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Progress Update

The updated Goblin girl animations are ready to go.  There's a few things to setup in engine with them left to do but the bulk of the work is done.  

I also had some extra time to put into the world overhead map.  In game pressing 'tab' or 'i' will bring up the character screen and then selecting the button on top that says "map".  From there the mouse wheel will zoom ...

Good News and Bad News

So the bad news is that my computer got fried earlier this week and I lost a ton of stuff.  The good news is that I had backups and the main working drive managed to survive.  So nothing vital to Feign was actually lost.  I guess the big takeaway, at least for me, is to always have non-local backups and to make those backups more frequently.  

I haven't been in the eng...

Goblin animations and props

Mostly animating this week to finish up the cycles for the goblins.  In between that I've been working on hooking up the props to the placement/decoration system.  The plan right now is to have these for sale at the general goods store or else a dedicated furniture store in the future.  

Wow, the response to the succubus seems to have been really positive.  Once I get ...

Succubus WIP

Took a little bit of time to work on the early game succubus.  She still needs a proper detail pass but I think most of the larger shapes and overall feel of the character is coming together. 

I also ran into some navmesh issues working on the new map. The map is too big to build a static navmesh so I ended up switching over to the navmesh invoker system in UE4.  If anyone ...

Human NPC customization!!!

(Sorry I was trying to figure out some images or a video that would show this off and couldn't come up with anything that demonstrated it clearly enough so it's a plain text post)

I got NPC customization working for human town NPCs!  I'm really excited about this one.  So if the player likes a specific body type, or outfit they can now customize the NPCs in town to have that bod...

Open fields and lore brainstorming

Environment work continues.  A lot of the landscape stuff is roughed in.  Started bringing over the interior sections from the old map.  

Did another pass on the NPC spawn system especially for the town inhabitants.  Now when an NPC is spawned it will check the time of day then assign where that NPC should spawn, and what tasks they sh...

Starter Tier Weapons

Almost all of the starting weapons have models and textures done and are in game.  I still want to make a 2 handed sword I'll see if I can squeeze that in with everything else this month.  I haven't had time to make specific animations for each different weapon class yet either, so pretty much everything uses the sword swing animation.  The bow and arrow needs the most work out o...

More environment work

Still a lot of temporary / placeholder stuff but the map updates are coming along well.  The first shot is the new approach to town and the second shot is of a new procedural foliage forest set I'm putting together.  I started using a lot more of UE4's built in tools for things like the procedural foliage, the roads and a lot of other props are using spline meshes, that combined with ...

Town gates and memory management

The starting town will finally have some proper gates.  The gates will be closing at sunset and won't open again until dawn.  Anyone wanting to enter or exit the town will need to find some other alternative or wait until the sun comes up.  

The current gameplay direction I want to test out is making the nights outside of town a bit more dangerous to the player.  At fi...

Fitting everything together

Public Build 1.8 

Previous Build for all Patrons  1.9 

No new build this month.  Pretty much everything is in pieces with the game right now and it would ta...

Behavior Tree work

I started really digging into the AI this week and at first I was just going to do a quick pass, fix up some things, and call it good.  But the more I started looking at things the more I realized it would be very difficult to scale and didn't easily support a lot of the things I have planned for the future.  So I pulled the entire thing apart, made it modular, and more heavily relian...

Testing some new stuff and story touchstones

Testing out more of the environment systems that I want to start using.  Mostly all the fancy procedural foliage, splines, and world composition stuff that I haven't worked with much in the past.  The procedural foliage seems really promising so far and I'll most likely use it similar to how I've heard it was used with games like Skyrim.  Where a large area is procedurally genera...

Crystals, archery testing, new skies, and a bit of lore

Worked on a few things this week.  The new sky and atmosphere stuff I started implementing and tweaking.  I'm going to need to rework most of the old sky system to fit or else just scrap it and start fresh but right now I think it looks really cool.  That was one of the big things that I wanted to use from the 4.25 engine update.  I think they're also workin...

Build 1.9

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Props, props, props

Super quick and dirty video this week but I wanted to show off the systems that I just got working.  Also the UI and everything will eventually get an update to actually look better.

Inventory Item Display and Description:  Items in the player's inventory will now have a 3d preview of the item as well as a description and stats for that item.  This is rough...

Just a quick progress update this week

It's been a shorter week with the release being last Thursday.  I've mostly been unwinding, fixing bugs, and figuring out what to do this coming month.  The biggest stuff on my todo list is polishing the human on human scene animations, the human on goblin animations, and getting some progression into the game.  There's also a polish pass I want to do on combat and AI.  So m...

Goblin Alchemist - Part 1

There's going to be a few rough edges with the 1.8 build but I think all the core stuff is working.  The goblin alchemist is in game!  Her basic intro questline to get her shop up and running is working.  The basic rundown is the player is helping her get her shop started by gathering potion ingredients.  The current functionality will have the player turn in each tier of in...

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Something I've learned about adult game dev...

When I'm working on animations my 1st monitor is taken up by the Maya viewport and is usually zoomed in on some character's thrusting crotch.  My 2nd monitor I have all of the reference videos that I'm working from pulled up, and either paused or running on a loop.  I'll do a few frames of animation and then go to the reference video and scrub back and forth multiple times to get a se...

Chipping away at the alchemist's content and some bug fixes

Got a little sidetracked this week with bug fixes but the goblin alchemist is almost ready.  Her first narrative scene is written and storyboarded out.  I need to do all the associated animations and hook them up in game.  She'll be the first character to use the new narrative scene system.  Which essentially is branching dialogue paired with animations.  It also has tr...

Going to need a taller stool

Most of the stuff for the goblin alchemist's hut interior is ready to go.  I do need to do some material tweaks so that everything isn't the exact same shade of woodgrain.  Then there's also all of the potion bottles to do and a couple carpets to really tie the room together.  And of course a taller stool so that she can actually reach the top of the counter.  

The loc...

Goblin Alchemist model updates

She's almost there.  There's still a polish pass to do on the model and textures.  Then it's onto rigging and putting her in game.  

Coming up this next week I'll be working on the interior of her hut, getting all of the basic potions put together, and putting together the initial ingredient gathering for healing, stamina, and mana potions.  

She still needs a na...

Alchemist's Hut

I've been mostly working on the exterior to the Goblin alchemist's hut this week.  It's in game and just needs a polish pass to finish up the textures and do a few more tweaks to the model.  Also had some time to work on the props for the interior and start on the low poly for the alchemist's outfit.  

The overall lore surrounding her and the goblin faction is also in the w...

Trying something a little different this month

Just a quick note: there's a lot of crazy stuff happening in the world right now and I don't want to diminish that but I also see games as a way of escaping and taking your mind off of things and I want to avoid giving people constant reminders of the real world.  So all I'll say is that I hope everyone is staying safe out there.  Alright, now back to regularly scheduled content.

1.7 Changelist and 1.6 access to all Patrons

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Odds and Ends

I was playing Dragon's Dogma and realized that there's nothing to smash in Feign.  Well, there will be now.  Some stuff will now be smashable in game and will possibly drop random loot items.  I'm still messing with the sounds, fx, and the overall look but the functionality is ready.  

Other than that, the minotaur has enough animations to be fully functional now. &nbs...

Armor Low Poly and Texturing

Working on finishing this armor set.  There's still some cleanup and another detail pass that I want to do but I think I finally settled on a color scheme.  Need to make the different shapes for the body types next and then paint some weights and put it in game.  

Did some cleanup on the melee weapon systems and some of the minotaur's files.  

I was also messing ...

Starting on some long overdue FX work

(I'm not sure how nsfw I can be on Patreon with this type of content. So just in case I changed up the coloration and location of where the fx would be emitted from)

Began tackling some fx work that I've put off for too long.  I've never really worked with fx much at all in the past so this is all new territory but I wanted to go with a more stylized and chunky look.  I'm going ...