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Dev Update - March 21
🕑 Added 2021-03-22 02:06:54 +0000 UTCHey everyone!
I wanted to give an update on what’s being worked on right now. Unfortunately, I had a few annoying setbacks detailed below, but we’re back on track now, thankfully. There are lots of things in the works right now, so take a look below for more details.
Overlays
Ellie - Ellie’s overlays are done and I redid her earlier ones from Chapter 02. There’s nothing noticeably different from her 3 overlays from Chapter 02, but I’ve made it so that it’s easier for me to add different outfits to Ellie in the future.
Vanessa - I decided to make Vanessa’s new overlays for scene 14. It’s of the sporty outfit you see in the preview. It’s been a while since I worked on Vanessa’s overlays, so they definitely need to be reworked a little (especially the code), but I’ll save that for next month.
Luna - 3 overlays for Luna are complete. Excited for you all to meet her :D
Rohan - Pushed this to the side for a bit, but I’m working on his overlays next.
Hair issues
This has been the bane of my existence for a couple of days. While working on Ellie and Luna’s new overlays I discovered that because of a recent software update to the hair assets, their hair settings were wiped and set back to default. This was the case on both of my computers. Not the biggest issue in the world if all I had to do was change the colour of the hair, but I did not realise how many different tweaks I made working on them. Luckily, I had many reference images for Ellie to work with, but I still couldn’t recreate her hair the way it was. I almost gave up and decided to have her hair be a little different. After working on it till like 6 a.m. I gave up in defeat. I woke up the next day and luckily I figured it out. Her hair is a carbon copy of what it used to be. The moral of the story is to go to sleep when you can’t figure something out xD
Luna’s hair was a bit annoying as well. For the most part we haven’t really even seen what Luna looks like yet other than an instagram post I made a while back. Luna’s hair has a certain luster to it, but for the life of me, I could not remember how I did that – it had just been such a long time since I worked on her model. Eventually, I figured it out as well, and just in case I made some personal notes for the future.
I’ve contacted the support team for my 3D modeling software, but I haven’t heard anything from them just yet. Luckily, all the other characters seem fine. Not the worst issue to deal with, but just something that was really annoying. Sorry for the long rant!
Polls
Wallpaper polls will be coming out in a few days.
V0.20.1 Edits and fix release
Apologies, I thought I posted this already! Once again, there’s no new content, just some fixes to some minor visual issues and edits for the entirety of Chapter 02. I’ll post this later tonight.
Animations
2 out of 3 animations are done for scene 14. I think that fans of Selena, Vanessa, and Serah will especially enjoy them ;)
Steam Release
I’ve been working with the support team to get Chapter 2 and beyond onto Steam. They’ve been really helpful and nice, but from the conversations we’ve had so far, it’s going to take more time to get additional chapters onto Steam. Once we’ve gone through all the little details, Chapter 02 and future chapters should be more easily added to Steam. At this point I’m really just waiting on Steam. Based on what they say is how I’ll proceed with configuring the game for Steam. Time will tell and I’ll keep everyone updated when I can.
Scene 14 Progress:
Rendering: 66%~
3D Modeling: 72%~
Post-work: 50%
Additional Game Assets: 60%
Writing: 30%
Editing 0%
Testing 10%
Programming 50%
Music: 0% (2 BGM depending on time)
More news soon and thanks for your support!
Cheers,
ZeroHero
