Developer Diary 3 [Dress-up Sim] (Patreon)

My plan at this point is to make a weekly post on Sundays detailing what I did this week.

First of all, I added an interface solution which I felt would be the easiest to use for this Dress-up Sim. Although I am already running into some scaling issues ( I want to add more options than I have UI space for) so that is another problem to tackle.

With the interface came the desire to design a few neat little details, like hovering text explaining what every button does and the ability to minimize. Both those systems have also been put in.

Next up, I implemented a lot of the different items and body options. However, I keep coming up with more, so that means more work.

Finally, I solved a big issue, which was skin tones. I wanted to be able to have her tanned, but could not think of a flexible and simple solution, until now.

This solution allows me to tan her using an overlay graphic and code, rather than swapping her skin graphics out for every single skin tone. It may seem minor, but it was one of my very big issues (there are a lot more). Hopefully this solution will remain viable throughout the development of the game.

Next week I will focus on two main aspects and as many secondary as I can handle.

One of them is expanding on the hair system to split up hair color and hair style. Right now these two are tied together (you cycle through every hairstyle and every color). This, plus adding a third layer to hair, and splitting things up even further, will make for quite a challenging thing to implement. I’m sure I can figure it out though.

Lastly, I need to figure out a solution for the boobs. Right now, they are ‘loose’, meaning hanging free. But in clothing, boobs become compressed together. I need to design a system which allows for this so I can properly accommodate clothing.

Once that is in I can begin working on the separate clothing layers (bra, inner and outer). But that will probably take a little more time :)

Until next week!

Albatross