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Who's your favorite character in SandStorm?

  • Maddie

    Votes: 949 28.2%
  • Nora

    Votes: 951 28.3%
  • Rion

    Votes: 1,394 41.5%
  • The Priestess

    Votes: 560 16.7%

  • Total voters
    3,360

Canto Forte

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Jul 10, 2017
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Well .. that makes MC a nobody?
Tell you what when the first update came I was very happy with the game
So as I played the second update
From best girl I herad this
I am tired of my bf he can't satisfy me he cant fuck me properly
So when I came to Egypt I got fucked by a random guy
I like to do hardcore sex with my bf
And I love to have sex with anyone
But she don't want to have sex with mc
(Wow even I was not in ntr route I have to hear this kind of dialogues
Or is it that she is a two timing back stabbing nonsence spouting pie hole,
just waiting for MC to throbb deep hard and insatiable into all of her pleasure charred pits?
 

GleenXstudio

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Well. I dunno really - maybe I should try the game.
I am kind of tired of checking on games on very early stage of development, only to find they are not for me
I don't have better advice to give you than: "give it a try and check if it's for you", though ^^.
It's always the best way. Only you know better what games are suited for you, and the opinions given here are very different and subjective according to each one preference and perceptions. It does not need much for some (when it's not the same person with multiple accounts...) to find characters slutty when others find the same character innocent and passionate. So, what can I say...:ROFLMAO:

In my perception, it's not a game heavily focused on NTR, but NTR can happen on some routes if you fail your romance. I would say in a "logical/realistic" kind, not malicious just for the pleasure to hurt. And a few fun scenes where supernatural is involved. Not sure it's what you are looking for though.
And in the other hand, it can also be played with almost 0 cheating content.

Again, NTR or non-NTR is not the main focus of the game. To be honest, I don't even care of either.
I just try to give different options, choices, and outcomes to the player, and something different than just a slideshow where you have no impact at all.
And a bit more realistic and mature than a traditional vanilla/harem game.

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Well...I guess I made the girls too cute, and now some people would have liked this one to be the 50350th vanilla/harem game of the website. :LOL:
Sorry, but won't happen, leave some to the others. :p
 
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Angmir

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Tell you what when the first update came I was very happy with the game
So as I played the second update
From best girl I herad this
I am tired of my bf he can't satisfy me he cant fuck me properly
So when I came to Egypt I got fucked by a random guy
I like to do hardcore sex with my bf
And I love to have sex with anyone
But she don't want to have sex with mc
(Wow even I was not in ntr route I have to hear this kind of dialogues
Then she is simply not the girl for you ;-)
There are tons of girls like that. I'd even say it is somewhat of a norm.
Sexualization through porn affect all of us, and women are no excception.

I agree though - If I was looking for a girl for me in romantic harem simulator - she would not be my kind of girl.
But from what I hear it is not this kind of game.
 

Caryland

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Hey, to the developer - games looks promising but you like way to many developers on this site neglect proper lighting! It's super important for good looking renders. Otherwise your renders look really good but the mistake is lighting the scene and characters using the same lights. Unless using RayTracing this will make characters look under lit, as in real life light bounces of many different surfaces to light an object. Using secondary light that only give light (no Shadows either) to the character will make them pop and look natural in the scene. Giving them fill light and back light. It's not necessary for a good game, but it greatly enhances the experience when you can have beautifully lit render. =)
 
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GleenXstudio

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Otherwise your renders look really good but the mistake is lighting the scene and characters using the same lights
I agree with you. The lights are the hardest thing to master in Daz3D, and I'm still learning it.
I'm very new with Daz (less than 6 months) and in 2020, I was very limited on hardware and had to resort to tricks that were not working very well for inside scenes, especially the Abu Simbel temples scenes (which I'll redo one day, now that I am getting more experience on the matter, also thanks to better hardware that allows me to add more things and lights without the fear to make the computer crash). When you can't have real-time Iray preview because of lack of memory or because the preview takes 30min, it's really hard to adjust the lights, you have to render, see what's wrong, re-render etc. and at the end you take what's was the least worse because the 3Dlight preview is not helping at all regarding lights.
Anyway, that was what I had to go through for most of the first-day scenes o_O. When I couldn't bear it anymore, I invested in a new CGI and it changed my life lol. Now, I have less excuse for that, I just need to learn how to do lighting better and more efficiently.
I still have progress to do, but I think I'm getting there slowly.

Here's one of my renders from this WE.

Nora RingDance.jpg
 
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EraStorm - Episode 1 : SandStorm [v0.3 Beta] GleenX Studio

Original Size Win/Linux: 1.69 GB
Original Size Mac: 1.68 GB

Compressed Size Win/Linux: 228 MB: MEGA - WORKUPLOAD
Compressed Size Mac: 211 MB: MEGA - WORKUPLOAD

This compression is unofficial. Compressing process reduces image/audio/video quality and can break the game, be aware of that.

You can find all of my Walkthrough Mods content here:

Or you can:
both links doesn`t work /win ver/
 

GleenXstudio

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Unless using RayTracing this will make characters look under lit, as in real life light bounces of many different surfaces to light an object. Using secondary light that only give light (no Shadows either) to the character will make them pop and look natural in the scene.
Hmmm, but how do you cast no shadows on secondary lights ? That always gives me additional shadows.
And I'm using Iray rendering only, not 3Dlight which I don't like. I found some options in the light parameters for "no shadow", but it seems to work only in 3Dlight
With Iray and RayTracing, I have shadows no matter what, unless I missed something. :unsure:

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desmosome

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Hello people

I am interested in the game, but unlike many outraged people - I actualy came here for NTR content.
And I have to ask - is this game is something for me.

Almost none games on this side are NTR I am looking for. They are eighter compleatly riddiculous caricatures of the games, or the NTR is not even in the game - just 2 3rd party characters having sex.

For game to have good NTR, the girls MC was pursuing, despite having feelings for MC, have to be taken away from him by others, in dramatic not comedic way.
Does this game has this sort of possibility ? I think it is a bit more mature than most games here, but I am not sure if there is actual "NTR" route in the game ?

The Guide says it is about point accumulation with girls ? If I want to get the girls to stumble - do I just deliberatly take the least ammount of points ? Or you can screw up your romances by choices that lead to the girls beeing taken by others ?

Lets have civilized discussion about it
and Thank you.
I only played chapter 1, but I can tell you that this game ain't gonna be a real NTR game. It doesn't even have NTR to be honest. It has "NTR" the type that dumb fucks are always crying about. It has relationship dynamics of a bunch of friends who can do some threesome/cheating/love triangle/flirting/whatever. You should know by now that you are not gonna get a NTR centric story from western devs unless it's very clearly marketed as such.
 

Caryland

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Hmmm, but how do you cast no shadows on secondary lights ? That always gives me additional shadows.
And I'm using Iray rendering only, not 3Dlight which I don't like. I found some options in the light parameters for "no shadow", but it seems to work only in 3Dlight
With Iray and RayTracing, I have shadows no matter what, unless I missed something. :unsure:

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OK, well to be honest I've don't use Daz, dabbled a bit but I'm trained in Maya. In that program you can assign the light to to only work on certain objects. The default setting of the light hits everything, but you can also make a list and select individual object for it to light. That way if it's only effecting the characters it won't cast a shadow on the ground as it doesn't effect anything else in the scene. I just quickly googled and using Iray it seems there are ways to do it with Daz. It really will make the characters pop. Also in the lighting in Maya, and so probably in Daz as well there were options to simply turn off shadows, so lights wouldn't cast shadows. It's way of putting lots of lights in scene without using to much computing power to render. It's a way to 'fake' fill light, bounce light and back light. Each character should have at least fill light, a frontal facing light, and then at an angle to the camera to help give definition to the face. And then a back light, at an angle to the fill light, so to not be flat. The back light in the renders you provided could really highlight the edges of the characters in the color of the sun, make them stand out and not blend in so much to the background. Hope this helps at all, sorry if it seems if I rambling! I specialized in lighting and rendering, although don't do it anymore, so love to help people when they want!

Also, I don't mean to be picking on you about the lighting of characters. So many developers on this site have the same problem. I feel like I might try to help some developers out. Like I said I don't really know how Daz works, but I know how to light a scene really well in a context that fakes actual lighting. The first few years I worked in the animation I worked on a show called Tripping the Rift. Wasn't a great show, but still fun to work on. This was about 15 years ago, we weren't Pixar, so you needed to fake the effects of lighting. Today, you can actually have raytracing real time in games, back then it would take so long just to render and image with raytracing. So if you need some tips or whatever feel free to ask.
 
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I'm not able to get the Rion dream scene on the bus. I was at 84% affection with her at the end of the previous day, and in the dialogue we do mention her blacking out in the temple, but the choice to see her dream which the guide mentions doesn't appear.
 

GleenXstudio

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I'm not able to get the Rion dream scene on the bus. I was at 84% affection with her at the end of the previous day, and in the dialogue we do mention her blacking out in the temple, but the choice to see her dream which the guide mentions doesn't appear.
You need just a little more. I believe 1% more if I remember, unlucky. I might reduce the threeshold in the future but honestly, I dont think it's that hard to reach. Otherwise, the mod version will be ready soon. You can readjust relationship points with it.
 

hakarlman

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So in order to get NTR, you have to make sure you don't pick the girl you're actually interested in?
 

GleenXstudio

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THERE A BUG IN THE GAME AT THIS SAVE POINT. AND BUG FILE.
I think you are playing an older version (or probably the modded version which I remind is still v0.2 not v0.3).
That bug was corrected after v0.2 but thanks ;)

How the heck does one access the gallery?
Here ^^
Screen SandStorm v03_LI.jpg
And then you need to play, and you will unlock some stuff at some key moments related to your choices, routes and girls chased. . If you played the romantic routes, obviously you unlock the romantic stuff, and not the rest. If you played the fun/lust/extreme routes, you unlock the crazy stuff but not the rest. Etc.
Once unlocked, it will remain unlocked permanently, so you can make multiple playthroughs and rollbacks to unlock everything. Doable in 3 runs I think.

Otherwise, someone released here an unlock gallery file (which I haven't tried, so at your own risk)
https://f95zone.to/threads/erastorm-episode-1-sandstorm-v0-3-gleenx-studio.70133/post-5118616

By using that "unlocked gallery" file, be aware you will unlock everything in the gallery including NTR, BBC, 3some or whatever crazy stuff could have happened at some point in the game. I don't want to hear complaints after! :ROFLMAO:
 
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