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Hi guys.
Promised wallpapers are finished and you can look for them in the posts published right before this one. Kara has won the poll for the wallpaper and Joan has won the poll for this month update. Now, lets about the image above.
3rd/1st person view
As I've mentioned in the last weekly report, I'm working on a scene with Kara for a patron. He wanted the scene to have option to switch between 3rd and 1st person view - something I did before but haven't done in a while. The main reason was, I didn't like the way it was implemented and I didn't know how to do it any other way.
But I've played several other games and I saw a nice solution - an on screen button that, when clicked on it, switches between those two perspectives. Of course, non of these games were made in RPG Makes, so I had to find my own solution.
It took me two days to find out a functional solution. One of the main hurdles was the fact that when you click anywhere on the screen, the text changes. To be exact, the box that contains a line with text dissapears and a new box is shown - just a basic functionality of the engine. So I wrote a small piece of code that turns of that functionality for a designated part of the game window and instead of moving text forward the game hides and shows an image.
Those, who knows my programming skills, know it's a big deal, because I suck at programming. Lately I've found myself solving issues I wouldn't be able to solve a year ago, but still I'm nowhere near the real professionals.
With this newly acquired knowledge I may try to create a real gallery sometime in the future - a feature, many of you would like to see, I believe.
Also, older scenes with the option to switch between the views will be converted to this new system. Not this month, though, because there's no time for that.
The actual scene with Kara
So, I've been enjoying the power of my new computer very much. So much so, I've kind of went overboard with this one. The patron has requested two animations and option to switch between 1st and 3rd person view. I'm doing 3 animations.
3 animations, in 2 different dresses, in 2 perspectives, and they all have 60 frames. 3x2x2x60=720 images for just the animations. 720x15min per image = 7,5 days of rendering without pause. So I may not finish it completely in time. In that case I will do all images for just one of the sundresses for this update and finish the rest for the next one.
Also, it's Joan time, so that's what I'm going to focus on this week.
That's all, have fun and see you soon.