Happy Minako Monday!
It's been a whole 2 years since this project started, and we've come a long way! Last year I talked about how amazing it was so many people contributed, and how far the project has come. Truly it's the same, but this last year such an incredible amount of work has been done on not just the mod, but furthering P3R mod development itself.
We've developed things for Costume Framework specifically to make the Femc mod better, we've reversed filetypes, and Adrien and Ivan have done loads of work to un-hardcode the menu and develop a system to change files on boot. Event editing has gone swiftly as well, our event editing team is quite steadily making progress on what needs to be done. We also figured out physics working in battle to help lift the workload on our animators. We also finally uploaded the project to Nexus and Gamebanana!
More recently we've also settled on a ui color scheme, which is discussed more at the bottom of these patch notes!
Thank you to everyone who has contributed over the last year, and see you this time next year! Thanks to CatBoyRonaldReaganLabubu for the update art!
2D
- New AoA artwork by Ciel-Bell
- New Bustup Artwork by Milky
- Reverted the name entry screen to blue
- Many UI textures have been recolored by Adrien
3D
- Updated Theo model by Esa, Adrien & Mudkip
- Custom physics blueprint by Mudkip for main story outfits
Audio
- Removed the old version of certain Mellodi voice lines and added new versions based on the new script. By Mellodi & Kindred
- Gendered Audio by Gio
- Voice event 600_620 Nishiwaki improvement. one line.
- Voice Event 600_703 Yukari improvement, two lines.
- Voice Event 600_820 Akihiko improvement, one line.
- Voice Event 600_810 Junpei improvement, one line.
Event
- Yakushima events by Kiara and Ray
UI by Ivan & Adrien
Camp menu:
- Pinkified all background cards for Tutorial submenu + Dictionary from System
- Pinkified informative message when checking tutorials before unlocking any of them
- Pinkified font of Equip submenu when selecting unavailable party members
- Pinkified title of Tutorial/Dictionary messages
- Added config color for equipBonus bars of Persona Status
- Pinkified System fade animation of the submenu options
- Fixed issue with Persona Status lore making it show an incorrect blue fade effect
Guidance:
- Pinkified blueish gray background colors
- Pinkified exclamation that shows up sometimes in guidance elements
TownMap:
- Fixed generic shop icon color being blue tinted
- Pinkified up/down/left/right arrows of location details
Endgame cinematic:
- Pinkified choices through the whole cinematic
- Pinkified subs just before the second in-game choice
Misc:
- Pinkified most of MsgWindowSimple remaining blue elements
- Added config color for unavailable party members' parallelogram inside camp equip
- Added unique highlight colors for root camp menu
- Fixed switch case statement in camp equip menu, now correctly coloring the numbers in that part
- Fixed switch case statement in ProgressTrackFraction function
- Adrien also did something
- Some like battle stuff
Backend stuff
- Improved Linux compatibility option by 0HMyC
- Femc Config App cleanup
Extra
The Menu
The bright pink menu has been around a long time, almost as long as the mod itself. It was always a work in progress though, but now it's started to get settled and finished! The new color scheme was made by a mix of feedback from the server, and a lot of people from the main team. Adrien, Esa, Cpido, Dniwe, Kiara, Yuha, Ray, Neptune, Ivan, and Rirurin contributed towards colors, un-hardcoding, and other aspects.
One big thing that allowed this was the improvement upon my own system to hex edit files on boot. The mod actually edits the hex of various blueprints, data tables, effect files, and materials on boot. It does this quite fast, and due to how complicated the files are internally the system itself is also quite complicated.
Lots of files are stored in various ways for color, ARBG, RGB, RGBA, AGBR, and various other stupid combos Atlus came up with. There are also color curves, and other things to make it more complicated. Regardless, the menu now looks like this!
Now the model isn't is the same and needs to be changed, but the color scheme is mostly done. It's a lot better than the old pink, however if for whatever reason you don't vibe with it you can change it with the femc config app.
Also worth mentioning it's a good idea to reset, or even delete your config file for the mod for the new default colors!
The Femc Config App
The config app has been around for about a year and a half now. In that time the development for it lagged behind the normal mod somewhat. This was because it was kind of hard to balance both the mod and the app, however the tech debt involved with the app has been cleared. The code has also been cleaned up to allow for easier updates, so it's in a much better place and can keep pace with the normal mod.
The app's ui editing functionality is a lot better. You can now export and import jsons, which allows you to share your own ui setup with other people! I'll expand more on this in the future if there's enough of a demand, however for now you can just post your jsons in the server or share with friends.
This year
The goals this year are about the same as last year. Finish up ui, finish up the last of the models revised, and continue work on animations and events. Next update we should have redone hair rig, and custom hair physics I'm working on, which should allow for much better workflows.
Thanks again for the great 2 years to both team members and users, see you next update!