I'm really looking forward to the "Director's Cut", but before that gets here, I wanted to release a bit of work I did on the current script allowing the daughter's name to be changed and allowing for her to call the MC "dad" instead of his name. I do want to stress that this is not a perfect mod, with some big programming and some minor story issues, but it works ok with some caveats. Details are as follows:
- Allows the Daughter to be renamed. Pretty straightforward for the main story, but does have issues with the gallery.
- Allows the Daughter (and others) to call MC "Dad", "Daddy", "my dad", "your dad", etc instead of only by his name. This was pretty intensive as the specific name changes based on the situation and who's speaking to who. It also involved a bit of rework to maintain continuity regarding who knows that MC and the Daughter are family and when they know it.
- Allows Naomi to call MC "Daddy" in sexual situations. (honestly, I put it in there, but I wasn't particularly happy with it and didn't play with it on after testing it.)
- These are all optional during play and can be changed/disabled from the preferences menu.
Problems I know of:
- Saves will for some reason start a little before where you actually saved after restarting the game. I'm not really sure why this is. I think it's due to the added lines of code for the renaming somehow, but I'm not sure. Be aware that it could affect your stats. For example: saving just after a significant choice, getting the stat variable adjusted, then restarting and reloading the save, which sends you to before the choice, making the choice again, and getting a second stat adjustment.
- I also had issues with the alternate scenes and saves. Once passing the checkpoint for a new alternate scene to show up, if the game was restarted, it would cause that save to not work. I would need to start a new playthrough, fast forward back to the save point and then save again. Then new saves would work again (even after restart), at least until a new alternate scene was unlocked and the game restarted, then rinse and repeat. If you've unlocked all the alt scenes, then it's not a big deal, but otherwise, it's holding down ctrl and remembering choices for 5 minutes every time you restart.
- The gallery freaks out because it doesn't have a variable for the daughter's name. I tried to find a solution and I think it could be fixed with a persistent variable, but I'm still new to this and don't know how to implement/fix that. I don't normally use galleries (I use saves), so it never bothered me too much, but it can be temporarily fixed for that particular replay by opening the console and inputting "$ daughter_name = 'Carol'" (or other name besides Carol).
- The Stats screen shows "Carol" instead of your inputted name. I couldn't find where that screen is in the game folder to change it. I thought it was the Images.rpy file, but nothing I did on that seemed to make a difference.
Overall, this worked for me, but I'm not a programmer and am fairly new to altering scripts, so there's definitely things I need to learn and could use some help with. I just really didn't like the name Carol and wanted to change it, along with having her call me Dad instead of by name. If anyone is interested and/or can fix these other problems, it'd be appreciated. I also wanted to release it to ILSProductions for them to maybe add these features before the Director's Cut if they chose to do so (I freely release any edits to be used by them). That would really be ideal for me, and I'm sure they could narrow down exactly the hangups.
Install is like most patches: unzip and put in the "game" folder.
Also see my other , a completely unrelated game, patched for completely different reasons to this (Thank you ILS for even doing a basic spellcheck). But it didn't have the save issues I got with Now & Then, so I thought that's weird.
