Pieces, pieces, pieces

Putting everything together. Still a lot of scripting to do but I'm shooting and hoping to have the next build ready for next Monday. There's still a lot of scripting and VFX stuff I want to do but ok let's go over the screenshots.

The top set of 3 images shows a lot of little things put together.

There's an FOV zoom trigger I can use in dialogue now. It's pretty much the old zoom from Oblivion. Some of the dialogues the camera just felt really far away and I'm hoping this will help focus the character better.

Animated fancy text is working and I've started using that. It doesn't really come across but in the 2nd image down it's the blue version of 'hello'. The visuals are controlled by materials and it's called by using tags in the editor. So it's a few extra steps when creating dialogue but it will hopefully add some extra flair to scenes.

Then the 3rd image is showing off some very placeholder fullscreen visual fx. I'm still figuring out what pieces to use for this. There isn't an easy out of the box solution for this like I was expecting, at least I haven't found one in my brief researching. I was hoping to find essentially a 2d VFX thing I could use just in the UI like Niagara or Cascade but I couldn't find anything like that. So I'm doing a workaround with multiple widgets and it's becoming an entire thing... and I haven't even touch the post processing stuff yet! But it's getting there and this is just the first iteration.

Ok 2nd screenshot! All of the imp outfits are rigged and in game!!! I just need to update their spawn points in the cave.

Lastly - and this is more real world / life stuff so if you were only here to read about the game development update you can stop reading here.  

So, I think it's fair to say that a lot is going on in the world. I'm going to refrain from talking about politics and stuff here because I think it's nice for people to have a break and an escape from real world things and what better place than in video games? With that said there will be politics inside of the game but those politics will be grounded in the game world. I can clarify or go more in depth on this if people are interested.

There's also the wrinkle of what's happening with adult content across the internet. In a lot of places there are restrictions on how people can view NSFW content. Some platforms are just turning off access in those areas. I have no idea if Patreon is ever going to be hit by anything like that. But I'm trying to keep an eye on things and hope for the best. If / when anything like that starts to happen I'll let everybody know and I'm trying to come up with contingency plans for it. I'll continue to work on Feign regardless! There might just be hoops for the end user to jump through for spicier content (looking at what some devs are doing on Steam). Hopefully that never becomes necessary but again hope for the best plan for the worst.

Ok enough of my rambling. I really hope everyone is holding up and staying safe out there!