Progress Report - August

Hey everyone, I hope you’re all having a good start to the month. Got quite a few things to go over with the new feature focus and also the scene poll for this month and then also some other cool things I’ve been working on.

Hole 3 Multiple Characters

So starting off with one of the more exciting features. Last month had a feature focus poll where the multiple characters in Hole 3 was added back as an option and it won by quite a lot, which was to be expected.

Anyway this is going to be the main thing that is being focused on for the mid month update. I don’t think it should take as long to add as it did for Hole 2 but then agin there will probably be some bugs that I didn’t think about so could take a bit longer. Im hoping though that I will also be able to focus on some other smaller feature stuff as well so there should be a decent amount of stuff for you all.

Anyway the way this feature is going to work is pretty much the same way as it did for Hole 2, although I think everything might fit into the scene a bit better as the individual character don’t take up much space.

I’m going to try and have it work the same way where there is a main menu kind of thing that lets you toggle stuff for all characters at the same time then there will also be an individual menu where you can select toggles for each character on their own. This work well for the Hole 2 so should be good here.

There scene also doesn’t have an screens to view the front of the character yet, I am working on these and they will be added soon, but I think this will be a better way of doing it as it will be less complex to get everything working together now and then in the future it will make it easier to add features like the screen one at a time. I have learnt this from the new c*mshot feature I just added XD if you saw the update post I added it to a new scene with a new system that doesn’t over complicate things and it made it a lot easier to add them and then in the future I can improve the system.

Let me know if there’s any ideas though you have for the multiple characters in Hole 3 that could make it work better. Maybe to do with the audio or something.

Scene Poll This Month - ReDo Or Generic

This month is going to be a scene poll which I hope you are all excited for. I have two options that I think could work well for the them.

ReDo Old Scenes

The first of these is going to be a redo of old scenes or scenes that could be better.

Here are some options of some.

Although if you have any others you think could be better let me know and I’ll try get a sketch ready.

In total for this one I think there will be 4 or 5 options which will be quite nice.

Generic Scenes

The next option for the theme is just a generic one. This would be some scenes that have done well from previous polls and also just some other ones I have that I think could work well.

I will probably include one of the ReDo ones just as an option for this one anyway to see how well it does.

Again with this one there will probably be 4 to 5 options which I think is a good amount for a scene poll.

Let me know if there are any scene positions you’d like to see next and I’ll see if I can get them drawn ready for this poll.

Scene Improvements

This is just a quick one but with the addition of the c*mbar actions into almost all the scenes it thought it would be a nice time to improve some stuff to do with that. The thing I really want to focus on is cr*ampies as they don’t look the best in a lot of the scenes so it would be nice to redraw them to work more like the newer scenes.

The next thing to do with them I would like to focus on is this fade out of the c*m when you toggle the clean option. At the moment I have only added this to one scene and well see how much people like it in the update but if you do I would like to add it to every scene.

I know its not the big of a thing but I think it will just make everything a bit smoother. 

With this I would also like to add the auto clean options to the c*mbar actions. This would mean when you animation restarts it would auto clean. There would probably be a small delay though before it does, I think that would work best.

Let me know what you think of focusing on this for improvement or of you would prefer me to focus on something else?

C*mshots - New System

This is something I have wanted to add more of for a while but the first way I added it, in the M*ssionary V2 and Rev C*wgirl (Back) scenes, didn’t work the best so I wanted to try and get the system updated before adding it too some more.

In the last update i did that, making it work a bit smoother without all the complex stuff and it makes it so much easier to add locations once the system is set up in that scene. I also thing it works better like this where you select a location, but not exact, and then the c*m will stay even when going back to the normal animation.

I have also updated the actual c*mshot animation which I hope looks a lot better than the ones i was doing before. Here are some examples of how I was drawing them before.

I would like to get the system added to these scenes however this won’t be how the c*m actually looks as I’ll draw it in the improved way.

Unless you like this way? When I asked everyone which way they look most almost everyone said the new way but let me know what you think.

I don’t think I’ll have time to add these next update but would like to get some more done for the update after and maybe get it added back as a feature to focus on in the polls if that’s something you’d like to see.

Getting Characters In Scenes They’re Not In

A lot of people have been asking for characters who aren’t in older scenes to be added and for that to be a main focus. I would be interested to see what everyone thinks about this and if I should spend a decent amount of time for either the next update or probably more likely the one after going through all old scenes and making sure every character has been added. I don’t think there are too many that haven’t been added. I know Lola, Loona etc need to be added to a few but I think the rest of the characters should be in most of the scenes.

Let me know if there are any though that still need to be added to scenes but if not I think the main focus will be on getting Lola, Loona etc added to some more scenes.

That being said there are a few older scenes that are going to get redone soon anyway so I don’t think its worth adding them to them but I would be happy to add them to the newer scenes like the Against Wall Outside, Close Up H*ndjob etc but let me know what you think and I could spend a bit of time focusing on this.

Audio Updates

Last months feature focus poll had the Hole 3 multiple character option which I did kind of know was going to win. Although it was very good to see the audio option do so well. Seeing as it did I thought it might be nice to focus a bit on it as well. I won’t be able to add loads of new audio to the characters but I think what people would most like to see is have the spoken words and normal audio be their own option, but let me know if its not that. Either next update or the update after, depending how complex it gets, I will be adding the spoken words option as a toggle. This will only work for characters that have that audio already which is mainly the newer ones but when this does eventually win a feature focus poll I can get that audio type added to all the other characters.

Scene Transitions

I think every update I have something more to show you with the scene transitions which is quite good we are just waiting for them to win a feature focus poll again. I will try get them added to next months as this months I want to give some of the other options a chance.

Anyway I have some more sketch stuff for you some of these you will have already seen in the last WIP and then there is also some new stuff for you. The one I got done this times the on side sketch animation which is now ready

The plan is to have a decent amount of these done for when it does win the feature focus poll then I will be able to do another poll to see which of these you would like to get done first which will have a lot of options for you to choose from.

Character Head Designs

The last couple of updates I haven’t had as much time to focus on the character head designs as there was lots of other things people wanted to see first. For this month I would like to try and get atlas one done per update which I think is a good amount and does give me some extra time to focus on some other stuff still.

The two that I would like to do are for Shego and Yorha 2B although there is a Dva variation I think a lot of people would like so I could get that done first instead.

Let me know though but either way all these character designs I have shown you will be getting done at some point :)

What Else Needs Improving Or What Features Need More Added To?

This is the final thing I wanted to talk about an its not really anything new but more just a question about what thing you think could be improved upon and what should be worked on. I do hear a lot of suggestions from people but its quite hard to figure out which of these most people would like to see so if you do have a suggestion please leave a comment and if you see a comment for something you would like to see improved or worked on then please like it and hopefully this will give me a better idea of what the majority of you want to see :)

Anyway that’s everything, I hope you’re all excited for what’s coming next and let me know if you have any questions Thank You :D