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Chapter four update and teaser image
🕑 Added 2024-03-03 06:03:12 +0000 UTCHey guys, just checking in with a status update and a teaser render.
Everything is going smoothly with chapter four. I have one little snag I'm dealing with for a scene that's slowing me down, but it's nothing serious enough to worry about. But if anyone knows how to batch render when using dforce animated timeline, I'd love to know how. As it is, whenever a saved scene that uses dforce with animated timeline(for sitting in skirts or dresses for example), the timeline needs to be dragged to the last frame before the scene will be in the render ready state. Other than that, everything is going great. I'm really excited for this next update as I have some really fun scenes for you guys.
One of the bigger challenges I'm going to be tackling with this update is overhauling my variables so that obscure choice combinations will produce logical outcomes. Not everyone chooses all NTR or all non NTR choices and currently there are some situations where character actions or thoughts don't make a lot of sense. This new code I'll be using will let me make sure that player choices will present logical outcomes later in the game. This, as I've mentioned already will require a fresh restart of the game. But going forward, this will make the game function better so it's worth it.
Another thing I'll hopefully get to for this update is a photo gallery. Currently there's not too many photos, but I'm going to have Kathryn and Luke take a lot more pics and selfies as the game goes on and these will be available in the gallery to look at once they've been unlocked.
I also want to spruce up the menus , buttons etc to make things look less generic. And of course animations are something I really can't wait to put in the game. I want to make sure that one, the animations look good and two, the file size isn't too large as this can really make a VN bloat up pretty quick if you're not careful. I already have several of the animations complete. The flasher animations are pretty much done and also the scene in the apartment where Luke and Kathryn have sex and get caught by Mister Seville. I won't be putting these in the game in the next update until I get the compression optimized, but they will go in hopefully for chapter five.
Anyway, that's all for now. Thanks a lot to everyone of who is subscribed and especially to those of you who stick around month after month. Some of you have been here since November and I can't thank you enough for that. I hope you all have a great weekend and I'll post again early next week!
Cheers,
Bobby
Comments
Rob
Looks like some sort of weird holding cell.
JAB
I think he just did... good choice to build suspense. Well played sir.
Sprayman
That's a fun teaser. Like a shot out of a horror /thriller movie! Looks like a bathroom or toilet somewhere because of the tiling, maybe the dreaded apartment basement. Is that a one way mirror that someone's spying on her. I can't take the suspense! You can't just leave that render there and not say anything! Hahaha
Sprayman
The new variable code should only take a few minutes for players to change for their game. Just skip through the content with re-entering choices. Although some might not have seen the alternative scenes and dialogue, so could be nice for them to enjoy what they didn't know was there. The pic gallery is a nice bonus but no rush to be there for the next update. Would it be only Luke's phone? As making a tinder type app for Kat to browse would be a bit of fun as well.
Ben Hill
I don't have a clue about rendering, but if I did I would take my troubles to the F95 forums either under the discussion or development sections.
