#shimeji updates

[fluffyfoxoffateart]

Shimeji Progress Update

It's been awhile since I've posted an update on what I've been doing. Progress on shimejis have been going steady, the Hollow Knight Shimejis are still on hold for the moment as I'm working on other projects.

Main projects I'm working on is Cookie Run characters making my "digital pet like" shimeji with stats that change the shimeji's mood.

Manju Cookie and High Forkbearer I'm considering doing a revamp on to make the art look closer to the style in the Cooke Run games instead of my normal style I do for Shimejis. I did that, as you can see, with Fire Spirit Cookie and I'm happy with how it looks like the game style. ^^

Work on the code has been a slow process, mainly cleaning it up and figuring how I want some of the behaviors chain together. Since these Shimejis work like digital pets with mood stats there's a "hotspot" clickable area to bring up their stats.

Clicking the hotspot brings up the "menu" to choose to check the shimeji's mood or promote them. You have to gain soulstones to promote, just like in the game. (not as many as you need in game though. Just one soulstone for each promotion/Ascend, so a total of 10 to get the max.) if you have a soulstone, there will be a little green arrow that bounces above the promote button. The character will play their voice lines that happen when they get promoted as well.

Clicking the mood button will show the shimeji's current mood stats

The shimeji will create the screens to show the stats, play an emote based on the mood and have a little emote bounce next to them like the ones in game.

I'm planning on revamping the stat screens to match the Cookie Run style, such as the font and maybe some other things. I haven't fully decided just yet how it will look tbh, but it will look different.

Fire Spirit Cookie is mostly functional, with most of the bare minimum actions finished. Most of the stat related scripts aren't implemented yet, besides the one relating to energy, as I'm going though it one behavior at a time.

Sleep is going to be an a more complex behavior since it will change based on the energy stat. The W.I.P image you see above is if energy is full, he will relax instead of sleep.

Will for sure be my largest shimeji I've ever made once it's done. I'm also going to make a guide for how to take care of these shimejis along with how all the hotspots work, since it's a lot more involved than most.

And yeah, that's most of the things I have set up, most other things are still very early W.I.Ps that I hope I'll be able to share soon.

I hope that when these shimejis are finished others will enjoy them too. ^^

[fluffyfoxoffateart]

Shimeji Project Updates

it's been awhile since I've posted any of my shimeji projects. So I decided to make a post on all my current work in progress shimejis.

Please note with the nature of these being work in progresses things are subject to change. G.I.Fs are sped up and the animations are smoother in the program.

G.I.Fs need to be click on to see the animations.

Fire Spirit Cookie From Cookie Run

My biggest project yet for shimeji and my first one to include variables in the code. Main features of this shimeji is the mood system, when a stat gets low his mood will change to upset and will stay that way until a stats are raised again. Some behaviors change the mood themselves when played but also the shimeji's mood will randomly drop with time as well.

Besides the mood system he also features "hotspots", clickable areas on the shimeji to do different things such as petting, a few interactions and sounds from the game. Sounds, as always can be easily turned off in the settings for shimeji. Also some behaviors will have the option of turning them off with the toggle feature, such as the interaction ones for example.

Fire Spirit still has a ways to go before he ready to be public. Lots of animations to clean up along with code testing still left to do.

Manju Cookie From Cookie Run

Manju Cookie is going to get quite an update to the art later on. I have been trying to match closer to the game's art style for my Cookie Run shimejis. But for now I'll show the old preview I have set up.

High Forkbearer/ Doughael From Cookie Run

High Forkbearer, like Manju, is planned to have an update to the art to be closer to the game art style. They will be able to transform to and back from their Doughael form. I don't have an animated preview for them yet so just the single w.i.p stands.

Divine from Hollow Knight

The newest behavior for her is the swing and jump actions. Some of the Asymmetry is done as well. She's slowly coming a long.

Cloth From Hollow Knight

Cloth was started quite awhile ago but I think this is my first time showing it here. She's got quite a lot to do before she's finish.

Rock Pikmin From Pikmin

I have been working on and off on making a public version of the Rock Pikmin, since the current one I made before was made based on someone's fan character. It's finally edited now and will be public at some point. ^^

Psyduck From Pokémon

Old shimeji that has been updated, small code edits along with the download giving the updated version of the shimeji program. I'm planning in the future to make previews and small update changes to my very old shimejis. You can download this shimeji now on Cachomon's website! ^^

Brusha From Dandy's World

The newest stand I'm working on for Brusha from Dandy's World. She's just a sketch right now and trying to figure out what pose for her stand should be. I have a poll currently up asking people's preference here.

::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

And that's about it on my current updates. I have many more Shimeji ideas coming in the future so stay tuned for those! ^^

[fluffyfoxoffateart]

Updates to all older Shimeji

Yesterday I made some updates to older shimeji that added in splash screens that pop up the first time you launch them. They give you info on hotspots and other custom code things to know about.

Other updates were mainly code related, fixing up some errors with the when you drag the shimeji around.

The biggest update was for Eternal Emilitia, adding in variables to her read action that made it when you click the hotspot to see the topic of her book, the topic she tells you it's about won't change until she starts the action again.

All these shimejis can be found on Cachomon's website. Searching my name in the search bar will give you all the shimejis I made that are currently on the site.

It might be a bit for older links on Tumblr and other art sites I'm on to be updated. As Some of them are links to my google drive, but I'll try and get those all up to date soon as well. ^^

[fluffyfoxoffateart]

Updating past Shimejis in progress

Something I wanted to do was add in little icons for each of the shimejis I have made so in the shimeji chooser they'll be custom instead of just "shime1" AKA the standing frame.

This here is an example with the custom icons in place in the program. I think it gives it a cleaner look.

These are all the ones I've done so far. Still a few icons to make of my finished shimejis, but close to being all caught up.

Another thing I've been working on is adding in "splash screens" for past shimeji projects, these screens will pop up when the shimeji is opened for the first time letting users know key features of the shimeji, such as "hotspots" AKA clickable areas, such as petting.

Something I have wanted to do for awhile but just haven't gotten around to doing. While most of the shimeji will have all the info on the splash screen it's self, some will ask you to check a folder for more info, this will for sure happen with Fire Spirit Cookie when he is finished as he as to much stuff to mention that will fit on this one screen.

But yeah, that's what I've been up to lately, Will be a bit before all this stuff is added into the shimeji downloads. As I'll need to update all the files one by one.

[fluffyfoxoffateart]

Shimeji stuff updates and projects

Been working on some stuff to edit the code for past shimejis to make the code a bit cleaner and for some things to run smoother and hopefully will have that done soon so those shimeji I posted (mainly the Hollow Knight ones and others) will be up to date.

Other things been working on the shimeji chooser icons and possibly adding in splash screens for past shimeji for details on extra actions (such as hotspots, AKA the clickable areas that do things)

In experimenting with shimeji chooser icons I found a way to make them look cleaner, just need to be sized at 60 by 60 pixels. (you can tell the difference between the bunny shimeji and Gorb in how the lines look choppy for the bunny. Bunny icon is set at 128 by 128 pixels.)

Currently trying to figure out how I want them to look so might end up looking different once I finalize it.

The only shimeji I have made that has a Splash Screen is the bunny shimeji. It pops up the first time you launch it and then doesn't pop up again unless you change the settings.

Also still working on new shimejis in general, most of them are still Hollow Knight characters. Markoth is getting close to being finished and once done will be free to download. Pomni Shimeji from the digital circus is getting close to be finished too, this one will be a campaign though, so will be free once the campaign goal is reached.

I have many more characters planed for shimejis as well! I hope you guys enjoy them once they're made! ^^

[insertofalord]

I had to remove 5 of them to save.

Help.

[betajams]

i think what ill do is wait a bit and i mitght restart my souda shimeji and untill then, ill be working on a ishimaru shimeji so yeah