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Honestly, out of all the weekly updates, I can definitely see this being problematic. Working with SVG has its own set of pains (as well as advantages) and alignment issues plus making it work properly with the Sugarcube/Twine engine sounds like even more problems, so I can see it taking as much (at least when you consider he's never done it before)
 
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Pede rasta 1

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Dev report on Patreon:



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Hey guys! Since the last report we were mainly working through some technical issues related to hair layers.
Currently the hair assets are all individually coloured in Illustrator, then uploaded as separate images. But the new hairs are more complex and numerous, so we're planning to use an SVG layer instead to handle the colour; the idea is that we can change the colour dynamically using code instead of manually recolouring and uploading everything.
We've been tackling some technical challenges over the past few days. Firstly, the game code wasn't set up to handle SVG assets, so this needed to be fixed! Then we hit some problems where the colour layer wasn't aligning properly with the underlying shape/detail layer, despite being exactly the same dimensions.
Anyway, we solved this problem today (it was to do with the export settings in Illustrator) and now the new SVG assets are working fine in the game engine and lining up seamlessly. Our illustrator lovely Victoria is experimenting with attractive colours.
Sorry for a slightly dull report – this kind of work is tedious but necessary in order to improve certain systems (like character hair).
While I was working on this I had some really great feedback from testers, which will improve the youth lifepath section and make it flow better. I'm gonna pivot back to that next and incorporate the improvements. Have a great what's-left-of-Monday guys! ❤‍
Of course it all makes sense now!! The hair is very abundant and complex, and it will also have a main role in the story because who wants to see or read about sex with a woman with messy hair and the wrong color and also in the wrong amount, it is totally a passion killer!!!
This guy is incredible, I only come to this forum to put my sarcasm to work and laugh like crazy
 

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Of course it all makes sense now!! The hair is very abundant and complex, and it will also have a main role in the story because who wants to see or read about sex with a woman with messy hair and the wrong color and also in the wrong amount, it is totally a passion killer!!!
This guy is incredible, I only come to this forum to put my sarcasm to work and laugh like crazy
Begone, ye who doth doubt the infallible Crush! His Patreonage groweth, his reasons abound.

Your simple minds cannot comprehend the magnitude of difficulty required to code, strand by strand, the entire lifepath from baby to adulthood because hairy kids and teens are hot™ to some people? But I digress, for as long as it is ordained by his Greta™-ness, it shall be done.

When doth asketh? Soon™ and you shalt offer up your thanks and praise because all are unworthy. Unless he cast the release to dreaded "Not hot enough" hell, from whence shall arise a new HOLY SCRIPTURE (aka new plan), which will most assuredly taketh thou to the holy land of "Hot".

Instead of constantly profaning his name, you should instead offer up this prayer:
"Our developer, who art in dev hell, hallowed be thy nick.
Taketh this day your daily bread, and give us your plans,
May they never come to fruition.
Lead us to the devout, in order that they might feed us.
For thine is the milker, the coder, and occasional storyteller."
 

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Begone, ye who doth doubt the infallible Crush! His Patreonage groweth, his reasons abound.

Your simple minds cannot comprehend the magnitude of difficulty required to code, strand by strand, the entire lifepath from baby to adulthood because hairy kids and teens are hot™ to some people? But I digress, for as long as it is ordained by his Greta™-ness, it shall be done.

When doth asketh? Soon™ and you shalt offer up your thanks and praise because all are unworthy. Unless he cast the release to dreaded "Not hot enough" hell, from whence shall arise a new HOLY SCRIPTURE (aka new plan), which will most assuredly taketh thou to the holy land of "Hot".

Instead of constantly profaning his name, you should instead offer up this prayer:
"Our developer, who art in dev hell, hallowed be thy nick.
Taketh this day your daily bread, and give us your plans,
May they never come to fruition.
Lead us to the devout, in order that they might feed us.
For thine is the milker, the coder, and occasional storyteller."
the fuck did i just read
 

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the fuck did i just read
Its called either poetry on a porn gaming forum or you just read a person literally losing their mind because their favorite porn game isnt getting updated fast enough, or both or neither... now that I read what I just wrote man whas this a waste of time! (just like this game)
 

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Dude, have mercy. More finesse, please. It's a tough enough world as it is, and I have to read walls of text like yours. That burn out the rest of our brains. That's not why we're here, is it? Thanks for understanding, I wish you all the best. Be merciful to us, unworthy scolders of your Great Idol. Please forgive us all.
 
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Dynamic hair colors working in engine
Hey guys! Our illustrator lovely Victoria is taking a well-deserved break for a couple of days. But she did a lot of work on hair colors before she left! Here's an example of some of the colors the new system can dynamically generate:

(I know this looks simple, but it actually involved a ton of experimentation with the way the layers interact. Queen V worked her ass off on this. ❤ )
With the art assets working in Illustrator, the next step was to make them work in Female Agent. You can play around with the proof of concept here:


I also did some editing of the early Lifepath, based on tester feedback (which will be going back out to testers shortly).

I feel like I'm in the middle of about twenty different writing, coding and graphics tasks, but I wanted to surface quickly and give you a sitrep. Okay, that's it, back to work! ❤‍
 
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