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Weekend optimizations

Anyone remembers the shaky camera in the last Gif ?
i made it more smooth. So people do not get seasick.

Anyway… This weekend as a mixture of optimization and story creation.

ON saturday i tried my hands on some optimizations , namely LODs. First i tried it with "Imposters" which did not work out and made the game load.. slow >_<.
Then i tried Automatic LODs and.. oh.. dear.. no... so many new objects with broken meshes.  IN the end i just used a script i wro...

Animation and story weekend

With the story generation comes animation work (as always) and of course writing the story with my.. engrish.. >_<

So.. on Saturday i created some animations for a device which will be used relatively early in the game (nothing lewd.. except if you find *** on the ship) and i also made some additional animations for the ship.

On Sunday i added some Vn event to the story and uncounted several bugs i had to tackle. Disappearing ships after loading the game , terrible environ...

Weekend log

ON Saturday i wrote some additional scripts for the game flow (story) and on Sunday i continued with the actual story.

soo... on Saturday i added so more functionality for the story i know i needed. Several little things like displaying a button on the screen dynamically (not tied to a specific script) then a tinmer function to continue with the next framer after X seconds.. etc.. etc..

ON Sunday i actually got to advance in the story and added about 50 to 100 VN frames. Kind of...

Weekend log (char creation GUI)

So.. This weekend can be described as the weekend I created the character creator GUI. (tldr version)

On Saturdays, i reused most of the script i had for milky ways (the one you already know) and extended it to accommodate more parameters. I guess i will also built in some limiters since i know my clients. (and some extreme blend shapes are.. Well.. they do not quite look good with all clothes available)


On Sundays, I added the hair script to the mix so that the player can c...

Weekend log

Slowly but steady towards a playable game.

On saturday i finally found a new 3d model for the repair robot since the old one was to large to fit into tight spaces where the play could place mines to disable the robots. I refitted it a little bit and gave it some logic and animations.
(I keep the big one in mind , i will use it for later)

ON sunday i continued with the story development and added some minor animations and new functions for the script. Furthermore i started to ...

Weekend log

This weekend I could not wait anymore and started my first venture into main menu, story and all the animations that comes within the first 5 min of the game.

On saturday i started to create the start of the story (the GIF above is literary the main menu without buttons). Then i actually scripted the main menu as well as some more graphical options (AA for Deferred and forward rendering)

ON sunday i needed to make a couple of new animations (i am at it again.. and again.. and..)...

Weekend log

This time only a picture, but i guess everyone knows what this thing will do… And... it can hover and the indents on the seat are... not objects i have hidden due to XXX stuff.

Anyway, this Saturday i continued with the animation creation for some of the AI life events for the patrol bots. (would be a little bit too boring if they just walk around, do nothing else)

And on sunday i was a little bit bored from animating stuff so i created the thing you see above, it can hover it...

Level design log

I did not want to spoil the level so much, so i created a.. Different gif xD
Anyway, as the title already suggests, I did level design.


ON Saturday well.. i added some more stuff to the scene so that i can later add some story elements to these places.

Sunday was mostly the same but i also started to change the patrol routine of the enemy AI a little bit (this is WIP) and i also added some sounds if a enemy found the player.


So.. not much to say for this weeken...

Weekend Repair drone log

Do not (yet) put your hopes too high about the many tentacles on the repair drone in the GIF. I do not think i have time to create game logic and animations for it in the first release.

Anyway...
On Saturday i bought yet another drone from the store and edited it to fit the narrative. (see GIF above) Then i created animations for it and a special script for it to only move if the player disabled a enemy drone.

And on Sunday i continued with the script implementa...

Weekend mine log

This weekend i added the mine against the enemy drones as well as a new enemy type.

On Saturday i added the mine with the script needed to disable the enemy drone. So , you can actually place it and wait for an enemy to be disabled. But be careful ,there is yet another enemy which will come and repair the drone.

ON Sunday i also added a new enemy type , a humanoid gynoid, Currently i only added the 3d models with skin and some morphs. Next weekend, i also need to give them the a...

Weekend Enemy log part 2

This weekend i added a few more animations to the enemy hover bot as well as the patrol script.

ON saturday i added a few more animations for the one enemy i have in the game so far , the hover drone, now i have animations for :
-Play dead, open necessary clothing items on the player, attach vibrators , mouth plugs and (as seen last weekend) the handcuffs.

And then Sunday i created the patrol script, it is very simple, and I bet it needs debugging but so far it works.
J...

Weekend Enemy log

As you can see in the GIF, I added the first enemy and one animation.

On Saturday, i bought an enemy (drone in this case) from the unity asset store and changed a little bit of.. The design... we need arms  :D
Then i started to create animations for it.

Sunday i quickly finished the animations and built them into the game.. the result can be seen above.
Unfortunately i still need to create the AI patrol script so the evil enemy drones and other NPCs (more later) w...

Weekend log

(low resolution GIF this time , sorry ^^)
Anyway, as you can see, the game "slowly" takes shape. I have rewritten some scripts on Saturday and added some clothes on Sunday.

Saturday was (as usual) the day for scripting, i finally brought most of my old scripts back and i think most of them will work >_<.
I also took care of the map, so this time the in game map will also show you the direction of the character.

Sunday was clothes day, i added about 4 clothes i think a...

Hairs for the girls

Okay, as everybody can see in the gif i added some hairs to the game.

ON Saturday it was not much hair but rather (again) getting the old scripts to work with the new game. Boring debugging work >_<

On sunday i added several hairs to the game, i think i added about 6 or 7. As well as the script to actually change them during runtime. I also added the ability to change the hair color and maybe in the character creation GUI (later) i will also add some additional sliders for...

Scripting torture and skins for the girls

ON Saturdays, I continued to import all the old scripts back into the game and on sunday i took the time to grab some skins which i will use.

On saturday i grabbed some old scripts and continued to import them back into the new game.  Not much to say here.. it is just a tiresome process since if the the script had a GUI i have to rewrite it completely.

ON sunday i searched for some skins and as you can see in the GIF i have found several i will use for the girls in the game...

Scripting torture part 2

Doesn't look like much , just looks like the good old settings menu from AATOFL and MW but it works. Finally... >_<

So.. As everyone can see, i brought my old framework from MW back to live with the help of the Canvas system from Unity. Took my a while, and currently only the bare minimum is working. The main function which actually triggers the events and the text as well as the settings menu. Save and load also works.

Next weekend i need to gather some skin textures for ...

Weekend coding log

On Saturday i gathered more morphs for the player and NPC model and on sunday i started to include old code into a new project.

ON saturday i added more morphs to the mesh of the main 3D model i  want to use and now i am roughly at 95 morphs. I guess this will be enough. (maybe i post a gif of all morphs in the discord in the next days so you can see what morphs are available)


And on Sunday i took  the first step of a very… Very long journey. I started to include...

Weekend log

This weekend was a mixed bag, A tiny little big level design on Saturday and on Sunday i started to gather some morphs for the main base mesh of the game.

On Saturday i did a little bit tiny mini level design on the new map, then i got interrupted by family.

On Sunday, I started to gather some morphs for the new base mesh of the girls, my plan is to gather around 100 morphs (mostly in the face) so that some adjustments can be made to the main player mesh.

Next weekend I ho...

Calculate occlusion culling, it will be flawless they said...

Just as with every game, i create via the Unity 3D engine. The occlusion culling never fails to fail.. Sometimes spectacularly.

On Saturday, I continued with the level design. Kind of… Business as usual. On Sunday, i also continued by also imported a pathfinding into the project (this time provided by A* from the unity 3d asset store.

And on Monday i just started the occlusion culling calculation and... well... this will cause me much pain as always to find the right values. A...

Level design weekend

Y..yes.. that thing produces boxes ^_^

Anyway , this weekend was rather boring. I worked on the level design of the new world map. terrain shaping/creating bases and placing stuff.

I guess i need to put more time in next weekend before i can take care of the NPCs and main protagonist.
I would like to have more blendshapes and morphs for the next game so that the player can change the look of the character a bit (but please do not expect AAA quality stuff)
And of course... ...

I do not generate dreams, i create games.

Okay , first things first.
I actually wanted to make a little bit vacation this weekend after the Final release of Milky ways last weekend but... i started with level design for the new game. (more on that next weekend)

I actually just wanted to write a little bit about Milky Ways as a project. Just some meta files data and the realization that I will properly never rise like other game Patreon projects do.

Anyway...
As you can see, the file size for the whole project is...

Milky Ways 1.00 Final

So here it is… After 4 years of development, I call it -done- time to head for new endeavors.

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Last weekend log before final version of Milky ways

Jep, it is time to let it go.
This weekend I added in one last device I had animated months ago, and now it is in the game and can be built after finishing the main story.

On Saturday I was on the hunt for a new level for the next game and my friend gave me what he modified (he used a modified level from the big environmental pack) looks good so far, so "I guess" I will go with this.

On Sunday, I implemented the device and the generic events for it (as well as the AI live eve...

Boring optimization weekend

I optimized some texture sizes this weekend, Pretty boring work to be honest >_<

So, essentially what I did was using the unity profiler to see what textures were used in the game and what size they have. And… Well… I do not think the cryo pod needs 8k textures (which weights for about 100 MB O.o)

So I was able to scrape about 500 MB of texture size out of the game on Saturday.

On Sunday, I balanced the loading of the assets a little bit and divided the asset siz...

Milky Ways 0.97 ( mini mod experimental release)

Uff.. okay. Finally.  Here it is the experimental mini mod release of Milky Ways. After tons of sweat, barely tears and no blood i finally created the build which is actually capable of being stable.

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Another stressfull weekend log

(the GIF is old, from before the mini mod times, but I had nothing better >_<)

Even though I rumbled the whole weekend behind Visual Studio, I was not able to compile a functioning version of MW. I am very sorry.

My plan was to release an experimental version, but the version I compiled yesterday had big issues with the file size and the placeable objects from the mini mod editor. (while loading)

I hope I can do the experimental open beta next week for you guys.
...

Stressfull weekend log

So.. uff.. that was much work done. I am running out of time (kind of)

This weekend i continued with the runtime event creation and pretty much succeeded with all things i wanted to do.  
I added nearly all the devices and machines i created to the list of creatable things (dear god.. over 30 devices and i bet i forgot some)
Furthermore you can now add and edit events (as seen in the you tube video) and inject it.

My plan is to have a folder called "StoryModFolder" in...

Weekend runtime story editor log

This weekend, i implemented the detail view of the VN event generation for the runtime story editor.

On Saturdays i needed to first clean up from files from the other project so i could actually copy the scripts over to MW.

AND... once i implemented them in MW i had to fight.. many.. many.. many.. compiler errors so.. this weekend i am actually glad the the game does not crash once i open the runtime editor.

But it is going smoothly and maybe i can pull this off until the...

Weekend runtime story creation tool log

So.. This title and video needs explanation.

While the friend of mine is still creating the new world for the new game, i thought to myself... hey,.. Barely anyone is touching the story mod framework with a ten-foot pole, i need to change this. 

I would love to see some stories made by you guys ~_~

This is why i started to create a runtime implementation of the story framework. With this framework, you will be able to create a little story on the world map (a...

My free Weekend

This weekend was my free weekend. So... didN't do much besides a little debugging and uploading the current public version onto itch.io

And since the friend of mine which is currently working on the new game world is still working on it i think i will do something else next weekend.. but i do not know what so.. mhnn...

We will see , maybe i just add new clothing or something.