Rewatching death egg I see what you're saying, it does seem like there's elements that would rotate when in ball formation, so it makes sense. I could also imagine it would be very annoying to scrap all your work just to put in the standing ball formation for things like https://youtu.be/qdBKq7o6RTE?t=1m37s that

One other question I had, is that in the VHS demo, it seems like the loops and such, aka the wacky snake ways, that it was automated. Watching the video you set out, I saw wacky snake ways are more controllable, specifically the level with all the loops that has yellow platforms. Will the original levels be planned to have automated wacky snake ways, and the new levels let you be more in control like shown?

Just a quick question about the VHS footage, did Chris Senn send it online or did it somehow leak onto the internet without any authority?

Yeah I'm not sure how the paths worked in the original game myself, it looks like they have both automated and 2.5 d locked on paths with freedom of movement where sonic is not automated. We will never know until that build of the game leaks.

You're funny, Andrew.

So the AXSX paths will be mostly 2.5D locked, with the wacky super loop-de-loop ones being automated? Although I'm not sure how powerful the spin dash is, as in if a spindash will be powerful enough to zip through the snake ways when fully charged and such.

I've been looking over E3 and the PC DEMO footage and I can see how most of these paths don't need to be automated, except New worlds because its like a fucking roller coaster everywhere.  I think what's throwing me off about the snake ways you've shown in your demos consist of two things. The first being the smoothness of the snake ways, my example being https://youtu.be/RpfMxNi5bAI?t=5m32s which shows something that can be considered automated, but it's extremely smooth. I know you've rebuilt Crystal frost, is the same kind of smoothness achievable, if that makes sense. The second being the camera angles, in line with the depth. In the VHS footage, and any other footage for that matters, besides again new worlds, the snake ways always show sonic riding them right in front of the camera looping around and such, where as AXSX (referring to 2014 SAGE) has the snake ways that give the Z axis. The camera more or less follows sonic then Sonic moves along with where the camera goes, if that makes any kind of sense. None of these are bad things, mind you, I just like to explain why I'm so hell bent on the snake ways. They fascinate me.

It frustrates me to no end because we have no idea why some you could walk in to, others speed boosted, if you could stop or change direction, just none of it had any rhyme or reason.

Let me explain the camera thing in more detail, or try to at least. So first we have https://youtu.be/bHEjx7-BjpQ?t=2m19s which consists of running towards, away, and along side the camera. The camera moves Up, down, left, right, and it zooms in. However, the camera follows Sonic in a way where when sonic runs, it will move up and down, at angle, showing more parts of his body. The camera dynamically follows Sonic as he runs, to shorten the explanation.

However, and example such as https://youtu.be/wzvS_beXtXk?t=52s in crystal frost, shows the camera only moves up down left right and zooms in and out. There is no angling, sonic always stays in the same animation the entire time regardless of depth or movement of the camera. In Xtreme we can say the only thing moving is the camera, while Sonic stays in the center in the same animation.

Is it this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zGUoiNFxTs

I know the camera is locked in this, but there's no snake ways, so I just wasn't sure.

If it's this

Snskeways with locked camera, u must have missed it lol. https://youtu.be/kAEg94TrAJc

Yeah I see what you mean, there's barely any snake way footage so it's kind of easy to miss (for me at least). The Jade gully one definitely looks like Xtreme VHS, but the test level something just seems weird or different. Maybe it's the speed because it doesn't zip by, or maybe because it goes in more of a Z axis, I'm not sure.

I mean you get what I'm saying right? I don't know if it's just me at this point, the camera is fixed but it just seems like something is different?

Oh really? They looked pretty similar, but then again we barely saw how the physics actually worked or felt in Xtreme.

I once had a cool idea that used a level viewer source and docs for paths that would play the actual level. You couldn't interact with stuff, but paths would work. Sadly the idea is now gone.

EDIT:

We actually got a taste of what X-tremes physics did look like in v37. It was pretty sloppy.

EDIT AGAIN:

Is that you jolly? Are you back from the dead to leak v53 ported to modern windows? Are we getting NEW WORLDS?

Yes level layouts , or sections of level layouts!