Meguido's Report #7 (Patreon)

Hello everyone!

It's been a long time since my last report (I think I should copy and save this exact part because I always start with the same... lol). Anyways here I am again with some bits of new info on Bioasshard.

This has to be a surprise but Versus X spoilered it on his last post, so you already expected a new report xD.

Stuff I've been working on since the last report, apart from rl shit:

- Jill v1.5 is completely added with her animations and such. Moving hair, boobs. You know, cool stuff :P

- Had to redo an important part of the zombie AI, because it was causing some unexpected troubles and I couldn't find the cause, so I decided to start it from scratch. Now he's not that smart anymore, but hey, he's a zombie after all xD.

- Jill already receives hits and die with her corresponding animations. Different animations depending on the direction from where the zombie attacked her.

- Finished with some animations that had me scared: Moving on ladders, opening doors, jumping over obstacles. Here's a shot; a proof of concept, that's why she's naked (and censored xD). Still have to fix some joints (like the hands).

- Also had to redo the camera system. Previously when the character came close to an obstacle to avoid collisions, the camera would get closer and closer to the point of getting inside of the character model's hip/pelvis. But now it will get closer to the shoulder and as far as I tested there wasn't any clipping at all. Also added some animations to the camera when getting hit and adjusted the position and fov when aiming.

- I'm also working right now on the sex attack animations. It's going well but it's really hard because I can't work while using blendshapes. As soon as I apply a blendshape the whole mesh get back to T-Pose. To fix this I should go over every blendshape and paint bs weights over it to only affect the specific part of where the blendshape is affecting (the mouth for example). I hope it won't take me too much to get them done.

So that's basically it. It should be much more but there are some facts that made me annoyingly slower:

- Had to remake the whole control system when added Jill v1.5 to an state-based system. I found this to be simpler and efficent but still took much time to port and fix everything.

- I'm not an animator nor a modeller, so everytime I have to make something related to that my work speed reduces in a 90%... :(

- And the last and most annoying thing; I think this pc is going to die soon, or specifically its HDD. It's acting really weird all of a sudden in the lattest 2/3 weeks. So fucking slow; the browser is almost unusable (you can't even imagine how much I'm suffering to writte this post :O). The project in unreal goes at a dead framerate of 15/20 -.- with just the character and a zombie...

I found that with any apparent reason the HDD is always working at 100% whenever I look at the task manager and stays at that rate forever. I'm guessing this is what's making it sooo slow.

I couldn't find any fix to it apart from buying a new one. But this is a hell of a fix. I should be spending so much time reinstalling everything: from windows to unreal engine, along with any and all drivers, softwares of all kinds... everything to get up and running again... a FUCKING boring shit.

So I think I'll backup everything and will keep working on Bioasshard as long as the HDD lets me before having to take the route of the "fix" (new hard drive).

So this is all for now. Should I say that "hopefully it won't take this much for the next report" thing? Hmmm, dunno... xD

Ps. I just read this in a forum and I couldn't stop laughing at the hypocrisy:

"It's like going to a grocery store and trying to get some bananas from a free bananas stand and every other banana you pick up says "WHOOPS THIS BANANA ISN'T ACTUALLY FREE, YOU HAVE TO PAY 3$ A MONTH FOR IT". Don't tell me you wouldn't go to another place to buy bananas, lol."

Should I explain? Well going to a store to get a free product? but because you keep finding that there's no such a thing as a free product you think you have to go to another store to "buy" the product... ? What the ···?

Meh... If you didn't get the metaphor I'll say it a bit more clear:

"I go to X forum to get some pirate games but then I find there are many of them "forcing" me to support them on patreon to get it. So I decide to got to another forums to download my pirate games" (and that last part got called "buy") LMAO. Can't help it.

See ya everyone!