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This Patreon update is a pretty huge release in terms of low level changes. One of the more experimental things I've done, and one that will open up new possibilities. In short: we'll be able to implement various body overlays a lot easier. Think makeup, tattoos, various effects, and so on. Of course, it won't happen over night, but it's something that wasn't possible to do until now.
I have kept the old rendering method for the time being, because it probably gives the best performance for less powerful devices (there is an option to switch, under Options). However, the new effects and skin overlays will not run on it, and neither will the dirt system, due to having had to adapt it to the new system.
As a proof of concept, I've already used the new system to add customizable skin features (i.e. freckles, beauty marks) and somewhat realistic sweating (which happens based on effort).
It's been a pretty intense week. Besides operating in completely new territory, I also had a bunch of memory leaks to contend with. Hopefully everything is fixed now, otherwise please let me know if you experience issues.
Changelog:
- New actions / animations: undress bottoms
- New post defeat actions: missionary power fuck ('Kneel, grab, and fuck them'), bearhug fuck ('Hug, squeeze, and fuck them')
- Action tuning: more probable for a cock / pussy milking contest to keep going, a bit more in line with the other contest actions
- Improved the twin tail hairstyle, and added a new variant with the bangs removed
- Pretty accurate breast to breast collisions
- A new character rendering method combined with a unified skin effects manager that enables skin effect stacking. Skin features such as freckles and beauty marks, sweat, and other upcoming effect overlays (e.g. cum on skin, make-up) could not be done with the default renderer, and required a completely new, shader based implementation. The dirt accumulation has also been hooked up into this unified system. I took great care to minimize the effects on performance, however we are rendering more through a more complex pipeline - there is bound to be a cost. The effect on performance will likely be felt mostly on mobile and lower end systems. With sweat disabled, and using no skin features, the costs should be pretty minimal. This is now the default renderer. If you need more performance, switch to using the legacy renderer (see below)
- Added an option to revert back to using the legacy character rendering method, with better performance, but limited capabilities (NOTE: switching to the legacy renderer will disable all overlays (e.g. freckles, beauty marks) and skin effects (e.g. dirt and sweat)). Dirt accumulation is no longer available using the legacy renderer (due to architectural changes and using a different pipeline). Available under Options. Restart required for best performance if enabling / disabling
- Skin features: e.g. freckles, beauty marks. NOTE: supported only when using the new character rendering method
- Sweat: enable or disable under Options; can be performance intensive, especially on mobile; restart required for best performance if enabling / disabling; NOTE: not available for any of the anthro characters at this point
- Both dirt and sweat now allow choosing an option for the texture size. Smaller texture sizes yield better performance at the expense of quality. Large textures are probably overkill for small screens
- Character editor UI improvements
- Updated the default characters to make use of the new skin features
- Fixes: the UV for two of the new hairstyles (now dirt should correctly accumulate); fixed OptionPicker scrollbar overlapping item list; fixed duplicate head for Deera; fixed a vagina caused memory leak (yes I realize how that sounds
)) and crash under specific circumstances; fixed dropdown scrollbar overlapping contained item list
