Added to The Request List, but with a big *. Editing animations is a very time intensive process for me. I usually only do it for something I really want to see in the game. Adding a condom isn't something I really want, so it is very unlikely I'll ever add.
I have nothing to do with the game nor do I speak for its developer but I'm genuinely curious about your thoughts regarding customized content like this, partly as I start to dabble with creating modifications of my own.
Check that you have the codecs to play webm files (the format of the animations)
Firstly I would like to say, I'm not one to always chose the condom path, nor have any "attachment" to the option, and nor do I want to speak on behalf of the people who do. But if I were to choose any option, I would keep it as it is. As I would personally find an animation better than dialogue or static images or that of implied safe sex and even losing content as a sacrifice for choosing such an option. I find it no big deal if it's there a condom in the animation or not, it would be nice if there were, but nothing is really lost both in the story and visuals. In addition, if someone were to do low attention amination like this I would point them to other things, that need animation and add more to the game. Possibly adding more condom options with animations to the game other than this minor missing detail.
My design philosophy has been to include as much content as I can from the original, while omitting as little as possible, and enhancing (at least I think so) what/where I can. I have tried to fix a lot (or, well, at least it feels like I have?), but I can't fix everything. And I agree that while it would be nice if I could (easily) "fix" stuff such as this, a bunch of static or low frame count animations in it's place would be a poor solution for such a minor issue.
At the moment, the choice to have a character take/not take birth control, is only more/less(/slightly different) dialog. It might be more than that at some point, but that is an unknown in the games future.
Does this mess up the game somehow? I found out that you can use Live 2D in RenPy, but you have to enable "config.gl2" to True. I'd test it myself, but you kinda made me scared that'll fuck my game, so if it does mess with the game somehow, could you tell me how? Needless to say, being able to use Live 2D instead of video files would be awesome for file size and as a side effect image quality as well. Just curious because this feature would be amazing, but if there are crippling issues in it's way, then there's nothing that can be done.
It changes the render that renpy uses, so older systems will have trouble running the game (if the line isn't included). I've messed around with the Live2D implementation a bit and while it would be amazing for file size reduction it comes with two big issues. 1. the stuff pulled from unity doesn't seem to be directly compatible (I'm not sure I can make them work in renpy at all, it's a completely different structure). And 2. I don't know how well the animations would run, as the video files will just play, the animations will be platform/hardware dependent, so on lower end machines the animation will run worse.
Ah, I had a feeling about that. So it's a gray area, performance vs. file size, both of which people have had gripes with for the Unity version. I was honestly scared it would straight up break the game, but you said that it's just resource intensive, so it's not as bad as I thought. But still, I'm a little curious about how big the performance impact is. My 5 year old phone can run Live 2D games at high frame rates with ease, but at the same time the amount of people who've complained about the Unity game's performance is concerning, so keeping the animations as video files seems to be for the best, unfortunately. I really want to try using Live 2D, but if I'm the only who can see my animations in their 60 fps, compressionless glory, it's not really worth it to me. I don't want 12 MBs worth of 24 fps lossy webms, or 120 MBs of 60 fps high quality webms.
There is one more big issue for Renpy Live2D and that is compatibility on some platform (copied from the Renpy site):
And pain the ass that supporting android already is, I'd prefer not to make it worse...
The AutoMenu is something I came up with for this game (I can't recall ever seeing it anywhere else, so, at least I'm pretty sure it's my own idea?), and I have to say I'm pretty proud of it. I know it's not for everyone, but like all things in the game it is an optional toggle. Although, as with all my work, I'm fine with anyone else using/improving on the idea (credit not necessary). In fact, I wish more games leaned lighter on the menu choices (especially one button menus which annoy the crap out of me).
You can put any formatting into text interpolation. However, renpy's input box won't let you type code. You can apply the formatting to the default in the scripts.rpy file:
default morty_pet_name="{color=#ff0000}sweetie{/color}"Oh, that's where all the initializations are! I tried changing individual day_00xx.rpy files but it kept getting overwritten somehow and I didn't know where it was loading the other values from. I see this is also where names and colors are set.
I'm not good at reading code, but it seems like you have to manually enable AutoMenu on a scene-by-scene basis by creating the decision tree and matching it to global flags. But it occurs to me, you also are creating spoiler tags for scene contents, so why not use those tags as flags both for AutoMenu and in place of having to create flags locally like "condom=true" to know which graphics to show within the scene.
Updated his color.
I don't really see a big advantage to changing the AutoMenu system, since it is already done and working.
I'm happy with the name for AutoMenu. It automatically handles menu choices for the player.
You can always vote with your pocketbook at his Patreon!
Yeah but the H scenes are in a church, lol. I'm just detail-oriented/obsessed and twas my attempt to explain why they aren't synonyms.
That's understandable. It's probably that whole debate over, "is the time it would take to improve a system greater or less than the extra effort to work around its limitations." Like, what if someone didn't want to view CHUD content? AutoMenu currently plays through all of it because otherwise you'd have to take the pains to create beast+beast and beast+human flags, then insert if/then auto_menu=true statements through to check them. That just seemed to me like something you'll wrestle with every time there's a non-vanilla scene added to the original game. I wonder how Patreon would deal with giant space incest babies given that it's actual canon from the show, lol.
For AutoMenu to not show CHUD content, there would have to be a non-CHUD path. Remember that "skip" is not a story choice, it is a player choice to avoid something they'd rather not view. AutoMenu only makes story choices. If players want to skip CHUD content, AutoMenu has to be set to off to see the skip only menus.
Odd, there is nothing in the (current) game that cancels skipping. I have noticed scenes that use image scaling (like Morty and Beth in her car, which use larger models scaled down slightly) do have a noticeable pause when loading/scaling, but they don't cancel the skip. Does this also happen for you when using tab to go into continues skip, or only with ctrl?
Okay I guess I misunderstood the design goal of AutoMenu then. I thought it was a way to predictively make choices based on content. Like, imagine if a page listed every possible user choice and allowed the user to pre-answer every prompt. Then basically, the scenes would play out automatically without any prompt or interruption (like a movie, hence my suggestion for Movie Mode name).
I actually only knew about the <Ctrl> button because of that specifically spelled joke told by The Devil. I mean, "ctrl" is an obvious reference to the keyboard key so I pressed it and discovered what it does. I didn't know <Tab> has the same functionality, so I'll give that a try instead. Also, "s" seems to be the default Renpy shortcut for screenshots (I learned that trying to type a Morty pet name when Beth asked what I'd like to be called on the screen before the actual Renpy prompt).