VN Ren'Py My Dorm [v0.28.4 S4 Ch.1] [Tropecita Games]

[acowasto]

Nah I understand, I am sorry too. My comment was a bit insensitive, since we the audience usually don't think much about the work put on the content we consume, and we usually don't have direct communication with the creator too. So I didn't think how it'd feel for you to see someone insulting your hard work.

What TigerWolfe said.
Having the knowledge about the "behind the screen" work on animations (and indie game development) is certainly a eye opener. Well, as it goes, the grass is more greener on the other side.
Some of Tropecita's animations look... weird or simply funny. Like "Martha's drop", for example. Or Daphne's left arm twitching on a date.
But what makes those animations more comfortable to watch is Tropecita himself, because he's active with community.

I would rather have a good, or even a medicore at start, indie game with a developer interacting with community, learning as he's making his game, taking the criticism and player's opinion's and improving upon the game, than another beautiful AAA soulless title.

I did a test with AI animation just for fun with free software some time ago. The video was 1280x720 instead of 1920x1080 I use in my manually rendered animations. The movement looked better than my animations, but it didn't loop correctly. It took less than an hour to "render". It took around 7 hours to get the MC's dick correctly aligned in each frame during Simone's "ball eating" animation(s), and almost 18 hours to render the three animations I did with that set (453 frames, 151 per animation).

AI just a tool, much like DAZ or Blender. It's still the man behind the tool that makes all the work. In my honest opinion AI is not advanced yet to fully replace the "by hand" approach. The greatest problem is the consistency. Out of 100 animations made, 10 is workable, but maybe 3 are consistent enough.
Still, I get it why you got a bit angry. "I just did your 34 hours bad animation by writting 2 sentences in AI!"
Sadly, with AI development going forward, no matter how much we can hate it (And I do hate the AI assistant, because it's simply bonkers!), but "by hand" approach is going to be replaced... maybe not sooner, but certainly later.

Also...
Not
Enough
Martha!

 

[TonyMurray]

Is it me, or does the "iPatch" doesn't work on the new version? Also, it doesn't loads the gallery for the girls. It shows this huge X for everyone.
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That gallery works fine for me (the replay gallery also does, I think, I've not actually tested that one yet though...).

 

[Verasmile]

Did you happen to install the season 1 patch? That one isn´t recommended for the later seasons. Just create a an empty textfile in /[gamefolder]/game named patch.txt and the game is patched.
The non-functioning gallery might also come from this same incorrect patch (I just checked and it works for me, on pc)

No? Or maybe I did, but long ago and I don't remember. But I tried the patch.txt and didn't solve anything.

Could it be that I have the season 4 in the same folder, but in a different subfolder? I've been updating the season 3 since its release and now with the season 4 I made a new subfolder.