Whelp, it's been a frustrating two weeks and what I had intended to be a celebration of having gotten a good enough handle on Daz Studio to move on has instead become a revelation that something I was counting on being able to do likely won't be possible. I had planned to rely on dForce to position and shape hair to match the pose of the characters. But, because every hair out there built specifically to use dForce happens to have ridiculously complex geometry, my "lowly" RTX2070 can't handle it. I can simulate the hair fine. But I can't render it. Not in an actual scene with other characters. So what I thought was going to be a big time saver and problem solver... is instead a thorn in my side.
I now have to find replacement hairs for every character. I have to change my plans on how I'm going to compose scenes so that characters will never be in a pose that make those hairs' immunity to gravity apparent. There's lots of games out there when characters just stand around and talk to each other most of the time. That's fine. But this wasn't going to be that kind of game. And now it is. Because a single dForce hair asset is 80% of my geometry budget.
This really sucks.
In any case, here's the what I had intended to post:
New hair. In fact this is the hair that takes 80% of my geometry budget for any scene it's in. Other than that she's mostly unchanged. I made some tweaks to her eyes that are story relevant. But details on that will come later. And finally I've added the scars she carries from her years of scrambling to survive on the streets in a world where morality has lost all meaning. Each set of scars tells a story of a particular trauma she's endured. Whether she'll share any of those during the course of the game... I haven't decided yet.
And here she is again. I said this was TF/Corruption game right? Bigger boobs, wider hips, and a signature style for the Arena patrons to recognize her by. This is about where I expect she'll be by about halfway through the game. Transformations you can't see:
- her lower legs have been altered so she has to wear "ballet" heals to walk comfortably... but she's also been granted unnatural skill in doing so
- her tongue has been tainted by sexual contact with Doxy... it now extends up to a foot from her mouth and is entirely prehensile. It's also rather sexually sensitive.
- her pussy has been tainted by sexual contact with the Male PC... she now suffers from a condition hilariously and quite descriptively known as "The Drip." Her pussy is literally permanently aching to be fucked and drools that need liberally down her thighs. (this is one of those things I don't have assets for... and don't expect to find them. But I have an idea how to make them.)
All of this subject to change, of course.
Micha has some big changes to her outfit. The old cape was part of an outfit they would have covered the place where the left side of the cape was held... but without that part of the outfit the cape was just magically hanging on to her shoulder blade by friction alone. I think this works almost as well, and doesn't change the character much. You may have noticed she also has the same hair as the MC... the one that uses up 80% of the geometry budget all by itself. So her hair is going to have to be changed. Also, hopefully, her expression is no longer inhuman looking.
Lady Azkara has barely changed... she's just gained her proper tail. Her hair uses up ~30% of my geometry budget... still too much so it will have to change.
Doxy is likewise complete. The issue with her sleave exploding has been resolved. I ended up giving her the scorpion tail because I would have had to paint a custom texture to make the other tails blend with ther skin texture. I also figured since she's all about poisons... give her a venomous tail. Here, however, she's using it to pull up her skirt and give the viewer a better look at her bum. I used animated her tail in combination with dForce to accomplish this. This hair also uses up 30% of my geometry budget... so... yep... gotta change it.
Finally, a new character: Shalborg the Deceiver, Father of the Many Fleets, Inventor of Magitech, The Original Summoner, and second only to the Cruel Empress herself. I'll not be sharing much about Shalborg for now. This scene is very much non-canon, but I have a rule against giant dicks being on display and no naked women present to please it (or, more accurately, the viewer).
If the scene seems a little unbalanced... it's cause it is. Micha was supposed to be leaning up against his right knee while starting at the Female PC eating Lady Azkara out and fondling herself. But the Geometry budget was tapped out by what you see. It's not immediately obvious... but the Female PC is bald here cause I had to remove her hair for the scene to render.
I'm gonna shift gears here and focus on story for a while. Get some distance from these hair issues. But I'll be about.
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