Development#3: January roundup irl updates, spending.

Added 2024-02-06 00:43:53 +0000 UTC

Heavy month. There have been a lot of layoffs in the tech sector, not a part of it, so far.

A bit of a scare made me put my nose to that. I took last week after the poll to focus on this. Sorry if there hasn't been more to show; I've been busy. My goal is to work on this full time I have to make this shine.

Optimizing goals/What I used the money for this month:

I finally caved, and bought Texture Packer for $109 EUR, the license, been using the trial for the last week and it really speeds up work, a hell of a ton, the Ron Gilbert tool for packing tonnes of images to reduce memory, while the money can be used to cover life expenses. I'm using it as an edge in order to make a better game.

Texture packer is as a tool very expensive patreon covered half, kinda.... this tool creates 3D models of each UI object and renders them as a single object reducing render time to 1/100 (batching it) there is other stuff too. Less images is less loading less overhead and less rendering.

I did not touch AI, as much, I used $40USD I covered that myself as the images are not (GAME RELATED) focus on the game stuff is more important can't wait to be doing game content though and crank the ai images like a mad man. We need the base to run this tho.

February I want to have a UI conversation and characters talking the scripting side needs connective tissue to have all the scripts (The video data) reproduce on the game engine.