Progress Report 09-2022

G'Day all, 

So, progress to report -

The remaining tasks on the SCAR release are now done. Icons, missing strings, missing variants, missing magazines (SCARL STANAG mag), that sorta thing. We're in final testing and release stage. 

As we're on the lead up to the full release, which includes updates to at least Core and the FALs, I rotated over to the C2A1 to finish what I'd started- which meant stuff like the icons, magazines, and animations.

Starting here- Animations.
I started with the Prairie Fire L1A1 Animations as a base (with pre-arranged consent, I gotta say it's weird to ask someone else about using my own damn work lol), and made adaptations of them as necessary to a) fit a heavier weapon with a bipod better b) throw in some small emphasis and motion tweaks I didn't have the luxury of time to polish with in PF.

Achieved those and more- managed to get proper X-FAL mag and 10 round custom animations in. Eventually I'll roll these out to the rest of the FALs, but for now it's just for the C1 and C2. 

Video  

One comment I have about these is I would have loved to have the weapon being held further out front, but the foregrip is the bipod, and when deployed that would look extremely weird. So, compromise was made.

You can also see, got a C2 magazine textured up and running, as well as the icons. The Mag was textured to closely match the rest of the FAL mags as possible, and considering the time gap between making those and now, I think they look the piece.

I guess one extra comment I have for these is to pre-emptively answer a question - Will the rest of the FALs be getting an upgrade to match the C2? Yes. Not this patch, but yes. 

Next on to that SCAR release video that I've been cagily mentioning on and off. So, decidedly -I'm kind of just creatively ...*Done* ...right now, read- exhausted and essentially uninterested in doing extra work for. I don't have the will to put in the extra to do it, So I'm canning the narrative stuff and just going to throw together a regular video. Less exciting, but achievable on close to empty energy. 

Release window- 2 weeks? yeah. There abouts. Gotta make sure I've not killed anything in the process of making stuff, but I think we're otherwise green light to go.

After release, maybe a week or so to wrangle myself into some shape to tackle my last two currently outstanding unfinished works - the OICW and the L4 Bren Guns. 

Until release day folks- be kind to yourselves and each other .

Toadie Out.