I bit of an update? ( °ヮ° ) ?

Why the perpetual deadline slips?!

Because there has been a ton of changes! From the PLOGONS themselves updating *coughpenumbracough* that lead to new formats for packing things! To learning and experimenting with new techniques and technology :3

Hopefully September is the month where I catch up. (Realistically with what I'm experimenting with, probably not 〜⁠(⁠꒪⁠꒳⁠꒪⁠)⁠〜 We can always hope though! There is always hope! )

Why are the outfit sizes getting smaller?

Short version? Things got better, I got better!

Long version? Because some stuff are now pre-compressed! Others are using smaller textures to be more space and bandwidth efficient to make them more usable!

Longer version and why I want to toot my own horn so I made this post? ♡( >؂•̀ ) I found out a lot of the giant textures I made, the game engine can't display anyways! So I shrunk a ton of stuff best I can so people that use my outfit publicly won't run into issues!

I did quite a bit of experiments, found that smaller sizes uncompressed texture works better than larger textures compressed, namely anytime there's a lot of finer fabric details! So I chose the smaller sized stuff that are not compressed to better preserve detail while in-game!

What brought this about? Substance painter bug, thanks Adobe, kind of meant I have to retool my texture workflow quite a bit as a workaround. Also the new version of file format for storing these outfits being pushed out meant a lot of tools are still in the middle of changing, so it was a lot of changes all around, no doubt quite a few of you found out when you updated them yesterday or today! :3

When can you get back on schedule?

SOON! There are still experiments being sorted out, and oh also...

I do have to move soonish that wouldn't allow me to carry my big old potato computer, so I may or may not be working out of a tiny laptop in a few month for a bit! Then I don't require a second move back and everything will be all nice and rainbows and sunshines and stable finally!

So hopefully I can enjoy Evercold in peace without worry about late deadlines by then... and that plogons don't break as long as they did in Dawntrail :3