Soundless AAA Sprite Progress 2: 3 Left, About Implementation

Plenty of progress was made this time! Only 3 sprites remain.

Steady progress has been made on the art update sprites. All that remains of the full sprites are Delilah, Nyn, and Auma. These three were saved for last because of their complexity. Up until now, characters either had their outfit drawn along with their body or the clothes under their jacket drawn along with their body, but because these three have multiple outfits, the layering is going to get a bit more complex.

Here’s Faust and Clara’s new looks:

Implementation has also begun. Using Ren’Py’s ConditionSwitch(), a sprite can be switched between old and new on the spot if you click the appropriate button in the settings menu. Each filename is redefined like this—

image clara_school_scared = ConditionSwitch(
    "persistent.art_update == False", "images/sprites/clara/school/clara_school_scared.png",
    "True", "images/sprites/clara/new/school/clara_school_scared_new.png")

—where, depending on whether the art update variable returns True or False, the appropriate sprite will show. These definitions are all kept in their own file, 01art.rpy, for organization purposes. It’s basically just a big copy-paste job.

Art Patch Progress Summary

Sprites

• Mercy: Finished

• Auma: Sketch

• Nyn: Sketch

• Delilah: Sketch

• Clara: Finished

• Faust: Finished

• Yiea: Finished

• Head: Finished

• Special sprites: 1/5 completed

CGs

• The CGs that appear in the opening will be the first CGs to be worked on.

Implementation

• Yiea, Head, Faust, and Clara new sprites all implemented.

Next week will likely be the last of the sprite updates! If not, then the week after that.