VN Ren'Py Lycoris Radiata [Ch.7 Public] [Kuro]

[DevinHesi]

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Hello, everyone!

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! May 2025 be the year your dreams, goals, and aspirations become reality.

As the year ends, don’t make empty promises destined to be forgotten. Instead, set resolutions that you’re truly committed to achieving!

While Inei and Ren might not care about any of you, Mirai’s heart is full of love. She blesses you all with a 2.5x boost in dedication and productivity for the year ahead! So, don’t let her down, or worse, prove those two idiots right with their low expectations.

 

[DevinHesi]

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Hello everyone! I hope you’re all enjoying the new year so far.

I’d also like to wish a happy Lunar New Year to everyone celebrating it!

For me, the start of this year has been a bit rough, but it’s not without some positive highlights. One of those is a major change I’ve made to my approach for character modeling. Now I definetly realized that my previous method was taking way too much time, so I decided to rethink and optimize the process significantly.

As you can see from the render, I’ve opted for a different art style, more stylized, with hand-drawn textures. While this style may not look as realistic or detailed as the previous one, the advantages are simply too good to ignore.

Some of them being:

The models have half the polycount of the previous ones.

The workflow is much faster.

Rigging is easier, allowing for more expressive facial animations.

Hair modeling is significantly quicker.

The hair shader is highly flexible and user-friendly.

Overall, this new approach has drastically improved the speed of character creation. I really hope you like this new style as much as I do because I think I’ve finally found my artistic style! To give you some perspective, it only took me about 5 hours to create these three hairstyles. For those who forgot, the last Ren model’s hairstyle took me 20 hours.

Looking back and doing some reserch, some things became clear. The previous models were fine if I wanted to work on something small and simple. However, considering the scope of Lycoris—with its numerous characters and environments, a single person just isn’t enough to manage that complexity using such detailed style. That’s why I’ve decided to start Lycoris production with this new style.

For those wondering, "Didn’t it take you more than a month to make these?", the answer is yes, but for good reason. When creating something, you don’t just come up with the perfect solution in an instant. It’s a process of experimentation and repetition until you’re satisfied with the result. For example, it took me two weeks just to come up with the hair shader.

Anyway, that’s all for today. Thank you all for your patience and support, I truly appreciate it! I wouldn’t have made this kind of progress in 3D modeling without you guys.

Now that my vacation has started, I’m going to dive in and start creating the rest of the characters like a madman. Bye!

 

[Skidables]

Sucks because the new models look so good, can't even lie. The game had high-quality potential and I can already see the future abandon after he releases the new version and it does not gain the traction he expected. He already lost so many Patreons, he has 1,200 Patreons and only 47 paid. It was in my top 5 so the direction switch sucks, but it's understandable will probably check it out in the future if it ever completes because I did like the story.

 

[Gexiz]

If the game becomes blender it will be ruined. This dev and his Rework look like meme, it's not the first time he's redone everything, it's like the 4th time and honestly it's already boring

 

[DevinHesi]

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[MagicMan753]

I am just not personally a fan of these new looks for the characters. The original style for the characters was just so much better imo and I liked them more. Now this might of killed my hype for the game.

 

[Black Orchid]

this guy seems to be completely lost when it comes to the development. 4 years into the development and another remake, removing adult content. there is a reason he no longer shows the paid member count on patreon.

 

[SpecterX]

-Number one:

Lycoris Radiata will not include adult content such as explicit sex scenes, inappropriate depiction of minors, genital exposure, extreme fetishes and so on.

I acknowledge that the HS2 models, the game's option for partial nudity, and my own naivety contributed to this issue. However, with the transition to Blender and the removal of the Luna scene and uncensored D&A scene, I hope to resolve this headache.

This seems to be the only way for the game to avoid being labeled as an "Adult Visual Novel" by players.

Players will still have the option to romance and date characters in the future, but it will not be the main focus of this game. To be honest, I’m not even comfortable creating erotic scenes, and even if I were to include those scenes, they would be delivered in a poor quality manner because I do not give my utmost attention to things I dislike doing.

I know I’m a bit weird; even when using HS2, I never clicked on a Start Game button, and while working on the characters in the character creator, I had their genitals removed (To my surprise, there was an option to do so).

Lycoris Radiata characters are very dear to me, even characters like Koga or Yamazaki.

Just to be clear, I’m not antagonizing, criticizing, or thinking badly about those who enjoy such things; everyone has their needs, including myself. But let's keep this game free from sexual themes.

... Well, that's not entirely true. I do have some negative feelings towards those who send me inappropriate questions about Mirai.



-Number two:

The game will include fictional acts of violence and gory moments, but I will provide an option to censor those scenes for players who find them disturbing.

This decision is motivated purely to avoid potential issues in the future.

Always find choices like these weird.
Gore is fine but sex is not? Seems like he just does not enjoy making sexual content but hate it somehow.
And the way he talk about the AVN players, like he hates them or something.
I don't remember who that Mirai is as it's been years since I played the game so I have nothing to say about it.

 

[Meiri]

Always find choices like these weird.
Gore is fine but sex is not? Seems like he just does not enjoy making sexual content but hate it somehow.
And the way he talk about the AVN players, like he hates them or something.
I don't remember who that Mirai is as it's been years since I played the game so I have nothing to say about it.

He just realized a bit late that he doesn't know or simply does not want to write a sex scene, probably something he should have done way before deciding to commit to developing an adult game.

The Mirai thing is totally understandable, if I remember correctly she was the younger sister and is clearly a minor in the story so of course she is not a LI or is going to have a scene, the way he wrote this makes me think people were asking for that.

 

[SpecterX]

He just realized a bit late that he doesn't know or simply does not want to write a sex scene, probably something he should have done way before deciding to commit to developing an adult game.

The Mirai thing is totally understandable, if I remember correctly she was the younger sister and is clearly a minor in the story so of course she is not a LI or is going to have a scene, the way he wrote this makes me think people were asking for that.

Honestly a shame because the game was really great and I think the new model could really work.
But the market for non AVN is so saturated rn.
Fortunately there are great AVN with the same engine to play.

 

[Niuul]

this guy seems to be completely lost when it comes to the development. 4 years into the development and another remake, removing adult content. there is a reason he no longer shows the paid member count on patreon.

You can see it in the About section. 1,294 members, but only 47 are paying the $3.50 CAD a month. Of that 165 bucks I dunno how much Patreon takes... so yeah, I don't see this AVN ever becoming profitable and from the outside looking in it looks like a huge waste of time tbh.

 

[DevinHesi]

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Hey, everyone!

Another update on my recent progress:

As you can see from the render, I’ve been testing location modeling and have recreated the Okami Train Station from Chapter 1. While there are still some adjustments to be made, I think it looks quite good compared to the original.

Additionally, I’d like to announce that since most of the characters for Chapter 1 are now complete, I will begin developing the Enhanced Prologue. Once it's finished, I plan to release it as a demo, giving players a preview of how things will look after the transition to Blender.

With the Enhanced Prologue script already completed, the development process shouldn't take too long. However, due to my current fatigue, I’ll be taking a few days off to wrap up some IRL tasks and recharge.

Wishing you all good health—see you soon!

 

[TheOriginalSchizo]

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Hey, everyone!

Another update on my recent progress:

As you can see from the render, I’ve been testing location modeling and have recreated the Okami Train Station from Chapter 1. While there are still some adjustments to be made, I think it looks quite good compared to the original.

Additionally, I’d like to announce that since most of the characters for Chapter 1 are now complete, I will begin developing the Enhanced Prologue. Once it's finished, I plan to release it as a demo, giving players a preview of how things will look after the transition to Blender.

With the Enhanced Prologue script already completed, the development process shouldn't take too long. However, due to my current fatigue, I’ll be taking a few days off to wrap up some IRL tasks and recharge.

Wishing you all good health—see you soon!

wait is he reworking the entire game??

 

[tslojr]

wait is he reworking the entire game??

Yup. Redoing it in Blender (I think) and removing all the sexual content.

 

[TheOriginalSchizo]

Yup. Redoing it in Blender (I think) and removing all the sexual content.

how to lose patreon supporters and kill your game any % speedrun

 

[PeopleCallMeSmile]

Could anybody explain me why the dev chose to ruin his game in such a stupid way? I mean, he could've just drop it or simply removing sex scenes but right now he's destroying everything that made the game interesting. Played the last episode about a while now and dude, you can feel that it's not the same. Anyways, bye.

 

[jumpingjaguar15]

tbh i dont care about his model remakes but his storywriting has seriously plummeted since the first few chapters, latest updates made the anime cliches feel way cringier

 

[Meiri]

tbh i dont care about his model remakes but his storywriting has seriously plummeted since the first few chapters, latest updates made the anime cliches feel way cringier

IMO the best writing was the comedic bits, specially when he joined the school, on the other hand the parts where the story goes edgier like MCs past were the weakest.

 

[Overlord070]

What a huge disappointment, I thought way back when the worst part was how the "multiple" personalities were handled, but the dev made it much, much worse lol.