Reporting for lewduty! This week Zoey gets ready for the Waifu Gala!

Here's what we're working on!

JustNox

Basically done most of the hard work on the pipe set; some minor parts and assembly-polishing work are left. Screenshot descriptions:

1) Rough parts list is almost done, only some unique and less-used parts left. Won't be a lot of time to do them compared to work already done;

2) Assembly mostly done for the bigger sets of pipes. With doing the required part in step one, these will be complete; after that, the polishing phase will be needed (not too long - some fast occlusion, color, and render polishing to make them feel whole;

3) Smaller sets (images 3-4) are not started - however, these will heavily reuse parts from bigger sets. I'll do assembly once I finish it on the bigger sets; I don't think many unique parts will be needed here.

4) Additional parts are also mostly done (parts rounded in red are also done, just not on the screenshot); won't be a lot of work to finish those too

Aaaand another update on the pipes:

1) Most of the required parts are done

1 is still left to do from the initial plan, and a couple more easy ones might be needed;

2) Most of the assembly is done.

Still needs a couple of parts as described above;

Will also need smaller pipes (but they will be reused from the bigger ones, shouldn't be a problem);

Other than that, only quick polishing will be needed after the assembly.

3) A couple of additional assets still need to be done, but they are quick ones. The background for the pipe hole might seem big, but it's actually easy to do as well.

And the final version of the set! He just needs to discuss a few specifics of asset cutting with Desva, but other than that, it's ready to export!

And a preview of what they look like in the environment:

Desva

Desva managed to get the conveyor belt to work:

So he started to work on a new way to find the outfit in the tunnels. After some back and forth with Vils, this is what he came up with:

Then this is a small prototype he made to show Vils and confirm if this is what she had in mind:

And a preview of what it would look like in-game:

Aine Lovia

Aine worked on the construction worker chibi. She added an overweight variation with lighter clothes. This is what it looks like:

Almost done:

Finished version:

Rokean

Rokean is working in the building where you encounter Cypher for a second time. He kitbashed a laundry room:

He mentioned that if we have the manpower to make the dryer assets, he'll put them against the upper wall and remove the top 2 washing machines. He would also like to have a pinup there, but he'd need to check if we can commission one.

Juno

Juno came up with some concepts for Lio's drone, kind of based on the Nail Salon helper bots. But he ran into a problem: the perspective. The cars are usually in the environment perspective (meaning they are usually seen from somewhat above), but the bots are seen from the character's perspective (seen from the front). He made multiple concepts, but only one that resembles the helper bots:

Vils, Nox, Rokean, and Turkiz liked option 7, as it would feel very Lio-coded, since he would customize it and make it more "his".

He worked a bit more on it and this is what he has so far:

Bear

Bear managed to get some very juicy performance gains.

At the Lower Red Light District, it went from 90-100 FPS to 180-190 FPS

For the Res District, he managed to go from 60-80 FPS to 130-140 FPS

Bear also worked on Desva's idea for the outfit on the conveyor belt in the tunnels. He worked on the basic mechanics of being able to manually manipulate the conveyor belts:

Vils

Vils implemented the job upgrade UI. The same one from the waitressing mini-game (just needs some adjustments):

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