Some work done on the conversation UI! I tossed together a shader for the background that I think is nice. I'm not 100% sure I'll end up using it in the game, but it came out well enough as an experiment. It's starting to look a lot more together, though!
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A bit of work on some of the menu stuff! Experimenting with colors, but the magenta was just garish. All of the metal on the menus is rusty now... your ship is pretty beat up with the game begins!
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A bunch of cool stuff here! A tiny preview of a killer new musical piece by Ben, a really nicely revamped background for the Y'tori from Anne, and configurable control over background animation speeds. More things come together every day!
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Many boring things and optimizations ... but! Now all backgrounds with windows have a transparent view to whatever location/planet you're currently at.
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This was one of those things that should have been easy, but was very not due to some naive architecture from earlier in the project. But now that this is done, multiple person conversations will be very straightforward!
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Mourn the poor Macrourans. They've fallen victim to editing, and we will not be seeing skunks in Transience. They were too similar to the Hyäne. However... now we'll be seeing the Basurians! They're lovely creatures who just want to drink ranch dressing and hang out...
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So much refactoring... so many bad decisions made two years back XD. This video might look more or less identical to stuff you've seen before, but it's finally ready for some very significant updates from behind the scenes. New features incoming!
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Deep digging in the guts of the code for Transience over the last few days... reworking how animation functions so that multiple characters can all animate properly on the screen at once. But to folks over, check out these cool ship concepts from Brendan!
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More work on the UI for the battle system here! After this, I'll be giving it a bit of a rest and moving to some more work on the backgrounds for the Conversation menu... and a big project will be making conversations able to support multiple characters at once.
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Happy bday! :D
And here's the nifty lock-on animation when you manage to zero in on your enemy for long enough for the computer to train missiles on them properly! Obviously there will be a cool sound to go along with this eventually as well...
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Missiles coming together... Still need to finalize a bit of the system, but I'm able to assign prefabs arbitrarily to them now and the validators ensure that all items of this type have all required objects and animations...
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Things are finally looking more lively! NPCs fly around and change course in planetary systems/location now... more ripping out of very old, very naive code to accomplish this. XD
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Working on the combat engine now... It's glitching out due to code which is SUPPOSED to make ships go over and under one another smoothly rather than bonking into one another. XD
Ah well! Progress, progress.
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It’s a bitter fucking pill to swallow, but there it is.
I def understand the feeling of absolute betrayal that comes at some point. It’s important to focus on helping people as best as is possible more than harming people who might deserve it. Dems have not earned our votes, but voting is still critical for protecting people who deserve protection.
Got bootstrap scenes working! It might not look immediately different from the video, but this ensures that scene transitions are smooth, and that there is no gross/choppy framerate for the first second or so that a new scene loads.
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Default music can now be associated with characters/factions/races, and pulled in a hierarchical manner for all actors... Going to be implementing something similar for locations, though it'll be a bit different in function.
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Aaaaand the System Nav stuff is finally ready to be committed/set down for a while. A bit of polish left for later, but it is functional, which is all I need for now. Moving on to music controls now, which pulls me back to Dev Tool land...
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Just a little clip of some cool sounds Ben is putting together here! I feel like we've kind of passed a critical threshold with the music recently. Some important pieces are coming together really well.
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I continue to be bummed I was out of town when you did a panel in Seattle. Love your style of humor. ^^
This one is absolutely gorgeous. I love the twisting lines.
Thank you! On one hand, I feel like I'm working too hard on this one piece, but on the other, I'm learning a lot that I think I will go back and add to other elements later.
Man, if you give me some chill drugs, I'll say whatever you like.
Check out this production video that Ben put together! This is a rare case where we're showcasing the full track beforehand. It's the theme music for the Zoccoli, the antelope inspired race in Transience. Enjoy!
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Good luck!
What’s insane is how many lawyers have been loudly disbarred for relying on AI research. It is very clearly a liability very specifically for that purpose.
And another preview of the Fretzers from Anne! I absolutely love how cute these little guys are!
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Menus menus menus... might not seem like much going on here, but slow refinement. Also, I have not worked on the System Nav menu literally at ALL. I need to get on that! Been holding off because I'm looking for a cool effect...
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Happy bday! The stuff you make always makes me smile! @tgweaver.bsky.social
