Miscellaneous Showcase 2 + Infos About TTS

Such a huge title to start again with the update logs and announcements! No more bumps on the road in sight!
Thinking how there's a literal year of distance between my previous showcase and this one makes it obvious that you've waited enough, it's time for some explanation about everything you're seeing on screen!

Car Lights: The title is self explanatory, as part of my training I started using some projectors to affect the lights in the game, whether it's the lights of a car as we see in the picture or even a street lamp, I can now manage to make it happen, I think this was one of the most important trainings since lights can make stuff look off and out of place sometimes, since 3DCG I had problems with how the light worked having only one light direction feature. Thanks to Koikatsu, I can instead make of the map whatever I want, even just to create some effects like the sky turning red or stuff like that.
That's not all about this picture, I'll take the car example to mention that a lot of new assets have been added at my disposal, of course ready to properly credit them once used since I do not own these assets.

Ribbon Girl Sparkle!: Here we have two more examples of the progress made with my messing around with Koikatsu, scenes in general are really complicate, you could take a picture, sure, but maybe the camera angle doesn't really transmit the energy you had in mind or the position wasn't quite right, there's a lot to cover and despite it not being perfect, I think I achieved a bit of that knowledge while making some examples for myself, of course it's important since pictures will be pretty much all you'll see in the game pfft. To add a little anime touch to the picture as a whole, I tried enlarging Ribbon Girl's hand since it's the closest thing to the screen.
Secondary mention, lots of maps and audio (BGMs, Sound Effects etc.) have been added as possible assets at my disposal, this opens up possible locations for the game that I never imagined, of course, them too properly credited.

Angelic Mirage: Here we have a literal recreation of Alex trance for Philla's feet that we see in the game, just from another perspective, I used this pose to announce two things, the first one I bet you guys can see it very well, we improved the feet model quite a lot by adding some nice overlays. This comes with a bit of a sad news since we lost quite some time trying to figure out how displacement works, basically it allows us to manipulate the characters skin in order to get some nice results on soles for example, our objective was to create wrinkles or even just make feet shapes more unique for each girl, however, we could sadly only make some minor changes. That leaves us to tesselation which I kinda started touching, basically smoothens the skin to look less polygonal, I used a bit here even though I don't know if I did it correctly.
A little bonus news! Remember how Alex's house was in development? We kinda decided that I suck at doing maps and that we're either gonna use one I found or commission one, this will be decided while I work on other stuff.

Raging Aura: I mean Sparking Zero has just come out, it was a pretty needed reference pff, as you can see, I kinda meshed together most of my latest training here: scene composition, glow effects, assets, lightings, effects and posing too, I think I'm ready to make some flashy images which will be needed for Orbs attacks and also special moves, may it be hypnosis rays, glowing eyes as we previously covered, maybe even exaggerated moments like someone raging and all kinds of attacks that Alex will use agains the enemies. Speaking of effects, I also did lose a lot of time trying to make use of a specific material called slime (even if it's just water) so that I could use it somehow, but the only problem was that it would literally have an x-ray effect if looked trough, so you would be able to see Alex without a shirt trough a splash of water, it was-.. ugh-.. the rejected thing I mentioned in my Discord.

So, I know what you're all wondering: "it's nice seeing so much progress with the training, but when will we actually get something that we can play with".
You know me at this point, I hate giving dates and stuff like that since I'm not too sure of how much time anything is going to require, however, despite being kind of a newbie, I'm confident with what I've learned, I discussed with my co-developer and I came to the conclusion that I'm fine enough as is, we're going to in any case, save any scene in the game we have since Koikatsu makes it very easy to modify anything you've done by simply swapping models with fixed ones, it's that easy.
With no more fear of risking, I predict (but not confirm), that I'll be beginning shortly to make pictures for the game!

Starting from stage one, there are some preparations we have to finish first, I'll give you all a good old "to do list" in order to fill you in what's left to do and what are my plans about it:

- Make Madreterna's and the angels models to recreate the intro for the game
- Fix all the models I've already done to fit the adjustments we applied to Philla and Alex
- Apply feet overlays to everyone
- Decide which maps will be used in general, leaving the decision for Alex's house for last while we work on other stages.

All the rest is self explanatory, images will be remade with the new engine and adapted to the new bits of story.

So, what do you guys think? I'd love to discuss in the comments with your different opinions and answer some questions too.
*The models showed may be subject to changes upon the next version releases, these designs are not final.