Merry somethingmas!

What’s been done?

BenX

• Moar assets
• Fixed a layering issue with Gwen’s shield ability

Ecchi Sensei

• Optimization (still nothing too exciting)

Hopefully everyone is having a great whatever it is they celebrate =3. Mine’s a bit of a mixed bag.. I broke my foot in the clumsiest way possible but on the other hand, my new chair got shipped today and I wasn’t expecting it to be shipped before February.. So that’s something =D

But that’s enough of the sad talks! There’s been too much of that from me lately and while I have been struggling a lot recently, I feel like I’ve bothered all of you enough with it, so onto the work stuffs!

BenX
Dev tools has been shelved for a bit as it’ll take a while to get it fully up and running and since Newman has been finishing assets and dialog left and right I should really start putting it in the game, So far I haven’t added anything entirely new and it’s mostly been tweaks or additions to existing assets.

I also did some work on combat. The first version of Gwen’s combat UI was added (which has been redesigned now T.T) and I also noticed a bug with her shield. The shield has a startup animation and then switches to repeating animation. However, there’s a shadow that goes behind everything and the rest goes on top of the player dolls. Adding the shadow wasn’t too difficult, but the top layer made it clear that I never set up Ben’s combat animations and alien dolls on the proper layers and this.. Took a bit more work as it required me to split off certain elements from their original animation and figure out what layers they should go to.. It sucked =<

Ecchi Sensei
Finished up the config pages and experimented with something I remember doing when I was building websites. A lot of the time buttons on websites aren’t one image, instead, they have the 2 sides and a full length 1 pixel wide image that repeats itself. This way it doesn’t matter what text is inside the button, it will expand without issue =D.

Of course Renpy had to be difficult about it.. It's already a pain to get text centered inside a button but this time I had to have the background of it tile as well and have all 3 parts change on hover as well.. But the biggest struggle.. Was dealing with another one of Renpy's crazy quirks.. So, every button consists of 3 images and 1 text inside of a button container. But for some reason, setting the size of a button container, doesn't actually cut off it's children.. Meaning that if I tell the button to be 100 pixels wide and the graphics are 200px wide, it will not cut off the graphics. It also makes it impossible to align the text properly as the text doesn't get told what size it needs to center in.. So I had to add a pointless extra frame container to put everything in.. A simple solution sure, but not something you think of quickly because a container not passing on shit to it's children is so stupidly pointless that you don't even consider it.. T.T

Just Renpy things..

What’s next?

BenX

• Even moar assets!
• Implement Gwen’s new magic system and UI
• Make sure Combat still functions as intended

Ecchi Sensei

• More optimization

Creative

• Blender
• The usual stuff

BenX
I’ll be adding more of the new assets and scenes to the tools so Newman can add more expressions to the dialog and probably also put more dialog in the game as well. I mentioned Gwen’s combat UI earlier, well.. Newman revised her magic system a bit and with that, sadly comes a new UI =< After that, I’ll be updating some of the new enemies and also double checking combat in general to see if everything still works the way it should. Especially since I messed with the layers a bunch T.T

Ecchi Sensei
As mentioned above, more optimizing.. It’s almost done though, so maybe there’ll be something exciting to talk about next time ^^

Creative
Not too sure if I’ll get to any of this.. Probably not the usual stuff and I even went as far as to remove Unity for now.. Though I did find a neat (super in-depth) tutorial on how to make a Pokémon game I also feel like it’s gonna be too much for now and I’d rather focus on modelling as it doesn’t require as much brainpower.. When I can actually do things without a tutorial that is xD

That’s it this time round, might make some holiday renders before the new year hits.. But who knows.. I’ve not been in the best of moods as of late and the foot certainly doesn’t help with that >.>

Enjoy your chwistmas everyone! (Or you know.. One of the other things you may or may not celebrate xD),

A physically crippled Akanoes
(Hey, it’s not crippling depression for once! Or wait.. It’s both.. T.T)