VN Ren'Py Being a DIK [v0.11.1] [DrPinkCake]

[Ray_D]

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This week, I focused on creating art for some special scenes in the big free-roam event. One of which required a lot of work because I was working with 50+ characters in the same scene - at one point, I stopped counting them and just worked through the scene. I completed that scene two days ago and have since been working on other, easier scenes.

I have 15 scenes left to create in the free roam event - about half of them need writing. There are some lewd scenes in the mix, too, and those won't be as fast to create as the rest. But I feel I'm close to completing the free roam, and I'm starting to plan what content to work on next.

When it's time to move on from the free roam event, I'll try to summarize what branches and kinds of content I have left to create for the episode.

The long cutscene animation I've been talking about in the recent updates is now 95% finished. Only two PCs are rendering the remaining two animations, so the last 5% of frames will take longer to render because fewer PCs are working on them. Still, the cutscene should finish rendering soon. The other PCs are working on other animations and static renders.

234 static renders and 14 animations are in the render queue. The animation count is running low, and I will animate some more in the upcoming weeks. I still have lewd scenes left to create and plenty of other planned animations that I'm excited to pose.

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Freaking Christmas sneaked up on us, and it's now around the corner. I have scheduled some time off with my family. I'll be off on December 24, 26, and 31, and will work as usual the rest of the time. I plan to update you on the development progress as usual on Fridays.

I wish all of you who celebrate happy holidays! Stay safe and cherish the time you spend with your loved ones.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Oh yeah, DJ r-r-r-r-r-r-retarded, how could I forget that flashback from the first season of the MC learning how to operate the DJ equipment.

 

[Darkwen]

And that's why this is the only moment the walkthrough mod is wrong, and this is the only right option to choose at this point.
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Is the walkthrough mod wrong though? What Quinn did is awful but seems like she knows that and didn't run away like a coward, quinndemption

 

[anony66]

Quinn wasn't incompetent. She was reckless, arrogant, and over-confident. Incompetent suggests having no smarts and Quinn does have some smarts, she just overestimated herself and got way too cocky with herself that she overplayed her hand and it backfired on her.

Incompetent is probably the wrong word, yes, but I think she genuinely underestimated Buddy. Overconfidence and underestimating adversaties are two sides of the same coin, and underestimating usually comes from some form of ignorance, from not knowing better.

Quinn also bears responsibility because she kept on using Rio for her own gain, she kept on pychologically abusing and manipulating her in order to have her bend to her whim by making her dependent on her. She put Rio at risk every day by the simple association to herself.

But Rio knew this. Quinn literally told her that she was taking advantage of her. And Rio is neither younger nor dumber than Quinn. She knew, or at least should have known, what she was getting into. You can't absolve her from all responsibility. She willingly went along with Quinn, knowing full well who Quinn was and what she was doing.

I'm not sure this will happen because Quinn knows Rio doesn't want to see her anymore. If there's anything like that it may be Quinn talking to Rio's Mom and asking her to relay the message but even then I don't think that will happen. Quinn's probably just going to slink away content in the knowledge she got Buddy and the others arrested.

Rio said that in the immediate anger after what happened. That's completely understandable, but must always be taken with a huge grain of salt. I think it's inevitable that they meet again; they are living under the same roof after all. Also, MC could relay a message if necessary, plus, texts exist. I doubt Quinn is just going to disappear. She is too important a character for that.

Rio absolutely should open up about this and she has no reason not to, really. She's done with Quinn and since Quinn won't be coming back to college, she can say what happened. Most likely she will tell Sage what happened to her and what's been happening with the drugs and seek Sage's forgiveness for what's been going on.

She has a gigantic reason not to: what she did was illegal, too. You generally don't want to tell everybody that you've been dealing drugs. She MIGHT tell Sage, but I don't know if they are close enough. Also, what would that get her? Very little.

 

[Roger-a-Dale]

The animation file numbers are essentially meaningless. We've had episodes with less files than the previous but minutes more animations total.

What's important is that DPC can render upwards of 30 seconds per week now. So even assuming 40 minutes of animation (which would be the most ever), that's 80 weeks at most.

Aaand since 18 months is 78 weeks we'd get a release in September about 3/4 of a year from now.

 

[-d2d-]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

 

[shazba jnr]

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This week, I focused on creating art for some special scenes in the big free-roam event. One of which required a lot of work because I was working with 50+ characters in the same scene - at one point, I stopped counting them and just worked through the scene. I completed that scene two days ago and have since been working on other, easier scenes.

I have 15 scenes left to create in the free roam event - about half of them need writing. There are some lewd scenes in the mix, too, and those won't be as fast to create as the rest. But I feel I'm close to completing the free roam, and I'm starting to plan what content to work on next.

When it's time to move on from the free roam event, I'll try to summarize what branches and kinds of content I have left to create for the episode.

The long cutscene animation I've been talking about in the recent updates is now 95% finished. Only two PCs are rendering the remaining two animations, so the last 5% of frames will take longer to render because fewer PCs are working on them. Still, the cutscene should finish rendering soon. The other PCs are working on other animations and static renders.

234 static renders and 14 animations are in the render queue. The animation count is running low, and I will animate some more in the upcoming weeks. I still have lewd scenes left to create and plenty of other planned animations that I'm excited to pose.

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Freaking Christmas sneaked up on us, and it's now around the corner. I have scheduled some time off with my family. I'll be off on December 24, 26, and 31, and will work as usual the rest of the time. I plan to update you on the development progress as usual on Fridays.

I wish all of you who celebrate happy holidays! Stay safe and cherish the time you spend with your loved ones.

Love

Dr PinkCake

Remember when the free roams were just so you could find a couple of special renders, make some calls, check messages and get some cash? Ahhh, the good ol' days.

 

[Roger-a-Dale]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

Well now that you mention it, I'm going to be massively disappointed if we don't get them.

 

[treechild1]

Remember when the free roams were just so you could find a couple of special renders, make some calls, check messages and get some cash? Ahhh, the good ol' days.

Good times.

 

[talion777]

Like I said,

It's basically a "text" file that is read by the game's engine so that it learns what have you done and stops a thing from happening twice when it shouldn't. For instance: when you are in Ep 2 free roam in Jill's room, you check in the bed's drawers and find a Polaroid of Bella and Lana, and next to it is a magazine/book which unlocks a CG when you click it. In your second playthrough, you won't see such a thing because you will have already unlocked it. Or playing Brawler on free roams and fighting (and winning against) the Prep.

That's what I meant by "won't store the images" because that's what images.rpa are for. I do not know of any method to unlock selected CGs that won't involve using the cheat mod because

1. Using it will unlock every CG, even those that are actually tied to a non-canon free roam (like the ones from Ep 6 when you accept Tommy's fake ID, they go to the MILF bar, and he needs to piss).
2. I wanted to see how it worked and see what could I change so as to not unlock everything, but that goes way over my head because changing one line of code will break infinite more stuff because programming.

Yes, I understood what you meant the first time, and I understand that you were talking about flags and not the images themselves. What I had thought was the flags were in the RPA file for images and that those flags linked to the images based on my playthoughs, rather than being an index for every image. I couldn't tell the difference because I had collected every image in the earlier playthroughs. My initial thought was that I could merge the images.rpa files together because they would contain the flags for the playthroughs I had already done and that by inserting them into the game folder of version 11 to replace the existing file that it would unlock those files that I had already unlocked in previous playthroughs. From what you're telling me and what I am inferring from that is that there's really no practical way to do that, and that really and truly the only way to consolidate everything and bring it in would be to start a new playthrough and run through everything again in order to unlock the images. I don't care enough about them to go through all of those permutations and the time necessary to do so, so if that's the case then screw it. lol.

Regardless, thanks for taking the time to go through it with me.

 

[DIKHammer]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

Def could use a good pink rose experience maybe without the rest of the DIKs this time too or maybe just MC & Rusty or Derek

 

[TheNowhereWolf]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

Yes to all!

 

[ZenoMod]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

The oily manatee dressed up as oily reindeer?

 

[-d2d-]

The oily manatee dressed up as oily reindeer?

If I had to guess she'd be an oily Mrs. Claus.

The other strippers could be the Elves or maybe the reindeer?

 

[DIKHammer]

The oily manatee dressed up as oily reindeer?

just dress her in all black she can be a lump of coal

 

[ZenoMod]

If I had to guess she'd be an oily Mrs. Claus.

Oh, yeah... maybe.

I didn't think about Mrs Claus because she's practically never represented in the Italian lore. Santa is thinked as a single man in our collective imagination.

 

[ZenoMod]

just dress her in all black she can be a lump of coal

More than just a lump, a 200-pound sack.

 

[DIKHammer]

More than just a lump, a 200-pound sack.

 

[DIKHammer]

Oh, yeah... maybe.

I didn't think about Mrs Claus because she's practically never represented in the Italian lore. Santa is thinked as a single man in our collective imagination.

 

[Better Cock Spock]

I wonder if we're going to get, for lack of a better word, "festive" sex scenes?

Girls dressed up in sexy christmas lingerie/costumes, festive sex toys etc.

Maybe the Pink Rose will be decorated for Christmas and the strippers will have themed outfits?

I think we missed the boat on that, seeing how we just had a Christmas panty party—and none of the lewds were really festive. Although Melanie's lingerie was Christmas-y....

... but we didn't fuck her

More than just a lump, a 200-pound sack.

She needs to get that 95 pound mole taken off her ass

 

[Zda13]

Surely a candy cane will be used as a dildo.

That's one of the biggest christmas traditions.