the interaction build have previously listed in the updates they've make, so yeah it will be at the same level of Yiff 1, you will even have more control.
And what about making everythings on blender : yeah sure blender can do everything, but trust me you don't want to. it required a shit tons of hours to make a simple but complete character walk for 3sec. (without counting the learning phase)
Well yeah, that's animation in general, even in SFM it's hours of work for a simple walk cycle, and blender is probably way more complicated that SFM. What we had in YL1 have really nothing to do with creating real 3D animation in programs designed for it. But i recently saw Odes stated on twitter "You could still animate it manually though, as FurryVNE will feature a keyframe editor. (Will be possible in first interactions release.)" Which is cool by itself, but again i really hope they won't go the same route as with Character Creation tool, like "Want oral'n'stuff ? animate it yourself, manually." At least it would be in game, not in blender, thank god.
you don't have to use blender to make good looking character, i mean you have a lot of head available, you can modify a lot on the last heads and have an okay control on the shape of the body, as for the colouring honestly it's really good, thu it lack a bit of randomizer.
but sure if you don't know the basis of blender you are limited :
Of course you can make decent characters without even touching blender, or use it very minimally, like just to import parts. My problem is not that ability to use blender exist or that you can't make anything good without it, one of my favorite creator there don't use blender. it's how it's implemented, where you can't really use clothes/offsets other people made (and using like textures, parts and even edits of other people's characters aren't against the rules and easily doable) And second that when they introduced blender into the FVNE, they are now just brushing off any requests for QoL of people who don't use blender with "bruh, just do that in blender" For example I remember some time ago someone complained that decals are very pixelated when they are small, and they just said use blender. Yeah they showed how to do it in form of a video even, but imo that's not the solution at all, that's just shifting the problem to 3rd party software and the user.
But coloring and rest of things related to that, yeah. That's implemented very good, tho having an ability to manually paint masks would be very handy.
i agree that it really lack body type and appendage. but on discord i don't see ppl complaining of the lack of it, probably why.
right now Dogson work to make all the heads done and refine the old head with all the sliders/option the news have.
look at the cartoon mink head for an example of the possibility.
Yeah that might be just my thing that i don't feel that amount of body types we have is enough, but also people rarely complain in discord anyway, because you probably will get one of two answers, "all focus right now is on interactions" which is fine, but no one really says they want the thing they asked for right fucking now. or "Use blender for that" which i guess is their solution for everything. Too bad blender can't fix unity bugs and shit.
Yeah, the heads and parts for them are nice and all, but do you know how many animal types there are in the world, Dogson is not even close to half-done on that "make all the heads" thing. It would be nice to have new body types at least once in a while, but i bet they don't wanna do that, because sculpting a whole body and shape keys for it is probably way-way harder than doing a head. While just saying "go do that in blender yourself" is very easy.
for clothes unfortunately you only have two good solutions : Marvelous Designer or simply cloth pro (blender add on)
for cloth i personally use Marvelous designer, fast, simple. for hard surface (like armor plate) i use blender.
i've never imagined my pc storage filled with 20Go dedicated only to 3D sculpting/texturing.
now 70% of my playtime i pass it on FVNE/Blender/Marvelous designer/substance painter/Gimp. (yeah i really like it)
Well nice that you that you know how to do it and enjoy doing all that , but for me it's a big problem, i don't have that much time nor desire to learn all this 3rd party software, watch hours of guides for all of that, and then acquire at least decent skills in all those programs. Just for an ability to make an unusual/clothed(and not really only clothes since that feature can do more things that clothes, like back frills for example) furry character i want in an a character creator which is a standalone app i had to learn how to use as well(atleast the CC itself is fun) ? Any time i open blender it feels like pain to me. I do not enjoy it. You say "but if i need to learn the basis of unity.... well it's a no." Well for me that's a no for all of that. It's really nice that they have all the things for people with skill in 3D modeling to do all the crazy advanced stuff, but i just really don't like their attitude towards all the plebs who can't/don't want to use blender and lots of other 3rd party software.
This made me think that if the entire project devolves into a variant of "Heres a blender like tool" then most of the folk who cant operate blender are literally falling out of purchaser base.
Im no good with these tools, so for me a good scene designer allows me an extremely streamlined, easy to understand and quick to use without any prior knowledge of this.
For example in HEAT im constantly frustrated that i can select individual limbs and activate an X-Y-Z command screen where i could move that specific limb and all attached to a needed position like how in Koikatsu you could make custom masks by stiching together items and moving them to the proper place.
If what i get in the end of the day is a resticitve blender variant then i might aswell use blender.
Well, it's not that bad as of now yet. You absolutely can make a furry character and probably be satisfied with it, if you like how default assets look. All the problems begin when you want something more advanced and complex. You probably still can find some workarounds but they will look not as good as if you used blender for that, and that kinda sucks. But with how they treat this issue of some features completely blocked behind a 3D modeling skillset... Yeah that probably can cause some people to fall out of purchaser base.
Animations are not done yet, and no one really knows yet how they will actually work or how hard they will be to learn, i can only say about the CC tool for sure. Played HEAT only once, i don't have a VR headset and stuff, so this game wasn't really enjoyable for me and controls were hell. But Posing tool(in FVNE) that is a part of CC tool is pretty easy to use. Nothing complicated there and you can move limbs and other parts of character very freely. And the CC tool itself isn't that hard to learn eiher. No hours of guides on youtube you need to watch. They have a couple of short guide videos that just explain very basics, the rest is learnable by yourself. Just have to sit down, and invest some time to understand how everything works, no real skills required, harder than YL1, but on the whole another level easier than blender. Would be a very damn good CC if it didn't completely block some features behind 3rd party software.
