Status Update - Milkman is coming

Hello my MODDERS, MODIFIERS and MODULATORS!!

I hope you've had a good week so far.
And hopefully I can make it a bit better with a new status update for MODIFICATION APP 0.7.0 - Cow!!

Update name change

After looking at the planned content for this update, and future MODIFICATIONS I have in mind, I'll be changing the name of this update from Cow -> Milk.

As mentioned on the previous Status Update, there will be a path following this one more focused on Cow changes, I think it will fit better then, and be less confusing than having path names "Cow" and "Dairy Cow" or something.

How's the update

All the main artwork was finished last week - which was a LOT of art this time - and now I've been working on the writing.
I have finished the first draft, and am now reviewing and testing everything to see if there's any last changes I want to do before sending it over to Miera to record.

After that, I move on to doing the "cinematography" and facial expressions, and finally the minigame.

Writing took a bit longer than expected, because besides writing, I already began work on some of the animations.
Normally, I do this AFTER writing the script, but once I got the idea of the gimmick I wanted for the MODIFICATIONS, I wasn't sure if my dialogue system was able to handle it.

And so, I had the revamp the Complex Animation system that I implemented back on the Growth update - since it was a bit limited and VERY hard to use.
It is now much easier to do simple animations during dialogues, and it can do some additional stuff it couldn't before - like calling particles systems and scripts.

Additional QoL Changes and Optimizations

Name Changer

A new item will now be available on the Gimmick Store - the name tag.
It allows the player to change their name, pronouns and Mia's Name.

Performance Improvement

A few players commented that when entering MODIFICATIONS, the pink effect caused their FPSs to tank.
While I couldn't understand why that happens (since it's just a normal particle system), I was able to confirm on a old laptop of mine, that it was indeed slower.

So instead of using the particle system, I replaced that effect with a scrolling texture.
Visually I don't think it looks any different, but it should improve the performance on lower spec devices.

That's the update I have for now!!
I hope to be able to have the update finished early/mid next week.
I had too many ideas for this path so it ended up being longer than I originally planned, but I think it's coming along very well!!

For MODIFIERS and MODULATORS - I should hopefully be able to share some WIPs of the minigame this Sunday.
After that, the next post should be the POLISHING NOTICE!!

In the meantime, I'll go back to the dungeon and begin trying to sell all this milk, because I have too many bottles already.

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