That's the good news (but there's a but) (Patreon)
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2017-05-19 15:13:07
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I was desperate to pre-load animations because nobody wants to wait for these sometimes massive files to load, especially not when you're in the middle of the action and want to switch camera's. So, the solution is dropping the MPG4 video file format and return to sprites, which are images and can be pre-loaded. And only for the character that you are playing so you're not wasting bandwidth. Works like a charm. Additional benefit is that the files are smaller, sometimes even a lot. Now re-making the existing outside action animations (yes, all 36 of them) which is a ton of work but well worth it, imho.
I'll probably have that in Dev over the weekend and am contemplating to keep both versions live for a while so you can switch between the two approaches and see what a massive improvement in performance it is.
The but? Well, gonna take a bit longer than anticipated. But in the end, we don't want to masturwait. :)
Also, the episode after this one will be published as storyboard (so not inside of Queensport) regularly during dev, will include taboo choices similar to those in Tuition Fees but with two female characters and it will introduce keyboard navigation so you don't need the mouse and have your dominant hand free for a smoke, a beer or, eh, something :-D
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