February Report! (Patreon)

Okay, so February has been all about the character editor. The visual side of building a character is nearly complete, and I've been chugging through a bunch of test characters just to put the editor through its paces. The next month or so will be focused on tying up loose ends with the editor, then experimenting with IK, which is the physics-based animation system I'll be using to pin characters into bondage poses, as well as position the player character's hands, dick, etc. in world space as you use toys/tools/gadgets.

In the full game, there will be a "quick start" menu where you'll select your species and some basic info about your character, then it will automatically create a starting character that you'll be able to tweak. Right now, that page doesn't exist, so you'll need to build your character from the ground up, which can be a little tedious. To help people play around, I'll be including save files with a bunch of pre-made characters that you can tinker with.

The editor also already has a little bit of limited mod support. You can import custom textures and custom hairstyles. I'll try to get some rough tutorials posted explaining how to do both before the package goes out.

Here's what you'll find in this month's package:

R2CK 0.0.3:

- You can now select hairstyles from the embellishments menu.

- You can now filter/search in the texture pattern selection menu.

- A whole bunch of new textures have been added.

- You can now choose from a variety of character head bases, including: bird, bovine, canine, cervine, equine, feline, lizard, mustelid, and rodent.

- Each head now has a handful of morph sliders you can tweak.

- Added some basic ear physics.

- Added a bunch of new character textures.

- Improved UI behavior at lower resolutions.

- Lower leg muscles now morph with body mass.

- You can now give your character wings - feathery or leathery. They have some basic animations and physics applied, but they are NOT finished. They will be restrained in most bondage setups, or completely hidden via pocket-dimension portal devices.

- Tweaked the game's rendering style a bit. New materials, better SSAO, better lighting.

- You can now customize your character's hands and feet.

- You now have free control over the camera while customizing your character.

- You can now customize your tail's appearance and behavior.

- You can now decorate your character with embellishments like antlers and tufts of fur. These embellishments will automatically blend in with your character's texture, or you can give them custom colors/gradients.

- Plantigrade animation support.

- Fixed some bugs related to the walking animation when entering character customization mode.

- Fixed camera clipping.

- While customizing your character, you can now snap to the center axis of a grid by holding CONTROL.

- When a localization phrase is missing, it will now show the English phrase, along with a warning that the phrase is missing, which you can click to view the localization document (and help fix it, maybe?

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- Fixed up some font issues with Korean and Japanese localization support.

- Fixed a bug that would cause the game to lock up on the loading screen if you entered the game too quickly the first time you played each day. (Because the cache clears at midnight, and it didn't prevent you from accessing cached content even if it hadn't been loaded yet.)

- Added localization support for Slovenian and piratespeak.

BEDPLAY 1.0.1:

- A rough, slow, buggy Android build!

- The custom character template files for Bedplay, allowing you to make your own male and herm characters. (Female files are included, but not completely cleaned up.)

RACK 1.1.0:

- The latest mobile build for Android

- RackOPEN source code, so you can make your own modifications/additions to the game

MIDNIGHT FIREWORKS 1.4.1:

- A rough, slow, buggy Android build!

- Source code, so you can make your own modifications/additions to the game

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If you haven't already seen it, there's a preview video showing off the character editor and some of the demo characters I've made over on FA:

http://www.furaffinity.net/view/19214078/

(It contains adult content, so you'll need to have an account with the filter disabled in order to view it!)