Honestly, I am doing different things to try and give a better "feel" to the story. If you played the old version of this, you would know that I actually used to use those side images in every dialogue, and THAT was just too much, IMO.
In this version, I toned down the side images and I only use them when there's either more than one character on screen that could be talking, or when the character that is speaking is not facing you. My intent is that, when you are reading dialogue, you're kind of focused on the lower half of the screen and having these side images shows not only who is talking, but what their general mood is (There's five versions of those side images, neutral, sad, happy, angry and lusty... all with different looks and colors). I also made changes to types of dialogue, where whispering and thinking appear different. And the main characters all have unique colors, while the side characters have a pink/purple color for females and a blue color for males.
It's not perfect and perhaps in my next project, I can add a toggle for them in the preferences menu. I already added the textbox transparency. the NTR switch and the Character Customization switch... what's one more? lol.
Anyhow, I am still a neophyte at this... I'm getting better slowly though.
