Unity Completed Honey Select 2 [DX R16] [Illusion]

[Skeltom]

Did you activate GraphicsMode or DHH?

I'm not sure but that sounds like the game is trying show HDR on a display that doesn't support it. The same thing happens with videos encoded with HDR 10.

 

[Jonboy80]

Ok, so this is done
But you mentioned DHH and BetterAntiAliasing - skip the last one, this is obsolet when using DHH or GraphicsMode and may cause conflicts together.

Yeah. That wasn't a problem but I did disable the option once I saw it was in DHH. Also, I figured out what else was causing an issue. I had installed the seven official card packs but it seems like there were too many and just killed the game's ability to load or transition between screens. Removed them all and it's working pretty fast now with sub-ten second load times between transitions.

Now to go looking for some more realistic characters or read up on creating my own.

 

[pot123]

is there a way to preview the voice lines to hear how they sound during sex scenes?

 

[jojo901]

is there a way to preview the voice lines to hear how they sound during sex scenes?

sure, during character creation, select the Personality, click and adjust the voice pitch

 

[Steve70]

I tried running HS2, and I ran into the same old problem I usually run into with Illusion games; terminal waiting. Every time the game wants to change screens, it takes five (or more!) minutes to do so. Five minutes to load the Illusion splash screen. Five minutes to load the sound for it ("Illusion!"). Five minutes to load the title screen. Five minutes to give me a cursor so I can do anything. Five minutes to load whichever submenu I select. Ad naseum.

It has been so long since I tried playing an Illusion game that I cannot remember what causes this, nor the solution for it. I only remember that it is a common problem, one I encountered in the past and "fixed" so that I could run previous Illusion games (e.g. Schoolmate 2). Would some kind soul please steer me to the solution?

 

[Velcrofly]

I tried running HS2, and I ran into the same old problem I usually run into with Illusion games; terminal waiting. Every time the game wants to change screens, it takes five (or more!) minutes to do so. Five minutes to load the Illusion splash screen. Five minutes to load the sound for it ("Illusion!"). Five minutes to load the title screen. Five minutes to give me a cursor so I can do anything. Five minutes to load whichever submenu I select. Ad naseum.

It has been so long since I tried playing an Illusion game that I cannot remember what causes this, nor the solution for it. I only remember that it is a common problem, one I encountered in the past and "fixed" so that I could run previous Illusion games (e.g. Schoolmate 2). Would some kind soul please steer me to the solution?

Sometime certain screens do take a while to load but 5 minutes per screen change sounds excessive.
A couple of ideas that may help.
1. Ensure your game is as high up in your file directory as possible and that the directory name is short. So for instance I have mine in D:\STNHS2DX12\. I have read that the deeper you store it and the longer the directory names the more issues it causes and since trying it found response times improved considerably.
2. The other is if you have lots of character cards and scenes keep them stored separately and only move across the ones you want to play with / work on atthe time. This I do not do but should really try as others suggest it.

Best of luck

 

[turbojoe]

I tried running HS2, and I ran into the same old problem I usually run into with Illusion games; terminal waiting. Every time the game wants to change screens, it takes five (or more!) minutes to do so. Five minutes to load the Illusion splash screen. Five minutes to load the sound for it ("Illusion!"). Five minutes to load the title screen. Five minutes to give me a cursor so I can do anything. Five minutes to load whichever submenu I select. Ad naseum.

It has been so long since I tried playing an Illusion game that I cannot remember what causes this, nor the solution for it. I only remember that it is a common problem, one I encountered in the past and "fixed" so that I could run previous Illusion games (e.g. Schoolmate 2). Would some kind soul please steer me to the solution?

Velcrofly gave you a good answer.

I only want to add that this is surely NO comman problem. I never had such an issue since playing HS2 and also not very often that a member claiming such.
On my old Desktop I had significantly longer loading times til I moved the game to an SSD.

Altough this game isn´t very performance hungry let´s have a look at your hardware.

 

[turbojoe]

is there a way to preview the voice lines to hear how they sound during sex scenes?

sure, during character creation, select the Personality, click and adjust the voice pitch
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I´m not quite sure but I guess the personality also influences the behavior of the character in game, but in any case the phrasing.

 

[sds800]

cant get any buttons to work at all just changes the color to yellow

 

[turbojoe]

cant get any buttons to work at all just changes the color to yellow

Look here https://f95zone.to/threads/honey-select-2-dx-r11-illusion.53457/post-10796543 what Velcrofly wrote regarding game main folder location.

 

[fuhcough]

When downloading the 3 part steam version, I keep getting data errors when extracting the files.

 

[Krieger Season 1-6]

Wellp, I have to say, I've had HS2 installed for about 7 months, but didn't played it again until just recently. Far inferior than HS1. The lightning is abysmal, the camera is very card to adjust, lack of mods, no belly accessories (which are imperative to add mid scene) and no way to change faces to characters mid scene and add ahegao. I know some of what I'm speaking of is mods, but regardless, the fact that the mods exist in HS1 but don't in HS2 makes HS1 far far superior. I'm seriously thinking of deleting it, regardless of size. But at least deleting it would give me extra storage in my SSD and would allow me to backup HS1 in my other computer, something I've been putting off for a while

I think the only qualities but far from redeeming are the extra scenes and voices. But it doesn't amounts to much if I can't actually enjoy it. How to put it, HS1 scenes have become immersive, but HS2 feels clearly just playing a video editor, or using a complicated program, floating around, trying to adjust the lightning, trying to move the camera. Even without mods, the whole layout is just wonky overall, feels like a skeleton in comparison to unmodded HS1

Anyways, that is just MY opinion, feel free to facepalm if thee like.

 

[Velcrofly]

Wellp, I have to say, I've had HS2 installed for about 7 months, but didn't played it again until just recently. Far inferior than HS1. The lightning is abysmal, the camera is very card to adjust, lack of mods, no belly accessories (which are imperative to add mid scene) and no way to change faces to characters mid scene and add ahegao. I know some of what I'm speaking of is mods, but regardless, the fact that the mods exist in HS1 but don't in HS2 makes HS1 far far superior. I'm seriously thinking of deleting it, regardless of size. But at least deleting it would give me extra storage in my SSD and would allow me to backup HS1 in my other computer, something I've been putting off for a while

I think the only qualities but far from redeeming are the extra scenes and voices. But it doesn't amounts to much if I can't actually enjoy it. How to put it, HS1 scenes have become immersive, but HS2 feels clearly just playing a video editor, or using a complicated program, floating around, trying to adjust the lightning, trying to move the camera. Even without mods, the whole layout is just wonky overall, feels like a skeleton in comparison to unmodded HS1

Anyways, that is just MY opinion, feel free to facepalm if thee like.

The lighting can be adjusted infinitely or you can just use any of the hundreds of presets that people share.
There are belly accessories if that is your thing and you can change face expressions.

I tried HS2 first and find it far more advanced than HS1 but I would imagine that is because I don't have the range of Mods downloaded for HS1 than I do for HS2.

If you want immersive scenes try something by Daggoth or Kaseljin - both have posted lots of examples on the Scene Sharing thread and on Kenzato Booru.
https://f95zone.to/threads/illusion-ai-girl-honey-select-2-studio-neo-scene-sharing-thread.85125/

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The Trip, Desert Vixens and The School Principal are standouts for me but lost of choice for all tastes just from those two artists alone.

Best of luck with whatever you decide

 

[Skeltom]

The lighting can be adjusted infinitely or you can just use any of the hundreds of presets that people share.
There are belly accessories if that is your thing and you can change face expressions.

I tried HS2 first and find it far more advanced than HS1 but I would imagine that is because I don't have the range of Mods downloaded for HS1 than I do for HS2.

If you want immersive scenes try something by Daggoth or Kaseljin - both have posted lots of examples on the Scene Sharing thread and on Kenzato Booru.
https://f95zone.to/threads/illusion-ai-girl-honey-select-2-studio-neo-scene-sharing-thread.85125/

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The Trip, Desert Vixens and The School Principal are standouts for me but lost of choice for all tastes just from those two artists alone.

Best of luck with whatever you decide

I'd have to agree with everything you said. How anyone could say that this is a step down from HS1 is a very strange thing indeed. But from their closing remark I'm pretty sure that they are just poorly trying to stir the pot.

 

[HardcoreCuddler]

I'd have to agree with everything you said. How anyone could say that this is a step down from HS1 is a very strange thing indeed. But from their closing remark I'm pretty sure that they are just poorly trying to stir the pot.

I mean as far as I know, you can't do anything in HS1 that you CAN'T do in HS2 so I'm really confused about this...
And everything in his comment can be done in one way or another in HS2...

 

[turbojoe]

When downloading the 3 part steam version, I keep getting data errors when extracting the files.

I guess you mean the Steam SB patch.

You talk about 3 parts, that must be the SB2Patch normal (without Sideloader Modpack)


But recent version is SB3Patch, as "normal" without Sideloader Modpack is 4 parts to download


Anyway I strongly recommend the "full" pack including all mods as in the BetterRepack


Get the link from here

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Concerning extraction of splitted packs read here https://f95zone.to/threads/honey-select-2-dx-r11-illusion.53457/post-8174651

 

[turbojoe]

Wellp, I have to say, I've had HS2 installed for about 7 months, but didn't played it again until just recently. Far inferior than HS1. The lightning is abysmal, the camera is very card to adjust, lack of mods, no belly accessories (which are imperative to add mid scene) and no way to change faces to characters mid scene and add ahegao. I know some of what I'm speaking of is mods, but regardless, the fact that the mods exist in HS1 but don't in HS2 makes HS1 far far superior. I'm seriously thinking of deleting it, regardless of size. But at least deleting it would give me extra storage in my SSD and would allow me to backup HS1 in my other computer, something I've been putting off for a while

I think the only qualities but far from redeeming are the extra scenes and voices. But it doesn't amounts to much if I can't actually enjoy it. How to put it, HS1 scenes have become immersive, but HS2 feels clearly just playing a video editor, or using a complicated program, floating around, trying to adjust the lightning, trying to move the camera. Even without mods, the whole layout is just wonky overall, feels like a skeleton in comparison to unmodded HS1

Anyways, that is just MY opinion, feel free to facepalm if thee like.

If I read your statement I wonder what version of HS2 you have downloaded to lead you to such a conclusion.

I confess that I never played HS1, when I found these Illusion games 2021 (HS2 BetterRepack R4 if I remember right) there was the general opinion the HS2 is technically a great advance against HS1, but it´s still lacking on mods.
I´m happy that I choose HS2 and I´m thinking the amount of mods are now in recent BetterRepack R12 equal or higher than HS1.
Read yourself

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"If you are coming from Honey Select 1".

Anyway it´s your choice......

 

[OpTempo]

Having issues with extracting after downloading from multiple sources. Continuously getting a "Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)". I have downloaded from MEGA (twice) and G Drive, ending with the same issue. Then I downloaded from the actual Betterrepack site's MEGA and ended with the same error. Lastly I downloaded HS2 off the Betterrepack nyaa-torrent with qbittorrent and got the same issue.

I have ran CHKDSK on my D drive and found no issues. I have tried renaming the zip file shorter and putting it at the top of my drive: "D:\Honey Select 2". Not sure what else to troubleshoot. I ran into the same issue with another game, but downloading off GoFile servers seem to have been the solution for that one (which was also split zip files).

I was thinking of deleting the unreadable files in the zip then finding and replacing those files after a successful extraction. Would that even work tho?


Here is a snip of the extraction error from the zip file off the torrent.



Fixed**

If your having the same problems I'm having, I managed to fix it. I downloaded it again thru torrent and onto one of my SSDs (instead of my HDD, issa old bih). I haven't thoroughly tested the game but it seems fine and was successfully extracted.

 

[Velcrofly]

Having issues with extracting after downloading from multiple sources. Continuously getting a "Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)". I have downloaded from MEGA (twice) and G Drive, ending with the same issue. Then I downloaded from the actual Betterrepack site's MEGA and ended with the same error. Lastly I downloaded HS2 off the Betterrepack nyaa-torrent with qbittorrent and got the same issue.

I have ran CHKDSK on my D drive and found no issues. I have tried renaming the zip file shorter and putting it at the top of my drive: "D:\Honey Select 2". Not sure what else to troubleshoot. I ran into the same issue with another game, but downloading off GoFile servers seem to have been the solution for that one (which was also split zip files).

I was thinking of deleting the unreadable files in the zip then finding and replacing those files after a successful extraction. Would that even work tho?


Here is a snip of the extraction error from the zip file off the torrent.
View attachment 2635043

I would highly recommend, if you can, using the Torrent download. It downloads one file that doesn't then need joing up afterwards. The download takes a long time - I leave it to run overnight. Since switching to Torrent to download and 7Zip to extract everything has been smooth running for me - I have done this for the last 4 or 5 versions.
Also I would recommend downloading teh main game first and coming back later for the Studio NEO optional extras once you're happy with all your settings, cards, mods, etc in the new version.
Best of luck

 

[turbojoe]

Having issues with extracting after downloading from multiple sources. Continuously getting a "Data Error (cyclic redundancy check)". I have downloaded from MEGA (twice) and G Drive, ending with the same issue. Then I downloaded from the actual Betterrepack site's MEGA and ended with the same error. Lastly I downloaded HS2 off the Betterrepack nyaa-torrent with qbittorrent and got the same issue.

I have ran CHKDSK on my D drive and found no issues. I have tried renaming the zip file shorter and putting it at the top of my drive: "D:\Honey Select 2". Not sure what else to troubleshoot. I ran into the same issue with another game, but downloading off GoFile servers seem to have been the solution for that one (which was also split zip files).

I was thinking of deleting the unreadable files in the zip then finding and replacing those files after a successful extraction. Would that even work tho?


Here is a snip of the extraction error from the zip file off the torrent.
View attachment 2635043

That´s weird cuz normally the torrent way is very fail safe as Velcrofly said.
I´m a little confused about the file size to extract.
The recent version BetterRepack R12 is unextracted ~60GB - so what version did you download?
And as Velcro recommended start first with the betterRepack alone - you can skip the [Optional] Sideloader Modpack Studio (~150GB, only usable for StudioNEO!) before you start the torrent downloading.


Also you don´t need the second subfolder "Honey Select 2", try a shorter name for the mainfolder, e.g. D:\HS2R12.
Extract without subfolder
(old picture from R11).