CREATE YOUR AI CUM SLUT ON CANDY.AI TRY FOR FREE
x

wizyy

Member
Nov 24, 2017
192
195
Copy/pasted from Patreon



Hey, I'm finally here to give you an update on what's been going on with LR2 and my work on it's Live2D update! This progress recap is a little later than I had been planning - about three weeks, actually - because I've been slamming my head against a whole bunch of development issues without making much progress. There have been two main categories of problems, so let's go through them:
First, there are the purely technical issues. When I started this I did some proof-of-concept demos to make sure all of the basic functionality I needed was possible, and it seemed like it all was. Unfortunately, a lot of those features seem to be scaling up poorly when I try to use them for the entirety of Lab Rats 2. Making Live2D models is proving to be a much more time consuming process than I had anticipated. Rendering out clothing items, clothing patterns, makeup, etc. seems like they will be a highly manual (read: time consuming, mistake prone, tedious) task. One of the major reasons I wanted to transition to a new rendering approach was to make adding clothing items easier, and it seems like the new system is failing at that.
Second, I'm unhappy with the actual quality of character art I'm ending up with. The new body options give a much wider range of possible character shapes, but most of them end up looking bad. For a porn game this is obviously not a good thing. Achieving good looking skin tones that can be dynamically recoloured is also something I have been struggling with - my results so far look very plastic-y.
It's not all bad news; I finally have a mostly-functional demo of the game that I am going to be releasing to patrons in two days (48 hours from this post; I seem to need hard deadlines to get anything done these days). This version strips away all of the old display images, replacing them with one character pose (a default standing pose). This demo leaves out a whole bunch of "nice to have" features, like having clothing fade out when it's removed. It also lacks clothing patterns and does recolouring of jewelry/accessories incorrectly due to some technical limitations.
I'm hoping this demo will give me give me some good feedback on what people consider critical to the LR2 experience. I'm also going to try and gather some technical advice from the modding community, which might let me finally implement some core features I haven't figured out.
Thank you all for hanging out through this, it's been a frustrating few months for me, and I'm sure it has been for you too! If you're a patron check back in two days for the Live2D demo, I'm going to get back to bug hunting to try and make it as stable as I can manage!
 

smkey21

Active Member
Nov 15, 2017
557
429
The majority of the body combinations not looking great has been a concern for people since the tech demos. I have been worried that Vren will spend 6-12 months working on this, only to have an arguably worse looking end product. If nothing else came of this, at least the game is finally getting a more efficient image format.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 4GunZ and bloodbus

Heml0ck

Member
Mar 7, 2018
302
773
The majority of the body combinations not looking great has been a concern for people since the tech demos. I have been worried that Vren will spend 6-12 months working on this, only to have an arguably worse looking end product. If nothing else came of this, at least the game is finally getting a more efficient image format.
If only he would higher someone to do the base model templates, so he would have something nice looking to begin with.
The templates for the faces especially look like they are sucking on lemons. Really disturbing stuff.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: hyfka

Strec

Active Member
Feb 20, 2018
607
391
Launching a tech demo 5 years after the start of the dev is a cool crowdfunding :D
 

Phoexist

Member
Mar 11, 2020
473
514
Any preview of the new released Live2D version v0.52 ?
More interested by it's looks than playing it...
I honestly don't expect the game to look much different. The Live2D stuff is mostly about making it easier to add new stuff rather than changing the looks too much. The base models will likely be the same for the foreseeable future. Though if it does become easier to add in new stuff that might change much further down the line.
 

Evangelion-01

Devoted Member
Apr 12, 2018
10,827
7,289
Not really, I consider the 4 last monthly versions as commercial ones :D
Considering that VRen uses the game to experiement with mechanics I'd call any Update a techdemo... one of the reasons why there never was a savegame compatibility achieved
 
3.40 star(s) 127 Votes