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after see this game like this i think play sims 4 use mod wicked whims is good than this game
Talking about AI CG is so dumb when referring to Glassix 2... Glassix 2 is real time 3D, using morphs to allow full body and face customization of the characters. There will be full pregnancy management and there is also already aging morphs in game which means NPCs age and get physically older has you play. Like miawang said, I'm no artist or designer, I'm a programmer and learned everything from scratch so there is indeed a lot lacking on lots of aspect, UI and graphics being among them but despite your claims, you can design pretty enough girls in Glassix 2 if you take the time with the Character Editor. Does your AI offer character editor in your 2D games, visual pregnancy and aging? Screenshots are from early dev version and I should replace them but 1) I'm lazy 2) I like seeing reply like yours saying graphics is shit and you start talking about completely irrelevant topic like AI CG, comparing a real time 3D game with full morphing ability to static 2D AI CG, comparing Glassix 2 which offers editors, modding and proper sandbox features to simulate life, albeit few at the moment, to 2D VN games which offers 0 gameplay and only focus on sexy girls.
After you've played your 20th AI CG game with the same character design and similar story, maybe you'll like to play a real time 3D with proper gameplay giving you the liberty to live a virtual life filled with magic as you see fit and not follow a preset story. AI won't be able to give you that.
So yes, Glassix 2 graphics are not optimal so if you're looking only at graphics, this is a pass. If you're looking for an actual GAME to play, this is it (or will be, still a lot of work to achieve proper sandbox features). Graphics are not everything in a game... However, graphics in Glassix 2 can be improved indeed and I'll look into it, but only once more core features are added in the game. I don't mind the shit talking about graphics, like they said, bad advertisement is still better than no advertisement at all lol. But when you compare stuff, compare what is comparable please... 3D and 2D cannot be compared, VN and management games cannot either... IF you want to compare, you indeed have LifePlay as a reference and I'd be interested to see proper comparison on which aspect Glassix 2 would be worse than LifePlay. If you have other 3D sandbox games with full character customization and wardrobe to compare Glassix 2, let me know cause that would be better to use a referral to improve Glassix 2. Constructive critics are welcomed. And special mention FinalZero comparing an indie game made by a single dev part time to The Sims 4 made a professional team full time and modders and several years of work behind lol. That's totally a fair comparison....
- Jun 6, 2017
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Volume slider and window mode ever?
hell, either or would solve my need to turn the game down.
The first one simultaneously made me like sandboxes and never want to play them again. Here's hoping I don't need to maintain the characters bladder and stock portfolio...
It sounded stupid as I sent it. my bad lol
hell, either or would solve my need to turn the game down.
The first one simultaneously made me like sandboxes and never want to play them again. Here's hoping I don't need to maintain the characters bladder and stock portfolio...
It sounded stupid as I sent it. my bad lol
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Btw I think my comment sounded a bit rude. I didn't really mean it that way. You're no designer that's obvious, but I actually really do think you're great at coding and it's totally fine if design is not your expertise. Because the game IS kinda in depth and has lots of interesting mechanics. But I do think it would be good to at least find someone who can help you out in terms of UI, since it is really cluttered and that effects the user experience and joy in playing a lot. For the 3D art...yeah it's not state of the art, but I think this doesn't affect the gameplay that much. However many people probably disagree with me there. But anyways bro, graphics aside, the gameplay is actually good. Keep doing your thing!
Finding a 3D UI designer would indeed be welcomed but it's not easy to find someone reliable and I'm afraid I don't have the funds to pay someone at the moment. But if I ever get to the point where i can afford that, it would be nice to have someone review the whole UI design indeed.
Hey brother, I get what you mean. I do applaud your initative to experiment and improve in such a hard task that is 3D simulation and sandbox, People can often make uneducated claims and see only the graphical modeling, but true potention lies on the backbone coding of the game. Making characters react within some parameters of freedom and have multiple characters affecting each other is hard work and underappreciated if people don't get to give it a chance due to lack of art appeal. If i may give some advice it would be to focus on your strengths first. Graphical design and animation is hard to master specially in porn, if you focus on that then the core of the gameplay would stagnate for a while and that is the strength of your project. Its always cool to learn new abilities but i think if you manage to make an engaging sandbox any artist wanting to get notoriety would try to sell their services to you due to the market gap that your game is aiming to fill. Its a rough ride until there but i believe in you, i hope you don't get unmotivated along the way.
You're right. The first few months of the project, I tried to improve graphics, mostly shaders and lighting to give a more professional look, because the models themselves are actually among the best of the market, from Daz3D, so it's not really the models which are the problem. But like you said, all this stuff is quite complicated, getting proper hair or skin shader takes times, even more because I need specific requirements for easy modding and layers to apply stacks of images on top of each others, which other games usually won't do. I didn't talk about it either before but for example, makeup and lipstick which would add to girl beauty are already already functional. And with the way I coded stuff, it's quite easy to just drop a PNG into your mod folder to be able to use it on your girl face so you can add more makeup or write lewd words on their face if you wish so, something other games also don't offer. This is already functional but I didn't have time to complete the UI for that.
As for lighting, I've also looked into it but I'm using Unity HDRP and real time lighting only which severely reduce the options to have proper lighting which is why it's currently so blend and kinda ugly. It's possible to improve but due to Daz models already being quite heavy processing, adding more screen effects drops FPS quite a lot on top of that so it's a struggle to find a good solution. Here again, other game use static locations with pre computed lighting which does give you the best visual, but prevents any form of modding. In Glassix 2, you can take any 3D location or lowpoly building or furniture smodel, drop it in your mod folder, setup a XML files to configure some required data and you'll be able to use those models in Glassix 2 directly too, other games won't let you do that as easily. It's already working technically but I plan to add proper editors to make the process user friendly too. Another thing other games, and certainly not AI CG games allow you.
Anyway, the game has been bashed for its graphics from the beginning so you get used to it eventually lol
They do have a point though, graphics could be way better. I do plan to try improving it in the future but that'll come much later, I prefer to add features and content at the moment (Though I lean more on the feature side being a dev, writing content is also not my strength :x).
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Good point, I think I fixed that in v0.17 but forgot to mention it in the changelog. I'll double check for v0.18 and add it to the changelog to confirm. But yes, it's an easy fix to add actually, just an oversight on my side with UI scaling. My bad :x
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0.16 not have this fix yet?
will wait before release 0.17 - i'm just a lurker on your SS site.
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Possibly, I don't remember if the fix was added in 0.16 or 0.17, I said 0.17 to be sure but you could try 0.16 if you want to test fast.
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ok.
0.16 report
still too small fonts in the small window (left-up corner of screen where they talk what you need to do, that windows what under window where date time and money with day of the week) - it's need to use magnifying glass for read those messages.
need to include in the game some sort of font customisation applet - to change font size and color.
Well this is due to the scaling of the UI, I didn't pick the correct option in Unity which is why the UI currently scale with the resolution and appear so small on smaller resolution (I'm using 2056x1440 myself) Unity offers several options and maybe it was in 0.17 where I fixed it, or maybe I made a mistake again. I'll double check for 0.18 to make sure all resolutions have the same UI size since it shouldn't change for visual reading at all.
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"Her latest design was to abduct a poor soul, you, and push this soul into the lives of various random citizens. By doing so, your actions would generate karma, from good or bad actions, which should could then harvest from you."
Am I the only one who remembers the Shiny game 'Messiah'?
Am I the only one who remembers the Shiny game 'Messiah'?
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I never managed to finish the first game due to how easy it is to miss content if you don't play in a very specific way, but, wow, this one, looking at the preview pictures, just looks nightmare inducing.
The dev said to not look at graphics, but how can't I? It's a video game, it's like asking me to watch a movie with my eyes closed.
I'm not expecting AAA next gen graphics, but he bare minimum lighting, shadows, etc...
And what's more nightmare inducing are those faces and soul sucking empty eyes.
You can't sell the merits of having full3D game with body morphing when games 20 years old already had that tech with better graphics.
There are plenty of 3D games with body customization out there that don't look like they were developed in the 90s. Nah, I'm being too harsh on games from the 90s, they looked better that this, granted, probably because they were lowres and lowpoly, but that's the uncanny valley for you.
The dev said to not look at graphics, but how can't I? It's a video game, it's like asking me to watch a movie with my eyes closed.
I'm not expecting AAA next gen graphics, but he bare minimum lighting, shadows, etc...
And what's more nightmare inducing are those faces and soul sucking empty eyes.
You can't sell the merits of having full3D game with body morphing when games 20 years old already had that tech with better graphics.
There are plenty of 3D games with body customization out there that don't look like they were developed in the 90s. Nah, I'm being too harsh on games from the 90s, they looked better that this, granted, probably because they were lowres and lowpoly, but that's the uncanny valley for you.