Day One Devlog

I figured out how to do dev logs :D

I thought I would use this first dev log to just kinda throw my ideas into one place, that way you get what I'm going for. I apologise in advance if these end up more on the casual side.

so, for the first day of working on the mod, I made the placeholder logo, but even that was a struggle. I went for the same theme present on my profile, but things ended up looking too pastel, then too bright, at one point the circle was just a distorted pastel rainbow gradient. It was a mess, I dread the idea of making the actual logo lol

after that disaster, I cowarded over to my comfort zone: drawing original assets. Yes, I'm aware that I'm going to be implementing them last, however, better to get them sketched up early then have to delay the mod's release for 10 years. I don't have them fully drawn, they are only sketches, but i managed to get 55 total assets done in roughly 3 hours, so that's nice.

I won't show all of them, because I want at least some assets to be a surprise, but here are my personal favourites (sorry if the sketches are hard to read)

you'll notice some of them have notes on where they'll be, this is only to make things easier for future me. Also the green lines are where the top and bottom of the waist are, purely a guide for me, don't worry about it (also don't bully my base, I'm well aware it's ugly, I'm getting a better one when I'm drawing lineart)

Edit: I TOTALLY FORGOT TO MENTION THAT SOME ASSETS ARE INSPIRED BY IRL OUTFITS I FOUND ON PINTEREST!! Note to self: never write a dev log when you're about to go to sleep. I promise I will share the pinterest board, I just need to make a new account and transfer the images (I saved the images under my personal pinterest account and I don't want people finding it)

these aren't the only custom assets that will be added, and what I said on the Gacha Ultimate page isn't the only thing I plan to change, in regards to the pre-existing asets. Hang on let me grab my notes-

- Ponytails having an oppisite side option and a pigtail variant

- Pigtails having a ponytail variant

- Fringes, sorry front hairs, that are lacking certain highlights will be fixed to have the other highlight options

- Rear hair's altered to have curved hairline to prevent it peaking through certain bangs, sorry front hairs (why is it even called front hair, there's literally two one word options to use and Luni chose the two word option)

- o yeah, there's technically two lemon and cherry accessories for whatever reason, so I was planning to add a hairclip on one of the pairs to make it different

- every shirt and jacket has a chest + no chest option (this includes pre-existing clothing that doesn't have it, and custom clothing - you'll notice the lack of chest in the sketches, and that's because I'm planning to add them after I'm done with the chestless variant)

- I have a small list of aesthetics I plan to make custom clothing for, the ones I've written down are: kidcore, cottagecore, pastel goth and lovecore. These aesthetics will 100% have custom assests based on them.

- for props + objects. so far I have flower bouquets (yes im aware one is in the game already), vases, and wall shelves. so clearly a variety /s

That's about everything my notes say, minus the minor planning I've got for the GUI

Edit: no that it not everything! I forgot to mention that pride flags (hand flags and wall flags) will be added also! Seriously, never make a dev log when tired lol

with that, I do want to mention that I wont be posting dev logs daily, or even weekly, I'll post these whenever I feel like I've made enough progress to talk about it.

Anyway, I'm going to sleep, sorry if I don't respond to comments right away due to sleeping.

- Luminous Glow