#librettostruggles

And with that, I think Mythical Monday will be postponed for a while.

I need much more time to develop my art skills, and as is pretty obvious, I have been slowly chugging along these past few weeks.

Will I keep doing art on the weekends? Most certainly!

Though it won’t be in making fully finished and fleshed out concepts like I have been doing. I need to direct more of my attention to actually creating stuff *for* the game.

If anything, it will be just sketches and things, maybe even art for other people?

So it turns out my solution I showcased earlier in the week for Character customization only works OFFLINE.

Technically, it COULD work online, but it’d require a WHOLE LOT MORE of network updates. So that’s a scrap.

I have two other solutions...

One could be tricky, OR time-consuming. This method would be submeshes that I would swap in-out. This means adding all the mesh/textures stuff to the character, and having the different segments render or de-render through scripts. Of course, that also means I’d be having the whole set of information for equipment loaded at all times. Potentially could get messy with memory requirements.

The OTHER method would DEFINITELY be tricky. Mesh Combination. It would involve something similar to the above solution, but it means somehow combining the impartial armature of the equipment piece with the full armature of the character model. It would be giving the base skeleton the ability to affect the parts that the impartial skeleton could. This one would be much less performance heavy, since there’d only be that one little ‘hiccup’ as it sets up the equipment.

I’m glad to say my first death was actually to a random enemy during a White Phantom support.

I’m sad to say my playthrough was ended by a CTD followed by a computer hang.

Boolean logic isn’t syncing the animations properly.

The same rig-collapsing issue keeps occurring in the transfer from Blender to Unity, but the issue isn’t Blender’s .fbx packing, it’s Unity’s interpretation of it.

The solution to the rig-collapse is different every time but the general concept is the same;

“Find setting that fixes it, apply changes, then revert and apply changes.”

Then it magically works.

I can NOT find any consistency between the solutions I’ve tried in the past, but all it succeeds in doing is creating messy projects and more work to get animations done.

???

but that always exposes to me new issues with my art process. It’s endlessly maddening, but endlessly insightful in the same breath.