I highly recommend checking out the "
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" utility for finding images. It allows you to search many boards at once, and has a lot of nice features.
Thanks. It seems to be a real time saver!
It took me a couple of reads, but I think I get what he is saying. You would keep the number in the filename, but he is just saying to search without the number, so that you can get the total number of images for that category. Then, once you have that total, you input that into the JSON as the maximum number of images for the category. Quite a beautiful way of doing it, assuming performance isn't affected or anything quirky like that!
Performance is very likely not to be affected at all! So yes, it's a breakthtrough in the history of Jack-o-nine image modding!
I did my very best to avoid using frames at all costs, but I noticed the current images featuring frames with a gradient in them, and I thought that was a good middle ground.
Gradiant tutorial:
A lot of the extreme crops were to make very recognizable characters to be less identifiable. For instance, your example of a serious crop (analsex_white_long), is a Disney character. But it's fantastic art, imo, and I think it would be a waste to ignore the enormous amount of rule34 art out there. Personally, I'm totally OK with cropping out the eyes up, to get some facial expression & hair in these instances.
Clever idea. However, since I do like the art in this picture too, I kinda wanted to see it full (I mean, eyes and hair are sexy, aren't they? ^^). I guess the compromise is up to you, between cropping the hair+eyes or making the rule34 content not recognizable. I'm in favor of seeing eyes and hair and not cropping them out even if that means seeing more rule34 content.
Albeit, I don't have a problem with rule34 content being in the game. It's just that my instinct tells me that seeing Hinata, Sakura, Princess Peach, Videl, Chichi, Nami, etc. would mess with my suspension of disbelief if I was playing this game for the first time. However, I don't have a problem with League Of Legends or Sword Art Online characters for example, nor I have a problem with 2B from NieR. I won't force such an arbitrary judgement on you, listen to your own instincts on this matter.
I was never really hung up about mixing western & eastern art, because I always felt that this game had a healthy mix of both. This is most clearly displayed in the character images for the various people around town, and even the PC portraits. This is always a contentious topic, but I feel that if the art is good and fits the category, then it's fair game.
Yes yes, NPC in the games are in western art. Some of the sex scenes are hand drawn, other are in 2D looking CGI. But see, I don't have a problem with "analsex_blond_long" even though it looked western, "hj_black_short_milf" looks pretty western, but the art quality makes up for it. But "analsex_blond_short" and even more "analsex_blonde_long_milf" look too much extremely western and not enough divine looking.
I'd argue that the fisting pictures don't entirely miss the mark because the text, (at least in 1.7.5, forgive me if it's changed) for the first several levels of training describe how only the fingers can be used, because the fist does not fit yet. (and like you said, it's incredibly hard to find pictures of this action)
Fair enough. But then seeing one finger only and being a level 5, for the player that'd look as if he's visually scammed ^^ I'm thinking of a compromis. By modifying the descriptions of the actions, and the images, to contain at least three fingers. So the players can tell himself: "ok, the fisting is being showed to me, it's just the beginning of the action".
Regarding "general" images, it sounds like you want those phased out? Personally I'd vote against that. I think a they help give categories some variety, and I don't see much reason to remove high-quality generals.
I don't want them phased out, and you know what? I think you did everything I could ever expect from the "general" images without me even asking for it. You completely hid the hair color on all of them (or I didn't look well enough). And that's perfect, it's horrible for a player to have a red haired slave and see a generic picture of a girl with white hair.
I just asked Lokplart to make an algorithm, so the game would fetch preferably between the specific pictures, rather than the generic ones (because they are visually boring, we see them all the time since they appear for all slaves, they don't allow you to empathize with your slave since you don't see their eyes, etc.). Generic pictures are a nice addition, that I don't want to get rid of. But them being there is a matter of having chosen quantity over quality; which is why I don't cherish them.
Seriously, thank for you the critique! Since I was working alone on this for so long, I definitely got fixed into my own way of doing things, and took a lot of liberties with the choices I made in order to try to get the project done. It's quite a daunting task to come up with thousands of images, so there were certainly times when I said, "Fuck it, close enough!" and moved on. Green haired lolis are the bane of my existence...
You're very welcome! I really want this game to improve, for the best, continually (baby steps by baby steps).
I also took some freedom: for exemple I took a lot of orange hair girls for the red hair category. I also made exhibit pictures show girls outside. Now that I'm thinking about it, I hope the game doesn't fetch for "exhibit" pictures in active sex, or it'll look terrible). I also wish we can eventually make "self-torture" and "humiliation" separate categories that don't fetch for "exhibit" pictures too!
I've taken a look at that spreadsheet, and I think I understand what's going on there. I'll see about getting some of those filled out.
Good luck! The way I am the most comfortable working on the game right now is giving direction and making benevolent critiques on other people's work, since I have an experience with the game and I worked hard on implementing a certain vision (which, I think, we commonly share).
I advise to share and communicate as much a possible. Specifically, for the task: if you ever have a second thought on a picture, or a "rule" and needs my last word, feel free to share it here (or in private message if it's loli content) so I can review it. Alternatively, if you feel confident in your picture choices, given all the directions I gave you (especially about the censored content), send it all at once when you feel you've done everything you could. I'll do some work then, to fill in the blanks, or propose alternatives.
Ps: In the pictures I personally added, I'd sometimes "photoshop-out" some of the onomatopoeia. I also extended some of the fingernails, given long and thin hands are a staple in a lot of professional manga (Saint Seiya is a good example), to express beauty and emphasize on glamour. I did that amateurishly and would like to edit or remove some of them, but here are two examples:
You don't need to go to such lengths. My point is that if you hesitate between two pictures and one of them has long fingernails, take her (and don't needlessly crop hands, unless they are drawn poorly). Secondly, If one has no emotionnally charged onomatopeia that removes the interpretation of emotion from the player, take this one.
