I understand the points you mention, i just posted the screenshoot of a triple A game for posting a example of anything , but i had to ask if its normal or not cause believe me i never encountered a game here that made my gpu work that hard so i needed to ask to be sure that its normal, i know that the dev is new in unity and all that but comparing other unity games on this site , lets put "perfect lover" o whatever random unity game on this site i never arrived to the point of 87 celsius grades on my gpu so i just needed to ask.
Edit: just to clarify things, im not blaming or critizing Daedolon , i know hes a god guy that works hard, in glassix 1 i reported some bugs and he fixed them in a matter of days, just wanted to know if ppl is experiencing the same as me in this game with high temps being normal.
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Well not normal as in, desired, but its not unusual for a game to run your hardware if optimization isn't there yet. I have the same thing happen with games on steam, developed and sold for $20+ that look like potato skins on gravel but run my GPU and CPU at 80% while some fantastic looking games barely get my fans to run.
Stuff like that CAN happen, it shouldn't but it can and will and hopefully it will get improved upon in due time.
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Enjoyed the first one but it's a bit ludicrous the CG's are so bad in this, it isn't 2005 anymore. Dev has nearly a decade of experience, he should be able to produce CG's with some decent lighting and models from this decade by now. There really isn't an excuse for such old school CGs.
This is actually only the second game Daed has made using 3d assets. The previous one came out less than 5 years ago and was much smaller in scope than this one, which only had minor variations on the same two rooms and a maximum of two characters in any given scene. TO be fair, the lighting wasn't this good. He's still learning and improving.
That was long time ago, I'm pretty sure it is fixed already.NOOOO! 30th actually..
It's not a bug to be fixed. The game used a 13 months calendar of 28 days each for easier logic. Can you guess the name of the 13th month? Which is not in the 13th position btw.
About the months I have no idea. I just tried it out on the first release, and answered since it was a quote to my comment as well. If the day calendar won't change then with all due respect it feels dumb, since I like to create a character based on myself. I understand your argument for simplicity, it's a dev choice, but to me it removes the will to play the game.
I was a big fan of the first game, but the first release of this one didn't like it at all, sorry for being blunt. I understand the first release is usually hard to be a full success, and I'm sure you probably took care of a lot of issues that were frustrating on beta release, but the game system felt it had a complexity that I'm not very keen into personally.
It may be fun to others, but to me no. I like a lot of customization, but not to the point that the engine is hard to work around. And if it has customization for birthdays but I can't even use mine then fuck it. I acknowledge as any other game in development many stuff can be improved, but if it is similar to the first release then it isn't my cup of tea, sorry.
Good luck on your project anyway though, the complexity of it seems it is quite a big effort.
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How come we end up with this kind of models .... jesus christs
The models of the first one worked like a charm , no idea why secuels try to fix something its not broken.
Here hoping the models look half as pleasant as the first game at the end of development
Why use the name Glassix 2 instead of a new name? Did you the quick story explanation is wrote in the OP post? This game is about Lily getting Anael's powers using Glassix 1 bad ending and it will play similarly to Glassix so I do think the name is still OK.
Transitioning to Illusion/Japanese models to Daz/USA models will indeed make original characters look different but that's a hit I have to take. I can't use Illusion's models for real time 3D obviously so I went for Daz models which are among the best ones on the market at the moment (or at least, when I started the game a few years back)
Regarding events, I'm not sure what you worry about. You could put the whole of Glassix 1 events into Glassix 2, as a SINGLE scenario. Would that not be enough? Now add to that other scenarios created by other players and easily shareable with review features to find the best ones with the tags you like similar to F95?
I'm currently working on the Event Editor for v0.13 and though it'll be in a simplified, more text/input version, it should give access to a lot of control over the game, allowing to give life to your own custom characters be it in Free mode or in Scenario mode. Players will even be able to overwrite my own events if they don't like it.
I think it will help. Time will tell.
For your first problem, other players have already requested adding the ability to navigate directly room per room. It's doable and it's on my todo list, asap.
For your second problem, I think it might come from my poorly optimized layered shader. This shader can get up to 5 differents textures on top of each other, which is not really used fully at the moment but was planned once I add make up features in the face. It was also made this way in the future if I wanted to add a cloth destruction feature (for another future game) which allows me to add a mask texture to make holes appears in the cloth. I'll have to optimize the shader to use minimum resources whenever possible, but as you can guess, it's a complicated topic and with everything I have on my plate, might take some time to work on. But I might have to trouble you in the future again once I've tried to optimize this part to know if it worked
Another reason I can think of is the massive amount of polygons Daz models contain. For the character models, it's already 20k+. Add hair which can go 10k-40k+, each piece of cloth 5k-20k and you end up with lots of poly. That's due to Daz models being so high since they are usually used for renders, not for games. I've already tried to reduce some of them but with the use of morph to change shape, lowering too much completely break some parts so I can't go much lower that what we have at the moment. I hope the shader update will reduce GPU temp, I was not aware it was going so high compared to other game.
Thanks for the feedback!
Lol. Those are not CGs...
No worries in giving your opinion and I understand it. Taking some time to think about it, I guess I could change it to real calendar. Several players have already asked this and though it might require some code rework, it shouldn't be that huge of a task and might make thing closer to real life like you said and make players feel closer to their characters. I'll add this to the todo list
Glad to know youre working on the navigation system, im always up to give some feedback cause i enjoy playing this type of games that contains mind control/corruption in my spare time , so i will probably play future versions of the game.For your first problem, other players have already requested adding the ability to navigate directly room per room. It's doable and it's on my todo list, asap.
For your second problem, I think it might come from my poorly optimized layered shader. This shader can get up to 5 differents textures on top of each other, which is not really used fully at the moment but was planned once I add make up features in the face. It was also made this way in the future if I wanted to add a cloth destruction feature (for another future game) which allows me to add a mask texture to make holes appears in the cloth. I'll have to optimize the shader to use minimum resources whenever possible, but as you can guess, it's a complicated topic and with everything I have on my plate, might take some time to work on. But I might have to trouble you in the future again once I've tried to optimize this part to know if it worked
Another reason I can think of is the massive amount of polygons Daz models contain. For the character models, it's already 20k+. Add hair which can go 10k-40k+, each piece of cloth 5k-20k and you end up with lots of poly. That's due to Daz models being so high since they are usually used for renders, not for games. I've already tried to reduce some of them but with the use of morph to change shape, lowering too much completely break some parts so I can't go much lower that what we have at the moment. I hope the shader update will reduce GPU temp, I was not aware it was going so high compared to other game.
Thanks for the feedback!
About the second thing im not well versed in development at all but if the problem is too many polygons and you cant reduce them maybe you could try to implement something like "amd fsr" or "nvidia dlss" some type of scale resolution ? dont really know if its possible but the games i played with them and i enabled it i noticed a drastic boost on performance and a great reduction of gpu temperatures.
I don't know what those those two GPU options are. I'll look into it when I can. Thanks for the info
I have no idea. Could you send me your save file located in
"Glassix 2_Data\StreamingAssets\Saves"
as well as the player log in
"C:\Users\[user]\AppData\LocalLow\Gaweb Studio\Glassix 2"
? I'll take a look
If you used the doll mode or slave mode spells, this is normal. That's the point of magic. Making things easy. No grind needed. If you want the lovey dovey sex without magic though, you'll need to charm them first thus some grind.
It's amazing how players can find ways to complain lol. "Too much grind, I don't like it" "Too easy to have sex, I don't like it". Can't please everybody, let's never forget that :x
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You could always add difficulty sliders before starting a new scenario. Being able to change things like XP gain rates, relationship accruel, and spell costs would allow each player to dictate their own difficulty.
Onto another topic... Are there any plans for changing how saves are handled? When launching the game it's impossible to load a pre-existing save as it leads to an infinite loading screen - in which the only way to actually load it is to start a new scenario and load from there.
The game settings is indeed possible. I'll keep it on the side since not urgent.
For the saves, from what I gathered, it's the Free mode which does not work, scenario mode should be working fine. I'm currently stuck in the code for the Event Editor but I'll have a look into it when I can. I'll also update the structure cause at the moment, save file content is really messy which mean losing compatibility with future version when it's done :x
Hi everybody,
I wanted to share what I've been working on this month: The Event Editor, which will allow players to add their own events to the game or modify existing ones. I'll be using it myself to add content to my game too once done.
In the game folder, mods are stored in "Glassix 2_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods". From there, you'll have one folder for each author, inside those, a folder for each authors' mod and inside those, various folders to store XML of various editors : Events, Furniture, Locations, Scenarios and so on... Since we are talking about the Event Editor, the files will be stored inside the Events folder. Then inside this Events folder, you'll have as many event file as you want to let author organize their events as they wish.
Let's start with the editor preview : Selecting the author, mod, file and event:
You'll first have to select a mod author or create your own if you want to start creating or overwriting events. Spectre is a player who designed the low poly villa 3D model currently used in the Newbit map. (Thanks again!)
Then select the mod you want. Mods are kind of categories for authors to organize their mods however they want. You can add as many as you want. You could create a seasonal mod with events related to christmas, halloween, spring, winter, whatever... or create a folder which would be specific to a full scenario you want and so on...
Then you select the actual XML file you want to edit, or add a new one. For my own core mod, I've organized files by actions and scenarios which you can see here. You might notice if you select Spectre > Starter, the list is empty which is normal since his mod has no events, only an infrastructure and we are currently working on the event editor. In the future, we'll have more editors, hopefully the city infrastructure editor which would allow players to add their own low poly 3D models to the game with their own textures, or modify existing ones, and in this future editor, Spectre's list would not be empty.
Now, under the hood, the XML file has been loaded by the game and shows all the events in this file. In my example, I opened the Newbit file which contains all the current events I created for the Newbit scenario. Each event has a custom label so the author can easily recognize them. The current UI is quite blunt at the moment, I guess in the future, I'll try to make it more visual, like a board like UI showing events related to each others (once I add choices) with arrows linking them, that'll come later if possible.
Then you either create or add an event and you'll end up in the interface shown above. I've split this in 3 tabs: General, Conditions and Steps. General is like the name says, some general information about the current event. The Conditions tab will list all the required conditions for this event to be triggered. The Steps tab will list all the steps of the current event, be it dialogues or hidden game flag changes.
It starts with the General tab. You'll first have to select a trigger for this event. There are currently 4.
For the action trigger, I've made it easier so that the code is actually changed to a select dropdown with the list of all possible actions in the game. And with the actions editor in the future, it'll be possible to add new actions like cheats and whatnot.
After that, we have the frequency of the event, meaning how often can we trigger it again. The names should be self explanatory:
Hovering over the labels will also give some information to help authors know what the row is for.
Then we can move on to the Conditions tab
Events will trigger based on conditions which come in 3 flavors:
For example, global conditions will list the various time checks. But let's say we want to add a new global condition. Let's call it "City Safety" which would be used to track if a city is safe to live in or not. With the Variables Editor (added in the future), it'll be possible to add it easily which would make it appear in this list and useable to have dangerous events trigger when the city safety is low. Those variables/conditions can have different types : String, Integer, List which allows the game to know what it needs to display and what values to expect and clamp in case of integers with a min/max value (For example, the hour variable needs to be between 0 and 23, Day of week would be a list with the 7 days of the week as values (Monday first btw)) All this process is automatically handled by the game and when you change the condition, the operator and value fields will change based on the type of the variable. integer would have additional comparison operators such as "Greater than X", "Lesser than X" while Lists would change the text input to a dropdown with all the possible values of the current variable. Such as this one below:
For the Newbit scenario, I created a flag to keep track of the Welcome party status. Before the dean announces the welcome party at the end of Day 1, the flag doesn't exist (save memories since in the future, we'll have many flags). Then at the end of Day 1, the dean talks about the party to the player, the Flag changes to "Dean announcement" (maybe I should have named it implying it's a past event, labels are editable anyway).
Then when the secretary gives the actual time to the player, it changes to Secretary reminder.
From there, we have two cases: Either the player misses the party or he completed it. This flag will allow players action to have consequences, same as choices. If you miss it, the dean, your colleagues and the secretary might have different talk interactions with you for the following days saying they missed you or blaming you, losing some relationship with them...
And if you've noticed, the operator dropdown in the picture above (the second one, with the "In" value) was another tricky part to code because it allows the author to select multiple values in the list which Unity doesn't handle by default and took me a while to expand their base dropdown to a multi select dropdown. But the process is seamless now, changing the operator from Equal to In will allow the players to select several options at once and vice versa without changes in the dropdown so the experience is as smooth as possible for the creator.
Anyway, I think this post should give you a better insight of what you can expect with this editor. I already got some comments aiming at the classic "You expect your players to create content for you?" which was expected. I'd love players to create content with the tools I created but most of all, this editor forces me to codify my XML and organize it properly, something I didn't to in Glassix which makes it very hard to go back to Glassix's code because there are so many nodes with possible specific values which I don't remember anymore... Unity makes it much easier. And I'll also be using the Event Editor myself to add events which will much faster than manually writing XML code myself like I've been doing so far. So I'll be both the developer and the user of the editor.
This editor will give complete control over the game contents, even overwriting my mods with the priority system if you want to change how much gains you get from spells for example. I'll add a quick duplicate event button too so that this is easy to overwrite content. Anyway, I think this editor has a lot of potential and I hope that matches your expectations so far. Glassix 2 will be both a game and game content creator. I won't forget to improve the visuals too which need lots of work and optimization, this is not forgotten too. But gameplay is and will always be my priority.
If you have some feedback or ideas about the current interface, don't hesitate to drop me a message. Since this is currently in coding phase, that's actually the best moment to add or modify something to make it smoother, something I wish I could do with Glassix being quite outdated but unfortunately, too complex now that the code is done.
Have a nice day!
I wanted to share what I've been working on this month: The Event Editor, which will allow players to add their own events to the game or modify existing ones. I'll be using it myself to add content to my game too once done.
In the game folder, mods are stored in "Glassix 2_Data/StreamingAssets/Mods". From there, you'll have one folder for each author, inside those, a folder for each authors' mod and inside those, various folders to store XML of various editors : Events, Furniture, Locations, Scenarios and so on... Since we are talking about the Event Editor, the files will be stored inside the Events folder. Then inside this Events folder, you'll have as many event file as you want to let author organize their events as they wish.
Let's start with the editor preview : Selecting the author, mod, file and event:
You'll first have to select a mod author or create your own if you want to start creating or overwriting events. Spectre is a player who designed the low poly villa 3D model currently used in the Newbit map. (Thanks again!)
Then select the mod you want. Mods are kind of categories for authors to organize their mods however they want. You can add as many as you want. You could create a seasonal mod with events related to christmas, halloween, spring, winter, whatever... or create a folder which would be specific to a full scenario you want and so on...
It starts with the General tab. You'll first have to select a trigger for this event. There are currently 4.
- On city load: When the city map is loaded, either when you start a new game, load a saved game, or transition from a location to the city map.
- On location load: When you enter a location
- On action button: When you click on an action button from the slot bar. Actions is another game entity which will be moddable and allow players to add their own actions, triggering their own events. For example, we could add a cheat button to max out obedience level on all the citizen of the game... I won't even need to hard code cheats in Glassix 2, everything can be handled with events.
- Off: Used when you want to merge several events to the same event or for choices for example and thus don't need to be triggered automatically by any game interface.
After that, we have the frequency of the event, meaning how often can we trigger it again. The names should be self explanatory:
- Always
- Once
- Days (After X days): With this option, a new text field allows to select the number of days manually.
- Minutes (After X minutes): With this option, a new text field allows to select the number of minutes manually.
- Daily
- Monthly
- Yearly
Hovering over the labels will also give some information to help authors know what the row is for.
Then we can move on to the Conditions tab
Events will trigger based on conditions which come in 3 flavors:
- Actor: This condition will check variables for a citizen involved in the event. Most of the time, it'll be the player obviously. When the player interacts with another citizen, this other citizen becomes a second actor. You can have as many actors as you want. For example, this condition is used for the talk action. Depending on the target's gender, we have different text. Then we can create whatever flavor of text we want with additional events: A young citizen might have a different talk topic compared to an old citizen. The target relationship or obedience level would also change the speech by using the priority feature and so on.
- Global: This condition will check global variables, like the time, weather, current scenario and so on. For example, all events for the Newbit scenario would need a global condition checking that the player is currently playing in the Newbit scenario and not another one or Free mode.
- Flag: If you're familiar with Visual Novels game, you should know this term. It's basically some event variable to keep track of what the player did.
For the Newbit scenario, I created a flag to keep track of the Welcome party status. Before the dean announces the welcome party at the end of Day 1, the flag doesn't exist (save memories since in the future, we'll have many flags). Then at the end of Day 1, the dean talks about the party to the player, the Flag changes to "Dean announcement" (maybe I should have named it implying it's a past event, labels are editable anyway).
Then when the secretary gives the actual time to the player, it changes to Secretary reminder.
From there, we have two cases: Either the player misses the party or he completed it. This flag will allow players action to have consequences, same as choices. If you miss it, the dean, your colleagues and the secretary might have different talk interactions with you for the following days saying they missed you or blaming you, losing some relationship with them...
And if you've noticed, the operator dropdown in the picture above (the second one, with the "In" value) was another tricky part to code because it allows the author to select multiple values in the list which Unity doesn't handle by default and took me a while to expand their base dropdown to a multi select dropdown. But the process is seamless now, changing the operator from Equal to In will allow the players to select several options at once and vice versa without changes in the dropdown so the experience is as smooth as possible for the creator.
Anyway, I think this post should give you a better insight of what you can expect with this editor. I already got some comments aiming at the classic "You expect your players to create content for you?" which was expected. I'd love players to create content with the tools I created but most of all, this editor forces me to codify my XML and organize it properly, something I didn't to in Glassix which makes it very hard to go back to Glassix's code because there are so many nodes with possible specific values which I don't remember anymore... Unity makes it much easier. And I'll also be using the Event Editor myself to add events which will much faster than manually writing XML code myself like I've been doing so far. So I'll be both the developer and the user of the editor.
This editor will give complete control over the game contents, even overwriting my mods with the priority system if you want to change how much gains you get from spells for example. I'll add a quick duplicate event button too so that this is easy to overwrite content. Anyway, I think this editor has a lot of potential and I hope that matches your expectations so far. Glassix 2 will be both a game and game content creator. I won't forget to improve the visuals too which need lots of work and optimization, this is not forgotten too. But gameplay is and will always be my priority.
If you have some feedback or ideas about the current interface, don't hesitate to drop me a message. Since this is currently in coding phase, that's actually the best moment to add or modify something to make it smoother, something I wish I could do with Glassix being quite outdated but unfortunately, too complex now that the code is done.
Have a nice day!