Hello hello! I've uploaded Beta 2.1, which features many wonderful improvements, such as overhauled weathers, new TTS voices, and a new dream world, along with a bunch of quality improvements and bugfixes. Please note that this updated devlog is very late, due to personal reasons! It was originally supposed to be posted last month. Well, here it is.

Weather and time updates

Six new weathers have been introduced/modified with their own distinctive look and feel. Not only the ones you know - default (mildly cloudy), rain (rainy and windy), and hot (no clouds and sunny) - but also some new ones along with some changed characteristics of the existing ones:

• Cloudy: a gray overcast with medium wind.
• Rain: the rainy weather you're used to. The screen has raindrop effects once again.
• Thunder: a darker rain with a distant thunder. Sometimes they strike nearby, so be careful!
• Dew: a soft, foggy weather that might come after the rain, that sometimes shows a rainbow.
• Snow: a snowing weather that only appears in the winter. The screen now gets a freeze effect.
• Hot: the sunny weather you're used to. The screen now gets a heat haze effect.

All weathers has been improved visually, now with consistent fog effects and smoother transition when it changes. Not only that, but some of these weathers are also reflected indoors (specifically, in the school building) - when it's hot, sun rays will shine through, when it's raining, droplets will drip on the glass, when it's snowing, a frost effect will show. At night, the sky now shows a very pretty starry sky that rotates properly with the game time, as well as a moon that shifts phases throughout the Kemonae week. At the right time, auroras will also be visible in the sky!

Furthermore, the weather effects now work offline and will change as you play solo. Other graphical changes were made: There is not a "Use high resolution textures" option in the settings which will bump up the sky, reflection, and other environment texture sizes. Good for when you want to take pretty screenshots, I suppose. There is also a "Use cloud shadows" that will let shadows be cast by the clouds. 

New TTS voices

Ten new TTS voices were added from the CMU arctic, expanding the voice offerings with more variations of accents, genders and styles. The voice window (/voice) now lists all voices with helpful descriptions.

New dream world

A snowy dream world is now accessible. Find it in the forest!

Quick-pose and Quick-equip

There are two new interface shortcuts to more easily express yourself: Quick pose and Quick equip. Quick pose replaces the previous pose cycling button (G), by showing a radial menu with buttons of some the poses. Not every pose is a button, but you can still cycle through them using Shift+G and Ctrl+G. And finally, you can reset your pose with Ctrl+Shift+G, backspace, or the usual pose cancel button in the poser. Quick equip is opened by holding Z and shows a radial menu for your favorite equipments. They can be assigned or unassigned by holding the buttons.

Complete changelog

• Six new weathers are added/modified for all outdoor areas:
  • Thunder: a version of Rain weather with thunder that appears more frequently during spring/autumn season.
    • The thunder can hit you. Thankfully you won't die. Unless?........
  • Dew: a wet weather that appears more frequently during winter/spring season.
    • A rainbow may appear in the horizon if this weather appears after rain.
  • Hot: The usual hot weather, but changed to only appear during summer season. Heat hazes appears on the screen.
  • Snowing: A storm with snow that appears only during autumn/winter season. Frost appears on screen and snow falls.
  • Eclipse: A darker, spookier weather that appears more frequently during autumn season.
  • Cloudy: an overcast version of the default weather.
• Weather and time effects are updated.
  • All weather now work offline and transition smoothly when changing.
  • Indoor windows in the school building now shows raindrops, frosting or godrays depending on the outside weather.
  • A forecast for the current day and the day after can be read on the world map on the tree paper slip.
  • Rain now collides with outdoor water and create splashes and sound effects.
  • Rain ambient sound effects are updated and less intrusive.
  • Rain on-screen water droplet effect now shows correctly again.
  • Going indoors from outside rain now makes you drip with wetness.
  • Sun, moon and stars have proper textures, with the stars appearing in the night.
  • Wind changes now transition smoother on the plants.
  • Auroras now randomly appear once or twice a week.
  • The moon changes phases through-out the Kemona month.
• Two new quick popup menus are available.
  • Quick equip (Hold Z key) now shows to quickly select between the four basic tools.
    • You can assign or remove other items to the outside ring by holding the button for a few seconds.
  • Quick pose (G key) now shows an interface to selecting alternative poses.
    • Ctrl+G still works to change sitting and laying pose.
    • Shift+G now cycles the standing poses.
    • Ctrl+Shift+G now cancels the poses.
• The TTS has added voices and improved features.
  • Ten new built-in TTS voices are added.
    • All voices are now sorted by accent and gender in the voice setting window.
  • Very long Player TTS sentences can now be set to be interrupted.
    • This option can be toggled on in the TTS settings menu and is by default toggled on.
    • The new voices are unlockable by being an active funder.
  • The voice 'emotionality' slider range is increased.
  • The voice window can now be brought up with the command "/voice".
  • Formatting with chat color (`!,red example formatting`) no longer pronounces the color.
  • USA state abbreviations (HI, TX, etc) are no longer said out.
  • Most Kemoverse language words are now pronounced correctly (character/resource names).
  • Ending a sentence with "~" pronounces it with much more emotionality.
  • Slashes in text ('/') are no longer skipped.
  • Text s-stuttering now works properly again.
• A new dream world is added.
  • It is a frost/winter world called "Sahel ana nokz" and is accessible through a new dream gate in the forest.
  • There are snowballs to pick up and an aurora in the sky in this frozen landscape of the north.
• Smaller features are added.
  • New generic emotes are added to the emotion wheel. (Long-press emotes in parentheses)
    • No/Yes (+cat hands), Shrug (Facepalm), Think (Scratch head), Wave (Wave politely), Clap (Present)
    • Yawn (Stretch), Pat (Poke), Give item (Throw item), Take item (Grab item), Talk (Type), Bow (Bow politely)
  • School windows and student dorms now shine a light if other players are inside them.
  • A /specs command is now available to easily tells others of your current computer specifications.
  • Using Ctrl+Q now resets your pose progressively like backspace does.
  • The range of the graphics setting "Detail distance" is increased.
  • The graphics setting "Prefer higher resolution" is added to toggle high resolution sky and mirrors.
  • Eating snacks gives a more substantial energy boost.
  • The drawing board now has a button to set the drawn image as character icon.
  • Emote sound typing is updated.
    • Pressing the Tab key after a "!" now lists all available sounds.
    • There is no longer a chat message sound effect when making an emote sound.
    • A !howls howling sound is added.
    • Sound effects now has increased default volume.
• Smaller bugs are fixed.
  • Entering dorm rooms would sometimes make you fall indefinitely. It will now respawn you.
  • Entering other areas would sometimes make you stumble at the door. This won't happen anymore.
  • Camera movement keys/joystick in first person mode now moves the head up and down.
  • Outdoor shadows rendering have changed and no longer shows as complete black on newer Macs.
  • Right-clicking now no longer resets the head position.
  • The chat window background fade doesn't repeat strangely anymore.
  • The sun no longer 'zooms by' at a specific point in the morning to the starting position.
  • Players spawning in will now be hidden until they are finished loading.
  • Water bucket waterdrops do not disappear anymore after zoning areas.
  • First person view now behaves better with extreme viewing angles.
  • Network player script options now show up properly.
  • The drawing board texture no longer becomes progressively darker on each "Paint".
  • Certain foodraise rewards (flags, etc) are no longer broken and existing broken collection is fixed.