Rivals of Aether

Rivals of Aether

Lovely Sweet Dream
fufu Aug 10, 2022 @ 6:06pm
Lovely Sweet Dream's Gimmick Guide
Her Dream Graph is one of the gimmicks of all time. I'll need to study it more closely as I develop my own tile-gimmick-fighter person, but as for now...Here's a guide for it, based on her code.
I am not a skilled player...but if a skilled player comes upon this guide, make good use of it and make sure you play the sickest LSD of your ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ life. Or jump in place and mash nair. That works too, I guess.
In Practice Mode, directional taunting gives you, well, the type of dream associated with the direction you're holding.
My eyes hurt, and I'm getting tired, so if something's off, tell me about it and I'll fix it.

Oh, uh, for reference--On the graph, down is DOWNER, up is UPPER, left is STATIC, and right is DYNAMIC. Just in case you needed a refresher.

DOWNER ACTIONS
Walk - Downer
Utilt - Downer/Dynamic
Nair - Downer/Static
Ustrong - Downer/Static

UPPER ACTIONS
Double Jump & Wall Jump - Upper
Jab - Upper x2/Static
Dstrong - Upper/Static

DYNAMIC ACTIONS
Dash & Initial Jump - Dynamic
Utilt - Downer/Dynamic
Dtilt - Dynamic
Uair - Dynamic
Bair - Dynamic
Fstrong - Dynamic
Up Spec. - Dynamic
Side Spec. - Dynamic

STATIC ACTIONS
Idle - Static
Jab - Upper x2/Static
Ftilt - Static
Nair - Downer/Static
Dair - Downer/Static
Ustrong - Downer/Static
Dstrong - Upper/Static

FULL LIST
Idle - Static
Walk - Downer
Dash & Initial Jump - Dynamic
Double Jump & Wall Jump - Upper
Jab - Upper x2/Static
Ftilt - Static
Utilt - Downer/Dynamic
Dtilt - Dynamic
Fstrong - Dynamic
Ustrong - Downer/Static
Dstrong - Upper/Static
Nair - Downer/Static
Fair - Upper/Dynamic
Uair - Dynamic
Dair - Downer/Static
Bair - Dynamic
Side Spec. - Dynamic
Up Spec. - Dynamic
Dash Attack - Upper/Dynamic

MISC.
Dspec - Does nothing. I was hoping it'd be something cooler, like dynamic on hit and static on whiff, but it isn't.
Nspec - Resets the graph.

Analysis
A lot of moves combine either Downer or Upper with Static, mostly Downer, but Dynamic moves almost all stand on their own. Uppers seem to be hard to come by, which might be why Jab applies Upper x2 for some reason, being the only move that applies 2x of any Dream.

Other Notes
her utilt should fade out instead of instantly vanish, that'd be cool
during testing, i used it a few times for fun and idled for a while, looking back at the code. when i checked the game again i had a maxed downer/dynamic dream which is pretty funny
there's a commented-out function in update that generates this stuff with a random function. i'm glad this was scrapped, i may be developing a character with heavy rng but it's more fun like this. now that i think about it--i can't get rid of rng because it's so important to the character i'm making, but i might be able to let the player influence it...
there really isn't a consistent "this type of move does this" logic to it. with ftilt and dtilt being one-dream moves, you'd think at least utilt would be one too. but it isn't. i mean, the actions do match up with the dreams, outside of some weird things like uspec (wouldn't it be upper?) and ftilt (a lion is static. okay), but you'd think that the action itself wouldn't be the only factor.
why the ♥♥♥♥ does jab apply upper twice??? it's the only move that moves two tiles on a dream???
i think it'd be cool if she had a rune that multiplied all her graph movement by 2 or 3. maybe it'd help an lsd player try to apply this knowledge under easier conditions? but it'd just be fun
dair and nair sharing properties is weird
bair is an anomaly. according to attack_update.gml, if it's neither downer nor upper, it resets its own projectile...but not its own damage or knockback. what it does reset is fair's damage and knockback? why???
i tried to keep this organized and consistent.if there's any consistency errors, like something being listed as dynamic/upper instead of upper/dynamic, scream about it in the threads until i fix it.
Last edited by fufu; Feb 5, 2023 @ 4:45pm
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D YellowMadness Aug 29, 2023 @ 10:28am 
This has been extremely helpful. I keep forgetting which moves are which type & it can be really crippling to not know when fighting a boss so I come back here a lot.
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