Hello, and welcome to the 8th progress update of Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate! In these updates, I share what progress I have made since the last update while working on this project. I hope you'll enjoy hearing what I have to say, and now it's progress update time!

V0.2.5b Released!

Just over a week ago, on November 19th, the V0.2.5b update was released. Some of the major additions in the update included an It's A Bully bossfight, and an 8th schoolhouse in Random Mode. The release of that revision update for V0.2.5 also marked the end of the Alpha development phase, meaning Alpha 6 is now finished.

Beta Lighting System Progress

Since the release of V0.2.5b, I've been working on improving the lighting system for the beta versions of BFNSU, and have already made some great progress. Along with some performance optimizations, I've also added a few new features to the lighting system, such as the ability for each individual light source in a level to be a different color without the need of a lightmap.

Because of this, I was also able to implement a better version of flickering lights, which work similar to this although with some improvements and simplifications. Some development images of lights in a test level flickering to red are included below. But that's not all...

Another feature planned to be included when the improved lighting system gets implemented are light exclusion zones. These will be areas that you can place in a custom floor to stop lighting from affecting that area of the level. And like with light sources, each individual zone can also have it's own color. Meaning if you wanted to create a custom floor with a bright outside area in a dimly lit schoolhouse, placing a light exclusion zone in the right location would help achieve that effect.

And before I end this progress update, here's some more development images, this time showing a large cafeteria-like area that is inside of a light exclusion zone with gray lighting.

Well, I hope you enjoyed this progress update, and thanks to everyone who has contributed, given suggestions, and has helped me out with the development of Baldi's Fun New School Ultimate. See you in the next one, which I'll be posting at the end of December!