Krisse you interested in the idea of me using digital photos ported gameboy palette that are stereoscoped? If you want I can make you a test image.
Actually I whipped one up real quick, the colors aren’t right but here you go. Cross your eyes to see:
Ok so this is what I’ve got so far. The virtual boy can generate background maps of 512×512 pixels. Now is that all displayed on the screeen at one time? I mean 512×512 is a perfect square, unless its squashed or cropped it won’t fit on the vb’s screen. what’s the vb’s resolution at anyway? it’d be neat if it were at 1024×512 but I highly doubt that given what I’ve seen. I’m just trying to get a grasp for the resolution the images can be at. Furthermore I’d need to know the virtual boy palette to see what kind of quality the images can go on. I know its all red colors which is just fine, but how many shades of red are we talking here? 256 is my guess.
With the sound, is the only problem the fact that emulators don’t support sound? is it yet possible to rom dump on to a cartridge?
We should ask Bryan Provinciano to take a look at this thing. He’s always interested in obscure gaming systems and while the virtual boy isn’t obscure it is very largely ignored. I think it was very innovative and its a shame that it failed because it seems like it was ahead of its time. It’ll be a long time before someone tries that again. Its like it kicked virtual reality off the map for a while… 🙁
Tis a shame because with today’s technology we could certainly pull a number with VR. I mean full polygonal full color stereoscopic 3d games with some kind of gloves or controls like car controls or stuff like that would just rule.
Sorry I’m off topic ranting here…
Anyway back on topic
The faceball thing looks like it might not fly with the lack of available programmers here, but this thing has more promis as its your project and you’re the programmer. So I think maybe this project is my best bet. Like I said, 3d cgi rendered stills is gonna be too much for me at this time, but 3d photos I can do no problem. I’d give you a pair of bitmaps for each scene already set for the sterescoping. Just gotta overlay them or whatever. I could even help on the storyline but it’d have to be within my limited setting and actors/ props. But we’re still talking alot here. The reddish graphics ought to make things look pretty atmospheric and creepy. And this is stuff I love to do. I can add effects to the images like actual ghosts. I may even have some stuff that’ll pass off as creatures, maybe I could whip something up with clay and superimpose it into a photo still.
I’m really interested in doing this as a little side project. I’ve got a big project going at the moment with some friends, but I like to have a lot of projects and this sounds like a neat one.
God I keep editing this: 😀
Anyway here’s something I did with a 2d image by offsetting parts piece by piece.
You have to cross your eyes to see it. but I hope that gives you an idea on what I’m capable of.
Here’s another
