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MyRobot Development Part 36

Added 2024-09-28 23:16:09 +0000 UTC

Video shows the summary, text shows the technical!

This week:

Polish
Bugfixing

Polish

This week I improved and did minor tweaks to the new behaviours and items for the Slice of Life update. This is because next week I am planning to release this update!

One very useful new improvement was making the robot stand still when you approach it with the scissors or comb. Normally it's always looking around and it can be finnicky to use these tools with the robot moving around. So now it detects and poses in place so you can go in and tweak the robot's appearance.

This also works for when you are adding an eyeball or a wig. The robot now stands in place.

Additionally I had time to add a couple new animations whenever you change the robot's hair. It now reacts by swaying or flipping its hair whenever you change its hair.

Bugfixing

The work done this week for bugfixing was purely for saving and loading. Many of these new features such as customizable hair model, color, etc. have new variables that must be saved in your session file.

I was using Newtonsoft Json serializer and deserializer and it's annoying that Unity does NOT support the serialization of gradients or even Colors. So I had to write Json serializers for those data types.

Stay tuned for the update next week!