[Episode Elnath] Progress Update XVI

Greetings,

I've been grinding this week and happy to say that all images are rendered and the dialogue is in the final review process. So I'm pretty sure I'll have an Alpha-Build ready this week with some missing additional content, like music and some additional animations. However, there are still some other things left.

Animations / Video-Player

In one of the last progress updates I talked about problems of looping videos with audio in Unity. I tried to fix the problem, by upgrading Unity to the latest beta build and a few other things, but I could only minimize the problem slightly. But couldn't fix it in total. I looked ad other Video Players in the Unity Asset Store. The most promising which is cross-platform costs 400 bucks but has a trail. I considered it anyway but while testing the trial I noticed problems too. The changing playback-speed handling works like a charm, but for some reason it lags between loops when the video-file has audio as well. It's a known Issue. I'll try to find away to have audio and video split and synchronize them in Unity again. Having a bit of experience in synchronizing such things in other applications I know this can be very difficult. But I don't want to give up this feature. 

If I have to split audio and synchronize them manually anyway I probably won't need the expensive asset. But this will probably take some time to evaluate / get it done and won't be in the alpha build.

Music

As I was focused on finishing the images / animations I just haven't had time for new music. So I'm not sure music will make it into the alpha build, but for the final release it will be.

Next steps

- finish mandatory scripting

=> Alpha build release for high tier Patreons and tester

- finishing 4K render reward

- trying to fix the video player issue

- finish and add music

- render / add additional content

=> Beta build release for high tier Patreons and tester

- fix possible issues

=> Final build release

- trying to get builds for android / mac and linux working

Current status

~ 600 rendered and edited images

- 6 animations

- writing is done (final editing in progress)

~ 90% of the scripting done

- 2 Secrets