[Starlight] Glasya Combat Model (Patreon)

about time we got more than two of these

basic idle animation:

so if you remember/were around back when i posted his profile, you might recognize glasya as the character that uses a cat as his weapon.
someone back then commented like

small brain: scissors as a weapon
enlightened brain: violin as a weapon
galaxy brain: cat as a weapon

and honestly? delightful.

unfortunately although glasya's model is done, lynnoe (the cat)'s is not, so what we're doing with this one is pretty limited for now. the idea is that he and his cat can either act together as one unit or two separate ones, but as separate ones, the cat can't defend, and he can't attack.
so all we really need for him alone is a dodge animation.
hey look

the shield comes from the device on the back of his far hand-- a hand-me-down relic from before modern weapons switched to using replaceable cores. age and wear prevents the shield from staying up for long anymore... but that works out for a battle system where you have to time blocks.

we'll be doing a bit more with his model once we actually have Lynnoe made. she is in the works. so is one more that i might post an interim look at before it's finished...

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well, i hereby grant anyone who bet on 'complete disaster' for how implementing passive skills would go their inevitable rights to victory. strictly speaking i haven't even gotten to the passive skill part of things yet, but in the process of just testing the waters to see how i could structure it, i noticed an inconsistency that led to me fixing an issue that has been present since the beginning... which then meant that i had to restructure a bunch of code...
and just
sigh
strictly speaking fixing that is great and makes a lot of things easier in the long run but the restructure was pretty messy. i just finished it an hour or so ago, or at least as much of it as is absolutely necessary...

basically it's a good thing but aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa why

no one ever do programming ever ok? you got me? you hear me?

this is for your own sake

last night i was staring at the code trying to make sure i was accounting for all of my variables and whatever and just mentally flat-lining. cass argued with me for like twenty minutes that i should just go to bed already and leave it until today and i adamantly refused until my laptop slid off my lap and i caught it by the top right corner of the touch screen, thereby hitting X to close the program i was working in.

unfortunately i think the mental flat-line is an effect of still being sick. my symptoms sort of suddenly got worse in the last few days again, and i am so done with this. i'm not really looking forward to going on stream tomorrow like this but i am going on week 7 of being sick and i'm really tired of not doing things as a result of it so by golly we are still having stream and everyone's just going to have to live with me sniffing and coughing the whole time.

maybe a shorter stream, idk.

heck.