Rayman Legends Fan DLC: Adventures & Mini Become Legendary!

[Droolie]

A selection of Rayman Adventures and Mini levels comes to Rayman Legends on PC!

▶︎ Screenshots (taken on December 10th): https://imgur.com/a/TBI23Jw

▶︎ How?
These mods are made possible using my tool ubi-canvas: https://github.com/byvar/ubi-canvas
I created this in 2019 as a map viewer tool much like raymap and Ray1Map, but for the UbiArt engine. It currently supports the PC version of Rayman Legends, versions of Adventures and Mini, and might later get support for Origins and the other mobile games, and perhaps Child of Light and Valiant Hearts. But since the code for it can read and write formats for all supported games already, wouldn't it be fun to also allow converting between the games?

▶︎ Why?
I really like Rayman Legends. Since Adventures was announced, I have been waiting for Ubisoft to release some of the new content as DLC to Legends, or as a cheap digital-only game on consoles.
Instead, the online servers have closed down for the PC version, and most likely the most we can expect for the game's 10th anniversary in 2023 is a tweet. I thought I would celebrate differently - by finally making this content playable in Legends, with full controls and multiplayer!

▶︎ When will it be released?
I hope to release this project in 2023 as a patch program that will require the original files of Rayman Legends and specific versions of Rayman Adventures and Mini, distributing only the original content created for this expansion project.

▶︎ It looks buggy!
It does. This footage was recorded for the Rayman Alive event, which had a deadline for submissions on December 2nd. This gave me the motivation to get all of this working in only 10 days! Now, one week later, many of the bugs shown in this video (missing lighting effects, duplicate/missing objects...) have already been fixed, and almost every map from these games can be played in Legends to an extent. I'm still working hard on this project and will probably release an updated trailer closer to the release.

▶︎ Credits
Droolie - Video & mods
Ubisoft & Pastagames - Rayman Legends, Adventures, Mini

[PluMGMK]

Amazing work! It'll be great to experience the beauty of Adventures (even if it's just a selection of levels) without janky touch controls and ads every two minutes to remind us what modern Ubisoft has become!

[ItzalDrake]

Hehe, I have seen you updating ubi-canvas for some reason, I had no idea you were working on such a project!
Your trailer really amazed me during the event, great job!
I know that you aren't in the Rayman Legends community but I can tell you that they loved this fan DLC and I am sure they can't wait to play and speedrun it

[Hunchman801]

This is a great idea, I never even got to play Mini. I don't have the PC version of Rayman Legends since I played the game on PS4 but it shouldn't be too hard to get my hands on it. The new environments featured in Adventures also deserve some love, it'll be fun to revisit them too.

[Droolie]

Hey everyone,

In the past months I've been preoccupied with the big Rayman 4 prototype patch, but after I released that in April I went back to work on the Legends Fan DLC. It's progressing slowly, but surely and will eventually be released. But since people in YouTube comments keep asking for a release date, and if it's still in development or not, I decided to post a progress update.



That's right, everyone is here! After 3 weeks of work, I was able to include all the UbiArt costumes listed on the wiki and more in this mod.

As the video explains, there is also another reason for this update. Some costumes ported from Rayman Adventures, Mini and Fiesta Run lack certain sprites that are required for costumes from Rayman Legends. This includes the duck forms, "backlight" sprites (which show how lighting affects the character), UI icons... If I ever want to release this mod, I really can't recreate all of those by myself... And so, I would like to ask for help from the community to create these. If you can help in any significant way, you will be credited in the mod itself!

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▶︎ I want to help out!
That would be amazing! Just reply to this thread and let me know what you want to do.
You can download an archive containing all the assets you need + examples here: https://app.box.com/s/2vwp2krg21e3pqf8rwcyrp3jfw361i1k


There are 3 main things that I need help with creating for some costumes:

1. Score UI icons - Completed! New costumes like Dark Teensy, Green Teensy and all of the prisoner Teensies currently do not have their own score UI icons (the character icon that appears in the top left of the screen during gameplay). These are pretty easy to make based on the main sprites I provided in the archive.

2. Duck forms: As the mobile games do not have duck gameplay, they also didn't create sprites for the characters' duck forms. Because of this, the new costumes currently use the default skin's sprites when transforming into a duck. For Globox (and Globox only!), the same problem exists for his Moskito form. It would be great if we could create new sprites for the new skins!

3. Backlight textures: These are the most complicated, but also the most important sprites that are missing. They show how a character is lit when there is a light behind him/her. For example, look at the GIF below. When the light isn't covering Rayman, his outline is still lit up according to the color of the light behind him, and his eyes are always white regardless of lighting and color.

How does this work? The game uses special textures for "backlight". To illustrate, here's a part of 3 of Rayman's textures. The left texture is the main one, the middle one contains Rayman's outlines, colored with how they should reflect light, and the right one contains the parts that always stay lit up and do not change color, regardless of lighting: his eyes.

Because this is missing from the costumes from Fiesta Run and Adventures, you might have noticed in my video that these costumes appear a lot darker. It's quite noticeable especially in the costume room and other dimly lit places.

I know it is quite a lot to ask - I just want this to be as awesome as possible and I'm sure there are others who want the same.
Even if not many people will help, the costumes are already usable enough, but with help from you all, we can make them up to par with original Legends costumes.

[XanderNT]

I can help with the score ui icons \m/

[raideryde]

I’d love to leave a hand! It would be great. I also want to have fun rearranging sprites hehe

[owerset]

Hi im a big fan of this project and the moment you posted your video with hero gallery i decided to help you and draw UI sprites and create an account on this site. starting with uploading the video, so far i have done all the sprites prisoner_fool, prisoner_king, prisonerqueen, i will send you all of them when i finish all the sprites that are in the folder

edit: i created the sprites here they are:
https://mega.nz/folder/NV4xlSAJ#kIDK7AKmVyER9U114jbNog

[Droolie]

Hi im a big fan of this project and the moment you posted your video with hero gallery i decided to help you and draw UI sprites and create an account on this site. starting with uploading the video, so far i have done all the sprites prisoner_fool, prisoner_king, prisonerqueen, i will send you all of them when i finish all the sprites that are in the folder

edit: i created the sprites here they are:
https://mega.nz/folder/NV4xlSAJ#kIDK7AKmVyER9U114jbNog

Wow, thank you so much!!!! When I went to bed after posting the video I really didn't expect someone to already have a whole set of textures created by the time I woke up. And they're all so good, this is amazing!

I already added them all to the game:

I can help with the score ui icons \m/

I’d love to leave a hand! It would be great. I also want to have fun rearranging sprites hehe

Thanks a lot!
Well, the score UI icons were just finished in one go by owerset, but there's still the duck/moskito sprites and the backlight ones. If you'd like to try any part of those, whether it's one sprite or a whole set, that would be really nice! ^^

[Hiroshihimself41]

Hi, I would like to contribute something about the mod with the theme of backlight textures, the one I plan to do first is with the (RAYMAN) RED skin or one or another if I can ʌ ʌ

[Hunchman801]

Amazing progress, Droolie! And it's heartwarming to see so many people willing to help (and helping already).

A lot of content was created for those spin-off games, and as they disappear one by one, a project like this is the best way to prevent them from falling into oblivion.

[PluMGMK]

Oh wow, I had forgotten about this! Awesome work, and I must reiterate Humch's sentiment in full!

[Hiroshihimself41]

This is what little I was able to do about the backlight textures for (RAYMAN) RED

I just made them today so maybe I can make more if that's how they are

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

[Insert A username]

This is what little I was able to do about the backlight textures for (RAYMAN) RED

I just made them today so maybe I can make more if that's how they are

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Woah thats actually good even tho it was just 2 images good!
Droolie should include this!

[Droolie]

This is what little I was able to do about the backlight textures for (RAYMAN) RED

I just made them today so maybe I can make more if that's how they are

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing

Thank you!! The "803" one is exactly right, and I've added it to the game! But sadly "802" won't work as a backlight texture...

Amazing progress, Droolie! And it's heartwarming to see so many people willing to help (and helping already).

A lot of content was created for those spin-off games, and as they disappear one by one, a project like this is the best way to prevent them from falling into oblivion.

I agree, it's really nice to see so many people who want to help out. I was a bit hesitant to ask, because I thought it would really suck if I asked for help and no one cared... I'm glad that isn't the case!
And yes, with Adventures shutting down recently and no way to play it now (though I have a feeling a PC port of it will be quietly released sooner or later, like Jungle and Fiesta Run), I guess this project is becoming a good way to salvage all those lost levels and costumes. ^^

[Hiroshihimself41]

Ooooh okay, let's see if I can do them in the others.
I had doubts before if that was the case, but it seems so haha ;DDD

[Insert A username]

Hey Droolie, does Raydoom have backlight textures? I downloaded the files and I couldnt find him in the "backlight" folder
I will try to help out!

edit: i found out im terrible at drawing

Nevermind, i thought id try and make a raybolt duck sprite altho its missing some things
Can you test it Droolie? https://www.mediafire.com/view/snbyl2zi ... 9.png/file

I have an idea for the DLC mod
Make it so in every level you can get a lucky ticket after enough lums
and with those tickets theres a chance you can get an incrediball which will be in the creatures section
about 6-9 families

[Hiroshihimself41]

I have an idea for the DLC mod
Make it so in every level you can get a lucky ticket after enough lums
and with those tickets theres a chance you can get an incrediball which will be in the creatures section
about 6-9 families

Something like that I came to think when the room of characters was shown and more complete

I don't know if they will put it, it would still be a bit great if the expansion levels added more trophies like when you rescue all the teensies or collect a certain amount of Lums, It could perhaps work as an alternative to get the last level of Awesomeness, which I understand on PC with the fact that the servers shut them down, it is impossible to have it (?)

An idea that I came to imagine for the dlc fan but on the subject of levels, it would be a bit XD to add one or more levels where the rabbids appear as main enemies, taking into account that in Legends they were originally going to come out as the leaked trailer showed but never from there they put them until the arrival of Rayman Adventures

It would be too funny to put something like that, we could see these Rabbids as enemies for a longer time than in Rayman Adventures that only came out at Easter

[Insert A username]

I have an idea for the DLC mod
Make it so in every level you can get a lucky ticket after enough lums
and with those tickets theres a chance you can get an incrediball which will be in the creatures section
about 6-9 families

Something like that I came to think when the room of characters was shown and more complete

I don't know if they will put it, it would still be a bit great if the expansion levels added more trophies like when you rescue all the teensies or collect a certain amount of Lums, It could perhaps work as an alternative to get the last level of Awesomeness, which I understand on PC with the fact that the servers shut them down, it is impossible to have it (?)

An idea that I came to imagine for the dlc fan but on the subject of levels, it would be a bit XD to add one or more levels where the rabbids appear as main enemies, taking into account that in Legends they were originally going to come out as the leaked trailer showed but never from there they put them until the arrival of Rayman Adventures

It would be too funny to put something like that, we could see these Rabbids as enemies for a longer time than in Rayman Adventures that only came out at Easter

thats a good idea! Rabbids are supposed to be Rayman's enemy

[owerset]

I have an idea for the DLC mod
Make it so in every level you can get a lucky ticket after enough lums
and with those tickets theres a chance you can get an incrediball which will be in the creatures section
about 6-9 families

Something like that I came to think when the room of characters was shown and more complete

I don't know if they will put it, it would still be a bit great if the expansion levels added more trophies like when you rescue all the teensies or collect a certain amount of Lums, It could perhaps work as an alternative to get the last level of Awesomeness, which I understand on PC with the fact that the servers shut them down, it is impossible to have it (?)

An idea that I came to imagine for the dlc fan but on the subject of levels, it would be a bit XD to add one or more levels where the rabbids appear as main enemies, taking into account that in Legends they were originally going to come out as the leaked trailer showed but never from there they put them until the arrival of Rayman Adventures

It would be too funny to put something like that, we could see these Rabbids as enemies for a longer time than in Rayman Adventures that only came out at Easter

As for the servers, I personally dream of creating a private Rayman Legends server, or the ability to join other players' games via LAN, as for the former, it would be difficult because such servers would still have to be maintained, and when it comes to the latter, many people probably won't it would make sense because in that case I might as well play with someone on one device but here it would be useful for LAN emulators (like Hamachi or Radmin) so we could play with whoever we want online (as far as I remember, this solution appeared in the multiplayer mod for Friday Night Funkin)