I've been checking in on this every year or so and I'm blown away by how much progress is being made. Great job dude
Unreal Engine Abandoned LifePlay [v2023.04 Stable] [Vinfamy]
So as it is said, kind of,
if you find this "Sex" game boring or a pain in the ass, your doing it wrong Heee heee cough cough spit
if you find this "Sex" game boring or a pain in the ass, your doing it wrong Heee heee cough cough spit That did it, thanks!
Just for the record for anyone else, its Users>"your name">AppData>Local>Lifeplay.
I had a lot of saves in my documents folder so assumed they would be there if anywhere. When they weren't there I then assumed they were in the game folder.
As a note, the game now starts up slow just like before. Ha. I was thinking my faster nvme ssd made a huge difference from my old sata one. Nope, it's just all the baggage my save settings are bringing to the game.
go to Setting on yur computer, advanced system settings, a card with Advanced will show, in the performance box click settings, you will see virtual memory box, click the "change" box, go to custom size, click on it so it is checked, below that is total paging file size for all drives youwill see a number in recommended, put that number in the initial size and the maxamum size box as well, press the set box, now yur useing more RAM for performance,
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Thx a lot!Alright, the files NOT zipped are reworked by me, the Zipped files, can be copied and pasted in modules, copy and paste the non zipped into modules also just like they are, the vin_Base folder contains a oganize house party, get rid of the one in your vin_base that says house party, should be in vinBase, Actions, social, and copy,paste the organize private party instead, there are no presets, for characters cuz i run and different scale sized body all characters should be scaled back to 1.0 i think i got them all, The one on the bottom is Actions and Interactions that bring both you and your npcs stats up, it will replace all Actions and Interactions, that level up both your stats and npcs, YES i said it twice, in settings for any of them to do any thing for you..... in the game settings there is a checked box that says " Ignore Animations Conditions, it has a check mark in a box, UNcheck the box so the check mark is no longer there, IF this box is checked, the animations to the game are none and void, WHY you say??? because as it states the Animations are turned off so 90% of the scenes will not work because they are turned OFF, thus having to Force scenes by tagging them and writing them in the tag box, AGAIN... Ignore Animations Conditions MUST be UNchecked , so i dont get ppl saying the mods dont work, most or all the scenes run automatically , when the box is UNchecked, got it good, the last zipp is my own workings cuz i got tired of doin shit with npcs and their stats mostly stay the same, ie fertility attraction, perversion, those stats even sub and dom stats, if ya dont like them they can be changed at for your preferences,as i said THESE will change ALL Action and Transactions in the game SO, make "bloody" sure you back-up the original files first, cuz if ya dont , youve been warned..... hope this is not too confusing yes i tried to make it perfectly clear what needs to be done to have not just the bones of the game but the GRAVY, as well, if this confuses any one just message me and ill help in any way i can Peace
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TLDR: 6 Kink of the Month updates from Jan to March 2021. v4.0 Variety and Polish Overhaul over 5 updates in April and May. Variety = more diverse and distinguishable character customizations (incl proper ethnic & age differences) + much bigger selection of clothes + NPCs dressing according to their location and job + more daily activity and furniture animations + high attractiveness NPCs actually look hot. Polish = minimize clipping issues (body poking through clothes, dick poking through partner's stomach, skirt not following legs when sitting down, etc) + no more vagina deform when too many morphs are used + smoother gameplay due to clothes taking less time to load, bug fixes, UI enhancements and optimizations.
(Please read this whole post if possible, TLDR doesn't cover everything)
Each year around April-May, the project undergoes an overhaul over 5 consecutive updates that addresses and massively improves on a major weakness of the game that couldn't be solved in one or two updates. In 2019, it was the v2.0 Daz Character Overhaul which hugely upgrades the base character models and animations. Earlier in 2020, it was the v3.0 AI & Interactions Overhaul which got rid of the whole 'visual novel' feel of the game, making the game a full 3d experience and giving NPCs more autonomy and interactivity. In 2021, there will be another overhaul over 5 updates in April and May, the v4.0 Variety and Polish Overhaul.
But before talking about the overhaul itself, let's discuss the first three months of 2021, before the overhaul actually starts. As you know, Kink of the Month has become an integral part of LifePlay's development, providing patrons and the wider community with a transparent way to decide what adult content I work on and add each month to the game and contribute ideas directly to it. So far, it's simply been one Kink of the Month update per month (each month has 2 or 3 updates). However, since the v4.0 Overhaul requires 5 consecutive updates - it will already take up the whole update schedule for April and May 2021 (April has 2, May has 3), so there will be no KotM updates in these two months. To make up for this, these 2 'lost' KotM updates are moved ahead to the start of the year + I add another bonus one to March, so that the release schedule of the first 5 months of 2021 will be like this:
- 9 Jan: v3.18, Kink of the Month
- 23 Jan: v3.19, Kink of the Month
- 6 Feb: v3.20, Kink of the Month
- 20 Feb: v3.21, Kink of the Month
- 6 Mar: v3.22, Kink of the Month
- 20 Mar: v3.23, Kink of the Month
- 3 Apr: v4.0 Beta 1, Overhaul
- 17 Apr: v4.0 Beta 2, Overhaul
- 1 May: v4.0 Beta 3, Overhaul
- 15 May: v4.0 Beta 4, Overhaul
- 29 May: v4.0 Stable, Overhaul
- June onwards: v4.1, v4.2, v4.3, etc
The 6 KotM updates in 3 months will be a great opportunity for many fetishes that haven't got much love so far to be worked on because:
- In each month's patrons poll, both options with the most and second-most votes will be worked on. They will then both be excluded for 2 months, allowing another pair to have a chance the following month.
- The most popular kink by far, Pregnancy, happens to be excluded for Jan and Feb (because it just won Dec) and can only win at most one update in May, giving others a chance.
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Now, let's move on and explain the v4.0 Variety and Polish Overhaul:
The Problems - Why Focus on Variety and Polish?
Having been first released in April 2018 and with very regular updates at least twice a month, the game has reached a pretty playable state in terms of features and content, but still two aspects have always been very lacking:
1/ Variety:
In terms of characters:
- While the character models themselves look realistic enough, within each gender, despite how much you randomize or use the customizations available, all characters still look too similar, like it's too obvious they all 'come from the same root'.
- Non-Caucasian characters don't show many ethnic features at all, they just look like the default Caucasian character with skin painted on
- Everyone looks like young adults. Hard to make 18yos or anyone above 40. Elders just look like 30-something with white hair.
- The game does generate a lot of NPCs (as it should in a life simulation game), and even though they have different stats and have some AI now, they end up all being forgettable because they look too similar. For example, half of the time when that event triggers where a friend calls me to hang out, I have no clue who that person actually is, even if he turns out to be the guy sitting next to me in the office this morning.
- There's no relation between the attractiveness stat and the actual hotness of the face and body of an NPC being generated at all. In fact, it's rare for the randomization algorithm to actually throw out a NPC with a pretty face and a hot body at all.
In terms of clothes:
- There is too little variety of clothes, this makes the issue of NPCs being too similar even worse
- No uniforms to speak of. You can hardly distinguish who's the customer and who's the staff in your current location without hovering over everyone.
- Each clothing mesh can only be worn or removed, there's no 'in-between' stage at all.
In terms of animations:
- Still too few daily activity and furniture animations, characters look rather stiff in their 3d environments
2/ Polish:
In terms of characters:
- Extensive use of morphs often lead to either deformation of the vagina or terrible clipping with clothes, limiting your customization options even more, making characters look every more identical.
- Dick poking through partner's stomach during adult scenes and some other character-on-character clipping issues
In terms of clothes:
- The clothes currently in game aren't worth much more than as placeholders. Not only do they lack in variety, there are just too many issues with them.
- Due to both poor morph transfer and skeleton rigging, more often than not clothes cause terrible-looking clipping issues with the body
- Skirts and dresses are the worst, all it takes is for the girl to sit down and they go straight across through her knees
- Each clothing asset currently takes too much hard drive space, takes too long to load (main cause of choppy gameplay) and can cause fatal error crashes. For variety of clothes to happen, each piece can't be as heavy as it is right now or the game will be 50GB to download!
Still many lingering bugs to fix and the UI can be enhanced further for more user friendliness
The Solution - What Will the v4.0 Variety and Polish Overhaul Consist Of?
1/ Variety:
In terms of characters:
- Add a lot more customizations, especially to the face, to allow for truly unique-looking characters
- Add proper customizations for ethnic features.
- Add proper customizations for age-related features, from 18 year olds to grandparents.
- Massively improve the randomization algorithm to generate NPCs (and for that button top-left corner of the character creation screen) to make distinguishable characters
- Add a large number of unique presets for conventionally attractive faces (I’ll probably use models and movie stars as reference for them). In the future, the community can also contribute to this ‘hot face database’.
- Add some logic for the Npc generation process to take in account the attractiveness stat and pick a preset from above with further randomizations
- Characters change appearance gradually from age and fitness/ muscle stat changes
- 3D beards for the longer facial hair styles
- (Very advanced feature that even titles from big studios sometimes can't get right so not 100% certain it can be done for LifePlay yet, will need further experimenting) Allow the player to import real life photos and the game generates them into character faces. Also as long as importing images at runtime can be done, it can be used for custom tattoos and other skin overlays too.
In terms of clothes:
- Add a huge selection of new clothes and accessories for men and women (pretty much I'll add every assets I can find if they're within a reasonable polycount range or can be optimized to a reasonable polycount)
- The new clothes will include uniforms and location/scene-appropriate attires, clearly distinguishing staff and customer, doctor and patient, hooker and John, etc
- Some of the most common clothing pieces (won't be possible to do this for all the clothes though) will now have an additional in-between stage to be used mostly for adult scenes, such as jeans pulled down, panties pulled to the side, t-shirt pulled up to expose breasts etc
In terms of animations:
- More daily activity and furniture animations, not only to make the game more lively (since the characters will be diverse looking wearing diverse clothes, would be a waste if they all just stand around, sit around or play the same animations repeatedly when in the 3D environment), but also as an extra test for clipping minimization (see below)
2/ Polish:
In terms of characters:
- Improve the Character Creation UI and control, especially regarding morphs (hopefully with sculpting by dragging with the mouse). No point adding tons of new customizations then have bad UI prevent players from fully utilizing them.
- Fix the deformation of the vagina when the player uses many morphs
- Add options to the adult scene UI to partially undress an apparel piece (i.e. pull aside panties) when there's an 'in-between' stage available for that asset
- Uses some of the same methods used for clothes described below to limit character-on-character clipping issues, especially dick poking through partner's stomach.
In terms of clothes:
- Proper morph transfer and skeleton rigging for all the clothes to prevent clipping issues with the body even when many morphs are used or complex animations are being played
- Split the most common 'poking through' areas of the body (nipples, lower stomach, vagina, etc) into separate texture 'slots' that can be dynamically and temporarily made transparent (but the player won't be able to notice) when clothes are already worn and covering them completely. This won't cause any seams at all, don't worry.
- Add a system to dynamically 'simplify' certain body morphs when putting on clothes covering them so that the morphs on the clothes can follow the body perfectly with no clipping, despite always being at a disadvantage in terms of the number of vertices it can use (due to performance, if each apparel piece has the same polycount as the character model, no PCs would be able to handle the game). Again, the point is the player won't be able to notice that their character's fully dressed body uses fewer morphs than when nude. This system will take into account the type of apparel too when deciding how much simplifying is appropriate: the morphs on a tight fitting bodysuit can't be simplified too much, but a loose casual T-Shirt? That belly button depth morph probably isn't worth the potential clipping and can be simplified away when dressed compared to nude.
- Very slightly less tight-fitting clothes in general as an extra clipping prevention method, a final fail-safe basically
- Improve the Inventory menu and Buy Apparel menu UI and control, taking into account a much larger selection of clothes available
- Optimize each clothing asset to take as little hard drive space as possible so that they load faster result into smoother gameplay and no fatal error crashes.
- Remove some unused and outdated files from the game folder to save some space for the new clothing assets. Hopefully even when tons of new clothes are added, the final download size for the game post v4.0 overhaul won't increase by too much.
Bug fixes and other optimizations. The final update of the 5-update overhaul is called v4.0 Stable after all!
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So, that's the current plans for v4.0 at this early stage. Obviously the overhaul is still 4 months away (with a very kinky first quarter of 2021 to look forward to first!) so please don't hesitate to suggest your own ideas relevant to the main focus and I'll be happy to consider adding to the plans. The final v4.0 plans will be posted in early March, with the details on what exactly will be worked on in each of the 5 overhaul updates.
FINALLY...... this is a Scene file I have been struggling with to work,,,,,,,,, it now does, what does it do you say??? when put in base, it will Randomly generates a npc just for the "Fuck" of it. no questions , no names, not even a phone number, and they leave as they came, as in Disappear, leaving you, with no commitment, and no new npc in your character list, just poof fuck and Poof gone he heee, one nite stand at its best, damn thats sounds like a better name for it , any ways, it will put its self where it needs to be open take the lifeplay file and away ya go,,,,, i cant seem to get a Action script to work for this so it has to be written in the tags box where ya force scenes just write in fuck, and only fuck no commas orspace and a scene will start with the word SEX as a command, click mouse or space bar and WOOO WHOOO Insta Fuck do yur deed and end like all sex scenes do and pullup yur pants and yur done, any one who wants to try it or try to make a Action script for it, I cant for the life of me to get a Action script to work just yet for it try it it seems to honor your sexual preference too, or so it does for me try or not Peace and it some times will just randomly pop up as a scene without force writting, it has for me twice so far,wasnt intended to do that ........ but it does
, damn thats sounds like a better name for it , any ways, it will put its self where it needs to be open take the lifeplay file and away ya go,,,,, i cant seem to get a Action script to work for this so it has to be written in the tags box where ya force scenes just write in fuck, and only fuck no commas orspace and a scene will start with the word SEX as a command, click mouse or space bar and WOOO WHOOO Insta Fuck do yur deed and end like all sex scenes do and pullup yur pants and yur done, any one who wants to try it or try to make a Action script for it, I cant for the life of me to get a Action script to work just yet for it try it it seems to honor your sexual preference too, or so it does for me try or not Peace and it some times will just randomly pop up as a scene without force writting, it has for me twice so far,wasnt intended to do that ........ but it does
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There’s a ton to like about this game- but a few points of critique.
The camera control is just odd. It might work in a constantly first person game, but not when you are often in third person. And the first person camera just generally isn’t worth using.
The UI is fine in some areas and terrible in others. I can’t say much more as I’m still learning.
The camera control is just odd. It might work in a constantly first person game, but not when you are often in third person. And the first person camera just generally isn’t worth using.
The UI is fine in some areas and terrible in others. I can’t say much more as I’m still learning.
WOW it seems it will take NPCs from the list you have, and as long as you have Creepy, in that npcs tag he, she , will night raid yur home and fk the shit out of ya and then run off, how fkn cool is that!!!!!!!!FINALLY...... this is a Scene file I have been struggling with to work,,,,,,,,, it now does, what does it do you say??? when put in base, it will Randomly generates a npc just for the "Fuck" of it. no questions , no names, not even a phone number, and they leave as they came, as in Disappear, leaving you, with no commitment, and no new npc in your character list, just poof fuck and Poof gone he heee, one nite stand at its best
So here's a weird question if anyone can help; are the files to directly edit the sex actions, stats and mini-game anywhere directly in the folders? I've tried to find them but no dice and, just personally speaking, I'm really not a fan of the new changes to the system so I'd love to be able to just tweak that on my end.
LifePlay, Content, Modules, vin_Base, Stats, i use Notepad ie open with notepad, and change the DEFAULT_VALUE, it has all other than mini game put sneak to 100 or just auto it, thats what i do..
sex acts are the way they are, and are unreworkable
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Oh I guess i should state how to force a script, where the rose compass is on the main city map there are red and green emojies or wtf ever press the "~" sign its the first top key beside the number 1 key, it will bring up a box that has faded writing in it white long box, very bottom of the map on the right hand side and write in any scene as like landlord_spouse, and so on if the file Random fuck is in yur modules folder just write in the word fuck and if at home it will either pick the landlord or a npc from your list, if any where else like the gym or bar it will Randomly select a random npc fuck, and release, they will not show up in your list
Thanks, shame I can't just edit the sex acts stuff but it is what it is.LifePlay, Content, Modules, vin_Base, Stats, i use Notepad ie open with notepad, and change the DEFAULT_VALUE, it has all other than mini game put sneak to 100 or just auto it, thats what i do..
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The next update v3.16 will add new content for the two runner-ups of the patrons' kink poll this month: Polyamorous and Sex Worker, using ideas from the community brainstorm on Discord:
Polyamorous:
- NPC can be in open / polyamorous relationship with each other, which the player can find out about and participate in some fun with
- You can ask someone to be your friend with benefits, or be asked. Friend with benefits can be booty-called easily.
- Having heard about your poly relationship, NPC can propose to join
- A scene in which you get a surprise (reverse) gangbang from your lovers
- Chance to catch two of your poly lovers pleasuring each other in your absence
- If the NTR module is also enabled: Poly / open relationship partners can get their own lovers, independent of you and your other partners. Plus scenes featuring your poly partner's own lover: walking in to them going at it, live-in partner asking if they can have the house to themselves for a while because their other lover is coming over, your partner going on a date without you, proposal that their lover becomes another poly partner for you too
Sex Worker:
- Exact money amounts shown next to the "rip off", "fair price" and "bargain" options for both prostitution and porn careers
- Porn shoot to receive public bukkake from strangers
- Porn shoot to walk naked in public and bang any interested strangers
- Johns can now ask specifically for handjob only, blowjob only, anal, etc with impact on the prices you can charge
- A system for regular clients that can result in them always willing to pay the "rip off" prices + extra tips and may turn into a sugar dating arrangement or an actual relationship, as the regular client gets more and more emotionally attached to you
Estimated Release Date: Saturday, 12 December
croatia69
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wow, poly update looks great, can't wait for December 12th
AlexWolfJEDYNY
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Is it possible to set stats for a temp actor?
For example
SceneStart()
Actor = generatePersonTemporary()
Actor.makeInterested(Player)
Actor.setmasochist = 100
Actor.setenergy = 100
Actor.dress()
Actor.show()
Does this work?
For example
SceneStart()
Actor = generatePersonTemporary()
Actor.makeInterested(Player)
Actor.setmasochist = 100
Actor.setenergy = 100
Actor.dress()
Actor.show()
Does this work?
Canto Forte
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