As mentioned below your post, this won't be just endings... There will be a time skip at some point, however I will add that if you are on LI's path you "Will" knock them up. I have had to do this otherwise when the time comes and we have multiple different women around the table having some pregnant and some not will be a nightmare for me to create all the different renders for all the different outcomes.
That's actually a lot easier than it sounds. You don't need to do renders for every possible permutation (which could potentially reach into the thousands) you need to do two renders, one with all the girls pregnant and one without. Then you use an image editor to cut the girls out and put them into a layered image.
Yes but since I have allowed for people to be able to choose who they wish to be on their path I could have many different variations of characters within 1 single image, if say we were all around a table, and then on top of that they could be pregnant or not. Also depending on how sizeable their bumps could be (If pregnant), could effect lighting/shadows... obstructions with others who may or may not be pregnant, behind them.. etc.
I'm still early in my own playthrough (day 2 atm), but there's what, 8 LI's so far? That's 64 (8^2) images you'd need for a single scene, which is an insane amount of work for why essentially amounts to "flavor" options regardless of whether they're spliced from two base renders.
Yeah I know this is the thing, it's going to get very complicated for me later on into the game, but I'm willing to do it.... but will have to make it that if you are on someone's path you will end up knocking them up, otherwise it will just make it even more complicated for me. Also this is the 1st city we are in.... we will be going back to our home town at some point in the future.I'm still early in my own playthrough (day 2 atm), but there's what, 8 LI's so far? That's 64 (8^2) images you'd need for a single scene, which is an insane amount of work for why essentially amounts to "flavor" options regardless of whether they're spliced from two base renders.
The only suggestion I'd make is implementing an option of having no pregnancy content at all (similar to Meadow's choice on day 1). I'd imagine it would be far more manageable handling 2 static outcomes rather than a dynamic range of up to 64 combinations.
However, you should take my feedback with a grain of salt as I'm not the one that has to do the render work or coding. If you feel you can add it and make the story work then great! If not? Well, the story is already a pretty interesting adaptation from the original movie that I don't really foresee pregnancy content affecting my overall enjoyment
Momma and other sister here we comeYeah I know this is the thing, it's going to get very complicated for me later on into the game, but I'm willing to do it.... but will have to make it that if you are on someone's path you will end up knocking them up, otherwise it will just make it even more complicated for me. Also this is the 1st city we are in.... we will be going back to our home town at some point in the future.
Let me start by saying that I want every last one of them pregnant anyway, this is not special pleading for my own preferences.
No, it would be 2^8, not 8^2, for 256 possible permutations with eight girls (or not). That's why I say that just allowing them to be present or absent is enough to require layered images. 2^n gets big really fast. When people say "exponential" they often don't actually mean that, they actually mean "quadratic" which is much slower, but this actually is exponential.
Good catch. I sometimes forget that the base number is the possible choices (in this case: pregant vs not pregnant, OR present vs not present) raised to the number of repetitions (k^n). With the correct math this time around (256 combinations for 1 scene) it would cause a significant workload if Cr8tive M3dia wanted to create more than just 1 scene with all 8 LIs together.
Which is exactly why the naive, brute-force way is not how it should be done. Using layered images, instead of k^n renders it becomes just k, with a worst-case of kn. For a scene of 8 girls who may or may not be there and needing 3 poses for each girl who is there, then it goes from 6,144 renders to 4. The very high number of renders for the naive method is not a consequence of pregnancy choice, the exponential numbers already apply just by the possibility of girls being there or not.
Maybe in around a months time.... don't take that as gospel though as all depends where I decided to finish the update. The section I am working on is very large if you are on certain characters paths... if not on their paths update is very small.
Surprise.... she has a penis! Nah... my bad, put the wrong code in... funny that hasn't been spotted till now.
Judging by your name you are really going to enjoy my scene I'm working on with Mary.
If I remember right, aren't familial relationships determined by the player? It seems to be the common approach lately for devs to skirt around Patreons crackdown on incest.Surprise.... she has a penis! Nah... my bad, put the wrong code in... funny that hasn't been spotted till now.
They are determined by what you input at the very beginning of the game, However I mixed up the coding in this option and instead of it being down as Libby relationship to you (Sister/Cousin/Roommate)... it was down as mc's relationship to Libby. (Brother/Cousin/Roommate).
Oh variables, you so silly.
It isn't my first error with variables and won't be my last, I can probably guarantee it... With so many variables it is sometimes hard to keep track of what is required to do what.
I can definitely commiserate. No hard feelings from me.
