Devlog 16 - 0.3.0.8 - Chapter 03 Pass 00

New build is available! New chapter is available!

This is the 1st pass of the 4rd chapter (#03). It’s quite stub.

Sprint log:

Explanation and demo

—— Game

This was a challenging sprint for external reasons. So i got less than the previous sprint. Also most of the work was in improving, refactoring, cleaning, and some for the next chapter. So this chap is a bit more bare-bones than i’d have liked. But in truth i always like more.

General

• New:
• • Save game is working! (This was a lot of work.) (Please note each release will probably break previous savegames)
• • A lot of preemptive work for next chapter. Not visible yet, sorry.
• • Added custom StoryManager.
• Settings:
• • Basic key remapping. (Note this sucks atm so use carefully).
• Optimization:
• • Re exported some optimized assets.
• • Attempt at disabling WPO on meshes.
• • Optimized data layers for objects “Outside” and Chap 01.
• A ton of minor bugfixes, cleanups, and reorganization. Including plugins.
• Added helper to set up character poses.

Art

• New: Piano, plants x2, books, shelves, trashcan, small table.
• New: a lot of art for the next chapter (not visible yet).
• Improves to light.

Chapter 3

• New: The whole chapter. New puzzle.
• パラメーター adjustments.

Chapter 0, 1, and 2

• Some tweaks on dialogs, puzzles, items, story flow.

—–– Subsystems and plugins

Flashbacks

• Improvements:
• • Fixed SetMax and SetMin default duration.

Dialogs

Story

• Optimization:
• • Disable steps’ cameras while not active.
• New:
• • flag to automatically modify the flashback progressively during dialog sequences.
• • Delegate for DataLayer changed.
• Improvements:
• • Fading and step switching cycle. Cover blind for level switching (and others).
• • Changing steps, fading, and input enable/disable.
• • Data layer loading is not recursive now.

Inventory / Flags

• Improved “Clear” function to Inventory and Flags.
• Improved flags SetAll delegates.

Interactions

• Improved delegate handling.
• Improved rewarding, fade, and delegate cycle.
• Added “IsReversed”. Default one depends on the StateNum.
• Added “IsOneShot”. Adjusted “DisableWhileAnim”
• Improved SetMobility, Locked.
• Puzzle
• • Added ResetOnFail, OnReset, ResetTimer, and other reset utils.
• • Moved a bunch of code to the plugin.
• • Improvements. SetEnabled, DoneActor.

Sound

Utils

• Added BP async callbacks.
• Added IsEditor, IsDebug, CameraFade.
• Improvements and fixes to GroupBox.

Significance