Monday Update 06/21/21 - Alpha Build

Please note: The only thing fully working in the attached build is the toy box as a preview of the in progress map (read below).

This weekend I worked on further experimenting with the new render pipeline looking for ways to increase graphical quality while keeping some of the performance gains. This lead to me starting a complete recreation of the game map to increase performance while hopefully making it look nicer than before. I also fixed (and improved in some cases) almost all of the materials, so the meat sack should no longer be invisible.

What I found from looking into the performance difference between the render pipelines was how I abused real-time lighting. Baked lighting is both much more performant and higher quality than real-time lighting, however baked lights can't be changed during the course of gameplay. This limitation was what turned me off of baked lighting. Since FuckNAF uses real-time lighting as a game feature, I originally thought it would be impossible to use lightmaps, however there seems to be a work around where I have two sets of light maps (lights on, lights off) and segment the map into portions so that I can apply the light maps onto individual rooms based on whether or not that room should have its lights on. This should provide improved lighting for the showroom while also providing improved performance.

Some other nice features of baked lighting include the ability to have "lights" of any shape or size such as a neon sign or big roof tiles. Real time lights also "wash out" a lot of reflections, so the sex bots are now much more reflective especially Golden Fredrika /Bonnie and Phoenix.

The new map is still a work in progress, and will include some other planned features that I've moved up in priority due to the fact that the map is in a state of disrepair regardless. Those planned features are:

Adding multiple spots where a game over can take place. For example Mangle's two scenes will be able to happen at her desk, in front of the stage, or on Foxy's Bed.

Changing how game over scenes are loaded so that they don't require a reload to happen.

Adding "pseudo-threesomes" when a player loses to two bots who don't have a threesome animation. For example if the player loses to Foxy while Mangle is coming for them, Mangle will watch the scene unfold and afterwards begin a scene of her own.


After the map and by extension the rest of the game are back in working order I'll resume work on the Bonnie scene. I didn't intend to derail the update so abruptly, hopefully it will only take a week or two to get back on track.