August 6th Weekly Update
Added 2017-08-05 19:35:22 +0000 UTCThis week I had planned to do some animations, but I got sidetracked with some more environmental stuff.
First, I wanted a kinda entry way into the forest, so I made a few trees to kinda act as a door way. I'm not very experienced with making trees, and they have their own challenges. These turned out okay, but I will likely tweak them in the future!
I also worked on a pond/lagoon area, as I want there to be a way for Meridiana to clean herself up. This led down a rabbit hole of water effects.
It was bothering me not having effects for moving it water, so I've put together a system for ripples on the surface.
The blueprint detects any character, and as long as that character is moving, will make a ripple particle at their position on the water surface every so often. (Currently about 3 ripples per second seems to look fine). I even have it set so that when the character stops moving, it waits a second or so before stopping the ripples.
It doesn't look perfect, there are some problems with refraction depending on the angle you view it, but it looks pretty passible.
I also added some fake caustics to the bottom of the pond(Which probably should be turned off at night), and some mist for the waterfall(Which is probably a bit too strong right now)
I even went in and added an underwater postprocess effect.
So suffice to say I think I've got water stuff mostly covered at this point, and NOW maybe I can get back to doing some animations!
As always I'd love to hear any comments or questions!
Thank you for your support!
Comments
Latest build is here: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-build-12319877">https://www.patreon.com/posts/new-build-12319877</a>
Mithos56
2017-08-08 19:51:52 +0000 UTCooops, i dont really dont know.... how can i download the update..... sry...
Ismael
2017-08-08 05:30:20 +0000 UTCThe game is becoming more and more beautiful now! Good Job!
2017-08-07 18:52:18 +0000 UTCThis is just getting me more and more excited for this. Each update I get more surprised by how brilliant it is! Keep up the great work!
Rizo
2017-08-06 12:12:00 +0000 UTCNicely done! Since you worked so hard adding water in the enviroment will you consider adding swimming animation for Meridiana? (somewhere in towards the end stages of the game development...)
J_M
2017-08-05 23:41:43 +0000 UTCHi, Today i found out about your Patreon Project and played the demo. I really liked it and pledged to support you and also played the newest build now and found some things that i think could be better (my opinion). First the lighting, it was really bright when not when looking up cause light came from everywhere except the ground and in shadowy areas it was really hard to see for me - both enemies and animations. Next is about combat and charming, in the old version charming was like really hard as you couldnt if the enemy spotted you but in this version it was like a bit too easy and you did not need to fight anything. I think charm should be available against targets that did not spot you and targets who spotted you but are low life or under cc to not make it too easy and not too hard. On the same note if an enemy managed to assault me i was like dead even with 200 magic because most attacks seem to stagger and the attack speed of the creature makes it impossible to escape often which is quite annoying. It is also accompanied by a quite long not shortenable death screen which resets your options ._. . And one thing i personally would like to see is 1 more part of every animation - the after sex part when meridiana lies on the ground. Currently the animations have 4 parts with the last being the creature cumming, Meridiana lying on the ground and her standing up. I think that last part is too fast and i would like to see her lying on the ground after the sex as a part which needs to be clicked away by the player. But overall the test build looks nice and i look forward to it with the new environmental stuff which looks really great and some actual gameplay and goals for the player to achieve. :)
2017-08-05 20:45:42 +0000 UTCthat lake is beautiful... any marimaid?
Kamos
2017-08-05 20:43:57 +0000 UTCLooks pretty. Striking.
ogre five
2017-08-05 20:33:53 +0000 UTC
