Monthly summary (March)!

Here's the status update for this past month!

Art:

• Reworked every closeup of items held in hands while looking at them from backpack which should now have improved and consistent art across all items.

• Multiple new Jenny faces, arms and bodies created to improve her existing scenes and additional new scenes in order to expand her content.

• Improved all of Jenny's body shading across all body assets. Smooth skin, light, shadows and so on.

• Jenny on couch body edits to have face variants playable.

• Jenny BJ animation improvements.

• Jenny HJ animation improvements.

• Multiple new Anon face expressions were created.

• Continued assisting the Code/Posing devs with optimizing art and fixing inconsistencies. Such as unused art assets , missing shadows, missing character button variants and so on.

• 1 new wallpaper which will be part of scenes in the future Mia update.

• 1 new wallpaper which will be part of a Thotbot scene we're working on.

• Thotbot art assets for body and face have been improved to match new upcoming scenes.

• New sets of art pieces to replace Smith's old portrait in her office (and it's successor when you do the Egyptian variant).

• Cosmic Cumics mall button edits.

• New Justin faces.

• Improved Anon body art when standing from behind.

• New Anon bending away asset.

• Katya doggy sex on desk had its ending animation improved.

• Svetlana on top sex had its ending animation improved.

• Split layers in Debbie's kitchen to use background dynamically.

• Lily asset fixes (more improvements to come).

• New Erik arms giving Lucha mask.

• Anon arms holding awesomo fixes.

• Improved art in Smith cutscene.

• Further adjustments to Mia face design.

• Mia sex background on bed has been improved slightly.

• Started working on various assets for Aqua in order to prepare for her future rework update. Bodies, faces, arms, minigame, backgrounds, pregnancy, etc.

Code:

• Linked (tied posing to game logic) more quests bringing them to a state fit for QA. Including:

  - Fifteen more Jenny quests completing her story.

  - Three Jenny repeatable events - night time visit, shower, and GFE.

  - Lily's button in Cosmic Cumics.

  - A few missing bits and pieces from events like the attic peep hole.

• Tweaked wiring/logic in newly linked Jenny scene to ensure they play well.

• Optimised reusable staging for Anon's bed, the breakfast table, and shower.

• Ensured that custom shaders are cross-compatible with Android devices.

• Introduced a flag system to better handle first-time vs repeatable dialogues.

• Expanded the lewd scene controller with support for old-style animations.

• Prevented animation timebases being affected by never-used renders.

• Allowed formatting tags to be used in notification toasts (stat warnings).

• Worked on reposing tool to help expedite ongoing posing and linking efforts:

  - Improved handling of menu statement captions and arguments.

  - Prevented hide transitions being mistakenly removed.

  - Added support for while statements.

  - Fixed issue with label stacking that could lead to inconsistent output.

  - Expanded ATL processing to reproduce fully nested blocks.

  - Addressed minor issues to do to formatting of spacing characters.

  - Introduced label filtering to cut-down on manual clean up tasks.

  - Corrected an inverted reachability check that could lead to posing errors.

  - Rewrote depth clustering algorithm to account for any existing tags.

  - Improved warnings to make potential issues easier to locate in output.

  - Added support for the from clause in call statements.

• Improved background continuity throughout Jenny's story.

• Resolved support for quest dialogues feeding back into button loops.

• Tackled issue where deb17 and jen20 could play in a nonsensical sequence.

• Fixed small logic issues as they were identified in Jenny's route.

• Created a quick reference tool for checking eye directions.

• Identified an accidental face erasure and took steps to restore it correctly.

• Applied time of day tinting to Principal's Smith's office paintings.

• Solved a problem where character costumes wouldn't always reset correctly.

• Cleaned up a swathe of mistakenly applied blurs in scenes with dedicated art.

• Upgraded to Ren'Py 8.2.1, primarily due to drag save bug that got resolved.

• Updated multiple bits of posing to match art attribute/asset renames.

• Added and updated various metadata definitions in line with art.

Posing:

• Consuela sex scenes have been posed.

• Liu sex scenes have been posed.

• Nadya sex scenes have been posed.

• Svetlana sex scenes have been posed.

• Daisy sex scenes have been posed.

• Debbie's first sex scene has been posed.

• Debbie's laundry sex scene has been posed.

• Debbie's repeatable sex scene has been posed.

• Fully completed Buttons for Melonia, Thotbot, Iwanka (minus Pregnant).

• Fully completed Button for Tyrone concerning Charisma mini-game.

• Fully completed Hottub, Yard, and Bedroom buttons for Melonia.

• Reposed Missing labels for Consuela.

• Reposed Missing label for Jenny.

• Anon f_grumpy faces have been appropriately named in the New Repo.

• Double checked all labels for Jenny's content.

• Made a list of Jenny labels that need look at for linking/rewiring.

• Buttons for Mia and Helen in progress.

• Started posing for Buttons for Erik, Tammy, Larry, and June.

• QA process documentation being made for testing.

Writing:

• Assisted code with implementation of Jenny and Debbie content.

• Created numerous new dialogues involved with those routes.

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Thanks for all your support and feedback!

-DC