Heat (Bust A Groove)

[Tamez]

Get it here: 
http://tamezmugen.110mb.com/

"High Quality" video of the stage:
[youtube=425,350]WssJfYpWnzI[/youtube]

Special thanks go out to HankVenture and Kakuto. 
Kakuto introduced me to PSicture, which I used to get my sprites for this project, and HankVenture convinced me that I could make stuff for mugen. 

They both played the original game and gave imput during the creation process. 
Without them this project would have never happened. 

The stage has two versions. 
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At the beginning of Heat's stage in the actual Bust A Groove game, the camera would start out pointed at the ceiling and would spin downward toward the characters.  While recreating the spinning was (mostly) possible, I decided to make the intro for my stage simply begin at the top and go straight down toward the fighters. 

**While I consider the intro version to be the best version of the two, it can cause problems in some character intros**
This is why the second version of the stage is available.  All other parts of the stage are identical. 
They even use the same .sff file. 





These next two images show the glass breaking.
When the glass hits the ground, it bounces and fades away.
Also the walls can be seen lighting up a bit as a result of the fire. 




Altogether 28 panes of glass break throughout the fight. 
There are four breaking periods and seven panes break each time, some from the glass far above the fighters. 
The break points are around 40, 55, 115, and 145 seconds. 
Small panes break into two pieces and large ones break into four for a total of
88 individual pieces of glass. 


This image shows Heat's sign and a bit of the fire up above. 
You can see it if you knock your opponent into the air and also in the intro version of the stage.
The flames above the sign have different animations from the ones on the bottom. 




These two images show a bit that the stage has a parallax effect on the floor.
The MJ wearing black starts on the right side of the MJ in white.
After he jumps over the MJ in white, you can see that the MJ in white stays on the same column of the tile.




Here is what the stage looks like in the actual game: 
http://i273.photobucket.com/albums/jj236/TamezMugen/ActualHeatStage.jpg
Or a video if you prefer: 

[Worksa8]

Why the rainbow colors there?

[Tamez]

The colors behind the glass are lights on the buildings outside. 

In the original game, once the characters were dancing well enough, the stage would start to be affected by their "dance energy" I guess.  In Heat's case the glass would break and you'd begin to see parts of the city through the holes where the glass used to be. 

There wasn't enough time to break all the glass in the original game, and it would break randomly so you'd get to see a different parts of the city each time you played.