Dragon's Herald

v14.11.2023 "Now you can take control of the camera during Animation Scenes. Here's how: Start a paired animation between Lizardman and Jasmine. Hit "X". Use "WASD" to move the camera and the "Right Mouse Button" to look around." Other Release Notes: 1) Project ported to UE 5.3.1. Expect lots of bugs in this version! 2) In UE 5.3.1, we are now using the Deformer Graph to support Dual Quaternions skinning. It's a bit slower but does not require changes in the engine. Over time, the performance will surely improve. 3) Implemented a Fly Camera when the paired Animation Scene is active. You can activate this by pressing the "X" button and use WASD and the Right Mouse Button to fly around the characters. Don't forget, you may also activate the Scene editor by pressing "R" and use it along with the fly camera. 4) Far-distance trees and grass will not be animated for performance reasons. The Oasis level got more trees, grass, and rocks in the background to test performance. 5) The boat got handmade collision boxes. 6) Some people said that stamina depletion was way too fast, so now the Lizardman and Jasmine received many more stamina points to slow down its depletion. Keep in mind that the Gameplay Attributes are not final and are subject to change. 7) The Lizardman got footsteps sounds for dirt, wood, loose wood, metal, gravel, and grass. 8) In many places, the Desert and Sewerage levels got physical materials updated to support new footstep sounds. 9) [Fix] The Lizardman should not turnaround when stopping his movement. 10) [Fix] The camera should not jitter anymore when the possessed character is on a moving platform. It was a design flaw. The camera logic will be changed later. 11) [Fix] The characters' IK logic should not cause misalignment of two characters when playing paired animations. 12) [Fix] Jasmine should not have Lizardman's tutorial buttons visible once she wakes up from a Stunned state. v04.10.2023-2 - Dialogue Scripts got a boost, now keeping an eye on the state of every participant. This upgrade lets game designers specify conditions for when an Actor will allow the initiation of a script (like moving, swimming, stunned, etc.) and when it won't. - Most Actor State settings now live in a separate Asset, acting like profiles. This allows any part of the code to switch dynamically at any time (e.g., swim, walk, stun, custom animation, etc.). However, the current implementation is hitting scalability challenges, and we're actively looking into better approaches. - A quick script has been introduced between Lizardman and Jasmine for when Jasmine is stunned, and Lizardman is not. - Lizardman got a preliminary and incomplete version of the Physics Asset. It's a work in progress but essential for testing Ragdoll-related code. - Unified Ragdoll modes for both Jasmine and Lizardman have been established. The plan is to smoothly extend this logic to other characters in upcoming developments. - [Fix] Characters should now rotate appropriately when standing on rotating objects. This was missing in the previous functionality. v11-07-2023 v26-05-2023 v05-03-2023 2021-10-31 Notes: - New animation "Meditation", when the Lizardman bites the girl - New animation "Meditation" using the JackO pose - [Bug] Dialog scripts do not share user interface well and can often cause problems. That is, show subtitles in another dialog - [Bug] Restarting Game scene during Dialogue may leave previous Dialogue Options turned ON - [Bug] Locomotion system has lot's of issues 2021-09-30 - New animation loop of the lizardman and the tied up girl - Two new "Meditation" animations for the lizardman and the girl. Look for it in dialogues - Bondage mesh objects have been added to the game. Please note that this cannot be activated yet. This feature will come later along with the wardrobe system - UI sounds - [Fix] UE received a workaround to fix incorrect character deformations. Later the code will be refactored and will work the same way as skinning in Blender - [Fix] Fixed an issue where Joint Controlled Morphs were incorrectly applied to the girl's thighs. Now it won't look too bulging - [Fix] Sound will no longer drop out in Cinematic Mode - [Bug] Dialog scripts do not share user interface well and can often cause problems. That is, show subtitles in another dialog - [Bug] Restarting Game scene during Dialogue may leave previous Dialogue Options turned ON - [Bug] Locomotion system has lot's of issues KEY CONTROLS - Movement: WASD - Run: LEFT SHIFT - Switch Camera Mode: X - Skip Dialogue: SPACEBAR - Switch Character: C - Nude Mode: N - Toggle HUD: H - Load Game: F9 - Save Game: F11 2021-08-30 - New animation for the Lizardman and the girl. Look for it in dialogues - Save/Load system. Based on modified EMS plugin - [Improvement] The level loading plugin has been completely replaced with custom solution. With this change, we are now ready to port the project to UE5 - [Improvement] The animation system will now keep the camera mode saved in case the player switches between characters that are not participating in the animation. This functionality is still WIP - [Improvement] The wardrobe system got an alternative driver through the "CopyPoseFromMesh" node. This will allow clothing with extra limbs like wings, tail or tentacles - [Bug] Dual-Quaternion skinning results in abnormal deformation of the skeletal mesh - [Bug] Dialog scripts do not share user interface well and can often cause problems. That is, show subtitles in another dialog - [Bug] Restarting Game scene during Dialogue may leave previous Dialogue Options turned ON - [Bug] Some NSFW scenes have a badly positioned cameras - [Bug] Locomotion system has lot's of issues 2021-07-10 -Updated dialogues between Lizardman and Sandy. Press "C" to possess Lizardman and see his dialogues and Debug animations -The Dialogue Skip button is now attached to the input action. You can change its value in the Control Options -[Tools] Now running animations can easily be mixed with dialogue lines. Run Debug animations to see this in action -[Bug] Dialog scripts do not share user interface well and can often cause problems. That is, show subtitles in another dialog -[Bug] Restarting Game scene during Dialogue may leave previous Dialogue Options turned ON -[Bug] Some NSFW scenes have a badly positioned cameras -[Bug] Locomotion system has lot's of issues 2020-12-26 Release notes : v29102020 [Private Scene] Sewerage [Improvement] LookAt (Head Tracking) got a major revamp [Improvement] You may now move the camera by the Right Mouse Button [Fix] Animation Controls should not be visible if no Paired Animation is active [Fix] Application will not crash if playing a reverse animation [Fix] Made a small fix to prevent the camera from flipping [Bug] Switching video setting may crash the application. [Bug] Tessellation does not work correctly in UE 4.25. We made a temporary fix for this issue until the entire project was ported to UE 4.26. [Prototype] You can try DirectX 11, DirectX 12 and Vulkan by running the .bat file. This can be helpful if you are using Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1. Camera controls "WASD" or "Right Mouse Button" to move camera origin "Left Mouse Button" to rotate around camera origin "Q" to move camera UP "E" to move camera DOWN "SHIFT" to move camera faster "Mouse Scroll" to move camera closer/farther Other controls "H" to toggle HUD (is showing by default) "X" spectate camera (enabled by default) "C" possess any character (useless in most cases, unless you would like to run some Test Levels, see Debug tab in the Main Menu) 2020-09-19 Public Prototype Initial Release