Devblog + minigame (Patreon)

Hi!

First if you like to have a short visit from a kitty download this minigame here:

The title is: "VisitFromKitty"

And it is just a little minigame that i extracted out of the framework showcase.

https://ibb.co/p3g0fXy 

Or watch as video here:

https://vimeo.com/687560314/711227db33 

Download in Attachements!

The video does not have audio for some reason i need to redo it, the game has audio effects!

GDrive:  ~1.5gb

Download 

Alternative Download 

AlternativeMega.nz Download 

Controls are pretty simple:

Press "W" to play a advance animation,

Press "W" Two times fast, you get another animation.

Hold Left or Right Mouse button to control the animation

Press "S" To go back

"Tab" changes camera (First Person is recommended)

Just experiment and search for new animations :3 

Now that your download is running, let get to the devblog!

As you may have read before, my graphics card just died... again.... but don't you worry i still got warranty on it and will have it back in one to two weeks,

until then i have my old and trusty 460gtx, and altough i can't even start my own games on it, i still can get work done because with some config changes the engine runs even on old drivers :3

so everything will go on as normal and i will continue working!

https://ibb.co/68Lxfqz 

Now to the video you see above:

i changed the way characters (npc's and you) behave to your inputs,

it was always annoying that the feet would slide over the ground when you rotate... i was thinking long about this, and found a very fast and easy to implement solution for this.

It's pretty easy, i just take the current velocity and calculate a direction from the place of the Pelvis, this direction i put into a transform bone node to split the way the lower and upper body behave.

You can see in the video above, Left is the new with reduced sliding, and right is the old way.

In the video itself you can see the Male version of the Bluefoxes,

https://ibb.co/yFsvfZ0 

There are four different skins for the Male Fox, i plan on implementing a simple color wheel, so you can choose you own favorite color :3

I also decided to split the species males and females into different skeletons, they are having their own animations for walking and so on anyway so its actually easier to split them into two skeletons and animation sets, this way it is easier to syncronize them.

Many other things have happened,

i continued working on the never ending Frost part of the framework showcase, and i am thinking about spliting those three parts into their own minigames so i could actually release the Toon part with mirage and the Harem part with you and kitties at you home much faster.

The thing is i always go back and change things i don't like...

For example the Throneroom of PricessArialla, or the room of mistress frost, i have a idea in my head for frost, and i need to make it right!

What do you think about the idea of spliting the Framework showcase?

I will now continue doing animations, actually 3ds max is running as shitty with a 460gtx as with a rtx 3060ti... lol

really hope i get my graphics card replaced sooner than later, only thing annoying is my desktop resolution that is smaller than my native one but other than that its not that bed ^_^

Will be back soon!

♥u

Your Furrier,

ps:

I made a few wip screenshots of pricess Arialla 

Chillin on her own TailThrone :3

https://ibb.co/LxLry5h 

I also experimented with a few shader and frame buffer tricks to get some more detailed fur lighting working:

https://ibb.co/VwMXXZS