Venus Derby - Onomatopoeia Effects (Patreon)

Got some visual effects to show off this week! Mainly stomach, digestion and impact effects. Along with some QoL optimizations to the Character Editor that made their necessity pretty obvious when I was trying to get Suzue set up.

Stomach Onomatopoeia

Stomach onomatopoeia is shown when the character has at least 1 unit fullness in any of their stomachs (Multiple stomachs are supported), and uses the already set up stomach colliders for it to spawn the effects around it accordingly. The onomatopoeias are selected from a list of available ones and elongated randomly on spawn.

Impact Effects

I was actually going to go with those "green lines around the stomach" route to achieve the effect, but after some careful consideration and a headfirst dive into functions and graph plotting, I decided it wasn't worth it and instead went with an image based approach. Their spawn criteria is the same as the onomatopoeias, but they only appear for "unfriendly" and "not KO'd" meals.

Bubbling Effects

Bubbles have the same spawning criteria as other effects as well, globally available for all characters.

Character Editor Expression Kit/Speech Line Editor QoL Improvements

The character editor now has layer previews when creating expression kits or speech lines. Making it clearer what each layer looks like and easier to work with.

A sneak peek into the upcoming devlog... I wonder what could it be about...

As always, Thanks for your continued support!