Others Completed Artificial Academy 2 [MiniPPX v8] [Illusion]

[JustAl]

No.

Wow. Y'know, I can see Koikatsu's potential to almost be an unofficial AA3 with heavy modding put in. It has a map of different rooms, NPCs travelling and interacting with set points for animation, lots of personalities (on the girl side) with different animation expression across them, and girls do have dialogue lines that hint at more hostile elements. It's built in Unity which helps plenty. Sunshine is built in a newer version of Unity than original Koikatsu, so perhaps it's a good place to start a Franken-katsu import-merge of the first game into the second, then turn it into a new and janky almost-AA3. Like that mod for Fallout New Vegas that imports the entirety of Fallout 3 into it then lets the player commute between the settings.

One aspect that's good about AI generation is that voice cloning is getting better. This will help flesh out the missing lines necessary for all the girl personalities, and enable the creation of complete male voice sets from practically nothing.

 

[Tsugumi]

JustAl I did try Koikatsu (both the original and Sunshine), and this is over9000% the reason I could not get into it: everyone exists for YOU, i.e., other characters do not socialize/form relationships. I played the original too long ago to state this with absolute certainty, but I believe it had the girls sometimes seek the player out, too - something that crossed my mind after I realized that in Sunshine there is no such thing and everybody is simply prancing around waiting for me to go fetch them like a pokemon. Oh, and there was the "my school loads for over a minute every day" part in my Koikatsu experience.

With the "function over form" pendulum - "function" being [the variety of] gameplay [mechanics], and the "form" being visual fidelity/realism - still being in the "form" position, I have little hope to see anything remotely close to AA2 short-term.

 

[Monosomething]

I have little hope to see anything remotely close to AA2 short-term.

I have played AG3, and in comparison to this, its absolutely bare bones in terms of content. Minimal ability to interact, no relationship building (other than, essentially, "more rape"), no drama (since the player is the only guy in the world), no way to just sit back and enjoy the social chaos.

I would love to see AA3 too, but with Illusion dead... yeah. Not happening.

 

[JustAl]

Tsugumi it seems the original Koikatsu is better by just that one element alone. It confirms my suspicion -- while I was looking through AA2 mods, the user had

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, which felt like a bad sign. So I guess the original Koikatsu probably sees more modding considering the updater for K-Sunshine rarely sees more content. Even Honey Select 2 sees more modding.

Monosomething, I don't know what AG3 is, please confirm. You mean "Artificial Girl 3"?

I just verified what happened with Illusion via the wiki,

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. They formally announced closure and a new company appeared using their assets for a new game. "IllGames" is their name, and their first game is "HoneyCome", using Honey Select and Koikatsu assets.

I wonder if violent content is the reason why they're so tame now. They survived releasing RapeLay and AA2, so... hmm... what conundrum did they provoke to close Illusion and probably work under IllGames?

 

[Monosomething]

I don't know what AG3 is, please confirm. You mean "Artificial Girl 3"?

Yep. Artificial Girl 3. REALLY bad game, when compared to Artificial Academy 2.

 

[1337P373]

1337P373, I suggest you keep reading the instructions from the Modern Install guide, and download the game through the torrent mentioned at the top of that guide. It definitely works on Windows 11 without fuss.

I am definitely, 100%, using the version from the torrent in the modern install guide. I have deleted and redownloaded it three times, the third time I factory reset Windows (this is a new machine anyway so I didn't lose much by doing so) to make sure I was dealing with a clean install. As I said I'm pretty sure I've followed every step from the modern install guide, but I'm also doing this project as a distraction from the pain of a recent surgery so it's possible I'm missing something. Can someone tell me what the error I shared says? I don't even know where one character ends and the next begins when it comes to reading Japanese and it might help me figure out what I'm doing wrong.

 

[AhegaoLover]

Guys, is there a way to prevent public sex from happening? It totally fucks up my teacher playthrough, the Evil Ai just forces the sex scene out in public, can't they drag you to a private room or something?

 

[Bawunga]

Guys, is there a way to prevent public sex from happening? It totally fucks up my teacher playthrough, the Evil Ai just forces the sex scene out in public, can't they drag you to a private room or something?

I think there are some modules that make the character prefer private sex, but you'd have to add it to each card manually, there's no global setting or anything, annoying as it is (as far as I'm aware at least, I'd love to be proven wrong).

 

[JustAl]

Guys, is there a way to prevent public sex from happening? It totally fucks up my teacher playthrough, the Evil Ai just forces the sex scene out in public, can't they drag you to a private room or something?

I think there are some modules that make the character prefer private sex, but you'd have to add it to each card manually, there's no global setting or anything, annoying as it is (as far as I'm aware at least, I'd love to be proven wrong).

I did find some repositories for custom modules across the Mega links posted on the main page, and one of them contained modules you could apply to only 1 card in the roster to then take effect regularly across the entire roster, like standardizing item names, reducing stats per week to keep gameplay fresh, and renewing virginity at regular intervals. I also made a debug module that worked on every card continuously to check a certain opinion flag so it's definitely possible to make one card carry a globally-affecting set of effects.

It is also possible to make interactions towards one card get cancelled, and yet more possible to set a NPC character's answer chance to always be 0% for certain interactions. I know someone made sure their teacher NPC never said yes to hugs, kisses, or sex in normal gameplay when I used their card.

Even further, if you really don't care about having sex in public and care more about getting caught by a ClassPrez trait character, I did make a module that removes the trait if your character successfully performs Caress (head pat) or Touch on them, though I could've also just made it indiscriminately remove the trait the moment the card was added to the roster as well.

In short, yeah Teacher runs get a bit weird but you can totally make a solidly immersive teacher with attention given to custom triggers. Modules are just a package of triggers and global variables. That said, in order to call a global variable you have to create the global separately then call it from a trigger, because variables declared in trigger scripts are always in the local scope.

It's definitely possible to make a module that cancels Forced Sex then replaces the interaction with a request to take your character to a private room.

 

[tiikerihai]

I have one pc running windows 10 that runs this no problem, but when I try to run it on my new windows 11 pc I get this error: View attachment 3056882 and the game still starts after hitting ok but none of the ppx mods load. I've followed the steps in the google docs, the only issue I run into is when I try to instiall the vc_redists I get an error saying there is already another version installed. What am I doing wrong?

It says the resolution you have selected exceeds desktop resolution. What I want to point out isn't how to fix that, which is easy enough since you either selected a resolution that's too big or you have DPI scaling other than 100% enabled in Windows, but rather the fact that if you get any error that is in Japanese then it is specific to AA2 - the actual game.
Given that PPX and AAU are not part of AA2, any error that is in Japanese categorically cannot have anything to do with a problem that might be related to PPX. Whatever your issue is, unrelated.

 

[Tsugumi]

Guys, is there a way to prevent public sex from happening? It totally fucks up my teacher playthrough, the Evil Ai just forces the sex scene out in public, can't they drag you to a private room or something?

Dumbed down, what you are asking is "can I make an evil character not behave like an evil character?" - selfishness and obsession is part of the package -, so removing the "Evil" trait from the character is an option. If that somehow breaks immersion/character or you want a more global solution: try disabling NPC->PC interruptions in the game settings - that would prevent the infractions rather than disabling sex.

 

[demonhuntercrow]

how do i make an evil NPC cant seem to get them to work

 

[Monosomething]

how do i make an evil NPC cant seem to get them to work

Have you tried pissing them off...? On a more serious note - i dont think any of the vanilla characters has the evil trait, so you will have to create a NPC and give them said trait.

Which reminds me, i will have to do the same, eventually. Theres a few traits not used in the vanilla NPC batch.

 

[JustAl]

how do i make an evil NPC cant seem to get them to work

Use the editor, attach Evil trait. If you want them to kill but not do so while possessing the Evil trait because you want more control over conditions, start with the Murderous module. If you want more control than the module grants, unpack it and make your desired triggers yourself.

 

[demonhuntercrow]

Use the editor, attach Evil trait. If you want them to kill but not do so while possessing the Evil trait because you want more control over conditions, start with the Murderous module. If you want more control than the module grants, unpack it and make your desired triggers yourself.

im trying to make an NPC the dominates The Pc

 

[JustAl]

im trying to make an NPC the dominates The Pc

Seems fine. Normally people use the Easy Victim and Force Lover modules to get NPCs to generally force their player more often, but there's also the Dominatrix and DominatrixB modules, and the Dom Me module. There's the main module repository on github mentioned in the guide then a slew of other module packs in multiple Mega links on the spreadsheet linked in the guide. I forgot which users exactly host more modules since it's been a while, but you can make just about any behavior with triggers, it's mostly easy once learned. You can also start NPCs with relationships to your player.

 

[demonhuntercrow]

Seems fine. Normally people use the Easy Victim and Force Lover modules to get NPCs to generally force their player more often, but there's also the Dominatrix and DominatrixB modules, and the Dom Me module. There's the main module repository on github mentioned in the guide then a slew of other module packs in multiple Mega links on the spreadsheet linked in the guide. I forgot which users exactly host more modules since it's been a while, but you can make just about any behavior with triggers, it's mostly easy once learned. You can also start NPCs with relationships to your player.

thanks i will give it a shot

 

[1337P373]

It says the resolution you have selected exceeds desktop resolution. What I want to point out isn't how to fix that, which is easy enough since you either selected a resolution that's too big or you have DPI scaling other than 100% enabled in Windows, but rather the fact that if you get any error that is in Japanese then it is specific to AA2 - the actual game.
Given that PPX and AAU are not part of AA2, any error that is in Japanese categorically cannot have anything to do with a problem that might be related to PPX. Whatever your issue is, unrelated.

Good to know, thank you for the info, I'll keep experimenting.

Edit: My guess is that error was popping because I was remoting in to my desktop from my laptop, it doesn't seem to pop when I'm actually on my desktop.

 

[1337P373]

Welp, wiped it all and downloaded it again and this time it works. No ideas what I did differently but I guess I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Thank you to the people who offered advice!

 

[JustAl]

Welp, wiped it all and downloaded it again and this time it works. No ideas what I did differently but I guess I won't look a gift horse in the mouth.

Thank you to the people who offered advice!

I must stress for other people that the guide is not something to rush through -- you will find install components with multiple options that you must only choose one of, and you must be careful. Sometimes it's not apparent immediately that you're in a choose-one scenario, like JCMP giving a bunch of shadowset folders but you're really only using one so only put one in the directory OR remove the "!" to disable all but one as intended.

Installing AA2 requires patience to read a stack of documents so have something else to play in the meantime because it can take multiple evenings but the meticulous attention is worthwhile for the perfectly-working-immediately result.