Progress Post
6/13/2024
*Added a texture filtering option to posters and custom materials.
- This will be on by defult.
- Works with images/gifs/videos.
*Added the ability to play multiple videos at the same time
- removed the click/stop sounds. since posters will be used for game scenery.
- The video player bar will now show info about whatever poster you’re looking at.
- video player GUI: added video title, and two timestamps at the bottom. one in normal 00:00:00 time, and the other in seconds. (useful for “OnVideoReachTime(second)” event)
- the resume/pause button should work more consistently now.
- Added events: PlayPosterVideo, PlayPosterVideo_EnableControls.
- When in edit mode, the player will always be able to seek through videos.
*Added dialogue preview button.
Misc
- Added ability to switch positioning modes when holding an object. by pressing shift. (Rotation/Offset)
- When the player is in fly mode, and they restart the level. OnLevelStart events wont trigger until they come out of fly mode.
- I made it this way instead of pausing the entire level because i often found myself debugging events while in fly mode. (plus i dont want to add another shortcut the player has to remember)
- Changed the event log screen.
- Instead of showing stuff on console whenever something is changed… the game will now log ALL events. to make it easier to debug stuff.
- changed the coloring to make it more green/console themed
- Selection tool
- Made it so that when you duplicate a group of objects with events… events get created to match the group relationship.
[rotate/offset modes] [Duplicated event groups]
*What to work on next
- The game still needs lots of “quality of life” things worked on.
- Resource Meter & Entity limiter
- A very long bug/polish list
- After those things are done a beta version might be tried out before the campaign is finished
* A Rival appears
- Almost finished with the character design for the second character.
- At the moment im currently worried about the overall shape design, might change a bit here and there.
*Thoughts about the game’s future art style
- While working on the tween animation for “penn-1” (before the game was even on Next Fest), I found cutting up pieces, then stitching them together to create puppet animation to be very tiresome and limiting in terms of animation.
- There is a high probability the game’s campaign will use a more messy handdrawn art-style rather than the “tweened” and clean art-style currently in the early access version. This means “penn-1”’s design might change a little bit too.