For the sake of your own sanity, I can understand that. But it might be tricky to enforce, especially with how the player is able to choose whether or not a girl is allowed to get pregnant in their third mind room.
I will give you a heads up that Alexis will be added to the main girl roster in the next update.
Well for now I'm more or less acting like they're all pregnant.
I am kinda of adding an option to allow for the non pregnant art to appear in the epilogue just to make adding that easier later.
But they'll still talk like they're pregnant. So the epilogue won't make total sense if they aren't all pregnant but just leaving the code open for the addition is all I can do for now.
I'd suggest looking at how I implemented the corrupt personality system. That basically acts as a separate branch of dialogue for the girls. It uses a variable value for each girl, so you can likely use that same variable, and just set it to some unique value to indicate the epilogue.
Yeah That's what I did. I made an epilogue variable. Have it turn on during the good ending (Oh yeah BTW epilogue is good ending only. I don't think the other two endings really allow for an epilogue anyway).
What helps make this a bit easier is since in order to get the good ending you need all main girls at level 4 I only really need to create new dialogue for the level 4 varient. So I just create a new If branch with it's controller being epilogue. Put the origional level 4 dialogue into the (off) option and create new dialogue in the (on) section by using the origonal dialogue as a template.
The poses and shading are baked into the pregnant variant.
I'm including an image showing the layers of shading used for Emma's pregnant sprite to help demonstrate this.
hmmm ... well for now I won't worry too much. Since Elaine DOES have a pregnant pose that is like her non pregnant one as well as a different pose I'll use her as a template for how to redo the "clothes" event for each character.
Even if they don't have two seperate pregnant poses building it into the code now will make it easier to add later if the artwork is obtained. And if it's never obtained ... well the code still overall works. It's just has some pointless branching. Again I'm trying to build these edits to allow for future additions to be easier while I'm doing all this.
P.S. I noticed A LOT of the dialogue is just repeating itself 6 times due to the "changing what they call you" system. THis makes editing it painful but I thought of a good way to make editing less of a head ache.
P.P.S. I have a bit of a request actually.
My base goals for this mode effort are as follows
1. Have the game start an epilogue istead of booting you back to the title screen (completed but only for good ending)
2. Make it so girls appear pregnant in epilogue (complete for Elaine, although all clothes aside from Latex which has an actual pregnant varient are broken.)
3. Add new dialogue branch using Epilogue as a trigger and using Level 4 dialogue as a templete. The idea being "okay this is what they said at level 4. how might that change after 9 months have passed" (I've done some for Elaine and Rika, this is going to take the most time obviously).
So my request is this. After I get this done. I would like you to proofread it. Check for any stupid errors I missed as well as look at some of the dialogue I added for the epilogue varient. I'm trying to make it decent but I'm not exactly a writer so I'd appreciate at least a second opinion.
The last request is a bit of a stretch but assuming I do manage the rest of this would you be able to at some sense of a non pregnant varient for the epilogue? Or would that be asking too much at that point? Again I've already written into the script to make them appear pregnant to not do so if they don't have the pregnant trigger active even if it's the epilogue. So you won't need to do that part, just the dialogue, which should be a little easier since I'm cutting down on the number of If statements causing repeat dialogue.
You don't have to do any of this right away, especially that last part, but if you want to incorporate this into your mod and add to it at a later date. Then that's fine.
Oh yeah BTW I didn't say this yet but after I release ... whatever I end up aking. Anyone is free to add or modify it as they please. I'm not going to try to defend anything in particular. I just wanted to make the epilogue I always wanted one of my favorite hypno games to have. If other's want to add to or improve it that's okay.
