v0.6 is broken but at least there's CASUAL FLUFFIES V0.6.5

last night, i released a piece of fucking shit. let's fix it.

but first, pillowfluffs! legs, tails, horns, wings, ears, eyes, and cutie marks can be removed by clicking on a bunch of triggers i slapped all over the fluffies' bodies with the knife tool.

fluffies with missing limbs can't move as quickly as other fluffies, and will crawl instead of walking and cry instead of running if missing two or more limbs.

fluffies with missing eyes won't run or seek things out like a regular fluffy, and will instead walk around aimlessly when they want something they are not already touching. some things, such as being chased by a cannibal, can make them run anyway, but they have a chance of tripping when they do so.

fluffies with both ears missing won't initiate conversations, and will cry about not being able to hear when spoken to.

after observing the blindness tester's generally screwy behavior, i experimented with resetting fluffies' event timers when forcing events on them, but then crowds started making their decisions in perfect sync, which made them feel creepy and robotic. i went back to amputation after that, arranging a bunch of  'if' statements in a highly specific way to get the amputations and mutilations to apply to corpses without getting butthurt over hierarchy changes instead of limbs popping back into existence upon death.

in my first test, the corpse cloned itself a million times, as things tend to do when i mess around with components and get something wrong. in the next test, it started complaining about not being allowed to destroy the transform. in the next...

looks good! now that that's out of the way, it's bugfix time. i've been doing some thinking, and seeing as v0.6 is complete shit in my eyes, i'm going to release a small update with just the mutilation and bugfixes. we'll call it... v0.6.5.

mother-seeking-child behavior is obviously severely broken, and the fact that i released it in that state as a result of having never tested it in the first place is unacceptable. lactating fluffies currently act as if all of their children are dead when they can't find them, and they run away from the place they last saw their foals instead of towards it, not to mention the sliding thing. i am in no way professional with anything i do, but generally, at the very least, i want to make sure shit like this doesn't end up in official releases.

with that little self-bashing rant out of the way, it's time to actually fix this bitch. the first thing i did was move some stuff around so that the routines for searching and mourning couldn't be triggered at the same time, which i'm pretty sure is what was causing the sliding. then, i inverted the direction setting so that the mares would actually move towards their babies instead of making all their problems worse.

then, the thing that was causing the inappropriate mourning in the first place. the relationship class has a 'met' value, determining the age a fluffy was when it met a certain other fluffy. i didn't have a specific use in mind when i implemented it, but i ended up using it to keep mares from attempting to find older foals from past litters when looking for their offspring. the thing about that is that i didn't set it up right, meaning that all fluffies thought the point when they first met was the last time they talked, and that before the first time they nursed, mothers thought they had known their foals from birth. after applying the fixes...

yeah, grieve, bitch. it's your fault i forgot to test a prominent feral thing, even though it's actually my fault. after tweaking the script a little... the behavior went right back to the way it was before. what the fuck. a look at the code confirmed that it was because i had put most of the entire code in the wrong place, i. e. dumb bitch disease acting up. i'm not sure how the first test even worked in the first place. i also figured out that the bond between mothers and foals wasn't being applies through the 'set relationship' function, so a lot of stuff that should have been done automatically wasn't done at all.

in the next and final test, i did the same thing, but without the mother pen, and with a stallion whose variables i hacked to force him to give birth out of his ass, because the behaviors don't check gender. it was pretty much fine, but i discovered that instead of inverted variables or two animations being triggered at once, the sliding was happening because of a variable that wasn't what it should have been. the end result: a mother who properly searched for her babies, and after seeing them die, spent every moment either eating, getting stoned, or sitting around and lamenting her lost children.

the infinite falling was a little harder. i couldn't think of any way to fix it without breaking fall damage, so i eventually just went 'fuck it' and had fluffies perform a check during the falling animation to make sure they were still falling, and if not, return to a standing position. i also put a bunch of checks in the event script to hopefully make animations a little smoother. then, i got the idea to remove alicorn fear in blind fluffies and make fluffies without front legs unable to hit others. got a mare that won't accept an alicorn foal? before that alicorn is traumatized and stops trying to nurse, gouge the mare's eyes out, or remove her front legs, or both. problem solved.

to celebrate, i did the usual feral world, but with a shitload of starters, and after letting them run around for a while, i hunted them down and removed their eyes and front legs.

i ended up scrapping the smoothing checks, because they made fluffies walk in place sometimes and generally didn't work the way i thought they would. now for the download!




 it's not fucking broken anymore and you get this cool new feature early

-mothers can now properly tell the difference between being away from foals and having witnessed all of their deaths and will no longer slide across the ground when unable to find them
-living fluffies' limbs, tails, wings, horns, ears, eyes, and cutie marks can now be removed
-dead fluffies' faces now have the same colors as living fluffies' faces
-added dirt walls and metal bars to the building menu
-fluffies will now snap out of a glitched falling state on their own, it's not ideal but it's the only thing i could think of doing without breaking things
-the foal "scawy noisie" fix now applies to everything, not just rape

http://www.mediafire.com/file/zi9ucar4rl1dtrv/Casual+Fluffies+v0.6.5.zip