The Something's In The Air Redux project 0.12

The focus on the 0.12 was in updating graphics that take place on sets that were recently updated in either the Hopepunk City project or the Date Ariane Remastered project.  These include : the fancy restaurant, the convenience store, Lizzard's Nightclub,  downtown, the movie theater, the dress shop, the lingerie shop, the Drive-N-Dine, and Ariane's house (which hasn't been completed entirely yet as I am still rewriting certain stories)

Every image that takes place in one of these places, regardless of what plot they are in, has been updated.  This made it easier to make sure there is consistency in lighting and fidelity in these locations, but it means there is a lot of switching back and forth between new and old pictures as you follow the individual stories.

There has also been some more changes to the stories:

Ariane plots:  After making the radical beginning changes I made last month to Ariane second dates, the endings referring back to those beginning plots don't make sense. The old plot involved the player and Ariane meeting at the downtown restaurant so both of their cars are parked in the garage, so many of the stories ended either at the parking lot, or one of you leaving a car behind, or both of you driving to Ariane's house in separate cars.

The new plot starts at the diner, so the separate cars thing makes no sense.  So newer plot: All Ariane dates have you picking up Ariane at her house and driving to the diner, then driving to the theater, then once done with downtown, the player drives her home. The only plot that breaks this way is "Safety Pullout" which I fudged by having Ariane insist you drive her home so you can switch cars.

Because of the changes to the stories, I had to create some new graphics, or borrow some from DAR.  I decided to borrow the sex scenes from DAR, at least temporarily.  I will likely reanimate these eventually, so DAR and SITAR have different sex scenes, but these are a perfect placeholder and they look way better than the old SITA ones.  All the events in the Ariane paths that take place in Ariane's house have been updated graphically except the three-way sex plot with Lydia, as I plan to rewrite that one to accommodate male player and female player differences, and need to make those changes before I update the graphics.  Hot tub scenes are new, bedroom scenes are old.

Rachel plots: Some changes have been made to the Rachel plots as well.  They are very subtle, and currently don't go anywhere, but eventually they will lead to bigger mysteries.  You might notice some paths from the old SITA do not work in SITAR.  Completing one Rachel path will open closed paths, and close others. This is a plot driven change on purpose, but the explanation doesn't exist yet.

Because a lot of the Rachel plots happen downtown, many Rachel images are updated.  In fact the "Concert and after party" plot is almost all updated except Heidi's Salon, which is one of the sets that need to be rebuilt.

Graphics updated: 271 out of 1136, but these are the easy ones.