Chasing down Sidequests
Added 2020-11-26 11:19:58 +0000 UTCThis update I've been checking off as many minor items from my TODO list as possible. After all of the bug fixing was done I was hoping to cross off a few new features, but I've run into a (good) problem: I keep running across other things I want to improve. My list of potential new features/events has been growing instead of shrinking for the last week or so, even as I'm making steady progress. It feels like I'm playing the Witcher, and each side quest is just leading me to other interesting things to do.
The last few days have been dominated by me writing a new event for Jennifer and Lily. My intention starting out was to add a small morning/night limited time event that could trigger when you enter their rooms, but I kept feeling like I needed to add more to make it feel complete. Now it's approaching twelve thousand words in all it's variants, but it's almost done and I'm sure the work will be appreciated. I've also taken extra time to write it to be easily expandable in the future, so I will probably make it possible for other characters (like Rebecca, Gabrielle, or girls who have invited you over) to spawn the event.
In the background I have had my computer rendering away at some new image sets, which finished today. Tomorrow I'll run all the scripts to get those edited, sized, and put into the game proper. Then I'll define their clothing item stats and probably design some new default outfits to make use of them.
I've got a little bit more to do on this Lily & Jennifer event, so I'm going to get back to that!
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I've found that the "Out of memory" error to be a bit random, but a symptom of Renpy overloading your computer (I've only experienced it with this Renpy-based game, so I suspect it's some sort of inefficiency in the game's use of RAM). The thing that I did (doesn't eliminate the error, but makes it a MUCH rarer occurrence) is to press Shift + G while the game is open (doesn't matter what's going on) and select a different renderer and restart the game. For me, the "Angle/DirectX Renderer" is what worked. Hopefully this helps your issue, too!
2020-11-30 19:47:02 +0000 UTCSomething that has always seemed to be missing is for serum side-effects to not ALWAYS be completely detrimental; even in real medicine some effects are extremely useful and become (unintentionally) major uses (and ABUSES) of a drug. Some things I would like to see: ['lude-esque effect]: a system (not emotionally) depressant that also produces a 'good' feeling - start effect: -20 max energy, -1 int, -2 focus, +10 happiness per turn effect: +2 happiness end effect: restore energy/stats, - 15 happiness value: +20$ (by demand for abuse) [aphro-effect]: increases sluttiness while also LOWERING the needed arousal amount for orgasm - start effect: +15 sluttiness, orgasm at 80 arousal on turn effect: +5 arousal end effect: -15 sluttiness, reset normal max arousal, if current arousal > 10, then sluttiness increase by arousal / 10 [upper effect]: focus and energy enhancing while lowering happiness, obedience and sluttiness; should not completely restore obedience and sluttiness at end. (I will leave the numbers up to your judgement) [shortened effects]: duration of serum is shortened [extended effects]: duration of serum is lengthened by a random amount - which could definitely be BAD depending on which serum traits are present!! and so on - some of which would actually increase value in the right circumstances. Sort of like that medicine that had the side effect of make (some) women orgasm when they sneezed - I forget the name of it. Much to many women's dismay, they yanked it from the market!!
William Urquhart
2020-11-30 17:21:38 +0000 UTCI got this error when the game crashed out on me, Right before this the side panel that shows the women went black. I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While running game code: File "game/script.rpy", line 10813, in script call $ picked_option.call_action() File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in script $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") File "game/script.rpy", line 10813, in script call $ picked_option.call_action() File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in script $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") error: Out of memory -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\bootstrap.py", line 316, in bootstrap renpy.main.main() File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\main.py", line 578, in main run(restart) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\main.py", line 143, in run renpy.execution.run_context(True) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\execution.py", line 908, in run_context context.run() File "game/script.rpy", line 10813, in script call $ picked_option.call_action() File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in script $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") File "game/script.rpy", line 10813, in script call $ picked_option.call_action() File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in script $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\ast.py", line 922, in execute renpy.python.py_exec_bytecode(self.code.bytecode, self.hide, store=self.store) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\python.py", line 2028, in py_exec_bytecode exec bytecode in globals, locals File "game/script.rpy", line 11220, in $ name = renpy.input("Please give this serum design a name.") File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\exports.py", line 868, in input rv = renpy.ui.interact(mouse='prompt', type="input", roll_forward=roll_forward) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\ui.py", line 297, in interact rv = renpy.game.interface.interact(roll_forward=roll_forward, **kwargs) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2702, in interact repeat, rv = self.interact_core(preloads=preloads, trans_pause=trans_pause, **kwargs) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 3320, in interact_core self.idle_frame(can_block, expensive) File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2778, in idle_frame if self.event_peek(): File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2313, in event_peek self.check_background_screenshot() File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\core.py", line 2161, in check_background_screenshot self.bgscreenshot_surface = renpy.display.draw.screenshot(self.surftree, self.fullscreen_video) File "gldraw.pyx", line 1376, in renpy.angle.gldraw.GLDraw.screenshot File "L:\Adult\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\Lab_Rats_2-v0.34.2-pc\renpy\display\pgrender.py", line 118, in surface surf = Surface((width + 4, height + 4), 0, sample) File "src/pygame_sdl2/surface.pyx", line 164, in pygame_sdl2.surface.Surface.__init__ error: Out of memory Windows-8-6.2.9200 Ren'Py 7.3.5.606 Lab Rats 2 - Down to Business v0.34.2 Sun Nov 29 21:56:25 2020
2020-11-30 03:02:40 +0000 UTCHello Vren, How about shout out with me ? :)
2020-11-28 20:26:10 +0000 UTC1) Whenever I tried to access the night club, university, or bathroom for the random shower events, I would receive an error indicating that the background images cannot load and the game crashes if I attempt to ignore it. Here's a sample of the error I received when going to the campus (it looks pretty similar to the other two, but I can provide those errors if you have trouble replicating them): I'm sorry, but an uncaught exception occurred. While loading <'Image' u'Campus.jpg'>: Exception: Could not load image u'Campus.jpg': error('JPEG loading error',) -- Full Traceback ------------------------------------------------------------ Full traceback: File "script.rpyc", line 10810, in script call File "script.rpyc", line 10928, in script call File "script.rpyc", line 10923, in script call File "game_roles/role_nora.rpyc", line 95, in script File "C:\Users\Danny\Desktop\Random Stuff\RPProject\renpy-7.3.5-sdk\renpy\ast.py", line 713, in execute .......... File "renpy/display/im.py", line 583, in render File "renpy/display/im.py", line 266, in get File "renpy/display/im.py", line 628, in load File "renpy/display/pgrender.py", line 162, in load_image Exception: Could not load image u'Campus.jpg': error('JPEG loading error',)
2020-11-28 02:29:55 +0000 UTCWith the latest Android version, I've run into a few bugs that seem to fall into two different categories:
2020-11-28 02:29:15 +0000 UTCCan I commission even more Jennifer and Lily content? lol It is my dream the harem route for Jen, Lily, Becca and Gabby comes to life.
2020-11-27 23:12:22 +0000 UTCSounds great, looking forward to seeing it.
GAZZA
2020-11-26 11:52:51 +0000 UTCKeep up the amazing work!
Exodon
2020-11-26 11:38:36 +0000 UTC
