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Hello. The banner poll has been concluded, and we finally have a successor to the old page banner! It's been more than 2 years since the old one was made and it's time to say goodbye.
Now, about today's poll. It's quite technical, so strap in:
If you were using the option of not having glasses in the latest release, you might've noticed that sometimes during dialogue or whatever, an image of Serena with glasses would appear for a split second, and then glasses would appear afterwards.
That happens because the image sets in Succulence are chopped into pieces to save space, and the "default" image for each set has Serena with glasses. And because of the specifics of image loading in the new engine, images that appear for the first time have some kind of "blink" that follows them(you might've noticed that too).
I'm currently working on trying to get rid of the issue of removing the "blink", but since I've tried a few things already and they didn't work, a backup plan is needed. The blink itself is not that annoying, but the glasses thing is the most noticable aspect of it, so it has to be removed in one way or another.
Right now there are 2 ways to do this:
Option A
Create separate image sets for Serena without glasses for each dialogue, event or scene.
This will effectively double the size of the game, which isn't a problem now, but the more content will be added in the future, the more it will become a nuisance. So choose this option if you don't mind the game having ~2GB size down the road(a reasonable guess since the original Succulence had a size of more than 1GB when it was done).
Option B
Cut off the top part of Serena's head in each scene, dialogue, etc. And add the top of her head with glasses or no glasses as a separate image each time. This is good for the game size, but the issue here is, should an image bug happen - it's going to look horrifying.
So what do you think?
If by any chance I'll find a good solution to the "blink", then both of these options will be unnecessary, but for now it will be an insurance for the next release.
Tomorrow I'll dedicate to reworking the top of the page sincei it's become quite cluttered, and I'll see you on Friday.
Cheers!