Greetings!
During this time, I worked on several important things for the game. First of all, I continued working on the introductory event, which I have been writing little by little for quite some time. I am adding more and more new interesting details to it to make it vivid and interesting and to draw players in from the very first minutes of the game. As I wrote earlier about the introduction, I expanded it quite a bit and added new characters to introduce them at the beginning of the game.
But my main task now is to change and optimize existing locations, as well as create and prepare the locations that I will need for the first few updates in the game. So far, I have finished optimizing 8 small indoor locations and 5 huge city areas that you have seen in the game before. Most of my work consisted of removing the heaviest 3D objects and replacing them with lighter models. In addition to architectural models, my work also affected the vegetation. A new set of vegetation helped me with this, and now all the places in my existing and future locations that are connected with nature will look more natural and stunning. At the same time, this significantly reduces the load on me and my computer during the process of creating images and subsequent rendering!
For example, this is what the vegetation near the office building looks like now. The first picture shows how it looks now, the second shows how it looked before.
As you can see, the changes are only positive. The trees look natural and it looks amazing! And, by the way, I reduced the 3D model of this city area from 12 million polygons to 3.5 million, which will certainly have a positive effect on further work on the game.
I am also working on redesigning some of the girls. This is mainly due to some critical comments and your low interest in them. In some cases, these will be only minor cosmetic changes, but for some girls, it will be a radical change in style and appearance. For the next post, I will try to make some pictures for you comparing the old and new styles and listen to your comments on whether it is better or worse. These changes, of course, do not apply to the family and some of your favorite characters. By the way, I'm not mentioning their names right now because I want to get your reaction when you see the new version visually.
Next, I still need to make changes to three existing locations and create a couple of new locations necessary to start the game. By the way, one of the locations I need to redo is the player's family home. This needs to be done to bring this location up to my new standards and because I plan to have much, much more filming in this location in the new version of the game. Plus, there will be an opportunity to visit your family on the weekend and spend a couple of days with them. But that will be later...
Thank you so much for your help and support on this journey with me! It warms my heart!
See you!