Prototypes and more poses

Note: This article was written on 2025-01-04, as a summary of the events happening on Discord back during this development log

During the end of June, I did a bunch of engine work, but also added some new poses and prototyped some ideas. Here's a showcase!

First, I started with a new "kneeling" pose when tied to a pole that I made on June 22nd.

On June 23rd, I spent a bit of time implementing "proximity triggers" that allowed me to make a very simple "minigame" of sorts, where you run around a choice of corridors that can randomly bind you. There's no strategy, so it's more of a showcase of everything already in the game!

I also experimented a bit with first-person perspective after V-OP implemented the feature in their own V-OP World game. This was with... Mixed results, as the FPS view is clearly not thought to be playable right now (giving some motion sickness), but it's a first draft!

After a few days of reworking the map layout system, I took a break to implement a "swimsuit top" asset inspired by the American Bikini FFXIV gear mod by koohi, with a model by DragonLord720 on June 26th.

Inbetween cleaning up the engine, I experimented with creating a "horse golem" based on Nominu's Wayfaring piece, but my 3D modeling skills were not quite up to snuff to make it showcaseable so the idea got shelved for now.

And then, on June 30th, I added a new variant to the "rope link" prototype by creating a chain!