VN Ren'Py Light of My Life [Ch. 1-7 v1.0.0] [Naughty Road]

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Loved the update and love the pacing, LofL is one of the few games around here that gets the progression right. You aren't grinding the same 3 events to get your 'love' stat above a certain number or having sex moments after meeting someone but nor does it feel like bashing your head against a wall as nothing happens. You are constantly making small gains and clearing psychological hurdles. Waiting for the next update with great anticipation!
 
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Just one little example of a scene that can take a ton of time to stage ... Denise holding the pair of cum-stained panties. That requires a dForce simulation to "drop" the panties onto her hands so it looks like she is holding them. A single scene like that can take several time-consuming simulation passes on its' own because dForce doesn't always place the object exactly where you want it or how you want it. I have had scenes with even more simple dForce simulations than this that took 3-5 passes along with tweaking. Scenes that look deceptively simple can literally take hours between dForce simulating, lighting, rendering, and re-rendering (if it didn't render the way you thought it would based on the preview). This is just one of many reasons why things can take lot longer than it seems like they should. Multiply all of that times four, because there are four separate dForce simulations in the scene that I mentioned: holding panties up, holding panties down, examining cum right, sniffing cum left (i.e., 4 separate dForce simulations).
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Really a helpfull and educational post.

As a mere reader, I apreciate it.
 
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bolondro2 said:
Really a helpfull and educational post.

As a mere reader, I apreciate it.
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Thanks. I went through Episode 4 again, and there is so much in there that is not only outstanding from a story perspective but also from a game creation perspective. There are so many custom scenes, and animations are not limited to sex (or almost sex) but include many other animations like Denise's sexy booty dance and the infamous Banana dance scene. Even the dream sequence has a really complex scene where Charlotte is holding a model of the room where Macy and Denise are interacting. That must have been a bitch to stage and pose, given everything that is going on in the scene, and I don't even want to think about how long it took not only to pose it but to render it as well, with everything going on in the scene. I can see why naughtyroad said their machine has been non-stop rendering for months.
 
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seamanq said:
Just one little example of a scene that can take a ton of time to stage ... Denise holding the pair of cum-stained panties. That requires a dForce simulation to "drop" the panties onto her hands so it looks like she is holding them. A single scene like that can take several time-consuming simulation passes on its' own because dForce doesn't always place the object exactly where you want it or how you want it. I have had scenes with even more simple dForce simulations than this that took 3-5 passes along with tweaking. Scenes that look deceptively simple can literally take hours between dForce simulating, lighting, rendering, and re-rendering (if it didn't render the way you thought it would based on the preview). This is just one of many reasons why things can take lot longer than it seems like they should. Multiply all of that times four, because there are four separate dForce simulations in the scene that I mentioned: holding panties up, holding panties down, examining cum right, sniffing cum left (i.e., 4 separate dForce simulations).
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Yo thanks for the developing incites, I'm curious though, would it be possible to sub in photo shopped panties denise could be holding instead of using dForce? Would that look like shit or be harder in the long run? Just curious because i don't know shit about developing this stuff.
 
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Yo thanks for the developing incites, I'm curious though, would it be possible to sub in photo shopped panties denise could be holding instead of using dForce? Would that look like shit or be harder in the long run? Just curious because i don't know shit about developing this stuff.
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It could be done, but then you have the situation of having real artifacts (the panties) in a rendered scene, and the panties would look real and not rendered. I am sure if someone worked really hard at it, this could be done, but I'm not sure it would save much time in comparison with just doing the dForce renders. A lot of developers do take renders made in Daz3D into Photoshop for other reasons like tweaking lighting, contrast, resizing, applying gaussian blurs (for low light renders to smooth them out), just to name a few.
 
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ohhaiguize said:
Yo thanks for the developing incites, I'm curious though, would it be possible to sub in photo shopped panties denise could be holding instead of using dForce? Would that look like shit or be harder in the long run? Just curious because i don't know shit about developing this stuff.
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You could photoshop anything into the final images, but it wouldn't really look right. I think Naughtyroad wants everything in his story to have a continuity in the way it looks visually. If you want good quality, need plenty of time for development.

That being said, I'd hope developers use this Shelter-Inside time to be as creative and prolific as possible. (y)
 
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It could be done, but then you have the situation of having real artifacts (the panties) in a rendered scene, and the panties would look real and not rendered. I am sure if someone worked really hard at it, this could be done, but I'm not sure it would save much time in comparison with just doing the dForce renders. A lot of developers do take renders made in Daz3D into Photoshop for other reasons like tweaking lighting, contrast, resizing, applying gaussian blurs (for low light renders to smooth them out), just to name a few.
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Thanks for the reply I was curious!
 
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(...)Denise holding the pair of cum-stained panties. That requires a dForce simulation to "drop" the panties onto her hands so it looks like she is holding them. A single scene like that can take several time-consuming simulation passes on its' own because dForce doesn't always place the object exactly where you want it or how you want it. (...)
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Quite so. And figuring out how to get the
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. Even so, the preceding scene
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was even more of a pain due to the sheer amount of renders and the postwork cleaning up clipping because clothes can only smooth to one character.

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(...) There are so many custom scenes, and animations are not limited to sex (or almost sex) but include many other animations like Denise's sexy booty dance and the infamous Banana dance scene. Even the dream sequence has a really complex scene where Charlotte is holding a model of the room where Macy and Denise are interacting. That must have been a bitch to stage and pose, given everything that is going on in the scene, and I don't even want to think about how long it took not only to pose it but to render it as well, with everything going on in the scene. (...)
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Oh yeah that was a doozie. But a great amount of fun. And very interesting to find out that
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Oh, and for people who want to learn
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Adaminus said:
Soo... Why do i get locked out from Macys path if i don't wanna go ahead with Denise? :/
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Some devs would go the route of having a house with separate routes and all the girls fully optional, and that works fine if the girls don't interact a huge amount (even though I bet it's still a hassle). But given the enormous amount of interaction between M+D and the way their motivations and dialogs and actions intertwine and interact, it was always sort of clear that at one point locking the path of the one would stop the path of the other, and it said so pretty clearly in the warning you get too for lockout choices, starting from chapter 3.
 
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I only follow the story for Macy, 95% of the events or our choices come down to Denise, Denise, Denise and Denise... everything ends up stuck at "You want to play with Macy? Go with Denise!"....

It's a huge potential to cut in half. Shame. :cry:
 
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Really? Hmm must give this game a try then. The women in the game look a bit unusual though, but at the moment I prefer that over another generic white girl. ;)
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I´m half serious half jocking. But in a really unusual way, I believe it deserves it.
 
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