VN Ren'Py Best Friends [Ch.3 Fix] [Faenon]

[Faenon]

It's all good, it wasn't my intention to sound negative so sorry if that was the case. To be honest the animation itself was a pleasant surprise, as I wasn't expecting to see an animation at all. As for how it looked, it was maybe not of the best visual quality, but I get that you're learning as you go along so it's totally fine. I would have been fine if there had been a few static renders and no animation yet, it's not necessary IMO, but kudos to you for getting it done. And reading that you aim to improve the animations is great.

This could also be because as you say, at this point I'm more intrigued by the story than anything else. Sure I'm interested to see spicy scenes in the future, but the unfolding story is what will keep me coming back at this point. In my opinion you are doing a great job so far, and I'm eager to see where this will lead to. And a very positive thing, I think, is that you said you have the story completed, or at least the broad strokes, as I find that leads to very little chance of the game meandering aimlessly toward the end.

Keep up the good work and best of luck with the ongoing development, cheers!

Don't worry it didn't come over as negative at all. It's an issue I had been aware of and something I have planned to fix. I used a third party pre-defined animation for that scene and it's something like 450 frames in length ! When you bear in mind that the whole of Chapter 3 is 650 or something renders in size, that's a massive amount of render for my 4080 super to handle. So I reduced the resolution and limited the number of iterations, it still took somewhere between 2 days with the rig on all the time to render out the thing. I have since found a better workflow to generate animations, which I implement in chapter 4, I do them fully manually now and generate them in blender from still images. They may not be as involved as this animation is but they are way easier for me to manage and do not lock up my rendering rig for days, which obviously slows down my other progress.

Really appreciate the positive feedback and so happy that you are clearly enjoying the story, it's been a labour of love for me over the past year or so. I've learned a bunch of new skills developing it and it's been an important tool for me to manage my mental health as I go through some struggles in real life right now, developing it is an escape for me that I've needed. I am so very pleased to see others appreciate the efforts, the positive feedback I have received has helped me enormously

 

[Danv]

hm, a bit weirded out about parents using "pet", first time coming across it in casual dialogue, unless it some kinky shit used by a dom to address sub, something like "hon" or "hun" would fit better
also weird seeing "mam" here, usually it just "mum" to give "mom" necessary british accent

 

[Faenon]

hm, a bit weirded out about parents using "pet", first time coming across it in casual dialogue, unless it some kinky shit used by a dom to address sub, something like "hon" or "hun" would fit better
also weird seeing "mam" here, usually it just "mum" to give "mom" necessary british accent

Aha good spot. "Pet" is a very Geordie term of endearment, it is not used elsewhere in the UK or the world that I know of. There was actually recently a directive from Newcastle City council to try to force it's employees not to use it, a local MP quickly protested against that. It's harmless and really endearing, generally used for older folks on younger ones. Sorry I'm trying to educate folks on my home town in this game too

Also "Mam" in reference to mother is a northern England thing, very much used in the Newcastle where the characters are from, I refer to my mother as "Mam", most of the UK refers to mother as "Mum" hence why I use that in the label for the mothers in the game.

 

[Faenon]

are the two playable characters going to get together? and would that be a choice or something forced? because the sister of the trans playable characters keeps bringing up how their friend has eyes for them and likes them etc. and a different character does the same thing as the sister.

Another quick note on this, I do talk a little about my plans for Chapter 5, which is currently in development, in my weekly update this week. I send these updates out every Friday, they are not locked behind any paywall so I would encourage anyone who is interested in staying in touch to join as a free member at least.

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[Knight_of_the_lance]

hm, a bit weirded out about parents using "pet", first time coming across it in casual dialogue, unless it some kinky shit used by a dom to address sub, something like "hon" or "hun" would fit better
also weird seeing "mam" here, usually it just "mum" to give "mom" necessary british accent

I too was a bit taken aback by the parents calling themselves pet at first but since I am not from UK and it was clearly voluntarily written as such by Faenon I did not question it. In chapter 4 there is an other term I wasn't familiar with even if I got the general meaning of it.

Did a small google search and stumbled upon this verry helpful article from the Northumbria University of Newcastle: 10 Geordie Phrases You Should Know

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[Danv]

Did a small google search and stumbled upon this verry helpful article from the Northumbria University of Newcastle: 10 Geordie Phrases You Should Know

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yeah it's all too fancy for me, i just used regex

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probably will backfire on me in the future with such hard replaces, but eh

 

[Faenon]

I too was a bit taken aback by the parents calling themselves pet at first but since I am not from UK and it was clearly voluntarily written as such by Faenon I did not question it. In chapter 4 there is an other term I wasn't familiar with even if I got the general meaning of it.

Did a small google search and stumbled upon this verry helpful article from the Northumbria University of Newcastle: 10 Geordie Phrases You Should Know

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"Radgie" ? Hehe, I thought I would sneak that one in You'll have to google it, but in the reference here it refers to an unstable character.

 

[Faenon]

yeah it's all too fancy for me, i just used regex

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probably will backfire on me in the future with such hard replaces, but eh

LOL, now I know your tricks, I may need to mess with you in the code Just Kidding, whatever makes the game more playable for you, that is perfectly fine.

 

[Knight_of_the_lance]

"Radgie" ? Hehe, I thought I would sneak that one in You'll have to google it, but in the reference here it refers to an unstable character.

That is what I did!

Continue to incorporate regionalism! For me that is kind of important. I might not always understand or mistake it for errors but it still gives the story some charm.

 

[Faenon]

That is what I did!

Continue to incorporate regionalism! For me that is kind of important. I might not always understand or mistake it for errors but it still gives the story some charm.

I think this is down to my deep seated issues I'm English but I've lived in North America for most of this century. What I see a lot with fellow Brits, across all medium is a desire to "Americanise" (notice the use of s and not z ) their utterings. For me I think that shows two things, one a lack of integrity in what you trying to say, it just comes off wrong to other Brits and secondly a disregard for the mental capacity of North Americans to understand what you are trying to say, which is not true.

Through my personal life I stubbornly stick to English pronunciations and spellings. Even my kids get annoyed at me for calling it Football, crisps, chips, it's an amber not a yellow traffic light and so on. Hehe I feel for all these folks that are ESL and have to put up with all us English speakers who like to regionalise the language. Sorry

 

[FatGiant]

I am ESL. Keep them coming, loving to learn...

Peace

 

[Speedfeed]

I think you will understand that I can not give away any potential storyline here.

i understand but can you say if there's going to be sex content with the trans character that's unavoidable for them? because if they're just going to sleep with anyone and it's not avoidable i'd like to know

 

[FatGiant]

i understand but can you say if there's going to be sex content with the trans character that's unavoidable for them? because if they're just going to sleep with anyone and it's not avoidable i'd like to know

You say you understand, but, then you ask the same thing again. So, you don't understand.

You're the type of people that when they start to read a book, they read the last page first, right?

Why don't you ask what you really want to know?

Peace

 

[Faenon]

i understand but can you say if there's going to be sex content with the trans character that's unavoidable for them? because if they're just going to sleep with anyone and it's not avoidable i'd like to know

LOL, I think you are just trying to ask the same question in a different way Sorry I can't say either way. I'm not a big fan of games that state there will be this or that in them and give options to the player to opt out. I am telling a story here, there are characters in it of various gender identities and sexual preferences. At the end of Chapter 3 you are introduced to 2 trans characters, there is adult content in the game, a betting person may put on money that at least one of those characters will be in a bedroom scene at some point, who the other participant(s) are is a little more unclear. The only advice I would give you is, if you do not like trans content perhaps this isn't the game for you.

 

[Old Grumpy Wolf]

Just found this and am wondering if Emma will be an LI at some point or will she just be the other MC? Anyway, good job so far. I normally hate KN's but the story is good so far, despite the typos and missed words. lol

 

[Zakalwe76]

ok so far. Molly is interesting character

 

[lemonfreak]

Aha good spot. "Pet" is a very Geordie term of endearment, it is not used elsewhere in the UK or the world that I know of. There was actually recently a directive from Newcastle City council to try to force it's employees not to use it, a local MP quickly protested against that. It's harmless and really endearing, generally used for older folks on younger ones. Sorry I'm trying to educate folks on my home town in this game too

Also "Mam" in reference to mother is a northern England thing, very much used in the Newcastle where the characters are from, I refer to my mother as "Mam", most of the UK refers to mother as "Mum" hence why I use that in the label for the mothers in the game.

The use of Mam threw me as well, not due to the word itself but because it was preceded by 'my' when every Geordie in my family would say 'me Mam'

 

[spooge_nugget]

Two Geordie lads

I've seen some messed up stuff in my time on this site, but it seems we have a new winner. There really is no escaping from Ant and Dec.

 

[Danv]

- Fixed an issue with colours of labels for certain characters

yeah that not true, chars.rpy still untouched and bugged, and even chapter02.rpy with new dialogue fixes still have broken Molly define

 

[Faenon]

yeah that not true, chars.rpy still untouched and bugged, and even chapter02.rpy with new dialogue fixes still have broken Molly define

Hmmm. Crap, I only changed the Patreon version for that particular fix. I have two versions on two different PCs so I don't get too confused. I'll fix that and re-upload. Thanks for the heads up.

Edit: Fixed and uploaded to Itch.io