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Other Mods/Creations / FeralHeart+ : Preview
« on: October 29, 2012, 10:32:21 pm »!UPDATE!
Where to begin... First, allow me to apologize for my absence, I would have loved to have had FeralHeart+ done by now, while I didn't always have time to work on it when I did it was always an incredible source of joy to bring my ideas to life in the game. Unfortunately much has happened in the past year, one event of which I deeply and sorrowfully regret to inform you of is that the hard drive on my laptop died. With it I lost everything, all the progress I had made on FH+, my new presets, some of my music and photos, everything I had created in The Sims 3, and many of my drawings. I was devastated and had regrettably not backed up the files like I should have, something I now do at least once every other month. So where do I go from here? Well it appears I have two options, one of which I may need some help with.
One, I could sell the laptop for scrap, abandon work on FeralHeart+, and begin work on my second project which I alluded to previously as Changamko Reborn. Changamko, for those of you who do not know, was an online Lion King roleplaying game originally being developed by a team with KovuLKD as the lead programmer, unfortunately differences arose between members and KovuLKD ended up leaving the group to create his own game Impressive Title, and of course FeralHeart as its successor. My plan here would be to modify FeralHeart, like I did with FH+, to create a Lion King roleplaying world. The characters would all look Lion King-esque, the maps would all be locations from the movies or based on locations from the movies, and music would be African with a few scores from the movies and musical.
Or two, after consulting a local computer repair shop I found that there is only one place in the entire United States that could probably recover my laptop, DriveSavers. Located in California I could pay to ship my laptop there for an estimate and pay to have them attempt to recover FeralHeart+, finish the game, and begin work on the Lion King game. Unfortunately this is where I may need some assistance, after reading online reviews of DriveSavers I found that to recover data from a crashed hard drive will likely cost me between $800 and $1400, for that I could buy a brand new laptop. I do plan on sending it in just to get an estimate, but as I am currently in college and have limited funds as it is, my question is would anyone be interested in donating a few bucks if I were to try to pay for this using crowd funding? Even if I don't manage to raise enough, something would be better than nothing to offset the price of saving FH+.
The current version of FH+ V1.13 is no longer available to download, as it does not currently have Lonely Cave and that means if you create a new character in FH+ they'll arrive in a black abyss. But not to worry, I am working on finishing up an update to fix this at the moment. It will not only fix that problem, but hopefully will fix the black screen issue some users have and will include tons of new content and many improvements to original FeralHeart files. So for now enjoy FHoriginal and get ready for the biggest FeralHeart overhaul you've ever seen!
Update V1.131 will include:
- New logo
- New music
- New Lonely Cave
- New character Podium map
- New Forgotten Depths map
- New Barren Tundra map
- Many new items, objects, and plants
- Over 70 new faux trees and plants
- New sound effects for maps
- New terrain textures
- All new character textures
- New character, object, and terrain shading
- Bonfire Island has been separated to create Fire Island (will reduce lag problems)
- Temple of Dreams has been separated to create Sky Temple
- Completely revamped Endless Plains
- Watermill is out of winter and teeming with life
- A shortcut from Lonely Cave to Cape of Distant Worlds
- New and improved stuff in every map
- Sandstorm adjustments
- Optimized particles to reduce lag
- New default sky colors
- New weather
- Improved non-reflective water
- Customized ENB Mod
- New install program should solve the black screen issue
- And reintroduction of wings
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