Special Delivery v0.2.1 Development WIPs #1 - May 2024

Hey all <3
Got a few more WIP shots to share with you! Not as many as last time, because a lot of what I've been working on has been under-the-hood stuff, but at least a few more sneak peaks at upcoming content for SD

First of all, I modelled, textured, and rigged a new outfit for Yshel :3 the first of many! I'm sure I've mentioned somewhere before that SD will have an outfit system from chapter 2 onward, allowing the player to switch between looks at certain points in the game. This is the first one I've put together, meant to be a bit more of a casual look for her <3 I've already rendered almost all of the sprites for it, including a new one I'm adding to the library for stretching :D

The second WIP is how the outfit selection screen currently looks. I know, I'm not the best UI designer, but at least it's consistent with the rest of the status menus :d outfits will each have their own tags, which will influence speech and response options between characters, and alter how certain scenes play out depending on what kind of do's you're donning :3

Lastly, I've been doing a LOT of script writing for chapter 2's intro! It's hard for me to preview the script without spoilers, and it's probably not that interesting to look down a text document, so I've not got a good way of showing it off at the moment. Rest assured, I'm writing, re-writing, and refining as much of the dialogue as possible to get it as good as it can be <3 it is time consuming though, so the work-to-wip ratio is not skewed in my favour :c

I've brought together a few more of the intro scenes as well, though! Des' office aboard Anisthia is not just rendered now for chapter 2, but modelled in full for future chapters, since it will make more than one appearance :3 

Oh! I'm also completely re-creating Des from the group up c: sounds like a lot of work, but since I have all of her textures, clothes, and shaders made already, I can easily re-create her from my female human base once I have it re-vamped, which is another thing I've been doing a lot of lately. I'm actually fitting Faith to my new rig, but once I have her all prettied up, Des will be easy as pie to reassemble on the new base <3 the reason for this is just that Des' model is super outdated, and if I keep working on what I have now, it will just be digging the hole of dysfunction deeper. Better to do it clean and fresh, even if it delays things a bit at the start c: after this, Des will be primed to receive her new sprite libraries as needed <3

Thanks for reading, and for all your support <3
Take care all, have a lovely week!