Other 2 stages, with these they are 6 from the 16
SECTOR ZThis stage is the evolution of a small fix I made to a Corneria texture my brother downloaded once upon a time. This is the first picture I made to the stage in its first state
The difference with the original one was just the background. While the original stage was corneria with a different texture in the sky, I replaced the whole background with a single model with that texture. Anyway, I didn't like it at all because it wasn't the Z in Starfox64.
Time after that, I was given a sector Z background rip without the Z. I took the Z myself from Starfox 64 and made this teaser:
And after this, I discontinued the stage for a long time. I was told about
a better looking one and I just abandoned mine. Anyway, I kept it for me in my game.
Then, when I made a poll for my STGCUSTOM pack this summer, and I posted it as a possibility, my sector Z was selected, and I resumed it. I cleaned a little the light effects (blue reflects from corneria) and made it work properly over Corneria, even being big size. Arwings are working perfectly without trespassing anything. And the stage still works over FD if needed, without the airwings.
This is the final stage:
Some additional info of this stage:
- The first and only properly working big sized Great Fox over Corneria.
- The textures in the ship are almost untouched. Only the star fox logo and symbol are touched, having a color more similar to the one in SSB64.
- The Z is not part of the background. It's a separate model.
- The Z is the same model as Fourside's moon. You will be always facing the Z.
- That Z, which first was a moon, earlier was an UFO. It was used in some beta testings in earlier versions of Fourside, and it's taken from Smashville.
- This stage, which was about to be suspended and not released, has now more than 700 downloads in the vault count. These are always less than the real thing when you look to mediafire.
VENOMThis stage is just Great Fox facing you, like melee's Venom. There was already some Venom stage, but it was in the space. So I made mine with halberd's background, which is more like a planet like Venom. The stage looked like this:
Time before, after fixing some collisions and adding a spawning arwing, I posted it into the vault. Then the stage became like this:
There's much work to do with this one. I need to get a good background and revamp it completely. Anyway, it's not a bad stage and I'm proud of it.
Some additional info of this stage:
- In the beginning, Kurobit was supposed to make Venom, which was in my plans. And I was supposed to make Hyrule 64, which was in his plans too. Finally, I ended doing Venom and Kurobit started Hyrule 64, but he didn't finish it.
- This is the first stage in which I actually edited lighting. I already had imported lights from a scenedata to another, but I had never edited a light to make it brighter before.
- The stage is working over Corneria, but the arwing is not controlled by the stage. It's a custom one.
- For this stage, I needed to make some work to get shadows working working well. The shape of the ship wasn't helping me. Great Fox only cast shadows in the upper parts, used by corneria, not wings.
- While trying to keep the camera from trespassing the ship, I placed a larger invisible ship to keep it away. I was never sure if this did anything at all.
- That invisible model was used to place the lasers from corneria before.