we solved everything from yesterday, including a new comfy method for animations during generic conversations that’s still just half way done but hey, at least it’s not fucking up the game massively to the point we have to revert back several commits anymore.

Because of said revert we had to do a bunch of things again, but i was able to do all of it pretty quickly and looking better than before the disaster. connected a bunch of cutscenes together and i can continue doing more tomorrow. Next we gotta fix a bunch of things for the battles (found a bug where players can’t move after they win if a cutscene played in the middle of an attack, among some other small details), and integrate the altered states huds, their particle effects and fix all all issues with weapon equipment and customization.

the lesson here is to never crunch. guys, if you are struggling to fix something and you won’t let go until you find out, you’re doing it wrong. I fixed half the issues this morning after a good night of sleep, same with new programmer. a fresh brain is a better investment of time vs the time you lose for doing bad code while tired and then fix later.

good stuff, bad stuff. ON THE GOOD STUFF i made a bunch of story cutscenes, and tomorrow i’ll make more. very productive day in this regard, and as i get more acustomed to the sequencing tools the faster the turnover.

On the BAD STUFF, battles broke again. we found the cause before i sat down to write this, but there are some issues with weapon equipment. stuff keeps breaking for absolutely no reasons and we really need to do some clean up to see what’s going on. Kind of unacceptable really.

Hopefully it all gets solved tomorrow.

lots of work done, mostly on the cutscene and prop-making fronts. Today is a special day because it marks the first time I made a cutscene for an actual story sequence and not a test or anything, so I guess you could say the shooting on set has just begun.

So yeah, mostly cutscene stuff, adjusted some pending puzzle sequences with new assets, built the other side of the second section (pretty fast since i only need it to look good from one angle), playtested newprogrammer’s changes to the skill customization screen, and last but not least i did an early set up in fmod for the footsteps corresponding to different materials, we’ll integrate those once we finish more urgent matters.

tomorrow i’ll probably do more sprites for project X and work on more cutscene stuff since there’s quite a bit of planning i need to do before i work on preliminary animations (preliminary because i make the basic motions to then commission polished ones from freelancers, depending on the case)

Great start of the week, just hope my health is up to speed in the coming days.

damn almost forget to do my daily log.

big day today as we did a bunch of bullshit, namely fix stuff regarding skills, juiced up the grenade launcher, did new assets, particle effects, props, animations, adjusted some concept art so i can send it over to the 3d team. doesn’t seem like much when i’m writing it all in a single paragraph but it was probably one of t he busiest days i’ve had in a while, there’s just so much to do and we are pretty much going at high speeds right now.

kinda scary that things are going this fast but it’s also very exciting.

finished camera set up for most rooms along with the waypoints, arranged some props, made new rooms, and a metric ton of new icons for skills, accesories, items, keys, buffs, debuffs, as well as particle effects for the latter, and some other vfx for special bullets and impacts. I think tomorrow we will integrate the ui elements i did the other day, like the PSY bar and the altered states icons/counters, along with polishing the new accesories for the rifle – we made a grenade launcher for it in order to refactor and plan out future enhancements and make it all comfy.

tomorrow i’ll go back to drawing and touch up some of the concepts merenge made, along with finishing extra details for one of the characters and then send them for modeling. I also need to tweak a new animation for the grenade launcher.

Only two more set pieces + the boss fight and this level would be content complete.

now to shower, get nice food and play yakuza!

did a bunch of UI work for altered states, new icons for skills and actions, plus the long delayed character design on one of the remaining bosses (this took me most of the day). I’m not quite done yet but we are pretty happy with the results so far.

newprogrammer has been doing a deep refactoring of the skill system so we can add more later without much work. It’s one of the earliest things we ever did so naturally a bunch of code was unnecessary.

in other news i bought yakuza like a dragon so i’m sorry if this update is hastily written cause i wanna go back to it before i sleep.

lots of progress doing the usual tweaks and adjustments to the level so the doors and cameras work as intended. I mention this a lot, so it’s worth noting that this takes me a fair amount of time because the camera angles change depending of the room, so whenever i have to set up doors i also have to make sure they are triggering cameras and working properly.

also finished the room for the final boss fight of this chapter and it’s looking really cool. newprogrammer is implementing new skills for the player so we can make sure it’s comfy to add more later.

after all tweaks and stuff are done, we’d be two more setpieces away from finishing this one without counting a more through polishing of every aspect.

tomorrow i need to stop delaying the character design for a couple bosses. i already got some good ideas so that’s half the battle, now to actually draw.

i also need to draw more icons for the actions.