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With only a few days until midsommar. I hope all of you are doing awesome!
This summer has been hot, waaay to hot. In a bad way I'm afraid.
School has eaten up a lot of my time and if I didn't have this game to work on I'd most likely would have stopped my studies. Not going into details however, but I'm fairing well so far.

Picture above is from one of the new maps in the game. It'll be a bit darker when being played because screenshot function does not capture the rain effect. Speaking of which, I'm experimenting with a new rain effect that doesn't force a screentint. Screentinting is rather heavy and I can just do that by layering a picture or have that in the overlay itself. Meaning that this might be the last map that I'm using the engine rain function, replacing it by my own which looks better and should take off about 20~30ish percent of load on low power machines. You may ask why the original function is so heavy, and the reason is that it changes each pixel with a toned color, instead of just layer a transparent color on top. This may ofcourse seem counter productive but this effect is most likely better for blending colors, but if you only need things to look darker this is mostly just a performance loss.

The new rain effect will show up at the bridgemap that I've been working on. It's also combined with a new directional high wind effect that I've come to tweak alot. Much like this map shown the bridge also have random lightning showing up.

I've also been working on the new graphics for the Urban & Claud bath scenes.
Which has been slightly challenging because the original art had so bad linework eventho I used to use 3D-models as referance at the time. That keeping as much of the original poses have been proven difficult, but I've kept all but one so far and I think you'll be happy with the result :-)
Alot of work but the linework for the last pool stairs picture is done and only Claud will need a bit of shading and I can call that complete.

Interior tilesets for Castle Poenari is in the works, I'm not sure how many that I need to make. But there are alot of objects like furniture to draw for sure. I think that the mannequins are going to be the more difficult to draw, I'll have to look for some good referances for that.

I hope you'll have an awesome day and I hope you'll enjoy the update once it's ready :-)