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Idol Manager

Idol Manager is a business sim about conquering the entertainment industry using any means you deem necessary. · By sadambober, Kuiper

Info about the upcoming September update

A topic by Kuiper created Sep 03, 2020 Views: 1,184 Replies: 9
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Developer(+7)

Hey everyone! It's been awhile since our last beta update, so we just wanted to pop in to give an update on how progress is going:

We'll be shipping an update next week that includes several new changes.  While the biggest thing that we're working on right now (the main story) still needs more time before we're ready to release it, this update will be making some gameplay and UI changes to the game in anticipation of the full story being added.

In particular, changes are being made to the way that tasks (and the task widget) work. Tasks will be part of how players advance through the main story, but you've probably already interacted with the tasks system in the beta if you've ever taken a loan from Fujimoto or socialized with an idol and asked her about her wishes.  You'll get your first taste of the reworked tasks system with next week's update.


Besides the updated UI, this update also includes some changes to the gameplay interactions for completing these tasks (and the rewards for completing them).

Those aren't the only changes that are coming -- we'll have more details to share when the update ships next week.  Until then, thank you all for your continued patience!

(+1)

Looking forward to these changes!

Will the bug preventing players from using custom skins be fixed in this update?

Can’t wait to see the changes!

Developer(+1)

Yep

Gave a quick test to the update and it works great! Thank you so much for all your hard work.

Deleted 4 years ago

Nervermind, I can't start a new game and if I edit a single thing in my save file the save doesn't load. Even going back to the previous save doesn't help. So I'm back to playing version 17.

Developer

Try clicking the "clear cache" button in the options before loading your save file, that could help

it doesn’t, but I found a temporary fix. If I do any sprite changes while playing 17 I can then update to 18 and play. Just can’t change any sprites after that, which isn’t that big of a deal. That’ll do for now!

Developer (1 edit)

That's really weird. Here's a few things to check:

1. Try adding an ignore.json file to your mod with this:

{
"Ignore_Idol_Portraits": true,
"Ignore_Files": []
}

This way you make sure that the game only uses sprites from your mod folder.

You can download the example mod from here to check how it should look like: https://sadambober.itch.io/idol-manager-editor

2. Make sure you're only changing files in your mod folder, not *game*\IM_Data\StreamingAssets\Textures\IdolPortraits

 

Deleted 4 years ago
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I finally looked into this and... sure enough I had done exactly what I shouldn't have, which is place my custom sprites in the game folder and not the mod folder. I actually hadn't even created a mod... which I just learned how to do!

Everything is working fine now. Thank you so much!