Ethan's Electrifying Expositions

[austere star]

all this for 0.2 seconds btw

[austere star]

kinda liking some darkness around the border

[austere star]

what do we think

[still linden]

i really like this, the glow and dark patches in the star makes it look so realistic

[crude sand]

the glow is cool and it feels like a star

[austere star]

ok cool i thought it looked really basic

[austere star]

https://gyazo.com/505e75a4a47075c847e25cf396c0b04a.mp4

[dim heron]

worth it

[jagged willow]

ooo

[austere star]

nvm i hate this

roudn 3

round 3

[remote hull]

I can not be falling ill rn

Why is my nose running like crazy

[polar totem]

Change in weather to be suddenly warm dw king

Mine was too 2 days ago lmao

[remote hull]

No I mean I think I caught a cold

Or something

[polar totem]

Maybe gl

[remote hull]

I mean considering that im also sneezing logically it makes sense

[austere star]

nvm your prob right

@polar totem

i dont feel ill

just that

gonna push through it

and get back to generating circles

[polar totem]

😭

[austere star]

since im still not happy

its getting there

but not good enough

[polar totem]

have fun ima show exotic some peak media 🤑

[polar totem]

youre learning and practicing so dw

[austere star]

oh yeah the learning ive gotten from this is immense

oh and i need to respond to svilar today

[austere star]

attempt 3

[austere star]

i realised that im dumb

the circles thing was for nothing

trying something different

[civic maple]

LMA

practice is still practice 🤷‍♀️

[austere star]

im mad

tldr

i made something better within 3 mins vs 3 days

https://gyazo.com/c6759e025bdabf8c029241b0d34670f5.mp4

this is nerw

new

[austere star]

just needs some different easing styles now

do we see the vision
https://gyazo.com/678dd7e84117ef250da635fb3fb51099.mp4

https://gyazo.com/c01a2fe14a596242795089315e39ed69.mp4 yesss

@polar totem

[polar totem]

oh yes bro

yesssss

[austere star]

ill record in streamable when the explosion sequence is done

tommorow will either be the most productive day ever or nothing will get done

im at that stage now in which alot of things can be done in a short amount of time now the base is done

[polar totem]

ill try do a lot of work on it tmr

havent been very motivated to start properly

[austere star]

just noticed some decals are loading late so this isnt even accurate to how it actually looks

wow i actually forgot how smooth the impact frames are when recorded at 60hz
https://streamable.com/afpcba

[austere star]

i think ive learnt whats wrong here

[austere star]

no work done yesterday

did alot of dev talk though

[austere star]

@polar totem im gonna try and get some work done now before i sleep

[polar totem]

gl

and have fun

[austere star]

dev day
dev day

[austere star]

OLD
https://gyazo.com/ed6409c37b63d9db6f8b9e977869530a.mp4

https://streamable.com/y11a77 NEW

is this an improvement

[civic maple]

✅

[austere star]

https://streamable.com/0yakmj that is significantly better

woahhh
https://streamable.com/br9jqy

[still linden]

that is sick dude

you have improved alot in effects over the past few weeks

[austere star]

last time I did vfx was for nos lol

[dim heron]

so basically 3 years ago

[grizzled shadow]

actual supernova

[remote hull]

I just want this to be over at this point

[austere star]

tldr

[austere star]

finally feeling like im making progress again

this feels alot more intense compared to the previous versions
https://gyazo.com/e821a9a6862e41d462f6af2013b907eb.mp4

lemme know if theres any suggestions for how to make this more intense

i spent like an entire day and last night trying to improve it

[dim heron]

Oh that definitely feels a lot more intense yeah

[austere star]

https://streamable.com/ygilhz this was the old which is basically very smooth and uniform

[tight widget]

ethan what decal or texture did you use for the background buildings
asking because i want to make a futuristic city map like nos astra

[tight widget]

woa
this is so cool
what is it for

[nova quarry]

tores

[nova quarry]

its custom

generated from blender

[dim heron]

blenber

[tight widget]

oh

[austere star]

latest

https://streamable.com/on9jsk not too much work done today

lemme know what you think

[jagged willow]

Looks clean asf

[remote hull]

Ty for 90 hearts

[austere star]

https://streamable.com/uvfkre todays work

[dim heron]

love the impact frames

[nova quarry]

89 because i used alt

[remote hull]

No today’s work

[remote hull]

Ideas have been reignited

[austere star]

took the last 2 days easier
gonna see if I can maybe work on it tonigh

[austere star]

LATEST
https://streamable.com/s0o0yp

radial lines added + instability effect before it explodes

[polar totem]

i read that as radical lines

[dim heron]

True

[still linden]

this is because we love radical

[austere star]

GUYS WHICH IS BETTER

https://streamable.com/s0o0yp ONE

OR TWO https://streamable.com/vs5g7q

[civic maple]

1

[austere star]

for what reason

@civic maple @still linden

[still linden]

the first one feels a lot more intense to me

[austere star]

which part do you think thats cause

[still linden]

it feels faster and im pretty sure the impact frames are different

[austere star]

the difference between those 2 videos is

Two
has a flicker of blue before it explodes
impact frames happen earlier

One
impact frames 1 frame later + less red

[still linden]

i see

[civic maple]

hm

[austere star]

ok what about version 3

https://streamable.com/lj89gy

[still linden]

okay yeah this one

[civic maple]

yeah i like that one

[austere star]

literally all i added was

task.wait(0.01)

[austere star]

https://streamable.com/wnopc9

[austere star]

FULL EXPLOSION SEQUENCE (not the final thing but heres how most it is gonna look in the final)

https://streamable.com/ycy53v

[jagged willow]

I’ve been waiting to see the whole thing

[remote hull]

This doesn’t include the buildup

[austere star]

⭐ 🌟 ⬜ 🔵⚡⭕ 🔵⚡⭕✨ ⭐🟧🟦🔲🟦🟧🟦⬜💡⚡💥🔵⚪🔵⚪🟠✴️🔵🌟🟨🔳🔳🔳🔳🟦‼️🎆🎇🎆🎇🎆🎇💥🔥

[jagged willow]

Ye

[nova quarry]

is this translation for the blind

[dim heron]

Yes the blind can See this

[valid bay]

So much things going on i love it

[austere star]

thankyou!

[polar totem]

So much going on! I'm terrified!

[grizzled shadow]

Not enough going on!

[nova quarry]

https://klipy.com/gifs/sonfys-nervios

[austere star]

compartmentation has started

[austere star]

ok wow

@umbral pivot im actually really against the dark bit in the star

this

the one i edited for the thumbnail (edited in studio) looks significantly better

[austere star]

I DEF NEED TO USE BLOOM MORE

[remote hull]

@umbral pivot why does this one look so good compared to what I have currently

Is it the perspective?

[civic maple]

that one looks like it has a blue blending mask over it tbh

[remote hull]

Really? Cause it doesn’t

Unrelated to the effect I’m talking about the stars in the skybox are disabled

Which doesn’t help

[remote hull]

I recall saving a backup of this but I have 0 idea where that is

[umbral pivot]

Yea def

[umbral pivot]

Actually yeah that looks way better LOL

[remote hull]

But why

Could you make adjustments

[umbral pivot]

Prolly cus its just a way more interesting composition than the window shot

I cannot tell you why tho 😭

(As in idk why)

[remote hull]

Yeah I was thinking this

I did some crazy lighting for that shot

@umbral pivot im gonna try and find that file

[umbral pivot]

Hell yeah

[austere star]

@umbral pivot i think this is it?

[dim heron]

god damn that looks wild

[austere star]

do you like it more than the current

[dim heron]

can i see an image of it

[austere star]

@umbral pivot only works for the thumbnail

the layering doesnt look the best

however im gonna try that lighting with the current

OLD LIGHTING

new

[dim heron]

oh yeah that looks a lot cooler

[austere star]

really brings out the blue hues more

[dim heron]

definitely
the difference between the old and the new is really noticable lol

[austere star]

WOAH

HOLD UP

need to use THIS MORE

brigher centre

[austere star]

note to self

[umbral pivot]

YEP FIRE

[nova quarry]

it looks great

now set it to grpahic 1

[umbral pivot]

Actually wait wouldnt it still look pretty damn good

cuz everything is scripted and it uses beams n shit

[tight widget]

how to make cool ass effects like ethan

[polar totem]

:D

[remote hull]

I can’t express how obsessed I am with the the start of this video when the light flashes

[remote hull]

Wait the lines are supposed to be black? (Note to self)

@polar totem

[polar totem]

🏍️

[austere star]

CAMERA SHAKE
https://streamable.com/rbz285

[austere star]

i think this is better
https://streamable.com/7h3v9a

[austere star]

EXPERIMENTING
https://gyazo.com/10f6d8045fdb46653ad77d240c35a812.mp4

beautiful

THERES A FRANE MISSING

I KNEW THERE WAS

[remote hull]

Dealing with some issues

Sadly

[still linden]

woah thats amazing

[calm geyser]

🔥

[tight widget]

brooo
that's genuinely so beautiful

[wanton wolf]

https://tenor.com/view/robozz-electro-man-electro-gif-14636392030153133537

fire

[remote hull]

No development today

Honestly Sunday has kinda been turning into a no work day

Which im kinda not against gives me a full day break

Helpful with preventing burnout

[remote hull]

The motivation is high today

[remote hull]

Lemme explain rq

So the ending currently takes me down to 20 fps which kinds makes everything at the end look really choppy

This is because I’m loading in 600 particles at that same time

Now the fix here is to use some sorta of particle cache so, once a particles are finished they can be reused without making new particles

Now my particle cache is broken

Each animation manipulates both the attachments and the size of the particles created

So I need to work out why its not being reset

And the best way to do that is to make a smaller version and find out exactly why it’s not working

Once that is done i think gradually loading in the particles over 1-4 seconds would also be a good move

And if this isn’t enough then we look into other optimisation methods

Currently im already bulking every single particle into 1 heartbeat loop as quite a major optimisation

Anyway so this is today’s job

Maybe I could implement my own culling system so that very quick particles are removed the second they are out of frame, frees up more particles that can be used for the cache

Theres also the option of using bulkmoveto

That would require some changes though and the script is already horrendous

The star 🌟 is coming

[dim heron]

creeping to completion

[remote hull]

Tbf like all the phases are pretty much done now

There won’t be any significant changes after this

[dim heron]

yeah

[austere star]

@polar totem

[polar totem]

hi

bro

[austere star]

yep that above is what we are dealing with today

prob gonna use frustum culling

[polar totem]

i see

i gotta finish smthing today

and then hopefully tmr i can begin the lock in

on boom

[austere star]

roblox already has this type of culling for parts

but my case is kinda different cause I wanna completely end the animation early once a particle is out of frame and then immediately return that to the cache

@meager imp do we think this is a pointless optimization

[austere star]

im looking into this i dont think it will be that hard to do if its needed

[meager imp]

Can you not just make the animation shorter so it doesn’t go out of frame

[austere star]

means messing around with all the timings

[nova quarry]

''''ooiiiiuu.0o-0=6gytyuiop[]

[polar totem]

migrated

[austere star]

trying something different to help locate the exact issue

i have an idea

that explains 1 thing

HOW

IT RAN ONCE

MAKING PROGRESS

@meager imp first time using QueryDescendants

the syntax is wild wth

@polar totem you there

[polar totem]

Hi

[austere star]

https://gyazo.com/3742bb0ae0dc26adee1cbc33d5a98185.mp4 this is created only using 27 particles which are constantly being reused
the orange basically acts like a waiting room for particles which have finished being used, and are ready to be reused again

using this method that entire blob thing only uses 27 images and never no more

[polar totem]

Oh I see

That's very smart

You should add orange chairs for the waiting room

I'm joking

[austere star]

before it was just creating them endlessly

and i mean endlessly

this is something I had before but it broke for some reason

just need to hope that everything else works

[polar totem]

Oh my lord

[austere star]

update its still wrong

uhh I might have messed up

[polar totem]

wrong gif

https://tenor.com/view/ishowspeed-gif-2991421254027115572

[austere star]

IH

OH

ok thats more like it

it is sending nil

so its not respecting the cache

top 10

awesome

it works now

oh

thats interesting

they are still classed as being loaded ???when invisible

@meager imp

do I move my cache location to replicatedstorage

ok the difference is nothing

removing the prints helped

it can handle 500 alone so thats really good

OK THIS IS REALLY GOOD

@polar totem its actually nearly fixed

[polar totem]

OO

[austere star]

that alone gave me 40fps more wth

the entire sequence is now 120 consistent UNTIL the ending which i need to improve

[austere star]

i had another idea but its kinda pointless

basically unique allocation for each particle

i think adding this to radical would help alot with reusing

dealing with some odd cframe bugs

having to fork yesterdays version cause i deleted something that i shouldnt have

[austere star]

im doing the radical allocation

@nova quarry particle system 5

[polar totem]

@civic maple

[civic maple]

All this particle system stuff is torquing my brain

[austere star]

my first idea did absolutely nothing

[austere star]

this could though

[remote hull]

This is now fixed

[nova quarry]

6 or 7 iterations

[crude sand]

https://tenor.com/view/family-guy-running-down-stairs-family-guy-samysuma-gif-17795756229708831066

[remote hull]

Hello

Unique particle allocation

Basically what I’m thinking is we basically reserve a certain amount of particles from the cache only to be used for that particle

Let’s say the cache starts at 600 particles, 200 get allocated for the larger explosions which basically all those particles need to be on screen at the same time

I’ve not tested this but I’m 99% sure that when the large explosion happens at the end the cache is being exceeded and thus needing to clone more particles to keep up

When it should instead already have those particles ready

And when those particles are done with we can just return them to the cache freeing up all those particles

For the radial lines thing I’m currently using an implementation which essentially replicates how particles work.

If the lifetime for example is 1

Particle on screen
Particle lifetime expires
Particle is moved back to the “global cache” where it can be reused for anything

My new idea is that

Particle on screen
Lifetime expires

Instead of resetting all the properties and moving it back to the cache, we basically just reuse that particle instantly for the same thing

Which should in theory reduce a bunch of property writes

@nova quarry Hi

And then we can gradually load these bulks of particles in over a duration of a few seconds

[nova quarry]

particle caching

I like

[remote hull]

This is more of a cache within a cache

[remote hull]

Well object pool but cleverly assigning each particle to reduce the number of property changes

[nova quarry]

Yeah for properties aswell

[remote hull]

Im going to start with the radical lines first

Since this means those types of particles are now completely incompatible with my translate function

[austere star]

smoothest version yet
https://streamable.com/8et9qv @polar totem

[polar totem]

oh my god

[austere star]

THE LIGHTNING EFFECT IS BACK

[austere star]

is the best yet

[polar totem]

yes

[austere star]

ETOH DEVS ARE GONNA KILL ME

@polar totem we are breathing https://gyazo.com/40df8639aeda02c6773e59be5c7325b8.mp4

[polar totem]

ethan officially added to the breathe team

[polar totem]

• 1 sound 😨

[austere star]

@polar totem

truly a sight

[polar totem]

⛩️

[austere star]

someone unhearted my creations forum :(

[polar totem]

It was grif

[remote hull]

@grizzled karma check these out

[austere star]

@polar totem the buildup is 40 seconds

[polar totem]

I'm making a full song at this point

[nova quarry]

arise 2

[grizzled shadow]

No genuinely this looks crazier and crazier by each day

like whats even going on here now

[austere star]

this is just a frame from the buildup

but with significantly better lighting

the old is this

what am I gonna do is

[austere star]

copy this like star formation

and then reuse that here

so it kind breaks up how perfect it looks rn

today im gonna compile everything into 1 massive video

https://streamable.com/hsinup heres the buildup btw

[grizzled shadow]

theres phases to this 😭

[austere star]

_ _

more phases than nos

[austere star]

@polar totem

[polar totem]

YES

YES YES YES FINALLY

PLEASE TELL ME THERE ARE NO MORE ADDITIONS SO I CAN START WORKING 😭 🙏

[austere star]

well I have the buildup and then the explosion

today we will be making the transition between the buildup and the explosion

[polar totem]

br o

ok i wait

[austere star]

its only gonna be like a lighting flash or something

[polar totem]

I see

[austere star]

having to start dev later today

starting now

[austere star]

not been a good day for development today

[polar totem]

i stole the productivity juices

im gonna send u my work in our special 1 to 1 place

[grizzled karma]

its so pretty

[nova quarry]

agreed

[remote hull]

Thankyouu

[austere star]

@civic maple you see what i mean now when people mention how "insane" my productivity is
was busy today until now (4pm)
did nothing yesterday
nothing the day before
last sunday nothing

[civic maple]

LO

[austere star]

but on monday i did like a weeks worth in 24 hours

[polar totem]

i actually stole your productivity juice

ever since u started doing nothing ive done so much 😭

[austere star]

how I WISH my productivity was consistent

[polar totem]

speaking of i have another thing to send in our special music place

[austere star]

ive seen it but im not listening it until i get enough dev done

i dont like calling it work

its dev now

[polar totem]

yes

[austere star]

something is wrong

gonna have to fork an older version

[austere star]

i am confused

TOP 10

WHY IS IT 100

that explains

everything

it should be

1 / 60

OKAY THE BUILDUP IS WORKING @polar totem

time to CONNECT it with the ending

[polar totem]

YAY

[austere star]

THE END IS IN SIGHTTT @grizzled karma

forgot to call the function...

[grizzled karma]

GGG

[austere star]

@viscid narwhal etoh devs hate to see it

[austere star]

@polar totem

[polar totem]

:(

[wanton wolf]

ball

[austere star]

ATLAST there is a connection between both parts
https://gyazo.com/4871bc9b892757b4a2221bf865b08861.mp4

https://gyazo.com/457bac3dd7eda0fc5850f62bb9638ff3.mp4

i think i just need to edit the timings for when phase 1 starts

the idea is that is does the star thing
and THEN that causes it explode

rn its delayed

and the lens flare kinda delays some of the intensity

@polar totem

[polar totem]

i see

[austere star]

im very pleased that people like the impact frames looking in the etoh chats

those easily took the most time up

and the most annoying to work with

i honestly kinda just spammed stuff together until it worked

theres actually some like imperfection frames

when removed it looks worse

which is interesting to me

lemme give example

so when the frames first start

and then it cuts to the ball for a second (accidently)

and then white screen

and then basically resumes

[austere star]

this frame doesnt make sense and shouldnt exist
using that logic i removed it and it actually looked way worse

this version has that frame missing if you wanna compare https://streamable.com/7h3v9a

[austere star]

got a full day of development today so im gonna make the most of it

[remote hull]

Biggest lie of the century

@polar totem How’s the Stats

Both of them

[polar totem]

bro

patch 5 drops yeah

[remote hull]

Yep

[polar totem]

DOOOM hits, instant DOOM, views go from 300ish an hour to 80

anyway

[remote hull]

It went down?

300->80

Thats down

[polar totem]

yeah cuz everyone is playing patch 5 and listening to the new nullscape soundtrack LOL

you can tell when patch 5 dropped

[remote hull]

Is it the end 3

[polar totem]

yeah LOL

[remote hull]

Wow would never have expected that

[polar totem]

i kinda did cuz ppl are experiencing a huge update rn

[remote hull]

still on track to be a pb though!

[polar totem]

YEP

[remote hull]

How’s tria

[polar totem]

itll be back to normal in id say max 24 hours

let me check

[remote hull]

Hm

We have hit past 1.1k new players so far

[polar totem]

tria

[remote hull]

Solid tbh

[polar totem]

also yeah nullscape is going off

[remote hull]

I

[remote hull]

Peak was 21k btw!

[polar totem]

BTW the tria mechanic stuff is so good, which is great ppl are gonna have such a great view on tria thanks to this

[polar totem]

YEP

[remote hull]

Awesomeee

Im thinking we could see past 1k in tria

[polar totem]

the game also hates me, have a clip to make you laugh

[polar totem]

maintaince is the method

[remote hull]

No load on mobile 🙁

[polar totem]

have a 1 week maintaince before 1.6 for no reason so everyone joins as it drops

its the method trust

[remote hull]

Yeah but the chance of keeping 1k is very unlikely ofc

But that goes for any game when it hits its highest on release

If we can get always above 100 once the hype is over that would be very cool

[polar totem]

yep

[remote hull]

Unironically we used this method and Ive seen other people use this method

It also affects retention stats though

It’s kinda risky

I’ll check new players in a second

[polar totem]

i see

[remote hull]

This is prob the reason Roblox ghosted us for 6 months with recommendations @civic maple @grizzled karma that and fact the game was going down every month for hours

[civic maple]

LOL yeah

idk

[polar totem]

racliddius ping

[civic maple]

it works but as you said its risky

i dont think we can do smth as long as nullscape's

[remote hull]

We won’t be risking it

Just a normal release for tria

1.0 def took advantage of that method though to the extreme

6 month waiting timer:

[civic maple]

LOL yeah um

if you pull that again nobody is showing up 😂

[remote hull]

LOL

Can you imagine

Lights out round 2!

We actually kinda have a lot to loose if that was to happen again

[polar totem]

ethan on v3

[remote hull]

Like the active map maker community

[remote hull]

?

[polar totem]

dms

[austere star]

@polar totem can I get the productivity juices back

[polar totem]

lets share then

them*

[austere star]

🧃

who calls it a beverage box

anyway this is the new emoji for productivity

[polar totem]

wtf is a beverage box LMOA

[austere star]

beverage box

[polar totem]

I have to make the sfx and do assignments welcome back voidbound escape creation process

https://tenor.com/view/speed-horror-crash-out-speed-crashout-speed-meme-gif-3653719369115228661

[austere star]

wb

[austere star]

itd been a strange week

im not burnt out

just really busy with things irl

and thats been taking all my time up

[polar totem]

thats good tbf

[full ruin]

Nah…

Thats NOT good😡

[polar totem]

https://tenor.com/view/who-is-this-gif-4011795153273257473

[nova quarry]

Who is this??

[remote hull]

22 before 🌟?

[dim heron]

one must dream of 🌟

[wanton wolf]

happy birthday ethan

[austere star]

hey so unfortunately

[still linden]

will the game still be playable with the updates?

[austere star]

maybe

[still linden]

the effort u put into the ⭐ is absolutely amazing and inspiring and its such a shame to see it go if you dont make it playable

[wanton wolf]

what even is it with tores and it being "incompatible" with etoh idgi
shit has been happening for over 5 years at this point