Beginning Cooking Part 1 (Patreon)

Finally I get to start on the meaty part of v0.7, cooking. There's plenty in need to be done so let's get started.

First, some other improvements. Trees have been improved. For a long time I thought the trees I made were super ugly. The leaf texture was horrible and the distribution of geometry to look "puffy" was bad. Here's what they looked like:

The new model version now uses less polygons, looks puffier, and sways in the wind:

I also added random tinting so it isn't a single color, it fades between red and brownish based on position. It gives it nice variety.

Also I added fake translucency so it looks like sunlight pokes through it:

The house exterior was given better looking wall textures as well:

And now for cooking. The first recipe in this game will be baking different flavor filling pastries. The player will have to bake it from absolute scratch and thus will need to gather ingredients from the environment.

The first ingredient mechanic I worked on is flour. Flour is made by grinding raw wheat kernels with the mortar and pestle. You can find wild wheat out and about in the environment and can place is in the mortar by touching it with it:

You can then grind it with the pestle by holding onto both mortar and pestle and then using the action button:

An interesting new mechanic is spilling over. Since you filled the mortar with a floury grainy substance, you can now accidentally spill over and lose what you made so far. This is to ensure that the player in VR will treat the contents in a realistic way:

Presently I've only finished the keyboard controls version of the mortar and pestle but you will need to twist your hand in vr to simulate the grinding.

As for the loli, my plan is to first finish the baking mechanics for the player and then figure out which aspects of cooking would best fit the loli to help you out with. This along with more stuff will be part of Beta v0.7d coming next Thursday.

Also I am in the process of opening a subscribestar. Patreon has had some questionable actions and I want to start supporting better alternatives. Don't worry though, everything will remain the same and both sites will share the exact same content with the same tiers and beta releases.

Baking dev has arrived. Stay tuned.