Akanoes

Progress has been made

Added 2019-10-31 16:17:41 +0000 UTC

What's been done?

Finished the first build of XIX (though it's just a proof of concept)
Finished the character build for XIX
Finished the opening scene for Scooby for the third time T.T
Finished a panning shot
Found the solution for a bug with the dolls in Scooby
Still need to apply to most of them though
Set up the first investigation for Scooby

I write this post as I'm packing things for my trip to England. Going to spend Halloween at friend who moved there, so fun times =3, but let's talk code!

The first build for XIX is finished, it's a proof of concept but you can experience the introduction of the story and play around with the UI a bit =). Make sure to hop over to Muplur's page and check it out!

As for Scooby, I made some progress there as well. I ended up doing the intro scene 3 times because we kept changing things. I had set everything up with the old assets but then Newman redid the dialog using the character build, which uses expressions that weren't in the original assets. Okay, cool, we'll just use the expression from the dolls and zoom them a bit.. But that gave some issues with Scooby, as his expressions are his entire head. So we ended up editing the old assets and replacing the characters with their dolls and I have to say, it looks a lot better now! =D

I also finished up a panning shot, set the scene for the first investigation and set up some of the script. There was an issue with the dolls however. Since the dolls are bigger than the ones we use in Ben X, bigger than the game height. Which isn't really an issues as I just zoom them a bit with their location transform. Sadly, turns out that the process of darkening a character when they aren't speaking doesn't like it when an image is bigger than the game's resolution and just cuts off the excess.. You don't want to have the zoom in the original image though, because then if you want it bigger again, the image would get blurry. So you lose the benefits of having a bigger doll. So what's the solution? Splitting the zoom. I'll zoom the doll just enough to be the height of the game and then zoom the rest with their location transform. But zooming them before hand changes the zoom in the transform slightly, so I have to figure out 2 zooms now and also have to re-position them cause of course their offsets change now as well.. FML T.T