Unreal Engine Afterparty [Tech Demo - 2.7] [Tiny Meat Games]

[Dilly_]

Update is out! Download

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(or use OP links). This one took a bit longer. Should be back to a normal release schedule after this.

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With this update, I have once again made major changes to saving and menu settings. Hopefully, this will be the last big update to the saving architecture. You will need to delete your old save and config files, which you can do by going to this directory:

C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\Afterparty\Saved

And deleting all folders in there. If you don't do this it's very likely the game won't work.

For additional info and to see what's coming next, please read the full post on Patreon!

Thanks everyone for your patience and feedback. I do read most of what gets posted in various places, though it's often less useful for me to spend time responding to it vs developing my game. A lot of feedback is incredibly useful and I take it into account. Some of it simply boils down to "I wish you had more people and a higher budget" which is also understandable, but not very useful in the short term.

Anyway, enjoy the new update and have a great week!
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[Painfoler]

For tech demo not bad I like UI, Of course, there is still something to fix Camera colision, maybe make not visible teleport NPC, off slow motion when runing, maybe some work with landscape and add horror tag

However, the project has the potential to become a good porn rpg.

 

[DKORYAKIN505]

there is no link to the race

 

[porno74]

help plz

 

[b0obs.28]

hair dying disapeared and there is less hair style options than before

 

[Sugoi!]

Android?

 

[Jz]

The customization system is based on an asset from the Unreal Marketplace, however 90% of the programming I've done is revamping it to work smoothly with Daz character assets, as well as asynchronous loading of assets for less memory usage. I have seen Home Together before, it released right around the time I had been in development on my game for ~2 months. I think the reason games like this are popping up is very simple: There are now more tools than ever that make it easier to bring Daz characters into Unreal Engine 5 specifically. They are still very much not meant for real time though and making a game like this is a huge time commitment. The other game you shared is one I hadn't seen before.

Which asset?

 

[Truvelo]

For tech demo not bad I like UI, Of course, there is still something to fix Camera colision, maybe make not visible teleport NPC, off slow motion when runing, maybe some work with landscape and add horror tag
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However, the project has the potential to become a good porn rpg.

Well, looking at the optimization and the number of fps, I agree that the "horror" tag is needed here

 

[glocky_wocky]

Tech Demo for 2 more years until version 0.1?

 

[MtHopkins]

Any plans for a Mac version?

 

[fobington]

not gonna lie, it scared the shit out of me when I entered.

 

[Dilly_]

hair dying disapeared and there is less hair style options than before

I dropped the cinematic groom-strand hair because it wasn't suitable for real time. I figured out a workflow for using hair cards instead, however some of the hairstyles did not convert well to cards and had to get axed. I also had to completely rework the hair material to look decent with cards, and the way I was handling dye before was not compatible with the new material. I tried some new dye logic but couldn't get it to look as nice, so it's gone until I take another crack at it, possibly when I rework the char creator stuff next update.

Which asset?

I believe it was based on the logic originally from this

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, however the asset has been updated and doesn't resemble it much from when I used it. In any case it's almost entirely custom logic now. If I were to take a crack at it again, I'd probably use the

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system, which is more of a comprehensive framework for creating and using customized characters and objects.

Well, looking at the optimization and the number of fps, I agree that the "horror" tag is needed here

Optimization is a long process, took me months to figure out a suitable replacement for the groom strand hair, which was nuking performance. With the new map though there are more meshes than previously, so although there was a performance boost from the hair switch there's also more going on with lighting/textures/foliage etc than before. I'll be looking into character morph baking and vertex masking for the next update which should drastically reduce morph compute times, which is a big offender, aside from the typical UE pitfalls of draw calls and Lumen GI. It's a tradeoff, if I spend a month doing profiling and research on optimization that's a month not spent on new content. Meanwhile, DLSS keeps getting better and better. It's not good to rely on of course, no dev wants to rely on upscaling, but it's a workable solution in absence of having a large team with higher budgets for optimization.

Tech Demo for 2 more years until version 0.1?

My concern first and foremost is getting everything I want to have in the game working nicely. If it takes 2 more years, the game will be in tech demo status for 2 more years. I doubt it would take that long, but there's no sense in moving out of tech demo status until it's ready for that. I'm not going anywhere, so I want to take as long as I need to get everything working right

 

[Cro]

Any ideas about this ?

 

[Dilly_]

Any ideas about this ?
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What're your PC specs? Some things you could try:

-Clear out saved folder
-Install engine prerequisites included in game folder
-Update graphics card drivers

 

[Cro]

What're your PC specs? Some things you could try:

-Clear out saved folder
-Install engine prerequisites included in game folder
-Update graphics card drivers

Specs are ok. 4070Ti, i9 13900, 64GB. So over the top. Saved folder should be empty, it's the first time I run this game.
I installed that UE prerequisite, but it wants a restart and I'm in no mood/time to do that now, so I'll try later.
Thanks.

 

[.Sirene]

Specs are ok. 4070Ti, i9 13900, 64GB. So over the top. Saved folder should be empty, it's the first time I run this game.
I installed that UE prerequisite, but it wants a restart and I'm in no mood/time to do that now, so I'll try later.
Thanks.

Did you extract to a locally installed drive or are you attempting to run it off of a USB drive?

Detachable drives also give me problems when running UE games, I don't know the full reason, but I think it has something to do with the way in which windows disconnects drives automatically after a set period of time.

 

[FlyingDrums]

So I just helped Emily pick a dress for her date. Afterwards, I followed her to the front door where she met him. Is she dating Preston Garvey, Commonwealth Minutemen???? It sure sounded like his voice lol

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[Snusen]

So... is there any actual content available to you if you aren't an futa? Cause i ran around for 2 hours and could literally not figure out a single thing to do other than boring fetch "quest" and taking pictures of your roommate.

 

[Cro]

Did you extract to a locally installed drive or are you attempting to run it off of a USB drive?

Detachable drives also give me problems when running UE games, I don't know the full reason, but I think it has something to do with the way in which windows disconnects drives automatically after a set period of time.

nah, normal SSD.

 

[.Sirene]

nah, normal SSD.

When you extracted, what software did you use?