Hello! First up: sorry for my unplanned absence! After dodging it for two years I finally caught covid, along with the rest of my household. I ended up being primary care giver for a little while w...
2022-10-30 07:41:15 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 has made the move to being open source! If you're technically minded you can check out the public repo on gitgu...
2022-10-08 15:24:25 +0000 UTC View PostIn an example of perfect timing Gitgud - the site we have just started using to host the Lab Rats 2 repo - had a major (and as far as I can tell, unprecedented) outage. The cause seems to ...
2022-10-05 07:40:14 +0000 UTC View PostThere is no new version of LR2 this month, but there is a major development for you all to hear about: Lab Rats 2 is moving to an open sourced model! There are technical details at...
2022-10-01 10:52:09 +0000 UTC View PostHere it is, a demo of the work-in-progress Live2D rendering system! I want to stress that this is very much a tech demo, and not a new version of LR2 intended to be played for any signific...
2022-09-16 11:40:29 +0000 UTC View PostHey, I'm finally here to give you an update on what's been going on with LR2 and my work on it's Live2D update! This progress recap is a little later than I had been planning - about three weeks, a...
2022-09-14 13:22:59 +0000 UTC View PostIt's been a busy few days IRL days, which has unfortunately meant less coding time than I would have liked. I was still able to get some work done and smooth out more coding issues with the upcomin...
2022-08-02 10:49:45 +0000 UTC View PostJust a quick update for today as I continue to work on the new character display code for Lab Rats 2. With the move to Ren'py 8 (and with it Python 3) complete I've gotten back to refining the code...
2022-07-21 10:30:28 +0000 UTC View PostThe recent release of Ren'py 8 moved from Python 2.7 (which has been depreciated since 2020!) to Python 3. I decided it was a good idea to get this shift done sooner rather than later and have spen...
2022-07-17 08:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostFirst, an update on how the LR2 display work is going! After a few days of ironing out issues (and fixing bugs that were, on review, painfully obvious) I have the basic clothing and character displ...
2022-07-12 09:33:21 +0000 UTC View PostI'm back from my trip! I had hoped I would have had time to check in here, but I ended up being swamped with other things to do. There's nothing to really report (I haven't been working the last we...
2022-07-03 07:59:17 +0000 UTC View PostIt's time for another progress update! I finally have the full Live2D model for the stand_1 position with all* of the clothing items finished! Now I can start writing the final code for LR...
2022-06-19 10:38:18 +0000 UTC View PostAnother short update for today. Right now I'm at 103 of 121 clothing items for the "Stand_1" position added to the model. At current pace that's 2 more days of image setup, and then I can get stuck...
2022-06-06 11:03:36 +0000 UTC View PostHey everyone, I'm here to give you another progress update to keep you up to speed! This should be a short one, as all of my work has been on one task: Live2D model construction.
As of ...
2022-06-01 12:30:50 +0000 UTC View PostWork on v0.52 and the big shift over to a Live2D centered display system continues. I had hoped to have another demo to go along with this update, but progress had been slow and I figured a dev log...
2022-05-24 11:11:17 +0000 UTC View PostAbout a week ago I released a demo to patrons to show off some of the progress I had been making with my Live2D work. This is that demo, now being released to the public so that everyone who is eve...
2022-05-08 10:17:39 +0000 UTC View PostWork continues on the Live2D version of Lab Rats 2. A few days ago I released a second short tech demo...
2022-04-30 06:37:45 +0000 UTC View PostI've been hard at work figuring out the full pipeline to go from 3D renders -> Live2D -> Ren'py, and have another short demo to highlight some of the progress that has been made. Check it out...
2022-04-26 05:08:24 +0000 UTC View PostA few days ago I put out a quick-and-dirty demo of a new image/rendering system I want to move over to for Lab Rats 2. If you haven't seen it yet go 2022-04-09 17:23:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Lab Rats 2 v0.51.1 is Live! Get it Here!
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This isn't v0.51.1 (come back in a couple of days for that!), but it is a Ren'py file with some cool stuff to show off. This is a tiny tech demo to show off the key character display funct...
2022-04-06 22:12:25 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.51.0 is Live! Get it Here!
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Alright, let's try this again! There were a couple scattered references that were missed in the last wave of refactoring and apparently computers don't like that. v0.50.3 fixes the date cr...
2022-03-17 11:16:44 +0000 UTC View PostSorry for the longer-than-ideal wait for a bugfix on v0.50.2! I wanted to make sure I squashed all of the bugs that had been reported in addition to rolling in a large patron-provided patch. You sh...
2022-03-16 14:05:02 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.50.1 is live! Get it here!
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Lab Rats 2 v0.50.0 is Live! Get it here!
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There were a few bugs in v0.49.1 that have been fixed up. The download links have all been updated to the bugfixed version v0.49.2.
If you've already downloaded v0.49.1 and don't want to redo...
2022-02-09 11:14:03 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.49.1 is Out! Download it Now!
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I've fixed up most (hopefully?) of the major issues in v0.49.0. The download links have been updated ...
2022-02-03 13:30:26 +0000 UTC View PostLab Rats 2 v0.49.0 is Out! Download it Now!
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