Update from Yuuki

Figured I'd post an update on what I've been working on, which is basically a new female GM sprite for the summer. I scrapped the old one I was working on before simply due the the fact I was hitting a major snag with the sitting position. I'm hoping that doesn't happen with this one.

Anyway, here is a preview of what I've gotten done.

I've been using two sprite mods I got from Aesir Rias/Kagami awhile back with a bunch of other stuff. As you may or may not be able to tell, the legs are Assassin legs and the bust and arms are dancer. I took the belt form the existing GM sprite, but not sure if I'll keep it. We'll just have to wait and see.

I may or may not try to work on a male counterpart. Kind of waiting for some input from out male GMs who actually play as male characters. *cough*Oden*cough*Ivan*cough*Fang*cough*cough* Unless one of them would like to try their hand at creating it, which would be more than fine by me. In fact, I highly encourage Ivan or Fang to try to make one, otherwise, they may get stuck with the female GM outfit...

Anyway, I'll try to keep y'all up-to-date as far as what I've gotten done on this.

Enjoy the KitRO birthday stuff and don't forget to vote, write reviews, and invite friends. ^^

Server Birthday

The server's birthday is coming up, and we're celebrating with Double Donor Points starting this Sunday, April 22nd. This event is planned to last until the following Saturday, but may be extended through the first week of May. Now I've long since forgot when exactly I opened the HR, but that doesn't mean I can't set aside a time for this. Staff should be holding regular events during this time as well, and I have a few things I'm hoping to get done this week too. Update: The double points has been extended through next Saturday. Now is the time to donate if you've been putting it off.

Cave Story Tribute

These customs are a little old by now, but I'm trying to keep the blog alive. Hopefully others will start doing the same. Anyways, I made two custom headgears from Cave Story: Robo Hat and Robo Ears. The hat is Quote's red hat, and the ears are Curly's green robot ears. The ears are attached to the hat as well, but I wanted two separate items so I could make something for Curly. I've also made a Polar Star weapon for Gunslingers, and thinking about how I can make the Spur gun somehow. Anyways, here's some previews of the hat and ears:

What Yuuki is Up To

Alright, so since we're starting the blog back up, I've been asked to contribute as well.

I've got a few projects I'm working on for the server.

• Eeveelution Mobs
• So far, I've gotten the frames for Eevee, Vaporeon, and Jolteon done. Should really work on the rest soon just to get those out of the way. I've gotten some of the ACT modding done for Eevee, but I'm tempted to go back and mirror some of the frames just to make the job easier.
• Custom GM Sprites for Summer

•  This one was a request from Milly and neither her nor I really like the official GM suit. It kind of looks too stiff and like it's trying too hard to look cute. I've gotten the standing sprites done so far and am working on the sitting frames. There a bit of a pain due to the legs though... @.@
• My Vanir Drop
• Basically got most the sprites I want done. Just need to come up with the effects and poke Lyndis til he gets them all added. Or at least adds what I've gotten done.
•  Recolor Requests
• Still open to taking requests for recolors of items. If you have any ideas, please feel free to share them with me, and possibly a source for the sprite.

That's about all I can think of for now. I'll update when I have something.

Bringing Back the Blog

Wow, it's been... ages. I've decided to try to revive this blog and make it more active with all of staff posting, and even some player posts once we get it going again. Well, I think I'll start this off by talking about the new mobs I've added recently. As a lot of players already know, I've added a Bahamut MVP. Took me about a week to recolor him because of school, but I think he turned out pretty good.

Server Population Chart + New Site Developement

I'm officially announcing that I'm going to be slowly working on a new website layout. I've also got an... interesting little add-on that's quite spiffy: a server population chart. It records the population count every thirty minutes on the server (through an NPC, so if the server is offline it won't show zero players for an extended period), and a php script reads that data and displays it as a simple line graph. This is nothing super amazing, I just thought it was pretty neat. Anyways, here's a temporary link to it: chart. This is just temporary. It'll be integrated into the new website design, but I'm still just in the planning stages, so nothing definite yet.

New Control Panel

I haven't posted here in a long time... but I felt like posting about this in case someone stumbles upon our blog.

For about a month or two, I'd been working on a new Flux CP off and on to replace the old, limited Ceres CP. The new CP has a lot more features, and is a lot easier for me to work on to add or change something as needed. There's also room for expansion in the built-in functions like a new donation system that will automatically credit and account when a donation is made. This will require some testing whenever I can get around to it, and it's not like I'm getting so many donations that I can't keep up, but the update will make things easier for me. The problem is the system built-in to the CP doesn't use the same tables and formats as what we already have.

Well, I won't go into any more details about that for now, but the CP can be found here.