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Friends, foes, and fae,

It's been quiet as of late. The reason for that is multifaceted but the most important one is that I got a full-time position as a concept artist and illustrator - along with a heavy helping of narrative design work, too. I can't actually discuss it very much as our studio's first project hasn't seen its marketing release yet and I'm under NDA. What I can say is that it's been in development for some time since before I arrived, and is expected to release in Q2 2024.

I'm also waiting to hear back from NAVA about a specific communication regarding my project. I'll be chasing that up shortly, but in the meantime I just wanted to let everyone know that it's not over. I'm not dead, I'm not gone, I'm just lurking and working. Always, always working...

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Alright, so... I have been working on a ton of stuff recently. Like.. a ton. I've structured and planned out four new conversations that unfold before Flux Bar. The way I've planned it out is that selecting a Flirt response where available on the dialogue wheel adds to Float Integer, just like the other LIs use to track friendship level/romance progress, etcetera. So, the more or less times you've flirted with him, the higher the value. The higher the value, the more confident he is. There's also options to just kinda... blow off his remarks, keeping that number lower or even subtracting from it, which affects which approach he eventually takes to Shepard in Flux. Basically, choosing the Flirt option gives +2 Choosing the neutral/friendly/tacit approval option gives +1 Choosing the negative/shutdown response gives -2

TL;DR our boy is smart and remembers how receptive you are to his antics

Now, to get this particular dialogue, the player has to have chosen the Renegade dialogue options post Sur'Kesh and must have flirted with him on two previous occasions to get this. My question is: Is this too fuckin' horny? Like, I don't know. This makes me laugh, but I'm biased. The thing is Shepard flirts with all the subtlety of a dumptruck so I feel like this is in-character but I'm suffering a crisis of confidence. I feel like the Paragon option is chiller. I should post that too for comparison.

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Yes, I'm going to change "Babe With the Bullets" to be something else for BroShep. "Hunk Who Killed Harbinger" is top contender. Proof that I'm making it work for DudeShep, too!

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This might not look like much, but it was a huge, massive stupid pain to set up, and an even bigger stupid mess to animate, and I'm consequently fiercely proud of it despite its glaring imperfections. The synth delivery lets it down in places, I know, but I did a lot with subtlety on expressions in an attempt to compensate. It was worth it to avoid having to hand-key like 4 nodes' lip-sync. This branch has a little bit that is a sort of flashback. I thought it'd be fun to do that. I've been trying to make each branch visually distinct somehow - the path talking about Alchera has some blue lighting, this has a flashback, and I don't know what I'm going to do for the third one. I'll have to think.

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Almost Ready for a Milestone...

Closing in on all the dialogue being animated for the lights of Alchera path... Then just two more branches, which are both shorter... And then the scene will finally be done, and I can get back to the texture edit to give this moment the final push it needs. After that, just the wake-up scene, game ending content, Citadel content, and a couple of idle ambients here and there... Then, Hatboy for OT will be done, and I can work on the Legendary Edition version. The synth has received an update that allows me to have a degree of control over inflection. This has allowed me to go back and edit one or two key lines that I just couldn't get decent reads out of, and have ended up being better as a result. Modding scene-wise, there's investigations into making a system to allow modders to create entirely bespoke audio banks, which would cut down on the more unstable elements of this creation process. Right now, new audio is created by sourcing and temporarily replacing audio from elsewhere in the game that is guaranteed not to be found in loaded memory at the time of the edited conversation. It's done in such a way of course that the player never runs into a problem with it, but it can create memory issues, and setting up the files to do this can be laborious and annoying. There are investigations into finding ways we might be able to use the Dragon Age Modding toolkit's FaceFX generation system to spit out files that ME's FFXE will like... This would mean that the most laborious and time intensive part of hand animation would be rendered obsolete... but again, this is a long ways off. Intriguing developments on it, though. From my perspective, the most challenging part of trying to investigate that is trying to get the Dragon Age modding toolset working on my PC, as it's very arcane to try and do so on Windows 10 for long and boring technical reasons. That said... The tools and technology I have worked with and contributed to since starting this project do things I could never have imagined when I first began, so who's to say what they will be able to do in future!

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Little Update:

I will be returning back to the UK where my main workstation is in several days. Had a look at doing some lipsync work whilst I've been away so I've got a little bit of progress to whack into the thing. Not much, but some is better than none.

It's my birthday on the 9th! For my 33rd birthday, I would like everybody following this project to wish me the strength, fortitude and smarts I need to get this project done well!

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Here is most of one of the three additional investigation paths I added. As usual, not all FaceFX animation is complete, but we're getting there - only a few lines on this path remain. Apologies for the fact this has taken a while to come out, I've needed to learn some new stuff to handle these branches and the scene has a stupid amount of lines. It's a lot to do for just one person. But I'm getting there. Shot by shot, line by line. I definitely have my favourite lines in this path and some of these camera angles I really quite like. For the intimate shots of them talking I tried to position the Normandy model between them. That's why they're there, where they are, and how they fell in love, after all.

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BEHOLD! A MILESTONE HAS BEEN HIT!

What better day than the day of jokes is there to post about my big huge giant Joker mod in progress? This video showcase shows off one of the three different ways of having this conversation (this one is the sort of Paragon path, I suppose, it’s being more direct and open.) All of the new lines have now been completely custom animated, and this branch is now complete. It is also the last video I will post here until I am working on a different scene. Dailies will be available on the YouTube channel, but only slightly more polished things where it comes to videos will appear here, from hereon out. All dialogue has been implemented in this scene and is functional, and only 10 custom lines’ lip-sync remain before the entire scene is feature-complete. The rest of the game had better watch out, because I am coming for it.