[WIP] FoFiX Theme for 4.0.0 - by the community

[acrox999]

Ah yes, that's FozZ, RF used it. fatdog was somekinda like FozZ lol. He made awesome 3D models, so does fatdog. Both guys pretty same. It looks like we need fatdog to re-model them in a higher quality(and textured, of course xD).

[ADH]

I agree. A fatdog remake of Fozz's notes and keys would be epic.

[death_au]

I remember using them for the longest time, haha.

Me too. When I first did the Oldschool theme I had them for notes/keys. Then I realised they weren't the original, and eventually ended up dropping them unfortunately.

[oesick]

ive made some notes.. what do you think?



i can made all notes or just upload psd files.. :)

[Prakt]

While looking at this:

I got an idea - make running notes that way ^ and static notes like this, but upside down:

if you didn't "open" the note fast enough, the running candy note (or stone note, whatever) would just run over it, but if you did it correctly (press fret - highlight, press string with button hold: open the note), the stone falls into some darkness or just under the guitar.

My great MS Paint work:

If only some1 with higher drawing skills could remake it and show how would it appear ingame

[coolguy567]

@The person who posted the orange notes/keys (not Prakt; you ninja'd me): I like them a lot. They're nice and clean and therefore go well with Leapo's menus. And I don't think I've ever seen semi-transparency in notes before, and I think this also works well with what we've got going in Leapo's menus. They look quite futuristic and this goes nicely with other ideas for the in-game screen that are going around.

This is also why I don't think the FozZ notes would work well - they just have too much going on and aren't very clean. I count seven different bands of alternating light and dark colours as you start at the outside and move towards the inside of the note. Also they're similar to GH notes and we're trying to move away from that.

[Pk403]

well.. i made some notes based on the first orange note and im kinda proud of it as its my first set of notes...
but in-game, you cant really get that semi-transparent-ness.. my prnt screen doesnt work so ill just post the notes.

[coolguy567]

Star power and HOPOs need work IMO. HOPOs look too much like GH3; we should be more unique (and IMO GH3's bright-light HOPOs make much less sense than RB's shrunken-down HOPOs - it should be the strummed notes that stand out). Making star-power blue is very GH and star power won't be in our theme (see the discussion on "fuel" and "ignition" and so on) - we really need to finalise on this before we make full note sets.

[oesick]

well.. i made some notes based on the first orange note and im kinda proud of it as its my first set of notes...
but in-game, you cant really get that semi-transparent-ness.. my prnt screen doesnt work so ill just post the notes.

i can upload photoshop file for you.. (big size)

[misterhh]

Am I the only one who thinks the notes should be based on lines, not circles. It doesn't have to be an RB clone, but it would be nice to have a more precise view of when to hit the notes (if that makes any sense).

[death_au]

I think I prefer bars or lines to circles as well. And it's not a Rock Band thing, since Guitar Freaks was doing that way before Rock Band.

That being said though, I like the second of oesick's notes. If the middle was raised a little more, perhaps a little more transparent like the first note, and the note was 3D I think it would look awesome in-game. Especially if there was some sort of dynamic lighting that could reflect off the metallic texture around the edge.
Perhaps for "fuel" notes the centre part could "light up", as if there was an LED or something inside it.
On that note, they'd also make nice fretbuttons.

I liked the first note too, but they remind me of LEGO for some reason

I also wanted to point out that I like Prakt's idea of notes falling through holes on a correct strum. It only works if you have a transparent fretboard though, otherwise the notes just... disappear.

[slantyr]

i just wanted to point out the "round" notes are no more or less of an accurate display of when to hit than the bars

because of the perspective they have to be in to look right on the neck, their essentially the same size in height

if anything the round looking ones have smaller gems

[weirdpeople]

i also prefer rb style rectangle/block notes

[acrox999]

I'm thinking something. Make RB frets like GH frets. You know, the center of the RB fret(the one with colors green, red, etc) will go up once we hit the notes just like GH notes. And RB-styled notes would be good.

[Pk403]

Rectangular or box notes seem kinda cool to me but I personally do not like the 'chip' style of Guitar Freaks...