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Early access update to Bhael HR

I'm running a build of Bhael HR with a few added character types and some changes that should help performance. A lot of changes and tweaks have lead to new ways of doing things for the main game as usual. I'll try to update on that as soon as I can as well as hopefully release an increment of the FPS and VR builds in the next few weeks that takes advantage of these changes and fixes. 

Archive of all old artworks

After a few requests for old stuff, I got the old collection and hosted it. Here is a coupon code to make it free on Gumroad: 

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Discount for Bhael Inc HR: Downsizing

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Bhael Inc. HR: Downsizing Patreon Demo Download

Controls:

W, A, S, D - Movement

CTRL - Crouch

F - Pick up (hold for weapons)

Left Mouse - Fire

Right Mouse - Aim

Backspace - Restart Level

Escape - Quit Game

This is an example build to test the outfit material changing script, hair, and many other from-scratch components. The 'next meeting' buttons are disabled for the...

Some day I'll learn

Build contained two major glitches - fixed and building overnight! 

Hospital Delay :/

Sorry for the delay in updates and posts I spent the last two weeks in and out of the hospital after a car accident. At this point I'm okay in all the important ways, just still having some pains. I'm in the US, so we'll see how laughable the bill is in a few weeks no doubt...

Current Short Term Goals

1.) VR version fixed for Index (as well as others), but the 'universal ...

FPS Build v0_1_1

So of course, there are a bunch of things that worked fine pre-build that are now a bit wonky, but I need to just release this for people to play with or my perfectionist needs will never let it out. Pretty self explanatory, but notes to help:

Hold F to pick up weapons (behind you on a crate)

Press F to pick up magazines (behind you on a crate)

To reload the level, walk into t...

Low Poly Level Builds Imminent

I've created a small low-poly level mainly for testing VR (it REALLY helps with performance in VR). I'll also be creating a more detailed level specifically for FPS, but the detail and lighting on that take forever. I plan to release a build of FPS and VR both within the week, hopefully in the next day or two. SOOOO much has been rebuilt better and things are really coming together the way I ho...

Before and after Anisotropy

Updating all the materials and am really pleased with it :D

First 4 NPCs Chosen and Faction Info

These four will be the NPCs I start with and focus on. Each has their 'foundation' complete and are ready for ragdoll setup, animation, and character code. 

Far left: Syrene, Kerosene Queen lieutenant 

Mid left (red dress): Nicole, Bhael Inc. VP of Public Relations

Center: Magdalena, Iceni leader

Right: 2022-07-07 03:16:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Pick NPCs and Customize

As I am going to be taking it slow and working lovingly on one or two NPCs at a time to give them their full due, I would like your input (I truly love every one of these girls, even the ones that will be 'generic'). A lot of skin textures are actually Allie's just for testing, but I have a wide range of options I can customize any of them with (tattoos, freckles, skin color, lips, eyes, etc.)....

Test Level Poll

As I am slowly knitting everything back together, what would you prefer from test builds? Know that the complexity of each NPC means there won't be a flood of tons to begin with - my goal will be polished NPCs a bit at a time. You can choose as many as you like, even if they contradict :)

Updated Build - NPC War 5_25

Added a level restart 'cube' behind the statue, run into it to restart the war :)

Let me know of any glaring issues. Note: I have upgraded the hit points of all NPCs to 500 in order to really test out the combat and performance, so don't be surprised if they look a bit worse for wear after taking 15 rounds :P

NPC War Test 1

Had to make some changes to get the lighting reasonable, but here is a basic test. It isn't at all perfect as it's mainly a test of the ability of AI to blow each other away. As you can see, there are a few bugs to work out with the AI still, but bleeding and all that is working. That said, I think it's still fun :)  I'll be making a version where the AI actually attack the player, but tim...

Fixed up the last build

I fixed up the last build to run a hell of a lot better (I think). There are still obviously some [tons of] issues, but it should hopefully be fun to play with a little. Let me know if there is anything super glaring glitch-wise. 

Known issues: some walking animations get frozen, I somehow broke the zoom on the rifle, but it's just a test one anyway. 

What graphics card are you rocking?

Again, to better have context for current and future decisions. 

Quick Poll

How important is it to your enjoyment that NPCs look as high quality as possible? 0-5.  

This will help me focus my mind where it should be focused now that I'm diving back in. 

Necessary Pivot

So despite the amount of work sunk into the active ragdolls, I think I'm going to nix them for the FPS side of things as I think they are SEVERELY degrading performance. I'm not sure yet, but I'm going to try to make a few characters with basic ragdolling to see if that helps performance. I'll update everyone after I get a few characters rigged up to test against the active ragdoll performance....

Better Build - LR FPS 0.1.0b

Much improved - a few bad NPC meshes were causing the huge spike in storage and poor performance. It's still a bit heavy because of the number of unique NPCs all fighting each other. I'll try to release a build without everyone shooting each other in a few days. The build time is drastically reduced after I nixed a few NPCs with mesh issues - wish I could narrow down permanent fixes for that as...

LR FPS Test Build 0.1.0a

This build was mainly to test fixes for various problems that have been keeping me from making progress. This is a test build, not a normal play build. You are limited to a rifle in this one as I'm trying to dial in the bullet time distances and then work on making better bullet time camera animation/tracks. The NPC's are set to shoot at each other in order to test factions, AI aiming, and full...

Materials fixed

Fixed all the material problems (I think) and am running a test build to see if it actually works or crashes. I might just have to rent out Sed's beast PC if this fails...

Transfer complete

It looks like I have some repair work to do on materials, but the project opens nicely again, so we're back in business. Once I repair the textures/materials in the scene, I'll run a build to see if the upgrade fixed the issue. 

Good news (?)

Sed's monster PC apparently blew through whatever memory issue mine was having and it's transferring back so I can try to run the build again. She said some of the materials need to be fixed, but that's easy (and kind of fun). 350 GB transfer is go. Now we hope. 

Update

So updating the engine didn't fix the crashing issue and through now literal days of reloading (and it failing after a few hours) I have decided I may as well do the project rebuild I have been meaning to do because of chaotic mess of assets potentially causing the issues (or at least bogging things down and wasting time). I've branched the project into two copies: original and the new one I'm ...