Picking up the Writing Pace
Added 2019-05-24 06:21:30 +0000 UTCLab Rats 1 started development in the middle of November, which happened to be National Novel Writing Month. The concept of NaNoWriMo is to, as you might have worked out, write a novel in the span of a month. A novel ends up being very loosely defined as 50,000 words, which means maintaining a pace of a little under 2000 words a day. Early in LR1 development I was hitting NaNoWriMo writing rates or better for narration and dialogue. The sheer pace of writing built up a momentum that made it easy to keep going; you get a feel for your characters and can imagine their actions or dialogue almost as quickly as you can write them down. As LR1 progressed and I had more technical problems to tackle the writing rate slowed down.
It's looking like Lab Rats 2 will follow the opposite trend. My early work has put most of the technical developments behind me now and I've been able to spend the last week or so writing. I haven't been keeping a formal word count, but my rough estimates put me back up at NaNoWriMo pace again and it feels good. To keep these speeds up I've been writing out skeletons of events by noting key moments, such as when characters need to enter or someone get naked. After that I'll go through on a second pass and fill in the full dialogue and narration of the event.
Outside of writing I've finished defining all of the aunt and cousin unique outfits. My work adding clothing patterns in has let me do some fun stuff with their outfits to make them unique or highlight their personality through clothing choices. More patterns are being rendered out right now and will be included in v0.17.
Comments
That's working as intended (although what's intended isn't always what's good). It was done that way so events that took a piece of clothing and made it more transparent (like spilling water on it) would work in the same way as before. What I'll probably do next time I revisit it is add a global_transparency value and have both the base piece of clothing and the pattern have their transparency modified by that.
Vren
2019-05-29 04:11:40 +0000 UTCon the patterns note, i am not sure if it is intended or not, but the primary colour decides the transparency of the whole piece of clothing, while the secondary colour can only increase the transparency of the pattern for example, with the heart pattern of the sweater dress, you can set it so the dress is solid and the hearts are see-through, but you cannot set the hearts solid and the base see-through it is not a big problem, i just dont know if this was already known beforehand so i thought i would mention it
retchedegg
2019-05-25 05:45:51 +0000 UTC
