- Dec 20, 2020
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Oh I see. Thanks for the in detail explanation. I had a vague awareness in the back of my mind of how a 3d cg game would be vastly different than a 2d one, but having absolutely zero expertise with this I didn't actually realise how complicated it can get . It's fun to find out "behind the scenes" details like this.I'll probably add this once the game is finished. At present, the math is a little bit arbitrary so I think providing the scores to folks right now would give people a false sense of confidence. Instead, I try to offer the relevant guides for decision making in the Walkthrough.
Great questions. On Paolo (an upcoming patron-sponsored character) we went back and forth a lot on some body hair and ultimate settled on just pubes and a happy trail. Ultimately, the only models for whom this body hair asset is compatible are: Nick, Seth, then Mathieu and Riley (characters yet to be introduced). Unfortunately, the body hair asset I'm using isn't compatible with Alex, Ronan, Kai or Mayhew.
So, I might use it for Nick, but for Seth/Mathieu/Riley it will be up to their sponsors.
As for making it toggle-able... that's not currently planned. This isn't too hard in hand-drawn VNs because they generally use sprites and, once a sprite is made, it can be used in countless images. But for BBN, every image is rendered from scratch, so for every shirtless scene, I'd have to run it twice... and that's if only one model in the scene can be toggled. If two models can be toggled, that's four versions of the scene, and then if you're talking a three-way or group... I can't do the math. It would just be too many combinations and iterations of a scene for me to have to render. So, unfortunately, I just don't see a toggle-situation happening.
Also I wanted to mention it in my previous message (or quote and make a new message even) but forgot: I read about your plans for the full game with endings and choices and stuff (you replied to someone a few messages above) and wanted to comment that it sounds great.
I'm all about rpgs and stories, and since this game's story got me so bad all the things you outlined there (different endings, choices influencing this and that, mc's dom/sub score, etc) sounds amazing. Really looking forward to it .