Rayman Legends Fan DLC: Adventures & Mini Become Legendary!

[Hiroshihimself41]

Thanks everyone for all the work! I haven't tested anything yet (and haven't had much time to work on the mod at all in the past few days sadly...) so I will comment on all this later - just posting to answer some questions that caught my attention.

Hi Droolie!, it's been a while since I was connected here xdd
I came to respond to your last post, which took me a while to do so because I've been busy lately and I barely came back to help about the DLC.

Regarding the sprite errors, with the help of some acquaintances like Michu, we were able to fix things like Dr. Farayday's costume, the spinning sprite of Fiesta Run costumes like the Christmas ones that had the wrong color, missing Raydoom sprites, among others
The same with the sprites of some Teensies costumes, the missing sprites (like the 3D ones) were made like Green Teensy and others
The ones that would still be pending are the sprites (teensy_c1), which maybe I or someone here can do later

I would love to do that but Fiesta Run uses a version of UbiArt that is more similar to Rayman Origins than Rayman Legends, and it's currently impossible to port the environments from Origins/Jungle Run/Fiesta Run to Legends.

Doh :cccc
I would have loved to see that, and couldn't all the necessary textures be extracted to try to put them in the DLC or would it be impossible for the Ubiart version?

Related to this of the different versions of Ubiart, before I was going to comment if it was possible that Edith Up was added (using her unused sprites within Fiesta Run) somewhere in the DLC, but I feel that it would still be a bit complicated due to the animation issue that Origins may use a different format than Legends, idk...
If it were possible for her to be added in some way, it would be very curious, although seeing that her sprites are very few that were ever made compared to Origins, I could only think of something like her only appearing as an environment element or in the Gallery xDDD

By the way, just to show everyone the current status of the mod - here's 1 level as it is at the moment: https://streamable.com/m12bnd
Even after they have been converted properly, I still need to manually add music and combine various levels so that you get 1 full Legends-sized level out of them. It's a lot of work and I'm the only one working on this part, so please be patient. It probably won't be out in 2023, but when it is finally out, I am quite sure the wait will have been worth it

I really like the new look at one of the levels, if we ignore the errors you mentioned and maybe they will be fixed in the future, I like the rest ^^
The truth is I really like how the DLC is giving its results, although slowly, but surely

[Badgamer70641]

hi Byvar I saw your dlc video on youtube and I really want to help
Please respond to this message.

by: bd70641
cheers

[Slime59]

Hi. Can you create levels with Murphy's Touch?
And can you create a Discord server?

[QuantumBandit]

Do you still happen to be working on this project

[Dumbo TV]

Thanks everyone for all the work! I haven't tested anything yet (and haven't had much time to work on the mod at all in the past few days sadly...) so I will comment on all this later - just posting to answer some questions that caught my attention.

Hi Droolie!, it's been a while since I was connected here xdd
I came to respond to your last post, which took me a while to do so because I've been busy lately and I barely came back to help about the DLC.

Regarding the sprite errors, with the help of some acquaintances like Michu, we were able to fix things like Dr. Farayday's costume, the spinning sprite of Fiesta Run costumes like the Christmas ones that had the wrong color, missing Raydoom sprites, among others
The same with the sprites of some Teensies costumes, the missing sprites (like the 3D ones) were made like Green Teensy and others
The ones that would still be pending are the sprites (teensy_c1), which maybe I or someone here can do later

I would love to do that but Fiesta Run uses a version of UbiArt that is more similar to Rayman Origins than Rayman Legends, and it's currently impossible to port the environments from Origins/Jungle Run/Fiesta Run to Legends.

Doh :cccc
I would have loved to see that, and couldn't all the necessary textures be extracted to try to put them in the DLC or would it be impossible for the Ubiart version?

Related to this of the different versions of Ubiart, before I was going to comment if it was possible that Edith Up was added (using her unused sprites within Fiesta Run) somewhere in the DLC, but I feel that it would still be a bit complicated due to the animation issue that Origins may use a different format than Legends, idk...
If it were possible for her to be added in some way, it would be very curious, although seeing that her sprites are very few that were ever made compared to Origins, I could only think of something like her only appearing as an environment element or in the Gallery xDDD

By the way, just to show everyone the current status of the mod - here's 1 level as it is at the moment: https://streamable.com/m12bnd
Even after they have been converted properly, I still need to manually add music and combine various levels so that you get 1 full Legends-sized level out of them. It's a lot of work and I'm the only one working on this part, so please be patient. It probably won't be out in 2023, but when it is finally out, I am quite sure the wait will have been worth it

I really like the new look at one of the levels, if we ignore the errors you mentioned and maybe they will be fixed in the future, I like the rest ^^
The truth is I really like how the DLC is giving its results, although slowly, but surely

Yeeeees !!! Please make a Edith Up cameo !!!!

[Michu0204]

Hello Big News!
I made backlight textures for Ray-One!
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link
Also can you send a video of you playing it?

[Hiroshihimself41]

Hello everyone, I hope you are well
I'm here to give a mini update ^^
I already finished the backlight textures for Ray of the East
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... 7MbJojh3Q1

And also add an extra folder where corrected versions of normal sprites and backlight textures come
like the ones Michu0204 did, fixing Spin's sprite, removing sprites like Hoodie, and fixing a blue tongue
And in my case, in the backlight textures, in one I eliminated the hoodie sprites, and in another (rayman_fiestachinese_g) I only changed the color to red, now being more consistent than the other textures

Soon I will do the missing ones that I mentioned before (Santa Ray 1 and 2, Raybolt and maybe Snowbrina) ^^

[Michu0204]

Hello Weforest teensy backlight textures
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... sp=sharing
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I SEE YOU UPDATED UBI-CANVAS AND ADDED FRISES!!!!!! YAYYY
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you update Ubi Canvas a lot! that means you are working for DLC hard and don't want any bugs! great job! Also could you give us a small update if you have time

By the way, just to show everyone the current status of the mod - here's 1 level as it is at the moment: https://streamable.com/m12bnd
It looks nice so far, but there are still a lot of glaring issues with the conversion. In this video alone:

• Missing sound effects for the bandits
• Pop-in issues with the backgrounds
• Spider web animations are a bit jumpy for some reason
• Level exits not working

Even after they have been converted properly, I still need to manually add music and combine various levels so that you get 1 full Legends-sized level out of them. It's a lot of work and I'm the only one working on this part, so please be patient. It probably won't be out in 2023, but when it is finally out, I am quite sure the wait will have been worth it

Also ghosts are lighter in gameplay. Pretty sad because is going to be full Legends-sized lvl from like 2 levels
Questions:
are you gonna make a setting to make levels reversed? (in rayman adentures some levels are just same level but reversed)

[Droolie]

HI everyone, sorry for not answering in this thread a lot, but I've been working hard on the DLC. Thank you for all the work though! I'll answer your questions when I get around to implementing all the changes to the skins.

Also ghosts are lighter in gameplay.

About this, I wanted to ask for your opinions:

In this video I shared 2 months ago, ghosts weren't lit up by themselves: https://streamable.com/m12bnd
In fact this matches how they appear in Rayman Legends. There just aren't any really dark places that ghosts appear in, so you never see them completely shaded like that.

In Rayman Adventures, ghosts completely ignore the level's lighting and are always the same brightness. I can do this too in Rayman Legends:

But I feel this also looks a bit weird... they stand out so much they ruin the atmosphere a bit, so I tried half brightness as a compromise:

I also had the idea to make them more "ghostly" by making them slightly transparent. This is the option I personally like best, but it isn't consistent with how the ghosts appear in either Legends or Adventures. I also recorded a video of this: https://streamable.com/s8ebze (this also shows that the bugs from the previous footage have been fixed)

Which ones do you guys prefer?

Finally, here's a screenshot of another Adventures level with special lighting that I've added to the DLC.

[Michu0204]

In Rayman Adventures, ghosts completely ignore the level's lighting and are always the same brightness. I can do this too in Rayman Legends:
rpc_ghosts_full1.pngrpc_ghosts_full2.png

Which ones do you guys prefer?

I like that most (ofc in my opinion guys )
transparent ghosts are cool but you can see the hands in body and its werid
half brightness nah

This level is called samurai in the shadows

[PluMGMK]

I find the transparent ghosts work best for me too, at least based on the screenshots…

[Michu0204]

Hello! I made Ray Freeze Backlight textures:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

EDIT: Donwload the second one again because I fixed it
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what about ninjas backlight textures?
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I figured out that second backlight texutre in Ray-One is wrong but I fixed it
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

[Insert A username]

topic dead

[Hunchman801]

topic dead

The topic is not dead, and Droolie is still working on this project. He will share an update when he deems it necessary.

[Insert A username]

topic dead

The topic is not dead, and Droolie is still working on this project. He will share an update when he deems it necessary.

ok, true

[Michu0204]

Small news
HiroshiHimself41 Made the first backlight sprite and I did make second backlight sprite (eyes) for Raybolt: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... drive_link

[glebking]

Can I have new link Rayman Legends Fan DLC Dicrord Server? I can't join it cause it's expired.

[Michu0204]

Can I have new link Rayman Legends Fan DLC Dicrord Server? I can't join it cause it's expired.

Ye I updated it but remember, Droolie himself is not on the server and the server is unofficial.

[Droolie]

Hi everyone, and happy new year!

Sorry for not replying to this topic for a while. As huMCH said, I'm still working on the project... I'm spending pretty much all of my free time on it, in fact. (aside from the past week and a half, because I've been sick and haven't fully recovered yet)

Anyway, I've been making a lot of exciting progress these past few months, but I've decided to stop showing things, so that the re-reveal of the fan DLC will be that much more exciting. ^^ The other reason for this is that I've received a lot of comments on YouTube complaining that the DLC is still not out, or comments here like "topic dead", which made me realize that I announced this project way too early and that I should stop getting people excited with videos and screenshots until it's ready. So that's what I'll do.

However, I'll give a progress update without going into too much detail:

I've finalized the list of maps that will appear in the DLC. While I will not reveal this list yet, I am sure that people will be quite happy about it.

All of the Rayman Adventures maps that I've decided to include (a lot) are now bug-free. This took me way longer than I had hoped, but this is pretty huge, as Rayman Adventures maps had way more bugs than Mini maps did. I still need to fix some bugs in Mini's maps, but it's almost nothing compared to how buggy Adventures was before.

The next step for me is to add music and ambience to all of the maps. I have always been disappointed with the music selection in Rayman Adventures, so I will almost fully overhaul this using tracks from the official soundtrack from Rayman Legends (and perhaps a few from Origins). I've already written down which music to use where, but I still need to implement a system that will allow me to set up music triggers easily, cut the music from the OST so it loops properly, and so on. Oh, and I'll add ambience in some places as well, as Rayman Adventures levels are sorely lacking in this regard. This will take a while...
For Rayman Mini this hopefully won't take as long as all of the levels have ambience and I will just reuse the music (for better or worse) - but because of the sound engine differences, I will also need to port all this manually.

I won't give an estimated release time again, because I don't want to disappoint people if I miss that window. Despite the insane amount of time I've already spent on this project, there is still a lot of work to do, so it won't be in the first half of 2024.

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@Michu0204 and @Hiroshihimself41: These past few days I've implemented all of your changes from the past months into the game. Thank you both so much for all your work on this!
The only ones I haven't added yet are Michu's remade sprites from Rayman Adventures/Mini (in the "Fixed sprites" directory). These sprites were originally DDS files and some color data (for pixels with alpha=0) sadly gets lost in the conversion to PNG... Don't worry though, I've figured out a way to combine these PNG files with the original DDS files to keep the same quality as the originals, but it'll be a bit complicated so I will keep this for later, and maybe only for the skins that really have obvious issues.

Finally, @Hiroshihimself41:

The first one I want to start is with Rayman's new costume, taken from an Adventures concept art, I'll call it "Ray Sweet"
The parts like the hair, head and torso are already somewhat finished, there is still more to do so that it is finished, even with the little I did, I really liked it

And from something else I did not long ago, I thought of the idea of ​​a completely new costume, this time with one that would make reference to Jade from Beyond Good and Evil, using the Teensy Queen as a base.

I previously told you I wouldn't be including any custom skins. But I think I should change my mind about this - the skins you showed in this thread are quite high quality. Ray Sweet, Jade Teensy, Dark Rayman and the Battlezone Rayman all look really professional, so it would be a waste not to include them. If, of course, that would be okay for you? If so, I would also credit you for these directly in the description of the skins.

[Hiroshihimself41]

Hi Droolie, how much time xd
and Happy New Year!

I barely see the post, I'm glad that an update was made on the status of the DLC, lately I haven't been very deep into the topic because I had a lot pending
Just like the backlight textures for Raybolt I brought...
I thought this might be the only thing I would do regarding DLC, but if things go well this year, I can do more if I'm willing ^^

Well, from the last part, I don't really know if it's really necessary to put them on or not, during that time that I was inactive, I changed a little perspective on the idea of ​​more exclusive costumes
But if it seems good to you, you can put them with pleasure ^^

Although I could say a few things, with Battlezone Rayman I could no longer advance it because when trying to try it in the game, it looked strange and I feel like it doesn't fit, more than anything because of how the sprites were made up
The same thing happened with Jade, except that with that costume there was a defect with the hair sprite, although if I dare, with a little help from Michu, I can rework those parts, because even not long ago he helped me a little to make a Sweet Ray, and it looks pretty good than I expected

I would only say that Dark Rayman is the only one that is somewhat finished, it's just a matter of its backlight textures but that's all.

---One thing that I would like to see about Dark Rayman is its description, I imagined a funny change that involved restoring the original description of Raymesis, which was like this:

"This is Rayman's evil clone. A nemesis created by Mister Dark to destroy Rayman. I don't think this guy has many friends in the Glade of Dreams..."

And the description that came out at the end was for Dark Rayman, but modifying the mention of Raymesis for the other one, like:

"In attempt to tarnish Rayman's reputation, Dark Rayman dresses like him and stalks the Glade of Dreams smashing things! A desperate case in need of serious anger management."
I know it's a strange change but I feel like it suits them well xddd--

That's the only thing I can say at the moment.
I hope this year is better depending on how much Rayman content is released, it doesn't matter if the DLC takes a little longer, I prefer it to be finished slowly but surely and I hope you recover soon Droolie :DD