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Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

OK, here's my first effort at creating a Noriko image. It's very hard to get the colors of the hair layers to match up, but I did the best I could. It seems odd that when I go to colorize a layer in GIMP, rather than start with the current color of the layer, it starts me at 180/50/0. Quite annoying, but again, that might be because I'm doing something wrong :-/ .

Ugh...how does one get an image to actually show up in a post? Oh, well, linking instead: Noriko_neutral.png

Edit: OK, that's even more ridiculous. I uploaded the image, but then deleted it. It never went away. So, I tried to upload over it. When I click on it, it's still the old image! Garbears!

Edit-again: OK, now it's right. Stupid learning curve.

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

Given how long it had been since anybody posted on the boards for this game, I wasn't necessarily expecting anybody to respond, so thanks for keeping an eye out, Marrend. The board for the game on VNDB has been more active (posts within the past few weeks, even!), but I'm not a member over there as yet.

It probably doesn't help that I can't post the fact that there's new content over on 3eeweb - maybe you or flowerthief could mention something there? More people might jump in if they're only following things over there.

Also, it's summer.

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

Ah...I believe I have discovered my problem with GIMP. I was trying to edit the color of the image's hair, and I thought I needed to select the layer actually called "Hair". Nope - I see now that the top-level layers are just categories, and color manipulation can only be done at the lower levels. <cue Tsubasa laugh> That discovery will certainly speed along this character's completion!

Speaking of which...I think I'm nearly done with Noriko's actual stories. I've now got a city story and a dating story completed, plus I'm continuing to tweak other things. I won't publish anything additional until at least I get some general feedback on the character (or until I feel like she's complete). Next big task: finding some music. The "thoughtful" track is a good placeholder, though.

I also have gotten a small start on a second character, tentatively named Hamaguchi Takako. Using ID 64 for her for now, but all I have is her name and some settings in the Customizer. Fun is being had!

Content creation (technical)

Not sure if this is the right place to put this, but I found something that kind of took me out of the game when I saw it -- not so much a bug, more of a "what the heck?" moment.

Specifically, I'm thinking Shihoko phone story 21 probably shouldn't be happening once the player has seen her ending-available event. That happened to me on my last play-through and it was kind of jarring.

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

author=Marrend
You could have waited until an actual character update, though?


<small voice> I just wanted to make sure I was doing it right. It won't happen again.</small voice> In my defense, there are a couple tweaks to one of the phone stories to make it flow better, so it wasn't a total waste.

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

I can see the FAQ, but I can't see any of the example pictures. However, I was able to work it out (I'm using 7-Zip, so the interface is a bit clunky) and post a new copy. Is that what you meant?

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

OK, new version of Yoshimura Noriko is uploaded. For now, I just commented out the condition I mentioned, because I still feel like I could do something with that. Also, there's one new interstitial and two new phone stories, as well as many tweaks to what I'd already written. Progress! (cue the Sherman Brothers!)

Content creation (artistic, 1st archive)

Oh, 660...I thought you were on 665 already. That definitely makes a difference. Basically, the program was waiting for one of the Shihoko roof scenes (primarily the one where the player gets mad at Miki for being in the way when Shihoko is leaving, but it looks there are a couple others that can be hit without getting that one).

Upon reading this, I probably don't even need the condition that's holding it up, I just need the condition that the player isn't yet "in" with Shihoko. I think it would be helpful for the player to at least have been on the roof once, but I don't really feel like combing through all the files to ensure that's happened. Anyway, I'll fix this in my next update.

Content creation (technical)

I was just exiting the program after saving the profile I was working on.

Content creation (technical)

Just had the Character Customizer crash on me. This is the second time it's happened. Here's the screen capture of the error:



Huh...can't see that in my browser window. Here's the URL: Customizer crash screen