Poll results (Patreon)

Hi guys!

The poll results are in! 

So for  this month, I'll add more outfits and hair, the new free mode and expand the daily life animations.

Regarding new hair and outfits, I'm also currently working on updating the hair shader once more since last update was still quite clunky but pushed me in the right direction. This new version should not only improve hair visual with semi transparency, proper textures and shininess but should also reduce memory consumption since I'll have packed textures together possibly reducing the amount of textures needed by 3 or 4. I might implement a similar optimization for outfits, buildings and locations textures to reduce memory consumption even more if the results with hair are good enough.

Free mode will add the ability to select any city map (Currently only one though...) and fill the city with your own characters, select their relationship with each other, their jobs and so on... Once you've filled whatever you felt like, you'll have the ability to fill the rest of the city with randomized genericcharacters like scenarios do. Since there will be no main objective in free mode, I will also add some generic random goals like getting friendly with some specific NPCs, reach a certain job promotion and so on. By the way, the current objectives for the Newbit scenario are temporary and will be updated once I work more on the scenario.

For daily life animations, the idea will be to add more animations as you can expect but also to add a system of relationship dependent positioning and animations where NPCs will spawn in logical groups. Like in classrooms, friends would sit next to each others and rivals might have specific animations taunting each other. At least that's the final goal and will take several steps to complete but I'll try to make a basic version of it first.

And I might push it further with Global Illumination since it would tremendously improve the game visual and I think I'm close to getting the hang of it. We'll see.

That's about it! Thanks to the 15 patrons for taking the time to vote ;)