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i recon its gonna be here somewhere within the next 15 years. give or take 5 years, cant ever be too sure.
I'm on the movie date with Zelda. Who tf is this Kato guy? I feel like he's a cameo from another avn
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Come back to this thread for the first time in a while and one of the first things I see is a guy with the username "Idiot" insulting HP's username. That got a chuckle out of me.
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Happy New Week!
Working between DAZ and Blender last week, I'm starting to get into the groove of Blender. Posing can still be difficult in Blender. Animating is one thing, but posing is different. As I've worked with DAZ over the years, I've refined my workflow. Creating shortcuts, keybinds, use tools to speed things up. Much of that doesn't translate to Blender, so I find myself fumbling here and there. But I am improving the more I work in it. I did spend a day creating those template poses to help speed things up. Everyday things like a walk template, standing template, sitting template, etc. And it has helped a lot putting a character in a base pose, then tweak it so the characters don't all have the same pose. Dealing with grain is different in Blender too. I looked into different methods and learned a new technique to denoise within blender while maintaining sharpness.
In DAZ, I've tried many different things. My current setup now is rendering at 1080 25k samples. Some of you who know DAZ might have done a double take on that number and asking how long that even takes. I reinvest a lot of what I get from Patreon and Steam back into Artemis. Some of you probably remember the server I mentioned last year. Steam was a big part in making the server happen. The parts were sitting on my workbench for months because I was just too busy with development, I didn't get to setting it up until around when CH5 dropped. But I put it together and it's doing amazingly well. Renders taking about 20-40 minutes, depending on scene complexity. I don't use a denoiser in DAZ since it there's practically no grain at that sample size. With Blender, I do. But the method I use in blender works great. The two softwares are vastly different, so I try not to think if it works here surely, it'll work there too.
Anyways, I thought I'd try to share a bit more of my workflow this week. I've gotten a few DM's asking to pick my brain. I thought I'd share some things. Especially my journey transitioning from DAZ to Blender. DAZ is great for what it does and is completely fine at hitting the mark. So don't let my move from DAZ to Blender discourage you if DAZ is working for you. There's just so much more I want to do, that DAZ just isn't working for me anymore.
Also, for those still waiting on that Paige stream. So sorry it's taking so long to do that stream. So if you felt you missed it. You haven't. I'm constantly shifting gears in development, I lose track of time and in this case. Just gets pushed back some. But her scene is just around the corner, so I need to get it done this week. I'm going to say sometime this Saturday and it'll be just me working on the jeep with some music in the background. No voice comms, just chat. So if you're concerned about any spoilers, don't worry. I'm a stickler about spoilers, so just the jeep and maybe even tweak Paige's outfit. I have another idea for her outfit and I'll put it together that day if there's time. And you guys can choose between the two.
That's it for last week.
Have yourselves an amazing week and be well!
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Nah, Kato7 is just a close friend of Digi's and the admin of his server
For anyone wondering who that Kato guy was in Zelda's movie date scene, that was it.
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is the humor avoidable in this VN? asking for a friend
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Sure: tell your friend find another VN, then all the goodness and humor of this wonderful VN will be avoided by him.
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I'm just gonna assume that you are trying to be funny because the alternative is just..........frightening.
man i am jonesing for the next chapter. this is easily in my top 5 vn's.
What a wonderful game. Really hoping that another chapter comes quickly. This game ruined almost every other vn for me 
Its so hard to play anything else after having experienced the last chapter.
Its so hard to play anything else after having experienced the last chapter.Hey guys not sure if this has already been said and answered but I cant open it on Mac, literally comes up with the message "The application can not be opened"... does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks
Not sure if anyone has figured it out yet, but if they haven't then I've got the game working on mac.
UPDATE - I figured out how to get it working... It seems that the actual file _ARTEMIS is non-executable. To fix it right right-click and open package contents, click contents, MacOS, and look for _ARTEMIS. Once you find it, go to the Terminal app (search for it in your spotlight). type in chmod +x then drag the _ARTEMIS file to the terminal and hit enter. Problem solved.
FYI - You may need to enter your password to complete the process, but that should make the file executable now and the game should work as intended
Not sure if anyone has figured it out yet, but if they haven't then I've got the game working on mac.
UPDATE - I figured out how to get it working... It seems that the actual file _ARTEMIS is non-executable. To fix it right right-click and open package contents, click contents, MacOS, and look for _ARTEMIS. Once you find it, go to the Terminal app (search for it in your spotlight). type in chmod +x then drag the _ARTEMIS file to the terminal and hit enter. Problem solved.
FYI - You may need to enter your password to complete the process, but that should make the file executable now and the game should work as intended
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It could be a permission issue in this case try to use the permission fixer of goobdoob from this thread, I used it and it helped me with some games.Hey guys not sure if this has already been said and answered but I cant open it on Mac, literally comes up with the message "The application can not be opened"... does anyone know how to fix this? Thanks
https://f95zone.to/threads/permission-fixer-for-mac-and-linux.24233/
Hehe I know the feeling and was good enough to enlarge my top games list slots from 6 to 7, I had played first 4 chapters last year, caught my eye but was lacking something (probably the char that gives the name of the game). I played chapter 5 in the start of this month and yeah after meeting Artemis char and her endearing *Cooing* and curiosity she went number 1 girl/waifu in all games I play, Kindra was already in my top 10 though. After playing chapter 5 yeah it was hard to focus in any game after but can be done, there is plenty good AVNs in this site.What a wonderful game. Really hoping that another chapter comes quickly. This game ruined almost every other vn for me
I didn't get this reference. I know it is one, but it's not one in my mental logbookThose references are pure gold. I nearly spilled my coffee when that scene unfolded
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Seriously, what’s not to love about this game? A solid MC, fantastic cast, plenty of laughs
I searched, and went through like 8 pages, but couldnt find the answer. (im probably just blind)
But what is the difference of Steam build and 0.5.1?
Does one contain more content than the other?
Im just starting out with this game, so what version should i play?
But what is the difference of Steam build and 0.5.1?
Does one contain more content than the other?
Im just starting out with this game, so what version should i play?
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The steam version is 0.4.2 i think so go with 0.5.1
Okay so just finished Chapter 5 and I can't believe it took me that long to figure the identity of V for Vendetta (that's the nickname I gave her just for myself). What a hype story overall, I hope the next update is coming in very soon, but the fact that it takes an understandably long fucking time to complete this avn with amazing art, animations, and story, well it's still upsetting, but where it leads to I cannot wait so digi.b hurry tf up
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Happy New Week!
I fumbled the Jeep stream on Saturday. I had completely forgotten it was Memorial Day weekend and had a surprise visit by my family. But I got back on track Sunday and did the stream then.
Jeep came out great! Got everything textured and rigged. Doors, wheels, steering, windows, trunk and seats all rigged up. And yes, the backseat does recline down.
It required some work, since I had to decimate the model a bit, mainly the tire's treads. But it came out great and really love the quality of this model. A couple of tweaks needed. I need to create some dirt maps to dirty it up, but compared to the import and rigging, that'll be super simple.
I wrapped up another scene last week and I'll be doing to some prep work for another set piece, while also starting the next scene this week. I also need to do an upgrade to my NAS. My current NAS has spinning disks and I need to move Artemis project and DAZ/Blender libraries to the new NAS which will have all NVME drives. I know I blame a lot on DAZ, but something I noticed is when accessing libraries or even navigating folders. Things hang for a few seconds and I can hear the drives go to work. So I'll be moving things over sometime this week, when I'm able to. Which will resolve the hiccups when accessing data from the NAS.
Today is Memorial Day here in the states. Hence the change in the devlog image above. It's an image shared before. Thank you to our Veterans out there.
Be safe and stay cool.
- digi.B