re:Dreamer Alpha 0.18.1

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Hey y'all, I basically have a gun to my back (or a jackhammer to my skull) to get this out NOW, so this one is gonna be brief.

re:Dreamer (0.18.1) is halfway between a bugfix release and a proper release, but let's get into the changelog:

• Ren'Py 8.2.0 broke a lot of things, and because I was both an idiot who decided to update before the release and had to crunch to get the release out the door the day I did due to very extenuating circumstances in my life (and the same thing is happening again right now), I missed them. These include:

  • Visual bugs (mostly tied to characters shifting in height by a few pixels, the weird composites I made for split expressions, or Zoey/Samantha's yandere face to normal face dissolve not working).

  • Animation fixes (some CGs broke in pretty egregious ways, but characters also sometimes flew across the screen).

  • Britney's variable for her sitting down on her hips and not her legs broke (I still don't understand this one at all).

  • Text overflowing out of the 4-line limit in the textbox (Ren'Py changed its text shaping from TrueType to HarfBuzz and this lead to lines changing width).

  • Ai's font getting messed up (same issue, but more severe as this font collapses certain contractions into a messy blob on the apostrophe, i.e. "it'd" became almost illegible).

  • And a whole lot of more minor issues I am forgetting to mention.

• That being said, there is a bit of new writing sprinkled throughout the script, the most noteworthy of which is Britney Day 3 having a new scene outside of the church that explains the issues with binding better. But there are small edits almost everywhere in the script as I had to rewrite a few lines to fit the text width changes. It's just barely shy enough of having enough new content to warrant a new version.

• I think I finally fixed the phantom rhythm game popup on loading saves! It was an easy fix I just didn't see of hiding the "ddr_notify" screen instead of the "notify" one.

As always, the full changelog for every release can be found at https://justpaste.it/rdchangelog