Thursday, March 1, 2018

Regarding blog status

I'm sorry for not being very active around this blog. Most of the stuff I share you can find on patreon: I do not hide discussion and progress update posts, so you don't need to pay anything to see it.

Otherwise, I regularly post and support itch.io with latest public version.

I can't say if I will be posting here again, so preferably contact me in one of those places or at striveforpower@gmail.com.

48 comments:

  1. ...why did you fuck with the resolution...no really it was fine the way it was. Making the text larger just makes it overlap everything next to it, so that doesn't help at all.

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    1. Because old resolution was done poorly and for every custom resolution, gui was different to the point of being entirely disproportioned and an unending pain to work with.

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    2. bug report for new version o.5.17d (private version) (picture customization) (potrait is removed by body picture and body is removed by portrait picture) the bug is not here in public version 0.5.16a


      bonus: is a very long time not speak since version 0.3.? :P i ask you again for is possible add daughter for first servant option. thank
      and you have very progressed my friends continue your good work ;)

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  2. how do I reporta a bug? my character used all of his energy and now doesn't regain it. the typical "end of day" process was altered as well it does all the actions and doesn't report them

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    1. Seems to be the issue with some slave's missing gear. I'll fix it in next update, for now you can manually inspect every slave.

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  3. How do you increase a girl's charm now? Clothing doesn't seem to do anything anymore, which is fine, but blowjobs used to increase charm and under the new sex system don't seem to affect it at all.

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  4. what does the "but 3.1 engine should bring back." in the patreon post mean? Because you are reaising my hopes since my laptop can't update to a required open version.

    RIP SFP for my case. Probably the best game i was following when considering gameplay/progress/engine. Kinda sad.

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    1. 3.1 should bring back gles2 support so yeah, compatibility will be restored. The problem is that it likely will take more than a few months.

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    2. That sounds fantastic. Waiting a few months is no problem. It's what i do anyway to amas new content in the game to play with.

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  5. Let me point a "few" problems with the "new" engine:
    1) Even more limited graphic engine - not new considering the engine target group is 3D games
    2) Compiled scripts
    3) DRMed images with lowered quality ...

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    1. 1. its not really targeting 3D, since its performance is meh. It is pretty fair on 2D games and there's much better options if you want to go 3d (unreal, unity). In terms of compatibility, this won't be an issue once 3.1 is out, which should have old support back.
      2. This will be changed soon.
      3. They are hardly DRMed, as they are basically simply compiled in the same way scripts are (binary style if I'm getting it right). And I actually prefer it this way, since it makes existing content less obvious and easy to view.

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    2. 1) According to Godot authors there mine target is 3D platformers ...
      2) we will see.
      3) Actually they are not. The engine takes the picture and uses "compress/lossy_quality=0.7" == compresses the picture to 70% of it's original quality then adds the engine "DRM" in the beginning of the mangled image file ...

      P.S. The DRM is in quotes because it's even crappier and easier to fix then the one used by RPG Maker MV, the problem is that it is messing with the images quality and that is something I don't like especially if there is no warning to the developer beforehand ...

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    3. 3. I've checked to be sure and I believe I do compress images in lossless mode.

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    4. The Godot v3.0.2 game engine uses this variable "compress/lossy_quality=0.7" to do additional lossy compression on the images you provide.
      In case you need proof jut open one of the *.png.import files and look under [params].
      If you need visual proof I can easily diff compare any picture you select that's available and unchanged in the 0.5.4.1e version with it's 0.5.5d counterpart as proof.

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    5. "compress/lossy_quality=0.7" only triggers if
      compress/mode=1. 0 means it lossless.

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    6. Nice try but do tell me why then are the images in the new version smaller in size and with lossy compression artifacts compared to the same images in v0.5.4.1e?

      P.S. I'm not reading the documentation and blindly believing it but checking the facts.

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    7. And to add a few facts since you seem not to believe me:
      1,113,523 bytes for chancellor.png
      949,381 bytes for chancellor.png-17fc03f8ecfd457a8f8d634a526b6ab2.stex (with DRM removed)
      And here is the diff map with the artifacts (in red) of the two images: http://www71.zippyshare.com/v/MKHmzMkK/file.html

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    8. Because compression is exactly that - compression, it's utilized to make overall size smaller by encrypting the image with compression algorithm. It's supposed to keep quality on same level, but looks like it's not exactly 'lossless' according to your comparisons.
      http://www51.zippyshare.com/v/9poRcuTY/file.html
      here's the truly 0.7 lossy compressed chancellor which weights more than 10 times less than original. Feel free to compare it.

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    9. No offense dude but you seem to be mistaking the terms and there consequences: compression (as in zip where the result is identical to the source, a compressed PNG results in the same picture as the uncompressed version of the same PNG) vs conversion (as in PNG to WebP where depending on the settings you might loos quality - the example you provided) vs loosy recompresion (where you loose quality each time you do it like the *.stex files in 0.5.5d)

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    10. According to the authors Godot engine there is a BUG in Compress Lossless (PNG) that produces Loosy PNG files and besides author's importing PNG files should use Uncompressed method by default for them since the Compress methods are intended for authors that can't handle the compression themselves ...

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    11. FIX: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/17726

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  6. Is there a program to easily edit the scripts? It was fun looking through the coding and relearning all about it.

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    1. notepad++, just wait for the next public release.

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    2. That means the scripts are readable and editable again ? That would be fine !

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  7. Is it meant that the main PC does not generate essences during sex. My Beastkin PC never produces any essence even when the magic stat is maxed out. All the slaves produce essences.

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    1. Yes, MC is not accounted in essence generation.

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  8. You really should fix your broken sex system. Look:
    https://media.8ch.net/file_store/e9b5af4c57af6a0c8930fc521c1c495a105518c89d72b3a5f24204e41f2a94f5.jpg

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    1. You do realize how big of an overhaul this would be?

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    2. Totally worth it.

      Right now the system only works well with 2 participants. And half of the previous options and kinks are missing.
      Kennels are useless. Half the kinks/traits can't be aquired by slaves anymore.

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    3. Let me know if you are willing to do it.

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    4. You're the one getting pain to work on this game, not me.

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    5. I'm mostly satisfied with the things I'm doing in my way. Dont give me dubious suggestions which would require complete rewrite of 80%+ of code if you are not willing to work on it.

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  9. "And I actually prefer it this way, since it makes existing content less obvious and easy to view."

    You WANT to make your game as unmoddable as possible? Way to go to make half your playerbase hate you.

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    1. That was meant for ingame images. You can edit the scripts and add new stuff just fine.

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  11. We'll unfortunately, I know you're not going to change it .
    But, maybe you could help me. My computer (a potatotop, as I like to call it) only has OpenGL 2, and unfortunately Strive does *not* have the ability to launch thanks to this updated engine that refuses to use OpenGL 2.
    Anyway to get around this?
    I tried to maybe use x32 bit but it didnt work so thats out the window.

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    1. At this moment godot does not support GPUS with no gles3.0. You will have to wait or upgrade your gpu.

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  12. Not sure if its just me but 0.5.11a is broken as shit. Cant leave mansion, cant level player character, clicking slaves name opens inventory sometimes and it cant close...Probably more stuff aswell.

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    1. Nvm. Figured it out its cause i copied it over the old files. Extracting it to a empty folder fixed it.

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  13. I wish you'd make the art assets accessible (not encrypted/compressed) so they can be easily edited or enhanced.
    Lot of the art can be easily fixed with a few tweaks, and variations can be made that way

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  14. Incense still isn't working, rope doesn't seem to do anything, some sex acts (like tribaldism) are unavaiable when raping??? Also, where did the cowgirl position go?

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  15. Kennels don't do nothing either. They should probably be under discipline or something.

    Also, events between slaves and slave-slave relations(likes) should be added. Neither seems complicated. Slave relation would simply be a slave variable - an array holding other slave ID's and love value - the value would be affected by sex actions with that slave, working on the same job, fetishes/personality and random slave events

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  16. Maybe this was fixed but I used to be able to play the game but when you updated the engine it gave this weird error message

    *Can't create an OpenGL 3.3 Rendering Content
    Your system's graphics card doesn't seem to support OpenGL 3.3/OpenGL ES 3.0 sorry*

    I SHOULD be able to play this, for whatever reason when you updated it the game became unplayable. Will just redownloading everything help?

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  17. Bug report - relatives display is broken.

    Also leaving feedback and suggestions is horrible on this log. Don't you have some other place you visit?

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  18. Guess what - a bunch of autists ended up fixing and improving your game, since you're too lazy to do that yourself. At east merge their changes.

    https://8ch.net/hgg/res/173708.html

    - fixed and improved relatives
    - better mansion screen
    - a few item tweaks
    - stimulant avaialbe at merchant
    - reduced luxury requirements
    - fixed health and battle result display

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  19. Hey Maverik,

    This is an old post but I notice most of the responses are bug reports/trolls. If you still need someone to compile & playtest on Mac/Linux, I can give you a hand. I'm mostly familiar with C++ & Java build systems, but if you have a wiki or can give me instructions/help me troubleshoot I would imagine we can sort it out for either platform.

    I don't want to make my e-mail address public, but if you respond to this comment and have a way I can get in touch I'm happy to help.

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