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Add special shapes for space lasers

Open VGMRUS opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

No, it's just a visual idea I had, I don't know if the lasers for the square/saw wave are intentional for these instruments if they are they gave me this idea for the square/saw lead instruments

Describe the solution you'd like

Change both the saw wave and square wave lasers to each shoot their visual waves instead of a straight line

Well, you know what they say "a picture is worth a thousand words" so I just photoshopped it: Here are some square waves examples:

Full laser Squarer

Full laser

Semi laser

and 1 for the saw wave (the wave should be smaller to look better, but you get the point):

Full laser Saw

Describe alternatives you've considered

In case you implement this and If you REALLY want to upgrade this feature then you could make the wave get smaller or bigger depending on the current semitone/pitch, so basically like having a vertical oscilloscope, it definetely would look pretty cool, it would look kinda like (a simpler version of) one of these 3 channels vertically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgPEaI0GHBI

VGMRUS avatar Nov 14 '21 20:11 VGMRUS

Not a bad idea! I'll experiment with this.

wyskoj avatar Nov 15 '21 03:11 wyskoj

I think displaying the Synth Square Wave & Synth Sawtooth Wave as both Shooting Lasers & Keyboards working together would be the coolest enhancement of all so you can see the instrument from even more angles.

s11141827 avatar Jan 16 '22 01:01 s11141827

I'm excited to see this in the next update. In the meanwhile maybe a Test version could help me get started.

s11141827 avatar Mar 03 '23 21:03 s11141827

I think in the interest of keeping the current style (I haven't touched the space lasers in over two years now), I am hesitant to change their appearance. I suspect this might not be well received by the community.

wyskoj avatar Feb 19 '24 20:02 wyskoj