0.18.1 Changelog

re:Dreamer 0.18.1 is halfway between a bugfix release and a proper release, so the changelog of 0.18.0 should be considered a part of it.

• Ren'Py 8.2.0 broke a lot of things, and because I was both an idiot who decided to update before the release and had to crunch to get the release out the door the day I did due to very extenuating circumstances in my life (and the same thing is happening again right now), I missed them. These include:
  • Visual bugs (mostly tied to characters shifting in height by a few pixels, the weird composites I made for split expressions, or Zoey/Samantha's yandere face to normal face dissolve not working).
  • Animation fixes (some CGs broke in pretty egregious ways, but characters also sometimes flew across the screen).
  • Britney's variable for her sitting down on her hips and not her legs broke (I still don't understand this one at all).
  • Text overflowing out of the 4-line limit in the textbox (Ren'Py changed its text shaping from TrueType to HarfBuzz and this lead to lines changing width).
  • Ai's font getting messed up (same issue, but more severe as this font collapses certain contractions into a messy blob on the apostrophe, i.e. "it'd" became almost illegible).
  • And a whole lot of more minor issues I am forgetting to mention.
• That being said, there is a bit of new writing sprinkled throughout the script, the most noteworthy of which is Britney Day 3 having a new scene outside of the church that explains the issues with binding better. But there are small edits almost everywhere in the script as I had to rewrite a few lines to fit the text width changes. It's just barely shy enough of having enough new content to warrant a new version.
• I think I finally fixed the phantom rhythm game popup on loading saves! It was an easy fix I just didn't see of hiding the "ddr_notify" screen instead of the "notify" one.