This is actually the same as it is in the vanilla game. The bugfix had "r" in the parenthesis, which seems to be the cause for the problem.
You wasted your first comment on an inaccuracy regarding something you clearly don't understand. The game does not generate the models, the game assembles the pre-rendered pieces (bodies, faces, hair, breasts, pubic area, clothing) of the models according to each characters' variables. The models were rendered by the dev in a 3D program outside the game using a procedural algorithm, then the images are stored in the game. It's a very clever system the dev developed to do it, and it highlights his strengths. It's similar in many ways to the images of FreeCities, if you know that game. Many of us wish he would run that procedure all over again with different (better) models and updating for new functionality. It's unlikely, as I'm sure it was a huge task, but some of the dev's comments a while back suggest he might do this once more for the finished version of the game once all variables have been defined.
Completely true. Word.
Sarcasm?
This shows how flawed this process is. If your asset pipeline literally takes years to produce new assets, you failed to deliver a working asset pipeline. If you do not know what an asset pipeline is, then you most likely come from the "modding scene" or something else but definitely not from the games industry where such problems were solved ages ago.
Do you mind enlightening me on what an asset pipeline is? I'm neither a modder or a industry employee. Just a hobbyist trying to learn what I can
This is a game put together by a single person. There's no reason to get snippy with a system that is in place that was done and works for a solo developer. This isn't the games business.
Along with Vren's versions, every jump in version numbering GENERALLY requires a new save game. This has to do with the language its coded in and the way that save games are currently stored. Sometimes we get lucky and things are compatible, but usually they are not. The current version of the mod appears to be holding up okay, but we are still testing it. Currently, installation of the mod also requires the bugfix in order to work properly.
The flag used opens the zipfile in 'additive' mode and allows for some kind of multi-threaded access, but slows down the interaction, the 'r' parameter is for read-only access, the bugfix now applies a thread lock around the actual access as should be done with any sparse resource on a multi-threaded application (you cannot read from disc simultaneously, it is always sequential). Although this is not VREN's fault, it's just a shortcoming in the python 2.7 zipFile implementation.
Asset pipeline generally refers to the process of converting something from the format it was created in to a format that the game can actually use. For instance, most 3d artists use software like 3Ds Max, Maya, or Blender to create 3d models. They would then process the high-quality model to create normal maps from it before converting it into a version with fewer polygons. They'll create a UV map for the model to tell the computer what bit of texture goes to which section of model, and then a bunch of other steps I'm less familiar with. That whole process is called an asset pipeline.Do you mind enlightening me on what an asset pipeline is? I'm neither a modder or a industry employee. Just a hobbyist trying to learn what I can
The Mod's code has been changed to make it more realistic. Now transparency require some sluttiness level: wear clothes, wear transparent clothes, not wear clothes at all it's something different, right ?
The 0.34.8 Mods are compatible with 0.34 vanilla game + bugfix
