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Good evening.
First of all. -
I won't make this month's release.
Even though I am working for more than 12 hours a day on WiAB since January, it's not done yet.
It's a hardware thing. My PC just can't render faster, It's physically impossible.
And to my surprise, quite a few people thought ''
I' was actually a "
team". Well for those people who thought that.. I am not. I am doing everything myself.
What also takes a lot of time, is
post-production.
Every single render goes through
post-production and even if every render
only takes
10 minutes to edit. It would take up to
220 hours for 1300 renders. And bc of all the animations I have around
1450 at the moment and still
13 animations and a few stills to go.
As you all know the "
camping trip" in
Chapter 5 was hell for me. And
chapter 6 does include some camping trip stuff. I just can't make the renders there look good because no matter how long I render them.. 6 hours... 10 hours..
They look like shit. It's probably because of the Vram and then everything scales down. These renders need even more
post-production to make them even look acceptable.
An example:
It took 40 minutes to make it look "acceptable".
Also, I got deeply into
customization as you can see in the later parts of
Chapter 6. These
scenes are now much more
complex, I am creating my own stuff in
Blender,
Inkscape, and other programs to add unique elements to the scene. The higher the quality goes, the more time I need to set it up and render it.
Anyways, enough whiny. It's a hardware thing, we have to deal with it until I get the new PC.
2. Gui/Gallery
As I promised you guys, I would create a
gallery where you can watch
CG's and
scenes.
I, of course, could've done a very simple gallery that is used in most games.. but...
We don't do simple here.
I spent the last three weeks building up this gallery on my GF's PC.
Let's take a look together
Here you can see a little preview of the
new Gui main menu custom buttons. I cropped the main menu because I didn't want to spoiler the
animation that is running on the right. (My mouse is hovering on "
Gallery".)
If we now
click on "
Gallery".. This screen appears:
(My mouse is on "
Scene Replay") (Everything is idle/hover animated).
Here you can choose between
3 different main galleries.
-
Scene replay for replaying entire in-game scenes
-
CG gallery for single images.
-
Extra scenes for
unlockable Bonus images/scenes and there you will also find the "Patreon bonus scenes".
If we now click on "
CG Gallery" - This screen opens up. (All three galleries feature this character selection screen) (My mouse is hovering over
Gina. They all light up in different colors.)
On this screen, you can
select a
character and watch their
pictures,
scenes, etc. All of them are "Idle/Hover animated.
On the left side, you see a big "
NTR" button. If we click it ---> the whole screen will turn red and text changes. (Mouse is over Katie)
The NTR button now glows red and if you now click on a character, you will get to their
NTR Gallery. (There is an NTR button in all three main galleries.)
If we click the
NTR button again, the screen turns back to "
normal". If we then click on for example
Katie, their personalized gallery opens.
(I just saw that I wrote "unlocked" instead of "Locked" down below. It will be changed in the final version.)
If you pass a certain point in-game, you'll
unlock new images. A click on an unlocked image will show it in full-size. Click again to dismiss.
If you click on a
locked image, it will
display a
hint, for example:
(This is just an
example hint. The actual hints will be more helpful.)
Here are 3 other example galleries:
As you can see.. there was a lot of
coding &
art creation involved.. I didn't just need to create three galleries.. We're talking about
90 galleries in
coding and
art creation. Why
90?
There are
15 characters in all
3 main galleries. That makes 45 different looking galleries.
Now, 45
times two because every character has their own
NTR gallery, too. And every gallery features different animated images and scenes.
I am still not done with everything but I can see the light of the tunnel. I will also only
add images/scenes from 0.5 and above. It's a lot of work to add images to the gallery (They all light up in different colors etc.) and I would
scrap all images/scenes from
0.1 - 0.4 with the rework anyways. The rework scenes & images will, of course, be added.
The rework will also introduce unlockable extra scenes/images.
I will probably change a few of the head pictures in the final version. Cause some look kinda creepy. I had to render them on my GF's PC.
You now also have the ability to name your save-file.
Most of the
menu screens have an
animated background now. For example, the "
Quit" screen:
The background is animated.
Surprise me is a "
Just for fun" button. It currently features
5 different options. (Links to a meme, music, discord, Patreon, etc.) I will add more useless stuff later.
Previews - Missing in action
For some reason, I always posted the previews for every supporter. But to honor those who support me with more, I will from now on stick to the right tiers and honor what I wrote in the tier description.
- Ocean (;
