Daily Update 10/7

Ok so not too much progress today. But at the same time A LOT of progress. I finished making and testing the Gallery code, and have it where I like it. I just need to finish populating it with scenes now. I want to keep this post not too techy sounding so that it is easier for all to understand, while also being able to explain the issues I ran into.

So when I first made the gallery it only had 2 screens. That wasnt enough for me. Because that covered only location and girl. I wanted the Gallery to be when you click the gallery you see a few images for Bathroom, Dates, Lovenest, and Side Stories. Then by clicking any of those you will see another screen that shows images for each girl that has scenes in those locations. Then clicking a girl you see a list of positions she has in that location.

That was when I learned that my animation controller thing that you all know and love, the different angles, and speeds and all that. Well that uses a bunch of labels and screens. basically 1 label and 1 screen per animation you see. Each position is usually 12-16 animations. BUT the big issue is that Renpys build in Replay system only works if it is all in one label. Meaning not animation controller is possible. So I was looking for ways around it and decided I would just need to recode each and every position so that there are 2 of them. The Gallery version and the version you actually see in game. Because the animation controller thing is only really needed for changing views you can increase the speeds all in one label.

So then I battled with getting it to show the right images and battled with it to show the right text. Like it was showing text but who wants to see roxy_bath_bj when you see and image of roxy in the bathroom sucking off rudeus? why not make it just say Blowjob? Thats what I spent the last hour getting it to do.

And so then I needed to make a 4th Gallery screen. 1 for location, 1 for girl, 1 for position, and now 1 for view. And with that it all works now. All I have left to do with it is to take a bunch of images for each position and angle so the gallery has pretty buttons. Add all the positions into the galleries code. And then copy, paste and edit every single position in the game so that it works in the gallery for use without the controller. IMPORTANT NOTE. IN THE GALLERY without the controller. That means nothing will change in the game when you view an animation it will all be exactly the same. Its just going to be in the gallery you can not swap camera angles. You will need to pick your camera angle before viewing the scene in the gallery. There is probably a way around it but I feel like working on just getting the gallery screen to work for the last 16 hours straight yea thats good enough for one night.

I am stopping at a good point, nothing worse than ending your day when your still stuck on a problem. Everything is coded and working. So I just need to spend tomorrow populating the gallery with all the positions then I will make a neat video for you all to see the gallery and get all pumped for the next update that it will be in. ALSO I just thought about this, I never lowered the tier thing for Beta 2 to the 5$ supporters and that is SUPER late. So heres what I am going to do instead. As soon as I finish this gallery I will make a Version Beta 2.5 and that will be posted for the 5$ tier first. Its only like a 3rd of the work that I am going to be putting into the next actual update, but it also is meant to be an apology for making you all wait WAY to long,

My original plan was to fix the bugs in beta 2 so you didnt have to deal with those. But more and more bugs kept popping up and I honestly just got annoyed with trying to fix them all and just wanted to make something new again. To calm me down which lead me down the rabbit hole of creating new elements and skills and schools and all that (um... thats all still only half made... Maybe I should put the old battle system back in before releasing this as a patch for you all... because it will 100% break if you try to battle right now lol. ) Someone do me a favor and remind me about that in 3 days. Thats how much time I am giving myself to get this Beta 2.5 update out for you. figure 1 day for adding the gallery stuff. 1 day for finishing or removing(for now) the new skill system and 1 day to test it and try my hardest to find that list index bug and squash it. But eya I am going to get off my PC and go lay down. So I will message you all tomorrow with that fancy video update of the gallery