VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.10.1] [DrPinkCake]

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1000Spiders

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felicemastronzo said:
you are right, but just in general the game assumes that MC will misbehave and have sex a little bit with whoever comes along.

perhaps the only situation where he doesn't is at the end of the third chapter, where an MC who doesn't hold back looks like a psychopath who just returned from a threesome with prostitutes freaks out over Maya and Josy's half-truths.
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And an even better example of that is what happens if you choose not to do anything sexual with Josy or Maya before that point. MC still throws the same goofy tantrum... because DPC kinda just assumed you would pursue both women simultaneously and didn't bother to write an alternate scene if you hadn't.
 
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1000Spiders said:
And an even better example of that is what happens if you choose not to do anything sexual with Josy or Maya before that point. MC still throws the same goofy tantrum... because DPC kinda just assumed you would pursue both women simultaneously and didn't bother to write an alternate scene if you hadn't.
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if with Maya the only interaction you had was with the taser, in fact, the scene doesn't really make a lot of sense.

actually with Josy it's more nuanced, in the end you have to go on the 2 dates, and even if from the second one you "run away," MC doesn't leave because he's not interested, but because he doesn't like it to go that way (which is forgotten by DPC and the game, though, as not staying with Josy is a choice the game will never forget in the relationship with the two girls)
 
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anonnyscouse said:
Every episode (except the interlude) has had more renders than the one before, which is what is making updates longer and longer. I'm not sure where you are getting "small episodes" from.
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And this is why I think we will salute episode 11 - and our mental health - in January 2025.
 
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I see a lot of discussion about Josy and Maya and tracking the health of that relationship - with MC participation. I don't see a lot of actual tracking of the variables that's going on under the hood - and no - it's not all about the relationship points. If folks want to know what's going on with that, look under the hood at what the developer is doing to keep track of all that stuff. It'll tell you, probably, what we should do if we want them to break up or stay together.

So if somebody gets really bored, track all those variables and figure it out. That'll be probably more informative than all the blind speculation.
 
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Porthas said:
I see a lot of discussion about Josy and Maya and tracking the health of that relationship - with MC participation. I don't see a lot of actual tracking of the variables that's going on under the hood - and no - it's not all about the relationship points. If folks want to know what's going on with that, look under the hood at what the developer is doing to keep track of all that stuff. It'll tell you, probably, what we should do if we want them to break up or stay together.

So if somebody gets really bored, track all those variables and figure it out. That'll be probably more informative than all the blind speculation.
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And also look at what is said in game. I don't know if it something with the compressed version or I was looking in the wrong places but the script doesn't include the date's for Josy and Maya but the other LI's there date is in there script. Unless it just something with my version or it in a other place then I would think that means something is happening, the main script for Josy and Maya is a lot shorter then the other one's
 
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Canner said:
Anyone else think the new math minigame kind of blows??
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Nope, I kinda like it.
New english class is dog shit.
New brawler is dog shit.
Chemistry class is dog shit.
Beer pong is dog shit.
Fishbowl is fish shit.
Math class is the only one of the new minigames that doesn't suck. I'd still trade it for a month earlier release though.
 
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The Dick said:
Hi! Sorry for the delay in answering that, but it came the update and I ended up forgetting about it. I was playing with Maya now, though, and remembered this post.

Yeah... I know all about 3D texturing and how bump and normal maps works, but the problem with Maya is that skin texture from DT Yolanda has a displacement map (see image below), and that's the problem. While bumps and normals only affect the lighting and create an illusion of 3-dimensionality, displacement maps really distorts the mesh during rendering. Though it sounds good in theory, actually, this is a bad practice -- proven by the fact no one eles does that on skin mats and even DT stopped doing this on newer models (didn't check 'em all, but see DT Melina for instance). Unless DPC wants to make Maya looks seek as her mother, he could solve almost all of her skin problems just getting rid of those displacement maps (and even save rendering time).

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On creating bump (and normal) maps, in fact, the best practice is to make a hi-poly model on some 3D software (ZBrush, Character Creator, or even Blender) and bake the bump and normal maps from it (check
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on this topic), but the truth is that, just by checking the textures, one can see that, like, 99% of the model creators on Daz Store, Renderosity, and other stores just make a grayscale from the diffuse (base color) maps (and probably create the normal maps from it). One tell is that the areolae and the nipples should be lighter but they're darker (and, when they're not, it's just because they inverted the maps, but, then, the navel that should be darker -- since it's a hole -- is also lighter as the areolae and nipples). But the fact is that, most of the time -- unless you're doing close-ups AND striving for realism --, it doesn't matter.
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If DAZ had something like layers in photoshop, where you could lower the transparency or set the blending mode to ligthten for example and then just add a blur to reduce the sharpness, it would be much easier.

felicemastronzo said:
you are right, but just in general the game assumes that MC will misbehave and have sex a little bit with whoever comes along.

perhaps the only situation where he doesn't is at the end of the third chapter, where an MC who doesn't hold back looks like a psychopath who just returned from a threesome with prostitutes freaks out over Maya and Josy's half-truths.
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There are plenty of moments like that in the game.
There are obvious canonical events that look the most elaborate and logically woven into the overall plot, and there are events that are the result of the player's choices that he pays less attention to and they look weird.
The player who didn't fuck Jade is one of those non-canon events.
 
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