Gallery Busts

David1023

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So i just booted up my save-file of the game and all the images that I had unlocked up to the point where I'm currently at in the game, in the gallery went back to being locked and grayed out as if I didn't unlock them in the first place, can someone look into this, and I'm currently playing the current downloaded version, of (TITS), not on the browser version, I really don't want to start a new game, just so I can unlock all the images and busts/cgs all over again, also for some reason in the gallery i can't see any of the loop gifs/videos like Bianca's face-sitting scene, or Azra's self BJ scene in the gallery even though Azra's scene hasn't been implemented yet.
 

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Jacques00

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The unlocked images are not tied to your save file. The gallery system works in the same way as the achievement system and the game options. It saves independently from the save file. This is so that if you have different play-throughs of the game, they can each contribute to the art gallery unlocks.

If your gallery is cleared, then that may mean you are playing on a different device than the one you originally played the game with (or you somehow cleared out the data that was originally stored), needing you to unlock the images again on the new device. If there is a way to export saved gallery, achievement and options data, then that could be salvageable, but the game doesn't have that feature as of this moment.
 

David1023

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The unlocked images are not tied to your save file. The gallery system works in the same way as the achievement system and the game options. It saves independently from the save file. This is so that if you have different play-throughs of the game, they can each contribute to the art gallery unlocks.

If your gallery is cleared, then that may mean you are playing on a different device than the one you originally played the game with (or you somehow cleared out the data that was originally stored), needing you to unlock the images again on the new device. If there is a way to export saved gallery, achievement and options data, then that could be salvageable, but the game doesn't have that feature as of this moment.
Well, I have the downloaded off-line version of the game, that I'm mainly playing on, but I also have a save-file on the online version from the website, so is that the issue, but also how come I can't see the looped video for Bianca and Azra in the gallery, even when using the cheat to un-gate all the characters and their different busts???
 

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I would probably check what device or browser you are playing the game on. The playback for videos was coded in a way where it should play like a normal browser player would play an embedded mp4 file. If your device/browser can't play that, then that may be what is causing the issue. If there are other players reporting the same issue, I'll try to look into it to see if it's how the file is created, but it all works on my end, so I'm assuming it could be a device/browser compatibility issue.

For the gallery save issue, the online version may be saving/loading the gallery data from a different location than the downloaded version, so you are essentially playing two different "versions" of the game. Again, if we ever get a feature to export gallery/achievement progress and options settings, then those things may be transferable between games, but as it is now, you just need to be aware of which version of the game you decide to play consistently on.
 

XBoxMaster131

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ive got the same issue actually. a long ass time ago i updated to a newer version, and all the busts just arent unlocked even the ones im damn certain ive encountered on this computer.

Also, hold on there are videos?!?!

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holy shit.....

but yeah the videos arent working for me either for some reason.

like, i can select them, but its just a grey screen, nothing plays.
 

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At least the Maja titjob video doesn't seem to be working on the windows dl version. Haven't checked the others.
 

Jacques00

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Thanks for the feedback. I think this issue will be resolved for the next release (if not already in the latest hotfix release). Gedan dug into it and it seemed to be an issue with some old build code that failed to properly export the video files for public and backer builds--which explains why I never ran into the issue on my testing. So the playback issue should be fixed now.

As for actually unlocking the video files (similar to unlocking images) for the Art Gallery, I think that is also fixed, but there was also mention of tying it better to the unlocking system so it isn't confused with image IDs (so like if you only unlock the video and no other images for that character, it should correctly unlock the gallery entry for that character). Under-the-hood stuff, but if unlocking videos has any issues, that should hopefully be addressed in time.
 

David1023

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Thanks for the feedback. I think this issue will be resolved for the next release (if not already in the latest hotfix release). Gedan dug into it and it seemed to be an issue with some old build code that failed to properly export the video files for public and backer builds--which explains why I never ran into the issue on my testing. So the playback issue should be fixed now.

As for actually unlocking the video files (similar to unlocking images) for the Art Gallery, I think that is also fixed, but there was also mention of tying it better to the unlocking system so it isn't confused with image IDs (so like if you only unlock the video and no other images for that character, it should correctly unlock the gallery entry for that character). Under-the-hood stuff, but if unlocking videos has any issues, that should hopefully be addressed in time.
Aside from the problem with the loops videos, will you guys also be addressing the issue of the images or busts that were previously unlocked then going backed to be locked and grayed out, will that be addressed and fix in the next update, since I don't think that I'm the only person that's going through this?
 

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will you guys also be addressing the issue of the images or busts that were previously unlocked then going backed to be locked and grayed out, will that be addressed and fix in the next update, since I don't think that I'm the only person that's going through this?
Like I had mentioned before, this is not really an issue with the game itself as I am not aware of anything in the game that will trigger an unintentional reset to the unlocks. There are buttons that you can use to reset the data, but there's a lot of signposting to confirm that choice, so it isn't something that can be accidentally used. If your device erased that information, then that is on the device and not necessarily something we can control, much less recover the data that was already lost.

I personally want to implement an export/import settings function, but that is more of a workaround than it is a "fix". Whether or not that will happen is up to the dev team wanting it or thinking it's a significant enough feature to implement.
 

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The videos were properly included, the protocol handler for Electron just couldn't handle them. I fixed that, and added the proper unlock-asset code for the video embed calls. The gallery index still isn't yet aware of "only" videos being an unlock element for each given character, but I don't think it really matters in practice -- there's only a handful, and they're all for characters that have regular busts that would absolutely unlock long before seeing the video in normal play.

Aside from the problem with the loops videos, will you guys also be addressing the issue of the images or busts that were previously unlocked then going backed to be locked and grayed out, will that be addressed and fix in the next update, since I don't think that I'm the only person that's going through this?

I'm unaware that there is anything to fix here. Gallery state is persisted properly as far as I can tell, but is kept seperate from save-slot data, which I'm assuming is the ultimate cause of your state getting "lost" in this instance.