I am also a fan and supporter of Strive. But I got to admit that I'm not a fan of Strive 2's new economy system. But it's getting better now, so I'm hopeful.
Yeah, I played the new one some but its still ironing out the mechanics of it. Honestly, I started modding Lab Rats 2 initially as a full conversion into a fantasy setting that would be similar to Strive. However, at the time I realized that was too much to take on just starting out and unfamiliar with how it all worked. So just started modding the game to add it a few of things I wanted. I might go back to the full conversion eventually here as I am growing more comfortable with how all the code fits together. All the systems needed are in the game and could be modified into a great RPG I think.
Here is my mod for 48.1 this is not the main mod on here nor does it work with it that I know of. It isn't meant to.
To use it you will need to remove all the unit_test directories.
That includes:
game/unittest
And all the unit_tests directories under game/major_game_classes
To use it you will need to remove all the unit_test directories.
That includes:
game/unittest
And all the unit_tests directories under game/major_game_classes
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Do you have a changelog or advise what it does?
There are two small bug fixes in role_mother and role_city_rep
interview_ui.pry:
The interview screen lets you see the girls likes and dislikes "~hidden" is placed besides the ones that are hidden.
girl_overview_ui.rpy
The same thing with the girls_overview
serum_production_ui.rpy
Serum production is changed from 10% increments to 5%
random_generation_functions.rpy:
All the horrible characters made for patreon supporters are disabled. They have no part in the story.
Age of female characters is weighted not purely random
Female character skills and stats are tied together to a greater extent.
Person.rpy and personality files
It is less likely to have someone who is really good at a skill dislike or hate that skill.
Negative work related opinions in are reduced overall in personalities.
You used to have multiple chances of getting negative opinions set on your character.
You had several roles and premade values that got dumped on top of each other.
The impact of that was mostly nasty characters nearly impossible to use.
Granted we don't want perfect characters either but at least ones that won't quit the day after you hire her or has 20 reasons to hate being at work.
random_lists.pry:
Breast sizes weights have been adjusted.
Body types have been weighted so not purely random.
Premade bodies have been modified to also.
You have multiple ways of getting a body type. Purely random role or it can select to choose a premade body type or if it is a premade character the body type can also be defined.
_contract.rpy & Business.rpy
I rewrote the way contracts were generated.
They are based on your current ability and what you can produce and shouldn't go above your level.
His system in the past would look at what your skill level was at not what your labs level was or what you were capable of producing.
I also reduce the contract refresh time from 7 days to 2 days. This gives you more opportunities to find a contract you can fill.
I haven't tried to see if it will or won't work with it. My mod is designed to replace files in the folder the other mod works some what differently. It may just over write what I created. each of the changes I made are mostly independent of each other.i really wish this would work with the mod
With my mod it shouldn't change the save game files from the way the standard game does. The other mod does.
I put the warning up so people don't expect me to try and trouble shoot conflicts between my mod and theirs I have zero interest in doing so. I made the mod purely to fix some issues I had with the game. Then decided to offer it to others. If someone else wants to take over maintaining it I wouldn't complain even. If someone wants to add it to the other mod they can do so.
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Hurrrrry upppppp!
(yes, I know it's free. I'm impatient, and I love that its being done, this post is 98% humor and just passing time while waiting)
(yes, I know it's free. I'm impatient, and I love that its being done, this post is 98% humor and just passing time while waiting)
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yeah, in general I'd love more variety, starting with the hair, but i asked before and it's seemingly a shitton of work to change or add character parts
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As I hinted earlier this week, real life responsibilities will delay the release, will update when I get updates.
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I am curious why they used DAZ instead of a more renpy "friendly" character creator/editor. Using a 3d character modeler on a 2d base program seems inefficient to me, but im not a dev so my opinion is worth -2 cents.
2D paperdoll creators typically don't have multiple poses to choose from. The only one I know of that does (I forget the name, but HHS+ uses its output - Kisekae? something like that) might not be the style Vren wants and pulling the data out to create a paperdoll system in Ren'Py itself seems harder, technically, than dealing with DAZ.
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I thought you could create different poses on Live 2D and its renpy friendly granted, as far as body transformations go i dont think Live 2D supports that. Then again, i dont know very many programs that are model transformation friendly on renpy. There are native model programs for unity and unreal that are though, but that doesnt help us here... welp that settles it next lab rats needs an engine upgrade Lmao
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Yep, that was Kisekae2. A pain to get, a pain to use. I still got a "running" version with a swf (shockwave flash player) stand alone since I was taking part in HHS+. You could do more poses, but that was... tideous. And HSS+ only used the "standard" pose not to be too tasking to create bodies, heads, etc.
But not using Kisekae2 and creating 2d is by far more work intensive, because you just can't "batch render and convert". Like Porn Empire, which also has that paperdoll system, yet in Godot. I did a complete set for PE, but then an option to actually loading (modding) them in was not realized. But back to LR2:
Some problems here in this game are
- the graphical conversion from the finshed render to the game. Buggy renders (with vertices poking through the clothing mesh) resulting in holes of the finshed piece (DAZ bone adjustment / mesh transform)
- alpha channels were switched after the render due Ren'Py engine limitations (e.g. micro skirt)
- RGB ingame instead of CSV to cope with "non white" (inconsistently) rendered clothing
I still didn't get it, why VREN has not batch re-rendered (at least some) colors and meshes yet.
Creating a "mod" consisting of fixing broken renders / colors within zip-files with 4 bodies multiplied by breast options multiplied by position options is... just not
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I have a question - could someone create a '+Max Energy over time' serum trait, that tops out at 150 or 200? Because one of the major limiting factors of my encounters with the girls is that one of us gets tired too soon, and a non-cheating way to alleviate that would be great. I know that the mod adds the gym option through Sarah, but that's rather too slow and some of the girls don't go to the gym.