🛠️ Devlog #01: Under the Club’s Hood

Hello everyone!

While our internal Alpha team is hard at work putting the latest build through its paces, we wanted to share what’s been happening behind the scenes over the past few weeks. Brothel Tycoon 2 is not just a club management game—it’s a massive, living simulation running on the brand-new Unity 6 engine, and our goal is crystal clear: a rock-solid 120+ FPS on PC, even with over 300 guests filling up the club simultaneously!

We’ve just made a massive technical leap, surgically cleaning up and optimizing over 5,700 lines of code to take the gameplay stability to the next level.

🧠 Smarter Guests & Group Splitting

Until now, guests entered the club, performed a single action, and left. This was an intentional stress-test for our entry and exit bottlenecks. Now, we have successfully implemented a full Behavior Loop!

• Solo Evolution: Guests still arrive in groups through the main entrance and fill up the VIP booths, but after their first action, the groups naturally split up. Individual agents now take their own initiative, circulating through the club to spend money at the bar or moving to the Strip Rooms based on their purchasing power.
• No More "Lap-Sitting": We’ve completely overhauled the synchronization between our custom data-oriented ECS backend and the NavMesh AI pathfinding. Guests now smoothly stand up, release their seat slot in the database, and make room for new visitors without any physical clipping or glitches.

🎥 Cinematic FOV Zoom (Cinemachine)

We have added a smooth Field of View (FOV) zoom bound directly to the mouse scroll wheel! Since we closely follow a strict "Booty-on-the-ground" philosophy (no global icons or floating CCTV cameras—you have to physically walk with Yvonne to see what's happening), this zoom allows you to check on bar crowds from a distance or zoom in close to the stage to appreciate the high-fidelity details of our optimized DAZ hero models and advanced skin shaders (Subsurface Scattering).

💡 Dynamic Lighting & Space Optimization

• "Baked is Holy" with a Dash of Real-Time Magic: To maintain flawless performance, the entire indoor layout (15,000 m²) uses baked lighting. However, for Strip Room #1, we’ve activated optimized real-time shadows that cast exclusively onto our staff and performers. The result? A breathtaking club atmosphere with zero unnecessary strain on your GPU.
• Moving Spotlights: The stage lights are now fully dynamic, rotating and smoothly shifting through an 8-bit color spectrum (HSV to RGB) to give the entire room a premium, high-production feel.
• Camera Optimization: We’ve placed manual occlusion blocks behind the booths and seamless collision ramps on the stairs. The player camera will no longer clip through walls or disrupt our Baked Occlusion Culling.

🏆 New Reception Inventory

If you take a stroll past the front desk, you’ll notice a new golden statue. It was crafted using a retro 3D model from the early 2000s (Victoria 3 via Poser 3)—a neat little easter egg for 3D modeling history buffs. This statue will eventually serve as a prestigious, unlockable asset for Yvonne’s executive office!

🚀 What’s Next?

The new Alpha build has just been deployed to our testers. While they try their best to break our updated AI routine, we are moving into Yvonne’s office to code the "Delayed Action" Management System (hiring, staff schedules, and administrative policies that process at the end of the shift for the following business day) alongside our expanded event-driven economy manager.

Thank you all for the incredible support. Development is moving forward at full throttle!
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