Like these... do you plan to retrieve some of them to implement in-game?
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I genuinely think there could be more scenes during verbal and physical interactions with Cream...
Would it be possible to focus on that in the next update?
Not in NEXT update I'm afraid, pretty sure that the plans for that are already in place
As for 'retrieving graphics to implement in game'.. I've already mentioned that additional clothing in-game will require a total rewrite of the custom graphics routines made by another developer & as a newbie to Renpy it's beyond my knowledge, however 'never say never' - there may be ways to include alternatives in some way even if she only tries on costumes in the changing room or having a photoshoot for example
I also explained in that previous post trying to keep consistencies is difficult & creating new graphics takes time (for me anyway)
I think 'on average' it take me about an 1/2hr-2hr
per scene to create.
- I usually have to make a prompt, generate, see result, make alterations (to prompt) & repeat until I get SOMETHING that might be able to fit what I'm after to match the text.. sometimes I'm lucky, many times I'm not
...even then I may need to make 2-3 pictures & then try photoshop/merge pictures together to make a scene that's more suitable.
What I can tell you is I've not been sitting around & in fact
have been playing through the game while waiting for new content to be passed on to me & making notes of areas where (to me) there seems to be long bouts of text with no pics & what 'could' go there...
Doesn't have to be actual scenes, just something to break up the plain background even if its just the characters on each side of screen 'talking' to each other - we can reuse existing character pics but getting the right balance of show/hide commands in the right places takes time. I need to add the necessary commands & then have to play through to see if it's too much or too little, although I admit this is low down on the work I've been doing
The MAIN work is that I have
also been looking into changing the graphics format used in game (once again having to figure out the custom graphics routines)
Currently these are in large PNG format, but I've been looking into converting to AVIF since these are smaller in size without (much) loss of quality..doing so means smaller download size.
(Fyi The custom routines don't accept AVIF for some reason but I think I may have figured part of that out through trial & error.. currently testing)
One last thing... You have to remember us 'Crazy-fans' are doing this in our spare time & when the mood takes us (or when we get a brain storm for a new idea) as we all have real life to deal with
