What's up, RMers?

[Remi-chan]

Man I did next to nothing the whole week then crunched my ass off on saturday and sunday, here's just some of what was done during all that!

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Remi-Chan
Milestone reached: Recode Complete

Fantasia - The Inevitable City Clash

This feels so underwhelming after the hecticness of Tiramisa's boss fight. I'll be working on the sound design and animations to better give it a feeling of magnamity. But it's recoded all the same. Need to fix the final blue laser and its positioning at the end of its path, but that won't take long.

Fixing Up Some Ugly Weathers
So I have had a long-standing issue with the flower weather patterns used commonly on spriteopia. I put fixing it on low priority as it was planet i won't be working on until disk 3 and I had more important stuff to worry about, such as the recode. But with that done I decided to just go into the img/weathers folder and fix it in like 5 seconds, lmao.
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After


Main Story Rewrite Updates
While I still have some stuff to tweak, the main story up until the end of Disk 2 has now all been re-written. I cracked down on what remained after Tiramisa's bossfight last night and got done all the way up through to the aftermath of the fight with Eve. The majority of Eve's aftermath was solid already with only small tweaks, the build up required much more intervention now knowing more of the characters and how they'd respond to any given scenario. I still need to cut it down some, as the dialogue can be cumbersome in places.

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Xiie / Rune
Still working on the fowlhunters, she did manage to get another cat done, this time with a police badge! And the final of the Cloud nymphs!!

Copper Cat and Shadow-elemented Cloud Nymph

You can find screenshots showcasing those and some of the ones from last post in the apropos thread!

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Pjcr
He contacted me on the 8th, turns out he missed his ability to get the family trip back to Manila, so he'll be busfaring instead. Not sure when he'll be back but he's on his way!

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[kyonides]

 RPG MAKER UNITE has come back...

 I mean, RPG MAKER U2U has been officially announced today!

[DerVVulfman]

Well, I got a new project of sorts...  Script Doctor. I'm looking at a friend's project from years gone back and doing some revisions.

My friend isn't a scripter and was using some old scripts that recommended direct edits to the default scripts themselves. Those are usually ones that are easy to miss when looking back to see what is causing an error.

There are no errors right now, I solving one issue just a couple hours ago.  But having the direct edits moved out where they can be separately seen is the current plan of attack.

[Remi-chan]

 RPG MAKER UNITE has come back...

 I mean, RPG MAKER U2U has been officially announced today!

Oh, this is hardly surprising. There were some screenshots and promotional materials regarding a "3D RPGmaker" going about the ergosphere of the community the last couple of weeks. This just feels like an incredibly backwards step to show that Gotcha Gotcha Games has learned nothing from their past blunders.

One does have to wonder what kind of high-functioning genius is in charge when they made the foolish decision to inject a repaint of an engine virtually no one liked or wanted into the rpgmaker market with such alacrity. How can they even still pretend and delude themselves into this madness that even surely the chimneysweep who yodels into the night has the sense to see the lack of sense in.

Perhaps both the saddest yet also the most hilarious part is that from what previews I've seen, it's just a worse, more expensive version of Bakin. The octopath traveller sprites look ashamedly bad. The rest just looks like lifted RTP from VX which is activating my fight or flight response by sheer proxy of association.

Just another deadwaste of reductive talent in a dying breed of engine. O' how far from grace the mighty have fallen, if one could even imply their lacking magnitude really substatiates much of a fall or just a step down. Yet another uncaring footprint deeper into the mud-slicked swamp of a messy lousianian jungle they've put themselves into the fetid overgrown vegetation of.

Amidst a chorus of blind seers and deaf conductors, do only they aspire to be less than nothing.

As for me and to get away from this prose-laden poppycock...

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Remi-Chan
The Rewrite of the main story is almost complete, but that's hardly the only thing I've done.

I've gone and added the TABenabled switch to turn on when events with flvaor text start and turn off at their close. I haven't done this all that much yet, having only recently finished up Disk 0, with Disk 1 next in line. What I have done is fixed up all the deployment beacons from having the menu opened during their processing.

I've also finally gotten around to updating the pop-up notifications of the games main story quests to have the correct icon.

There's probably more I've done, but nothing I can recall right now.

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Xiie / Rune
Still working on the fowlhunter standing and walking sprites, she did manage to get another couple cats done. meet the doctor and army cats!

Doctor Cat and Army Cat

You can find screenshots showcasing these in the apropos thread!

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Pjcr
Nothing yet, but I remain yet hopeful. For now his absence is at least easy on the wallet!

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