I really don't know what I can say about this so far beyond the fact that it is climbing well over a gigabyte worth of animations. So far, this is my very first motif/screenpack made for MUGEN 1.1 out of my personal boredom and free time. Given that I have barely any experience in terms of creating these screenpacks or creating content in general for MUGEN in a usable sense, this is possibly either much easier than I assume it is or I'm going about this the completely wrong way.

Either way, this is simply a very large work-in-progress of mine at the current moment. Due to the very large file size and my lack of personal experience with setting up the layout of MUGEN screenpacks in particular, I believe some pointers and some answers would be nice for some questions I have in the long run. I suppose that if this was a 640x480 motif instead, this would've been far easier than a 720p motif in terms of file size management.

I personally do not know if this is a work-in-progress that will ever be finished or even released, but I do hope that it at least gets towards a point of reasonable completion.

December (2013):

January (2014):

April (2014):

[140504A] MUGEN IIDX 20: tricoro Video Preview:

- Music
- Sound Effects
- Title Screen
- Animated backgrounds*

* (Currently being experimented with)

- Setting up the character select screen
- Setting up the options screen (if possible)
- Setting up the versus screen
- Setting up the game over screen
- Setting up the life bars
- Reducing the file size

- Setting up the victory screen (I'm personally not a very big fan of this)
- Allow for the use of "regular" portraits (I'm not a very big fan of this either)
- Accuracy to the original arcade game (I don't have much of the source material, honestly)
- Create a standard-definition version (I am pushing onto 720p for personal reasons)

- Find an acceptable format for the background animations (character select)
- Find an acceptable format for the versus screen (tricoro's default or Limit Burst selection)
- Create a reasonable template for custom portraits (ideas are greatly appreciated)
- Plan the lifebars and how things will flow and work

- This might not be seeing the light in regards to back-porting this motif towards MUGEN 1.0. The biggest reason for this is interpolation, a new function in MUGEN 1.1 that streamlines and simplifies much of the work I've put into this motif so I don't have to create 1440 frames of animation to animate a single spinning wheel. (If anyone is willing to put up with the work to repeat that process twelve times, they're free to be my guest at taking up the offer)

- Working on this has made me realize that I would particularly love it if the menu's functionality was much more flexible and fleshed out. For instance, having a slight difference in character selection menus to differentiate between "Versus" and "Team Versus" would be neat in terms of having potentially different music or using completely different elements if desired. Even further with this would be the ability to detect whether or not a player is still running a battle (for instance, switching characters after getting a "Continue?" screen so the elements (video and audio) could be different to indicate that much of a difference. I really could imagine some use of tricoro's "Limit Burst" in a case like that, but due to MUGEN's limitations, that doesn't exactly apply.

- Working on the motif and trying to structure around getting its accuracy has become enough of a hassle that I've come to realize that I should also go forth and make some kind of lifebar to go with the game to keep it uniform.  I've taken some inspiration from earlier motifs I've spotted (particularly the Beatmania IIDX 15: DJ TROOPERS motif by ExShadow) and have attempted to model some of this motif after that alongside trying to bring in more of an "authentic" feel to the motif rather than the fast-paced motifs that I've seen elsewhere in MUGEN.

- Further clarifying some of this, I've never made anything in MUGEN to this scale as I have very little experience in coding characters, but I feel that for what little I know, this is something that's coming along very nicely for me in the hopes that I could potentially be doing more with MUGEN as it always was a fun past-time hobby for me.