Welcome to Round 61 of Campaign of the Month!

You'll be able to submit your Campaigns on this thread.
Additionally, if you have any levels you'd like to advertise, you can post them here too.

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Do I need to fight every other nation?

I was also thinking of imitating that author.

I just read the lyrics.

I found a news article saying that Japanese seriously takes foreign people's reactions and they can't hold their patriotic feelings without foreigners' words; this is why Japan is declining and declining.

Article
https://president-jp.translate.goog/arti...r_pto=wapp

Problem: Teleport Block Color Picker doesn't update color properly
Type of Problem: Client
Expected Behavior: The color that is selected is applied to the Teleport Block when the OK button is pressed
Actual Behavior: Color is prematurely applied to the Teleport Block and applying another color after that doesn't work sometimes

Steps to Reproduce the Problem:
1. Go to Level Editor and place a Teleport Block
2. Open the Teleport Block's Block Options, then open the Color Picker
3. Click somewhere in the Color Picker to make the Block Options menu disappear
The color currently selected in the Color Picker is applied to the Teleport Block, but the Color Picker remains open
4. Slowly drag the Hue slider arrow until you have passed a lot of different colors
5. Click OK
The selected color is not applied to the Teleport Block
For some reason, if you have passed through a lot of colors with the Hue slider, the color does not get applied

Additional Information:
The prematurely applied color does not appear in the recent colors section of the Color Picker.
The color that you selected but did not get applied to the Teleport Block does appear in the recent colors section.

Color application does not work when the Block Options pop-up is not visible and you:
• Click and drag the Hue slider arrow slowly and pass through a lot of different colors
• Click and drag the Hue slider arrow, then release when your cursor is outside of the Color Picker pop-up
• Type in a color code. This does not happen that often

Videos:
Color selection using Hue slider arrow - https://www.sendvid.com/7k0srhbu
Premature color application and failed color selection - https://www.sendvid.com/wpwknyr0

Original Bug Report: [PR2 Bug] Seemingly random chance that this wont work

When you enter a level or test a level in Level Editor, there is a small chance that something happens to your player's position. Apparently your position gets rounded differently which can affect the gameplay of levels involving precise maneuvers such as Don't Moves and glitch levels.

I added this filter to the beginning of Pixel Perfect by Devious Taylor (6511621) to make sure the player's position wasn't glitched. Try replaying that level until you hit the mine. It only happens about 1 in 50 times.



Videos showing a player passing and failing this filter:
Passed: https://i.imgur.com/B3Dwhmo.mp4
Failed: https://i.imgur.com/U0yjB30.mp4

If you pause both videos on the frame before the mine is hit, you can see that both players are in the exact same position, but one hits the mine while the other one doesn't.
In the very next frame, the position of both players is also exactly the same, so this is a weird glitch.

Not sure if it should be fixed, but posting anyway for knowledge sharing.

Problem: Guests who are Rank 3 or above receive the wrong PM error message
Type of Problem: Server
Expected Behavior: The correct reason for a failed PM is shown, or Guests are unable to access the Send PM button
Actual Behavior: Guests are always told that they need to be Rank 3 or above to send PMs

Steps to Reproduce the Problem:
1. Log in to PR2 as a Guest
2. Achieve Rank 3 or higher
3. Attempt to send a PM to someone
The PM will not be sent and you will be told that you need to be Rank 3 or higher to send a PM

Video: https://www.sendvid.com/jwx7ushx

Additional Information:
Before the Player Info popup was updated, the Send PM button was always disabled for Guests.
So I think the Send PM button should be removed for Guests, just like how the Share Level button is removed when viewing Level details.

Here are our finalists for round #60 of Campaign of the Month!

Finalists:
Theme by Author

- The Devil's Lair Campaign by @Addy
- The The EXP Campaign by @Master Raiden

@Addy and @Master Raiden must abstain from voting.

All votes will go through a verification process. Fraudulently placed votes will result in disciplinary action including (but not limited to) disqualification of campaign/vote, suspension of participation/voting privileges, and PR2 disciplinary action.

For a sample judging scheme, you can see @bls1999's judging streams on YouTube.
Voting closes on January 3rd. Thanks!

I learned to do art growing up here on PR2. I even used some printouts of drawings I did here to apply for my middle school's advanced art class, and got in! I have never been good at drawing from my head, I've always been a referencial artist. And yes, a lot of the things I've drawn on levels are easily findable on google images (this was a scandal of sorts back in the day). I think referencing images is a great way to amp up your own levels. We aren't profiting off of our levels, it is just for us and we are publishing levels, not artwork. The art is just a part of the level. Which leads me to my first tip.

Find a reference! My level had an empty space that could use a nice drawing, so I searched for the right reference. I found this gem.

 
It is perfect for my level, so now I just need to draw it. Luckily, the composition is pretty easy, otherwise I'd need this next step.

Trace! Tracing is taboo with art, but I think it should only really be taboo for art students. art students should be learning to draw from sight. We are not art students, we are Platform Racers! Back in the day, for a complex drawing, I'd print out a photo of what I wanted to draw and tape it to my computer screen, then trace an outline to start with. If I were to do that now, I'd use a transparent overlay of the image to trace it.

Color Picking! We are very blessed today with the updated color picker. Gone are the days when we only had the 150 colors to choose from. But what a lot of people didn't realize back then, is that you could paste in color hexcodes to bring in way more colors. Now our color picker is much better, we have everything we need. almost.
Back in the day, Clairehof gave me some tips. She would upload her reference into paint and use the eye dropper tool to get the hexcodes of the colors in the reference, then paste them into the PR2 color picker. That was revolutionary for me.
Now, I have an eyedropper extention on my browser, so I'll take a few samples from my reference and post them in a note's page and label them so I can come back and find the same color again later. I'll take a sample for the main color, the shadow color, and the highlight color. Now I just need to put the colors where they go. It is a make you own paint by number.
The first thing I did after getting that tip from Clairehof was this:

I found an image I liked. I traced it. I got the exact colors from the reference, and painted them where they went in PR2.

Another thing I'll do when I'm not exactly drawing something, but just decorating, is I'll look up a color palette and adjust colors from there. By starting with a color palette, I know that all of the colors I use are going to look good together.


Be aware and careful with the Atmospheric Effect in the game. The color you have as the background will effect the colors in the layers. Especially layers 2 and 3. In my drawing of the Lemon, I drew it when I had a neutral gray background, but at the end, I changed it to be brown/orange. This made the Lemon look more orange than it used to because it is being effected by the background color. When drawing in farther back layers, I'll still use an eyedrop tool to get the color, but I'll use the ingame color picker to raise the intensity of the color so it has more pop when I use it.

Let me know if you have any questions. A part 2 is possible, and I may need to expain some things more clearly. I am also horrible at spelling, so there is that too.