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

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   InfiniteRhombus says:

   April 13, 2013 at 1:09 AM

   this game has been in development for almost 5 years.

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   TheApatheticGuy says:

   April 13, 2013 at 12:32 AM

   On and off by one guy with no formal training.

   Quite the feat I’d say.

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   SonofDust777 says:

   April 13, 2013 at 12:29 AM

   it’s his hobby! 

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   uncajesse says:

   April 13, 2013 at 12:13 AM

   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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   ulillillia says:

   April 12, 2013 at 11:45 PM

   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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   ulillillia says:

   April 12, 2013 at 11:24 PM

   Huh? I’m totally confused by what you mean by this. Could you explain?

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   foofiter9097 says:

   April 12, 2013 at 10:34 PM

   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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   uncajesse says:

   April 12, 2013 at 10:03 PM

   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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   uncajesse says:

   April 12, 2013 at 10:00 PM

   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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    ulillillia says:

    April 12, 2013 at 9:40 PM

    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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    uncajesse says:

    April 12, 2013 at 8:55 PM

    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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    ulillillia says:

    April 12, 2013 at 8:01 PM

    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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    Samuel Custer says:

    April 12, 2013 at 7:59 PM

    What did you create this in? I know C but what framework/ide?

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    ulillillia says:

    April 12, 2013 at 7:12 PM

    Visual C++ 2008 Express.

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