Others No Trace Of Luck [Pre-Release] [Development Thread] [Godot]
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Latest Update:
I'm not uploading this version because nobody is going to download it anyway. Next version will have an upload.
Bugs fixed:
No more crash when selecting the 2nd available phone conversation
Screenshots:
The 2nd screenshots shows the button which is what will allow you to progress further.
- Added the next phone conversation
- Added the beginning of the system which will progress the story into the 'rest of the game', and not just that, this system will mostly be how you interact with various mechanics in the game and choose what you're going to do.
I'm not uploading this version because nobody is going to download it anyway. Next version will have an upload.
Bugs fixed:
No more crash when selecting the 2nd available phone conversation
Screenshots:
The 2nd screenshots shows the button which is what will allow you to progress further.
Latest Update:
Latest Download:
Screenshots:
- Made the 'activities' button functional, this enables the continuation of the story after completing both phone conversations. Currently these both lead to placeholder events.
- Compressed some excessively large images, reducing load times and upload size
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Screenshots:
Bonus Update:
- I reworked several art assets to make the game overall look better
- Fixed a small bug where the text message window would not be fully scrolled to the top of the screen when selecting a 2nd phone conversation
- Redid the character art in the text bubble to match the character in the scene
Latest Download:
Screenshots:
New phone default background:
New text messages background:
- I reworked several art assets to make the game overall look better
- Fixed a small bug where the text message window would not be fully scrolled to the top of the screen when selecting a 2nd phone conversation
- Redid the character art in the text bubble to match the character in the scene
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Screenshots:
New phone default background:
New text messages background:
PLANNING & DESIGN POST
This post does not contain a code update, but rather some design work I am doing as I plan for the next phase of the game.
The next upcoming phase will feature a dating minigame. The dating minigame will consist of a branching series of discussion topics. You will be required to sufficiently progress through the topics, without either 1: failing the date by making bad choices, or 2: failing the date by not progressing the relationship far enough.
The dating minigame will consist of 4 phases. Not all dates will utilize all 4 phases. Some dates may branch extensively and some may be relatively linear with very few choices.
Your reward for completing the dating minigame will be:
If you fail the minigame, you will be required to restart it until you can proceed.
QUESTION PHASE
In this phase you will
TOPIC PHASE
The topic phase will dictate the category of questions, answers, quizzes, etc... as you progress through the next part of the date. Similar to the Question phase, your ability to successfully raise a certain topic for discussion will depend on a number of things and may not be successful, or may result in the failure of the date
ANSWER PHASE
The answer phase happens when you are asked a question by your date. Your answer may affect the choices you have that follow. These answers generally will not have a single "right" or "wrong" answer but rather will be considered right or wrong in the context of the date and your current relationship
QUIZ PHASE
Quiz phase is similar to Answer Phase, except Quiz answers generally do have a single correct or incorrect answer. These too will be used to progress your relationship with the character and affect the options available as the date progresses.
This post does not contain a code update, but rather some design work I am doing as I plan for the next phase of the game.
The next upcoming phase will feature a dating minigame. The dating minigame will consist of a branching series of discussion topics. You will be required to sufficiently progress through the topics, without either 1: failing the date by making bad choices, or 2: failing the date by not progressing the relationship far enough.
The dating minigame will consist of 4 phases. Not all dates will utilize all 4 phases. Some dates may branch extensively and some may be relatively linear with very few choices.
Your reward for completing the dating minigame will be:
- CGs unlocked
- Story progression
If you fail the minigame, you will be required to restart it until you can proceed.
QUESTION PHASE
In this phase you will
- Ask the character a question relevant to your current topic. You will have a choice between a series of topics, but certain topics will be considered too spicy if you havent progressed the relationship far enough and may fail when asked
TOPIC PHASE
The topic phase will dictate the category of questions, answers, quizzes, etc... as you progress through the next part of the date. Similar to the Question phase, your ability to successfully raise a certain topic for discussion will depend on a number of things and may not be successful, or may result in the failure of the date
ANSWER PHASE
The answer phase happens when you are asked a question by your date. Your answer may affect the choices you have that follow. These answers generally will not have a single "right" or "wrong" answer but rather will be considered right or wrong in the context of the date and your current relationship
QUIZ PHASE
Quiz phase is similar to Answer Phase, except Quiz answers generally do have a single correct or incorrect answer. These too will be used to progress your relationship with the character and affect the options available as the date progresses.
After the dating mechanic is complete, I will consider this to be version 0.0.1 and will release as a new game on f95
not into AI games, although i also think that hard work/effort must be recognised and this seems that is taking a lot of work to make, great job mate. really hope that some day the AI works properly with animations, can not imagine what could be done with that 
, also for the good of humanaty of course......
by the way, the download file is recogniced as dangerous, just letting you know
, also for the good of humanaty of course......by the way, the download file is recogniced as dangerous, just letting you know
Thank you for the kind words.not into AI games, although i also think that hard work/effort must be recognised and this seems that is taking a lot of work to make, great job mate. really hope that some day the AI works properly with animations, can not imagine what could be done with that
by the way, the download file is recogniced as dangerous, just letting you know
AI is advancing extremely fast these days, even the tool I was using before here: https://f95zone.to/threads/no-trace...development-thread-godot.204911/post-14041553 is already outdated because better tools have been released.
In 1 year, we're going to start to see full complete AI animations with perfect consistent art style etc... It's going to be a great time for porn games (and other stuff probably)
I think the reason the file shows as dangerous is because it has only received 3 downloads and is not recognized. I don't think there's anything I can do to fix that, besides get more downloads.
Art Update
I've heard a lot of feedback on AI art and because it is so controversial, I decided to go back and re-work the character art in the intro to ensure it is very high quality and consistent. I think some people will only give the game a chance if the art looks really good in the beginning.
I probably won't put this level of effort into all art in the game, just for this intro sequence. Especially considering the intro sequence is only like 5 minutes long. I made all of these assets for a 5 minute little sequence and they probably wont be used again.
No code update because these are not yet implemented in the game.
Here is the old character art on the left. You will notice a number of major inconsistencies between these pieces:
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I've heard a lot of feedback on AI art and because it is so controversial, I decided to go back and re-work the character art in the intro to ensure it is very high quality and consistent. I think some people will only give the game a chance if the art looks really good in the beginning.
I probably won't put this level of effort into all art in the game, just for this intro sequence. Especially considering the intro sequence is only like 5 minutes long. I made all of these assets for a 5 minute little sequence and they probably wont be used again.
No code update because these are not yet implemented in the game.
Here is the old character art on the left. You will notice a number of major inconsistencies between these pieces:
- The logo on the shirt changes almost every time
- The length and style of the jeans changes significantly in some images
- The body type changes pretty significantly in some images, especially in the images pictured in the 2nd row here
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Love is in the air, here's the latest update:
Dating Minigame!
The very first, very alpha version of the dating minigame is complete and playable. Things to know about it right now:
I am open to any feedback on it, even in this early stage. The list of things I need to complete before considering it 'done' is huge, currently the list is 24 items long.
Also the character art in the previous post is still not in the game yet, I just didn't get around to replacing the existing art yet.
Get the latest version here:
Gif:
Screenies:
Bonus: here's my planning document I used while figuring out how to create this branching / flexible dialogue system. It is very professional:
Dating Minigame!
The very first, very alpha version of the dating minigame is complete and playable. Things to know about it right now:
- You must complete both text message conversation to access it
- Everything about it is a placeholder
- images are all placeholder and wont be used in the final game
- all conversations topics, sounds, and dialogue are placeholder
- One of the 2 topics is not implemented
- The date will never end, BUT there are 5 cgs to view (placeholder CGs but still kinda cute)
- There is a bad-end which crashes the game, can you find it?
I am open to any feedback on it, even in this early stage. The list of things I need to complete before considering it 'done' is huge, currently the list is 24 items long.
Also the character art in the previous post is still not in the game yet, I just didn't get around to replacing the existing art yet.
Get the latest version here:
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Gif:
Screenies:
Bonus: here's my planning document I used while figuring out how to create this branching / flexible dialogue system. It is very professional:
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Also I removed the 'A Poker Story' tagline on the title, now the game is officially just titled 'No Trace of Luck', because quite honestly the poker is the most shit part of the game and is mostly just filler.
Trying to get art style set up for a potential new character, not quite there yet, don't really like this style, needs a little work
New MC character art has been added to the game which I talked about here: https://f95zone.to/threads/no-trace...development-thread-godot.204911/post-14258080
Overall I think it looks much much better
Download:
Screenies:
Overall I think it looks much much better
Download:
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I have a question, are you familiar with LoRAS? do you use them to generate your character's images? what do you think about seaart.ai and civitai? do you use huggingface spaces to build a GUI for inference? do you mind sharing your script?
what changed between one point and the other? did you always use InvokeAI?
it looks awesome to me
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allow me to bring a more complex problem
ambient consistency from multiple angles
see an example:
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Hey all! Long time no see!
I haven't been posting regular updates due to real life job fucking sucks. But I have definitely been working on the game, and have a huge new update that I will be releasing shortly.
For now, I wanted to share what I have for the dating system. Remember I described this system back here: https://f95zone.to/threads/no-trace...development-thread-godot.204911/post-14240523
I've now mostly implemented it how I like it. I still think it is lacking in terms of user interface, but I'm not a user interface expert, so I mostly just did the best I could.
I'm not uploading the latest build right now because I am still finishing up the last pieces of it, and I want to make a post detailing ALL the changes, which there are many.
For now, here's a preview of the completed dating system and some of the new content I've added
I haven't been posting regular updates due to real life job fucking sucks. But I have definitely been working on the game, and have a huge new update that I will be releasing shortly.
For now, I wanted to share what I have for the dating system. Remember I described this system back here: https://f95zone.to/threads/no-trace...development-thread-godot.204911/post-14240523
I've now mostly implemented it how I like it. I still think it is lacking in terms of user interface, but I'm not a user interface expert, so I mostly just did the best I could.
I'm not uploading the latest build right now because I am still finishing up the last pieces of it, and I want to make a post detailing ALL the changes, which there are many.
For now, here's a preview of the completed dating system and some of the new content I've added
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Making Consistent Character Art with AI
Hey all, still working on the latest update, a few more bugs to squash a little more scripting to do. For now, I wanted to describe the process I use to make consistent character art with AI.
When I originally started this project, I knew absolutely nothing about AI. I really just typed in a prompt "A brown hair girl wearing a blue t-shirt and jean shorts" and I just hoped for the best. That is how I generated all my original character art. I would get a lot of stuff like this, which isn't really usable:
But I have learned a ton and come up with a much more consistent process, which I wanted to describe here.
Important Concept 1: Choosing a Model
With AI art, the very first thing you choose is a model. The model determines the art style and it determines what "concepts" the AI knows. Eg: one model might understand "looking at camera" and make the character look directly at the viewer, other models interpret that as "looking at a camera" and it draws a literal camera in the scene that the character is looking at.
Another important thing is art style. If you want consistent art, you need to stick with one model (mostly, I will cover where it's safe to use other models later.)
For example, these 3 images were generated with the same prompt, but 3 different models. You can see the significant difference between art style between the 3. So if you want consistent art, you need to stick to one model.
Important Concept 2: IPAdapter
Sticking with one consistent model is important, but it does not guarantee consistent character art. You would think if I generate 3 images using the same model, same prompt, and same everything else, it will generate 3 consistent images of the character, but that is not true.
I tried this experiment and you can see the images below. 3 images with exactly the same settings, and I circled the parts which are inconsistent between the images:
Admittedly these actually are pretty damn consistent, that's likely because this model has a very specific understanding of the prompt I used. But in many cases, there can be significant variations between images.
So this brings in important concept 2, which is called IPAdapter. This is actually a very simply concept. You provide an input image as a reference, and the model will use that image as a reference for either style or composition. Composition means the actual elements in the image (eg: in the example above, it would be the shape of the yellow dress, and other things in the scene.)
Here I will use this image as an IPAdapter to try and get the model to be consistent with the 3 circled parts of the image.
Here are the outputs when attempting this:
Obviously you will notice these images have issues. The first image added a 2nd face for some reason. And the 2nd image generated her in a weird pose.
This is one side effect of IPAdapter:
This is a side effect you often just need to accept. You get a consistent character, but you often need to generate a lot more images in order to get the character to look how you want.
Important Concept 3: Inpainting
And now for the third concept, which is called Inpainting. This process basically involves selecting only one specific area of the image, and telling the model to re-draw only that one specific area.
For example, you can see in the image below I've selected the face specifically to be re-drawn:
And now, I change the prompt to tell it I want the character to be "happy" and "smug", and here is the result:
Original Happy Smug
Looks good! Inpainting is very powerful and often it is the only tool you need. However, Inpainting has limitations. It's great for changing facial expressions and small specific details, but it is very bad at doing big, structural changes to the image. For example, I will try to change this image so she is placing her hand over her mouth:
I have selected all of the parts of the image that I expect will need to change:
And I run it twice:
The outputs are highly deformed and for some reason the 2nd image added a pool. This is where Inpainting alone really isn't sufficient. There are some other methods that can be used to try and achieve a better result here, but I won't go into those in this post because it still involves a lot of luck.
Combining All 3 Concepts:
By combining these concepts, it should be possible to generate a consistent character, and have her do different poses and different facial expressions. Let's try:
Pretty good! That's basically how I generate character art for my game. Thanks for reading.
Hey all, still working on the latest update, a few more bugs to squash a little more scripting to do. For now, I wanted to describe the process I use to make consistent character art with AI.
When I originally started this project, I knew absolutely nothing about AI. I really just typed in a prompt "A brown hair girl wearing a blue t-shirt and jean shorts" and I just hoped for the best. That is how I generated all my original character art. I would get a lot of stuff like this, which isn't really usable:
But I have learned a ton and come up with a much more consistent process, which I wanted to describe here.
Important Concept 1: Choosing a Model
With AI art, the very first thing you choose is a model. The model determines the art style and it determines what "concepts" the AI knows. Eg: one model might understand "looking at camera" and make the character look directly at the viewer, other models interpret that as "looking at a camera" and it draws a literal camera in the scene that the character is looking at.
Another important thing is art style. If you want consistent art, you need to stick with one model (mostly, I will cover where it's safe to use other models later.)
For example, these 3 images were generated with the same prompt, but 3 different models. You can see the significant difference between art style between the 3. So if you want consistent art, you need to stick to one model.
Important Concept 2: IPAdapter
Sticking with one consistent model is important, but it does not guarantee consistent character art. You would think if I generate 3 images using the same model, same prompt, and same everything else, it will generate 3 consistent images of the character, but that is not true.
I tried this experiment and you can see the images below. 3 images with exactly the same settings, and I circled the parts which are inconsistent between the images:
Admittedly these actually are pretty damn consistent, that's likely because this model has a very specific understanding of the prompt I used. But in many cases, there can be significant variations between images.
So this brings in important concept 2, which is called IPAdapter. This is actually a very simply concept. You provide an input image as a reference, and the model will use that image as a reference for either style or composition. Composition means the actual elements in the image (eg: in the example above, it would be the shape of the yellow dress, and other things in the scene.)
Here I will use this image as an IPAdapter to try and get the model to be consistent with the 3 circled parts of the image.
- The frilled collar of the dress
- The little 'x' lace on the front of the dress
- The hair with a long bang on the left, and no bangs on the right
Here are the outputs when attempting this:
Obviously you will notice these images have issues. The first image added a 2nd face for some reason. And the 2nd image generated her in a weird pose.
This is one side effect of IPAdapter:
- It can deform the image randomly. That's what happened in image 1. We got the frilly collar and the little 'x' on the dress, but we also got a weird face inserted.
- It doesn't just copy the things you "want", notice in the 2nd image it got all 3 elements: frilly collar, little 'x' on the dress, and a left-sided bang. But it ALSO copied the concept of her having her arms "raised." The original reference image had one arm raised, so it forced her arm to be raised in both of these output images.
This is a side effect you often just need to accept. You get a consistent character, but you often need to generate a lot more images in order to get the character to look how you want.
Important Concept 3: Inpainting
And now for the third concept, which is called Inpainting. This process basically involves selecting only one specific area of the image, and telling the model to re-draw only that one specific area.
For example, you can see in the image below I've selected the face specifically to be re-drawn:
And now, I change the prompt to tell it I want the character to be "happy" and "smug", and here is the result:
Original Happy Smug
Looks good! Inpainting is very powerful and often it is the only tool you need. However, Inpainting has limitations. It's great for changing facial expressions and small specific details, but it is very bad at doing big, structural changes to the image. For example, I will try to change this image so she is placing her hand over her mouth:
I have selected all of the parts of the image that I expect will need to change:
And I run it twice:
The outputs are highly deformed and for some reason the 2nd image added a pool. This is where Inpainting alone really isn't sufficient. There are some other methods that can be used to try and achieve a better result here, but I won't go into those in this post because it still involves a lot of luck.
Combining All 3 Concepts:
- Concept 1: One specific base model will ensure a consistent art style in each image
- Concept 2: IPAdapter can help getting small details to be more consistent
- Concept 3: Inpainting can be used to redraw specific parts of the image
By combining these concepts, it should be possible to generate a consistent character, and have her do different poses and different facial expressions. Let's try:
Pretty good! That's basically how I generate character art for my game. Thanks for reading.
Hey all, today I wanted to post about the process I specifically use for creating art for my main character.
In my previous post, I described my general high-level process, however my main character has a few differences, and I also did not mention any of the manual steps that occur after the generation of the image.
Step 1 - Generate the Base Image
The first step is of course to generate the initial image. For this, I have a series of "base prompts" that I use to get a minimal level of quality and consistency. I then modify the prompt with descriptors such as "View from behind", "Night", etc...
Here are 2 base images I will use for this post (one is a fullscreen character CG, and one is character art). These are what the model gives by default, with only a prompt and no additional work.
Notice, this looks significantly different from my main character in the actual art I use within my game:
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To address these images I need to do...
Step 2 - Inpaint the Base Image
I described Inpainting in my previous post. However, I do it slightly differently here. Instead of Inpainting with the same base model, I actually use a different model to re-create the entire head. I do this because:
So by using this 2nd model to re-create the face, I get the best of both worlds.
First, I erase out some of the hair. Since my final character has much shorter hair, the model generally performs better if I get rid of the hair first:
select the faces, as well as some space around the face to ensure the model has enough space to adjust/recreate the face exactly how it wants to:
Then, I re-render just the face with my new model:
The first image has problems with the hand, and the 2nd image added a question mark. I will need the adjust the first image here. I can remove the question mark later in an image editing software.
I use more inpainting to adjust the hands:
And finally it looks like this:
Step 3 - Adjusting Lighting
One side-effect of inpainting is that it tends to remove the original image's knowledge of how the scene is lit. It's actually not too bad here, but for the purposes of this demo, I will adjust the lighting in the image so that there is a streak of light on the left side of her face. In some images, this is very important to ensure it looks visually consistent.
I do this by drawing a semi-transparent white streak across the part of the image that I want to brighten. For shadows, I use a black streak:
And after running it, it does a nice job brightening up her face and hair. This doesn't actually look very good, I wouldn't use this in my game (the original image here didn't really need re-touching the lightning, but in many cases it does.)
Step 4 - Manual Editing
At this point, I consider the CG image to be complete, but the character art is not usable. It still has a solid colored background, and needs the question mark removed. To be usable in my game, it needs a transparent background. So I load this into image editing software.
First I select the background:
It's important to get everything, especially the little loops in her clothing and hair:
Then I simply delete it:
But you can already see a lot of problems here.
So, Step 1 is to manually adjust the hair so it is not cropped:
Step 2 is to add a black outline to the entire image, this helps with the very thin white streak:
Step 3 is to manually erase the larger white blotches in the hair:
And finally, step 4 is to compare the image against both a pure white and pure black background, to help locate anything else that I missed:
You can see the hair on the 2nd image at the top is a little bit messed up from my manual erasing. That's why I do this comparison against a solid background, it makes those mistakes more clear. I won't bother fixing this for this demo.
Step 5 - Resize, Compress, Crop, and Done
Finally, every image in my game is 7:9 aspect ratio and 1152x896 resolution. There's no reason for images to be larger than this, they will just take up space. Character art does not need to follow this aspect ratio because it just need to display the character. So I do the following:
And the final results:
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If I want to adjust facial expressions, I do that on the final image, using the technique I described in my previous post:
Nice! Now I repeat this for all 100+ CGs and character arts. And eventually, they get added to the game:
In my previous post, I described my general high-level process, however my main character has a few differences, and I also did not mention any of the manual steps that occur after the generation of the image.
Step 1 - Generate the Base Image
The first step is of course to generate the initial image. For this, I have a series of "base prompts" that I use to get a minimal level of quality and consistency. I then modify the prompt with descriptors such as "View from behind", "Night", etc...
Here are 2 base images I will use for this post (one is a fullscreen character CG, and one is character art). These are what the model gives by default, with only a prompt and no additional work.
Notice, this looks significantly different from my main character in the actual art I use within my game:
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To address these images I need to do...
Step 2 - Inpaint the Base Image
I described Inpainting in my previous post. However, I do it slightly differently here. Instead of Inpainting with the same base model, I actually use a different model to re-create the entire head. I do this because:
- The base model that I used for the original set of images produces very high quality bodies, backgrounds, and is overall very good at understanding complex prompts.
- This new, 2nd model produces a face that is much more in line with what I want for the character.
So by using this 2nd model to re-create the face, I get the best of both worlds.
First, I erase out some of the hair. Since my final character has much shorter hair, the model generally performs better if I get rid of the hair first:
select the faces, as well as some space around the face to ensure the model has enough space to adjust/recreate the face exactly how it wants to:
Then, I re-render just the face with my new model:
The first image has problems with the hand, and the 2nd image added a question mark. I will need the adjust the first image here. I can remove the question mark later in an image editing software.
I use more inpainting to adjust the hands:
And finally it looks like this:
Step 3 - Adjusting Lighting
One side-effect of inpainting is that it tends to remove the original image's knowledge of how the scene is lit. It's actually not too bad here, but for the purposes of this demo, I will adjust the lighting in the image so that there is a streak of light on the left side of her face. In some images, this is very important to ensure it looks visually consistent.
I do this by drawing a semi-transparent white streak across the part of the image that I want to brighten. For shadows, I use a black streak:
And after running it, it does a nice job brightening up her face and hair. This doesn't actually look very good, I wouldn't use this in my game (the original image here didn't really need re-touching the lightning, but in many cases it does.)
Step 4 - Manual Editing
At this point, I consider the CG image to be complete, but the character art is not usable. It still has a solid colored background, and needs the question mark removed. To be usable in my game, it needs a transparent background. So I load this into image editing software.
First I select the background:
It's important to get everything, especially the little loops in her clothing and hair:
Then I simply delete it:
But you can already see a lot of problems here.
- There are noticeable white streaks all along the outline of the image
- Her hair has noticeable white blotches
- Here hair is cropped off at the top
So, Step 1 is to manually adjust the hair so it is not cropped:
Step 2 is to add a black outline to the entire image, this helps with the very thin white streak:
Step 3 is to manually erase the larger white blotches in the hair:
And finally, step 4 is to compare the image against both a pure white and pure black background, to help locate anything else that I missed:
You can see the hair on the 2nd image at the top is a little bit messed up from my manual erasing. That's why I do this comparison against a solid background, it makes those mistakes more clear. I won't bother fixing this for this demo.
Step 5 - Resize, Compress, Crop, and Done
Finally, every image in my game is 7:9 aspect ratio and 1152x896 resolution. There's no reason for images to be larger than this, they will just take up space. Character art does not need to follow this aspect ratio because it just need to display the character. So I do the following:
- Crop out all the extra space on the left & right of the character
- Run it through a png compressor. I use
You must be registered to see the linksI find it very useful. However, it's super expensive ($45 a month! WTF! for compressing pngs!) so I only use the free version which allows 10 images per day. Each day I go in and compress 10 more images.
And the final results:
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If I want to adjust facial expressions, I do that on the final image, using the technique I described in my previous post:
Nice! Now I repeat this for all 100+ CGs and character arts. And eventually, they get added to the game:
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Script Update
The script for the first date scene has been completed. For the first date, it consists of 110 discrete dialogue entry-points. Meaning, there are 110 different possible dialogue segments you can experience in the first date. It is not possible to experience all of them in a single run, however the most important story-critical path is required to progress successfully through the date.
This covers ONLY the first date scene. It does not cover the remaining "VN-style" dialogue throughout the rest of the game.
Here's a gif showing off how the script looks in the back-end:
Here is a (very low quality due to size limits on f95) short preview of gameplay:
As I worked through this scripting, I have found a few things I need to fix before releasing the next major update. Alongside all of the other changes that I've made over the past few months. I anticipate a release before the weekend is over.
Then, after that release, I want to go back through the beginning and take a 2nd pass at a few specific pieces of art. In particular, I don't like the 2nd character's outfit when they're introduced, so I intend to change that, as well as hopefully improve a few CGs around that part of the game.
The script for the first date scene has been completed. For the first date, it consists of 110 discrete dialogue entry-points. Meaning, there are 110 different possible dialogue segments you can experience in the first date. It is not possible to experience all of them in a single run, however the most important story-critical path is required to progress successfully through the date.
This covers ONLY the first date scene. It does not cover the remaining "VN-style" dialogue throughout the rest of the game.
Here's a gif showing off how the script looks in the back-end:
Here is a (very low quality due to size limits on f95) short preview of gameplay:
As I worked through this scripting, I have found a few things I need to fix before releasing the next major update. Alongside all of the other changes that I've made over the past few months. I anticipate a release before the weekend is over.
Then, after that release, I want to go back through the beginning and take a 2nd pass at a few specific pieces of art. In particular, I don't like the 2nd character's outfit when they're introduced, so I intend to change that, as well as hopefully improve a few CGs around that part of the game.
UI Update
Today I blitzed through a whole bunch of changes that I found necessary during my scripting of the date scene. I think it has added a lot of great flavor to the date sequence and overall I'm super happy with it.
The complete changelog of what I added will be included when I upload the next release, which I am aiming for the next few hours, I just need to complete the post-date sequence which is just a matter of creating some nodes and wiring together some backgrounds.
Here is a preview of the new dating screen:
Compare this side by side with version 1 of the game and I am really proud of the improvement!
Old / New
Wow! And that doesn't include all the little animations in the new version, whereas the old version was fully a static image!
Today I blitzed through a whole bunch of changes that I found necessary during my scripting of the date scene. I think it has added a lot of great flavor to the date sequence and overall I'm super happy with it.
The complete changelog of what I added will be included when I upload the next release, which I am aiming for the next few hours, I just need to complete the post-date sequence which is just a matter of creating some nodes and wiring together some backgrounds.
Here is a preview of the new dating screen:
Compare this side by side with version 1 of the game and I am really proud of the improvement!
Old / New
Wow! And that doesn't include all the little animations in the new version, whereas the old version was fully a static image!