New stuff has been added as usual! Such as the now finalized Gacha Animation (I promise to not make any more changes to it until the demo), more Visual Novel nodes, optimizations to character rendering and improving character texture quality, fixing RAM and VRAM leaks, an integrated bug reporting tool and more UI changes. With an unfortunate twist though. More about that in the end.
Gacha Updates
The placeholder is now gone on the Gacha Banner! Replaced with another placeholder that looks a little less "placeholder-y".
Added a proper "Results" screen after the gacha pulls. There isn't any "Rarity" system in yet, so the stars are just decorative. But overall I think it looks pretty fancy!
Character Rendering Optimizations
Image quality of the builtin characters has been improved by using a newer and more efficient compression algorithm.
Texture Archive Loader now uses a more optimized way of uploading textures to the GPU memory, making texture loads quicker and less stuttery.
Fixed some System and GPU memory leaks.
Archive Loader now keeps handles on the files, dramatically reducing disk caused stutters.
New Visual Novel Node
Added a new node to add in custom logic depending on the player's character, perhaps adding some custom dialog or some extra scenes depending on the character?
Integrated Bug Reporting Tool
Added a simple bug reporting tool into the game, allowing you to report bugs right within the game! Accessible via the Pause Menu in game.
An unfortunate event...
This week, whilst working, a power outage hit and the file system on my C drive got corrupted. Repairing it with tools (chkdsk) yielded no usable data left. In total, 300GB was wiped, though thankfully data related to Venus Derby and my other projects was not a large portion of it. In total, about the last two days of work was lost, which will not take as long to remake since I already made it once.
I'll be working in the coming days after restoring the system to a usable state.