Yep! We're making one of those!

Well, our game needs animations of some kind! Erin is the one who's been doing most of the art, but then I try to implement it as animations in the engine. It's a team effort ^^

Yes, I don't know how to tell the shader where to do the thing I want it to do. No it's not because I don't know how to define a vector saying where something is, I just don't even understand how to tell the shader "do your thing in this location"

Someone told me to just put a layer in front of the thing I want to be invisible. This would work if I didn't have any other objects in the scene but that isn't the case

Basically, I want the opposite of ClipChildren. Like, I want to make the texture to be not drawn within an area, and I don't want it to be a child of that area

okay so the silhouette thing could be because I used "modulation" to test something in some animation that was no longer used, but...

Seems like the "determinstic" checkbox also just breaks the editor if I use it.

I don't know if it's something I want to use either way but... yeah

unchecking the box didn't undo it so that's fun...

Though I would like to use smaller light for specific spots later. But that comes at a performance cost, so we'll see. I'll have to look into it more, but it's not a priority. We can do without the lights for now

I'm quite happy about this. Thought I will try to see what can be done, even if I can't solve the problem, we don't actually need the lighting effects. The parallax backgrounds are much more important for making the game look nice

okay, it seems like removing my background is making a huge difference. That's something, at least

I have no idea what's hurting performance, and the built in profiler isn't really helping. So now I'm just trying to remove various things from (a copy of) the game world. To see what may be causing this

I guess more compression = computer has to work more? But it always takes like one second even at maximum compression for me.

I guess if the image is *really* large? Or maybe it's like a relic from when computers were much weaker?

Alright, I restarted the PC and it works now.

Didn't work the first time but I guess you just keep restarting it then

It's not the end of the world. It's not like we lost any data, I don't think. So we'll get it to work one way or other.

But I'd rather not reinstall Krita if I can avoid it. Because remapping all the shortcuts to where we want them is a pain in the butt