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Cat inspired animations!
Well, not really but it looks funny without the other character in the scene. But so I'm cruising through her animation set - these still need some polish but I was able to re-use and re-work a lot of the previous animation set. So polish pass and then the climax animations for this anatomy and that'll be her...
Dialogue scene setup
I started putting all the stuff together in game this week. There's a surprising amount of pieces going into this now. The player using furniture and playing an idle animation specific to that furniture. There's also slots for getting into and out of that idle animation but I'm not sure how necessary the...
From the animation mines
Lost a day this week to a dentist appointment but I'm catching up on animation work. So this is all of her scene cycles for one human anatomy type done. Now I just need the climax animations and the other human anatomy type and then that's her primary animations done for this next build. I also did a couple ...
f imp animations
I'm back home and working on her animation sets. Still in the blockout and planning phase so I haven't touched the smaller controls like her face or her hands yet. And I had to hide the other character in the scene to make things safe for work so I didn't have to paywall this post. There's a few rig ...
Saves, bugs, and dialogue
This week I had to track down a game breaking save bug. This would essentially corrupt the entire save file and immediately crash to desktop whenever that save file tried to load -unless the player remembered roughly where they were on the world map or which interior level, started a new game on that same save slot, t...
The Void
This bug. This one bug. It pops up worse in some builds. Sometimes I can run around in game, in and out of buildings, completely fine. Then close and reopen the editor and the first building I enter I fall through the floor again. It's one of those bugs that is so game breaking to a player. It's not somet...
Odds and ends... and getting closer to the next build!
Lots of stuff this week trying to fix bugs and smooth out all the new systems. Candles can be interactive, have a recipe and placeable, + flame fx follows the placeable candleVfx and sounds can be triggered by volume and by time of dayContainers restocking should work correctly now - this will replace previous invento...
More save game work and some imp animating
That's almost everything working (in my brief testing) for the save system! NPCs and their transformations, containers contents and lock state, doors being locked or open, gatherable plants, mining resource points, planted crops, dropped inventory items, and placed inventory items.Items also have a respawn time st...
Spawning logic...
Mostly worked on the spawning system this week. It keeps tracks of NPC schedules, where and when they will spawn and despawn. It always respects when the player advances time by waiting or resting and will update NPCs accordingly. It also works with the updated save system so the player won't need to leave and r...
Unarmed animations and map work
Ok, worked some more on the path leading up to the monastery and integrating that into the map better. Still a bunch of fine details to do but the landscape work is mostly done.And as I was playtesting I realized that if the player wants to fight they're way out but doesn't have a weapon that they currently ha...
The jump to Unreal version 5.4
It worked!!! Sometimes upgrading Unreal engine versions is super simple, other times it takes me a few days to fix things, and still other times it completely breaks things and I have to remake stuff. So making the jump from 5.2 to 5.4 had me a little nervous. I knew that there had been a number of code changes as w...
Melons?! and map integration!
Got the monastery dropped into the main map file! Now I need to update the lighting and do the surrounding environment work. Jammed out some growable melons so the novices have something else to do with their time. I was also working through dialogue trees and bugs. One major bug was related to the day time stamp c...
More environment work
Got a decent chunk of work on the monastery environment done. Some work on props and general environment stuff. Some more texturing. And some more work on the lighting. And started working on the overworld area to drop the monastery into the map. Also did a bunch of cleanup work on environment LODs. I'm hopin...
More monastery progress
Finished the low poly mesh for the imp robes and I was able to get started on the textures. They still need a detail pass and I'm planning on trying a few things with the rig.I also started putting together the monastery cave. Because every monastery needs a good cave system beneath it right? The layout is done ...
Imp robes, furniture, and lighting practice
I thought the imps should get in on the whole monastery thing and get some monk robes of their own. I went through a few other different designs with varying degrees of lewdity until I landed on this design. As if she's trying to not be completely lewd but can't quite help herself. I still need a proper deta...
Furniture, scripting, and UE 5.4?!
Still working away at the monastery content this week. I wanted the furniture and overall vibe for the player's room to be very utilitarian. No flourishes, very simple, very clear and rigid lines. So I did up some quick furniture sculpts with that in mind. Just need to low poly and texture them up still. Oh, a...
Writing, writing, writing
...and some scripting work too. But mostly dialogue and design writing this week. Just a heads up there might be a bit of light spoiler type stuff in here.So I'm trying to juggle the dialogue trees to handle if and when the player has spoken to a specific character. In theory it'll keep track of if the playe...
Getting back into the swing of things
Jammed out some hoods for the monk robes. They're rigged and in game. Then working on the monastery content. The main interiors for where the player will start are detailed and mostly done. The entry halls and rooms still need a detail pass for trims and everything but the layout is there. I'm also thinkin...
Door...
I ended up taking things a little easy this week. Just kind of stressed and unfocused. I ended up doing stuff that I didn't need to be "on" for. So I made a door :) This is for the monastery content and will be used for the interior hallways. Then I also did a whole lot of bits and pieces. Dialogues c...
More monastery intro work
Finished the character presets for the named characters in the monastery. I also have their intro dialogues written out. Next I'll need to write out their generic everyday dialogues and set their schedules and spawn points.Also got the monk robe body types, rig, and setup done and in game. There is a slight weig...
Robes, frogs, more tutorial work
Made up some new novice robes for the monastery intro. I used some of the inquisitor robes' sculpt as a base and then filled in the missing pieces of the sculpt. Still need to do the body types and then get this rigged.I also went back to the frog ladies and messed a bit more with her proportions and shapes. I&#...
Monastery and skeleton anims
Finished the basic layout for the monastery / tutorial area. This is almost everything necessary for the core gameplay in this area. I still need to integrate it into the main map and then do all of the fine detail. The first screenshot is one of the interiors with some work in progress lighting and the 2nd one of a...
Dungeon tileset + new tutorial writing
Working more on the models for the dungeon tileset. I think these will be used heavily in a whole bunch of different contexts so I'm trying to get things right so that they're easy to use. It's funny I kept running into rooms in the frog dungeon where I needed a specific piece that I just didn't have ...
Dive bar exterior detailing + skeleton animations
I've been working on detailing up this corner of Redtree next to the dive bar. Trying to give it almost a back alley feel. It'll be the cheapest place for drinks in Redtree when it's finished. I still need to go back and do some proper textures and tweak some colors to make things pop. And skeleton anim...
Dive bar, frog temple, shrooms
Started work on the dive bar exterior. It's mostly a block in and still needs a solid detail pass but I dropped into the map. Frog temple lighting. I started messing around with color schemes and haven't decided on just how moody to make the temple yet. I'm going to try a greenish yellow color scheme ne...
Skeletons, frog temple, and shroom anims
Skeletons! I'll come back and do a polish pass on the textures once I start doing variants on these. But for now I'm calling the textures close enough to get in game. I was also able to get the rig and weights done, which went surprisingly quickly on this. So skeletons are ready for animations! Frog temple...
Skeletons!
First thing Version 1.15.11 is now open to all supporters! The build notes are here.I finished up the low poly on the skeletons and started on texturing them. Debating on glowy eyes? or no glowy eyes? Maybe do a variant for high level armored up skeletons or caster skeletons that have the eyes glow? And got a litt...
Frogs, dungeons, spawns, and cheats
Dug up the old frog lady sculpt I had and started updating her to match frog daddy. I'm still figuring out overall shapes and how much of a thickness to jacked ratio to go with for her. But I'm digging the big feet and toes on her so far.Started in on coding a cheat menu. For now it'll be in the options ...
Skeletons, placement mode, frog dungeon, and 3d printing!
I was doodling a bit on a skeleton NPC and the sculpt is getting pretty close to done. I'm still messing with a few shapes and want to do another detail pass. The idea for the undead is to have a faction of NPCs that will always be hostile to the player. I also did some polish on the placement mode for objects. ...
Bow, shield, shroom
Letting myself recover a bit this week after crunching on all of the imp content for the last build. That build was a big one in terms of all the systems work and was a really good test of putting together quest logic and flow. In theory the foundation work for quests is done. But I needed some time away from imps a...
