Devlog 17 - 0.4.0.8 - Chapter 04 Pass 00

New build is available! New chapter is available!

This is the 1st pass of the 5th chapter (#04). It’s quite stub.

Sprint log:

Explanation and demo

—— Game

This was a very challenging sprint for external and internal reasons. Since this is the “last” chapter of the story, i decided to do many things differently. That includes changing the scheduling method. So it took way more than usual, but i think it was worth it. So everything is quite barebones and possibly confusing. Enjoy!

Important note: The button for erasing a save slot does not ask for confirmation! (That’s on TO-DO)

Important note: Compared to version 0.4.0.4, version 0.4.0.8 has less testing and a couple considerable changes, so it’s deemed more likely to have issues. Yet 0.4.0.8 fixes a couple really important features, and adds some interesting features. So i highly recommend trying 0.4.0.8. But if you were to have issues with that, please try 0.4.0.4.

General

• New:
• • Data layer for outside houses is now more granular.
• • Added lights and puzzles to the outro.
• • • Saved flags to the save.
• Implemented light flicker based on sound. And a somewhat elaborated sound system.
• Settings:
• • Improved remapping options.
• • New: Implemented movement and look sensitivity!
• • New: Beta: Implemented different audio submixes (channels), with different volumes and attenuations.
• • • This was plenty of work and is still a new feature. Issues might arise.
• • • Reworked the attenuations, classes, levels.
• Tweaks:
• • Interact drag.
• • Sound attenuation.
• • Improved logging. (It’s log log log log, It’s better than bad, it’s good!)
• • Improved movement input.
• • (Created and) Fixed some packaging issues.
• • Improved characters pose utilities, and base classes.
• • Added end of game count for dialogs shown.
• Fixes:
• • datalayers, hitboxes, sounds, materials, plants, tv interact, cabinet, texts, chapter titles, map dependencies.
• • A bunch of issues related to load a chapter directly from save.
• パラメーター adjustments.

Art

• New: Pots, stove, boxes, fridge, egg, pencil, particles, plates, sponge, sink.
• Optimized a couple of assets.
• Fixed some missing shadows.
• Redone char18.

Chapter 4

• New: New chapter!
• • New room, new flow.
• • New music with new mixing system.

Chapter 0, 1, 2, and 3

• Some tweaks on dialogs, items, story flow.
• • Improved some dialogs, books.

—–– Subsystems and plugins

Flashbacks

• LifeDev:
• • Improved FlashBack curve animation.
• • Added player movement change based on FlashBack.
• Fixed issue with rapidly changing the target value.
• Optimized the tick. Only ticking when needed.
• Fixed possible crash.

Dialogs

• Tweaks to styles.

Story

• LifeDev:
• • Option to automatically increase the flashback based on the dialog. Towards a given target and by a given increment.
• • Improved dialog triggering flow.
• • Added a few options to show, hide, enable, and disable interacts on step.
• • Expanded ability to show/hide actors on step.
• • Added option to automatically handle the rain on a step.
• • Fixed issue of not destroying actors on step unload quickly.
• • Added the FlashBack Randomizer to the step and normalized the usage.
• A few refactorings.
• Replaced the camera preview mesh with a better mesh.
• Fixed the teleport player feature to also set the camera.

Inventory / Flags

• Reworked the flag functions.
• Beta: Considerable refactor to how the flags work and the functions provided.

Interactions

• LifeDev:
• • Added option to enable an interact as reward.
• • Added option to start a new step as reward.
• Fix an issue with some fades.
• Fixed issue with SetEnable not working on the constructor.
• Fixed issue on reward actors.
• Fixed double usage of items.
• Dis/Enable interacts on fade.
• Improved the flow for interactions, rewards, fades, etc.
• Some refactors.
• Improved system for interact hover detection. Now with two methods to choose from. As well as some parameters.

Sound

• LifeFev:
• • Fixed environ playing during intro.
• Fixed Noiser not activating on certain cases.

Utils

• Moved GetAnyGameViewportClient here.
• UI
• • Implemented message box.
• • Implemented base button.

Significance

• Various fixes and cleanups.
• Fix for android running on background thread.
• Added TickWhenPaused