Platform Masters development (January 23, 2012) – Making ground decals (part 4/6)

Ground decals are one of Platform Masters’ special ways for getting its 3D effects with a purely 2D game engine and is why Jeremy’s House (world 1) is otherw…

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  4. uncajesse
    uncajesse says:

    You really should start using a limiter instead of straight digital clipping. The distortion isn’t unbearable, but it’s unpleasant.

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  5. ulillillia
    ulillillia says:

    Wrong.  April of 2009 is when I started. See screenshot 1 of the screenshot archive for the exact date – take about 3 days off of that and that’s when it all started, first with the design document.

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  7. foofiter9097
    foofiter9097 says:

    Considering you are doing every last bit of detail from start to finish on your own (other then the music for the game) 2 years and about 9 months is really quite fast for a game to be created, I mean, FFXIII took all of 4 years to finish and they had an entire crew with each person likely doing something different, even games that are made in under a year have a huge staff of works doing each piece separately, so 2 years and this much work is quite amazing.

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  8. uncajesse
    uncajesse says:

    It was previously commented on one of your latest “how i process audio” videos, where you were just clipping the vocal track, instead of limiting it. Limiters are designed to perform peak control with minimal amount of inter-modulation distortion, where straight clipping will create a large amount of harmonic distortion. You hear it pretty heavily at the start of this video, and throughout. As well as most of your other videos.

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  9. uncajesse
    uncajesse says:

    The harmonics created by non-advanced clipping also are harder to encode and even without that loss they degrade the intelligibility of speech and music.

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  10. ulillillia
    ulillillia says:

    I’m still confused by what you mean. The audio is indeed maxing out in a few places (going beyond the limits allowed by the waveform), but not much.

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  11. uncajesse
    uncajesse says:

    It’s way more than enough to cause distortion. A limiter will have a look-ahead delay (which isn’t actually applied to the audio of course) that basically turns down the “overs” before they happen, in a way that doesn’t cause audible distortion, and then gets out of the way again as fast as possible while also not causing audible distortion. wikipedia * org/wiki/Limiter

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  12. ulillillia
    ulillillia says:

    Well, I’m still not changing the audio in this and future videos. I may only cut the amplification down a bit (like 6 dB instead of 8), but that’s it.

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