfect translation of this, please post it in this threaad)

English;


There are airplane (toys) in the background. There appear to only be four of them (one color each). The other 4 is the same "clip" blurred, scaled, and flipped. After that is the color changing, spots, lights, and glitter and this movie is in the bag. I can't wait.

New queue;



Pack V.3 will be released after I come back from a vacation coming soon in May. It won't come any later than June 10th, I can promise this. However, to come sooner, it relies on the completion of missing movies Tunnel2, Tunnel5, and way-way-too-overdue Tunnel1. If I can't get to them, I can't get to them.

I'm still excited, and i have hopes for this!

I apologize for not posting anything for 3 months. I DO promise, however, that I wasn't standing still. I made at least 15 movies in my absence.

The reason for the hold up is that I've been trying to crack 3DTextura secrets for a while. As in, figure out how to make some of the monstrously complex textures. I've learned that there are 2 unexpected movies that use (thankfully unambiguous) external textures. But as I said, I made movies in my absence.



It's a literal kaleidoscope. This is the entire single chunk this texture uses;



I suspected it from the beginning, but couldn't verify it until 2 weeks ago.

I also have at least 4 other official textures that are waiting to be used due to another asset being required to complete the movie they originate from. And I'm still figuring out many tricks. But this WILL be released, I promise.

I love your work. Keep it goin'.

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UPDATE FURTHER DOWN THIS POST

I normally don't do this kind of stuff, in fact, this might be the only time.... But...



This video is written off. Another video will be in it's exact datablock.

The reason for this is because... Well, look at it. It has a nice feeling, but too messy to even TRY remaking.

Now, normally I disregard this sort of stuff because I'm always able to find patterns in movies, especially the 3DTextura ones, and for those I can't figure out, I just put them off until I can find even the smallest clue. However, in addition to having a hard shell to crack, I've done some research and found that this movie is actually a nuisance to some DDR players.

DrDvids: "Very true, songs likes this and Ordinary World are quite difficult with the backgrounds."

TheScoutCombine: "The Ribbon2 randommovie camouflages the arrows. :/"

Kon: (re: DRIFTING AWAY DOUBLES AAA) "What makes it hard is the background... The background is so distracting on those gallops. I was like, RAGING. I was so furious at some of the points when playing this song cause of that background."

Again, the background is nice, but it's raising many complaints. I do know there are others (Demon4 moves with the arrows, causing distractions too), but this one pains me to recreate, this one pains KON due to his distracting it is, and there are at least 5 other accounts where this is called out. So....yeah. I'll probably make my ribbon2 have real ribbons while trying to stick with the standard 3DTextura style.




Yes.

I finally finished it.

That spiral texture. Complete with the "hidden" 40 frames seen in Feather1 and Candy1.

I am so happy I finally got this one.

I am the only one capable of reproducing these specific (3DTextura) movies. In fact, I feel like I'm also the only one who has the motive and power to try reproducing ANY of the DDRMAX-Extreme background movies. I've looked everywhere to see if these were stock, tried looking for the designer's email, asked Konami, no luck. The original designer, I've concluded she's vanished from the media. However, the fragments she left call to me. They've interested me since day 1 (going all the way back to sometime in 2004). The various patterns, interesting tidbits, and relationships with the movies feel like a "path" left for whoever wants to play with the movies. I'm not even sure myself how I am able to figure out the algorithms to the movies.



A work in progress of the "balls" in Tunnel4.

These 84 movies also feel like they have a "character" inside of them. Tunnel4 and Cross2 give off Crashbox vibes. Tunnel5 and Wheel3 give off Rolie Polie Olie vibes. Chain1 and Spiral3 give off Gigglebone Gang vibes (specifically the monkey character). Kaliedoscope8 and Fabric1 look like a background clip from Rock n Learn. Disco4 reminded me of a Hastings store when I first saw it. And there are many others. And I feel like the only way to extract these characters is to reproduce all 84 of these movies. Determine the features that make them. For instance, Pikachu gives off a japanese chibi vibe, is related to lightning/electric, and is very shy and closed in the first episode, until he loosens up to Ash in the following episodes. Nemo gives off an orange-white vibe, is related to underwater, and has to deal with being overprotected by his father and then getting separated from him in a dentist's aquarium.

So, to reiterate, I am the only one who has the power and motive to make these movies, and I do it on a budget of $0, at home, and I'm not even 18 years old yet. Don't be intimidated you can't create stuff as a kid because adults are better at it, I can name at least 4 other examples that are created by people primarily under 18 and are fun to watch/play. Start as early as you want, and don't get discouraged if you have a wobbly start. You'll get better as you go along.


More previews because I feel bad I didn't release anything for 10 months.



The side eggs were tipping me off for SO LONG.... Until I decided to see if I could undo all of the mirroring with the center eggs' algorithm.

This was my result.



It's mirrored 8x8 times (and not the usual 2x2/4x2), with the twist being this 1/8th copy is rotated by 20 degrees. Because it's really just a series of circles (with squeezing), this movie was immediately cleared of any doubt.


UPDATE



The newest addition. I'd say I'm officially 1/4th through every single DDRMAX-Extreme movie.

So anyway, I am making it my goal to get this upper backlog down to 4 (the TV movies and the conductors movie HAVE to get in), and the bottom backlog to 20, before releasing.



You might think "Oh, you already have some of these". However, the problem;



This...remastered version...sucks.

Either the movie is mediocre (Rotation2-4, Kaliedoscope1, 4, 5, and 14, some others), or the texture sucks and/or isn't reusable for other movies (For example, Sphere2's circus floor needs to be longer for Cross1).

So once again, if anyone is willing to help, here are the movies that I'm having problems with. The others, I have them "queued" with random.org. Either some tutorials or your versions would be great.



The blobs. I don't know how to distort them in the fashion these ones are.



The entire movie, moreso with, again, the twisting blob.



Oh man. What a mess. Edit: Not really HAHAHAHAHAHAHA I BEAT IT A YEAR AGO, SUCK IT "I CAN'T REMAKE THIS"



This movie is a troublemaker. And it's used in so many songs. I attempted this one again 2 days ago, but it isn't quite working. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Also taken care of.




The floor the balls are bouncing in on the bottom video. This is the 2nd "fugitive" texture, the first being Kaliedoscope12's texture (which, THANK GOD, I finished myself). It looks fine in Sphere2, there are a couple of inaccuracies but they aren't too much of a problem. The problem, is the top video uses frames of that texture that aren't visible in Sphere2. And I can't figure out the bump mapping algorithm.





The texture for all 3 of these. Poor Kaliedoscope12 is lonely. If you want a clue with Kaliedoscope13, though, this looks like the algorithm;



All that I need is to figure out what should go in place of this texture used in tunnel4... but that still leaves all of the complex colors. Meanwhile, Kaliedoscope11's colors makes it difficult to track the bump map and Kaliedoscope14 is a polar inversion nightmare.



Another giant mess. I am debating whether or not I should even try with this one, this movie derives enjoyment from frustrating people, and not only in my case, but it tips a number of players off when it plays in the background since it camouflages the arrows.



This movie too. Drifting Away is the only song that uses it, so it might not be too much of a loss if this one is cut. This movie is also currently one of the only three of the 3DTextura movies I have never in my life attempted remaking (the other ones being waterfall1/jskera and amoeba3/jscrba), whether it was in my "test" animations in 2012, or any point in this project's run from 2013 to today.



THIS ENTIRE MOVIE. There's actually a slither of hope for the spiral "towers", but it's that fucking troublemaker texture on the "hall". Jesus christ. A polar inversion nightmare. I am debating whether or not to use another completely different one for this movie.



The background. It looks like a fractal...and I don't know how to make those, which sucks. I suspect it's polar inversion after polar inversion after polar inversion and so on, but...



This movie relies on Kaliedoscope11 and Kaliedoscope14 to be completed. See details for those two above.



Again, the blobs. And that background texture (although I'm actively attempting to do that myself).


Additionally, I would appreciate Blender-compatible models for the DDR characters. There are at least 50 movies that use them, with these models, I can get halfway through the project much quicker.

September 20th: 33 3DTextura movies and 7 Tokyo Cartoon movies left.


Here is something valuable I learned.

Got this roadblock for a graphic or instrument sound/effect you just can't seem to get right? Resort to other vaguely similar graphics/sounds until you stumble upon what you want. Just keep experimenting until you get it right. It might happen before you realize it.

The 33 3DTextura movies left;



I am having problems building up motive for ANY of these somehow.

But the thing is, I have to keep going or else I'll lose interest and then delay the project for who-knows-how-long.

With time starting to pass quicky without any direction to go forward, I resorted to creating custom movies to stall while I attempt to figure out maneuvers around the movies.

There are three movies in particular that seem hopeless.



Stated above, they share polar inversion that I couldn't figure out how to do.

Meanwhile, 8 days prior, I had finished Kaliedoscope2's texture.



This was finished within a day, proving a couple of other movies to not be so intimidating like these 33 I just...don't know why I'm putting off again and again (specifically fixing the STAY movies, tunnel1 (and it's brother tunnel14), geometry1, and some others).

I got started with a 3rd custom movie with this texture consisting of cubes flying by, with the "background" moving (it's a rotating octahedron that produces a "passing" illusion). The meat, though, is the background texture. I started with a concentric pattern.



The idea I had was to have this moving pattern get "shrinked" around the center like a vortex. UV mapping does the trick, however, I instead attempted to map the pattern on a cone. It didn't produce the effect.

....however, it produced something much more alarming.



It's polar inversion.

Remember the three "impossible" movies I posted above.



They all use the effect this texture does, and I just couldn't get it... I was ready to write spiral2 and fireworks4 (well, the textures anyway) as a lost cause. And yet, here is the effect before my eyes. I couldn't believe it. Then, after adding some effects with Sony Vegas;



This is good. Sure, it's only 1/11th of the movies above, but I think of things in this sense. Even if I only complete a single movie, it quickly adds up. There are 607 movies DDRMAX-Extreme (counting Dancing Stage Fusion) uses, and I went from 1/6th of the way for the entire project to 1/4th of the way faster than I made 100 movies.



I was scared I wasn't going to be able to finish these while I still had the spark. However, this single animation has given me hope that I used to not have.

The trick (so far) is this.



This image...



...is no good. :/

But if we make it wavy (preferably circular waves)...





The center looks amazing.

Then once the middle of the cone is shrinked and the "extended" areas are gone....



It's actually usable.

So what I'm saying is, if there's a specific trick to anything (programming, music, animations, videos, stories, even some jobs) you can't figure out, just keep experimenting until you finally get it.

Hello, have you done this video?