New logo!

Yes, I know I promised to share porns for a couple of posts. But when it comes to either working on the game to get the update out as quick as possible and drawing sketches, the choice should be pretty obvious. Okay, I know what I said, those sketches are eventually gonna be turned into actual CGs anyway, but you know what I mean. I'm having a hard time coming up with interesting perspective for the CGs. So yeah, I'm waiting for that inspiration to hit.

(Wow, OBS Google/Youtube suck. I'm recording at 720p and the quality is still shit.)

So in this video, I'm featuring the newly done logo! Which is 35% less shitty. So that's good. I was never that good at making logos to begin with. That pause after hitting New Game isn't a bug. It's intentional. I want it to give a dramatic opening that literally screams "oh damn! Shit's going down!" Well, whether or not it has the effect I intended is debatable though. You also may or may not noticed I replaced the sound effects.

And using the techniques I did with the custom main menu, the buttons are now also custom! That means I can replace the previously Galv's plugin provided VN buttons with my own custom ones. My method of displaying buttons provides more control, so that's nice. Had to do some clever eventing to make sure the text display properly though.

I also mentioned that I was going to replace the on-screen keyboard for an actual keyboard input for names, but I had to scrap it in the end due to complications with the plugin. For technical details, the plugin basically doesn't draw the png file properly. It didn't process the transparency so it ended up being a black screen that obstructs everything behind it.

If I only know how to program, all these would be so much easier. But who am I kidding? Me? Learning how to program? Nope. I'm too lazy to do that. Anyhow, that's it for today. See ya!

Quick update

Hi guys, a quick little update tonight. Basically been spending the last day or two finishing up the new main menu and implementing it into the main build. It's an extreme pain in the ass to do this, but I think it's worth it. :P

Once again, the reason I'm spending so much effort on the GUI is because I don't want Captivity to suffer from what I call "another generic looking RPG Maker game syndrome." So yeah, pre-build 4 will mostly be a GUI revamp. I've also put in a Gallery button in the main menu, so if you ever wondered if Captivity is gonna have a CG viewer, you've got your answer there. Once you hit the Gallery button, 2 new button pops up. "Scenes," and "CGs." Pretty self-explanatory. Scenes just runs the h-scenes again with the CGs rolling behind as normal while CGs just lets you view the CGs without the talking and the message boxes. They don't exactly work right now, but it's there for me to fill up in the future. The attached video also has things I'm not mentioning in this post because I'm tired and I wants to sleep. And yes, I know the video quality sucks. I literally just downloaded OBS to record this. Didn't spend much time with the settings so you'll have to bear with me with the bad quality video. (Okay, I've rewatched the video, so now I'm blaming Google/Youtube for the horrid quality.

And that's it for tonight's news! See ya guys once I got more done!

Menus? Like the ones you find in restaurants?

...I'm not even trying with the titles anymore...

Spent a couple hours on this damn thing. It's annoying as hell to event but it's finally almost done. Still have some QA left to do to see what I've missed before implementing this into the main build. This is possibly the most complicated thing to date I had to event. Granted, I don't do a lot of complicated eventing, but... Okay, I lied. The lust system that increases with time is actually fairly complicated. So is the weather system which I still have no clue where to start eventing. Anyhow, here's a gif. I'm breaking this post up because the gif is like 11 mbs. So yeah, click read more or something.