Song of Days Past - Teaser #4 + A Word from Me

[u/Upset_Rub_405]

Been a little over 3 weeks since my last teaser and a lot of progress has been made so I figured I'd show a bit of it while also mentioning a couple things. I've been experimenting and having a lot of fun with the UI and visuals for the mod on top of everything else I've been doing. I really think you guys are gonna like this mod when I eventually finish the whole thing. Action-adventure mods aren't very common and mods with core focuses on music are also pretty rare so this mod will be unique if nothing else. I've chosen to work by myself which makes progress take a lot longer, but I think it'll be worth it. I put a lot of time, thought and effort into this. To make sure that all the plot points sync properly, that the music and visuals are nice, that the characters are well written, and everything feels natural. I also try and make as many things as I can on my own (like most of the dialogue boxes) so the mod can have a bunch of unique assets that make it memorable. I've been on a real hot streak, working on this for at least 3 hours every single day for about 2 months now, so I really hope you guys enjoy this because I've put a lot of blood, sweat and tears into it XD.

[u/life1845]

i has question when do you think you will release it? not trying to rush you or anything i just want a idea on how much longer we will have to wait?

[u/Upset_Rub_405 → u/life1845]

I honestly have no idea. My goal is to be fully finished with everything by May 2027 at the absolute latest but I don't know. It shouldn't take that long though. The mod will be split into 3 acts with act 3 being pretty short, only an hour or so. Act 1 is about 85-90% done and Act 2 shouldn't take as long in theory (cause a lot of act 1 was spent learning how to do everything).

[u/life1845 → u/Upset_Rub_405]

since your almost done i'd say maybe around the end of September?

[u/Upset_Rub_405 → u/life1845]

I'm almost done with just act 1. Acts 2 and 3 still need to be made and act 2 is gonna be similar in length to act 1

[u/StoreDefiant]

Hey, how were you able to change the dialogue textbox's background?

[u/Upset_Rub_405 → u/StoreDefiant]

Wherever you defined your characters (which should be in defintions.rpy), you can change the window background with a transform command. It'll look something like this

define mc = DynamicCharacter('player', what_prefix='"', what_suffix='"', ctc="ctc", ctc_position="fixed", window_background = Transform("/mod_assets/gui/mc_textbox.png", xalign=0.5, yalign=1.0))

[u/StoreDefiant → u/Upset_Rub_405]

Thank you!