At the moment, 350 renders are ready, and the release is planned for the end of summer - beginning of autumn.This is of course all good. But I am still confused by the message that animations will not be used in H-scenes. Why, and most importantly why the hell? Why wait another year for content we don’t need at all? If the developer does not have time to create at least regular content with updates, then what kind of animations can we talk about? Well, okay, it will be released and good, but if not, we’ll just forget how the developer himself did it...)You must be registered to see the links
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Good day, dear readers of the journal “Notes of the Unpunctual keyclap Developer”. Today we're gonna talk about why the hell has there not been an update for so long. Also, just what the hell the dev has been doing.
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A screenshot of the new workplace, where the main work now takes place.
Four months have passed since the fateful decision was made to leave Daz and switch to Blender. And now it’s time to take stock of what has changed since. I will compare how it was and how it is now. I’ll say right away that this decision is the second scariest and best decision in my life after leaving university
Phew. So, let's start.
Scene storing // let’s make Blender an AVN industry standard!
Daz: each frame is saved into a separate file weighing 50-200MB.
Blender: all frames (usually about 150) are saved into one file as an animation.
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It would seem that this is not so important and that the only advantage of the new method is less occupied disk space. But how many games have you seen where the new frame is not just the same scene from a different angle, but a full-fledged continuation of the previous frame? The old way of working didn't give me much control over the narrative, and if I needed to change something, I had to open files that Daz opened for 30-60 seconds and edit, being careful not to accidentally move the camera. Because of this, AVN games are just a bunch of incoherent pictures. The old Daz method is simply tedious and slow, it needs to be banned at the legislative level!
In short, the new method should liken AVN to watching movies
Character Posing // down with FK, glory with IK!
Daz: no controllers at all, each bone is rotated individually.
Blender: controllers that move several bones and some Shape Keys at once.
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Eight thousand lines of written code in 0.5 seconds create a full-fledged rig that allows me to do absolutely everything I need. This not only speeds up the posing of characters, but also greatly reduces the time needed to create new ones. Much has already been said about this in previous reports, so I won’t focus on it.
Fixing Meshes hammers and screwdrivers in the 3D world
Daz: a mesh was sent to Blender through my old script, fixed and sent back to Daz.
Blender: a Shape Key “layer” is created, on which the mesh is being adjusted, and its value is animated to the desired frames.
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It may seem that this is all clear and everyone has it. But I assure you that 90% of the developers on Daz are afraid of this problem like hell, which is why you will hardly see characters who wear anything other than regular clothes: View attachment 3720923
The Rendering Process // happiness is where everything works as it should
Daz: each frame is manually rendered immediately after the scene is saved.
Blender: preview renders are created, scenes are adjusted based on them, and a few days later the final renders are made at night.
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In order to not waste time, I quickly wrote a program that I called “kQueue” in a day, which puts projects into a rendering queue. Yes, there are already similar programs on the Internet, but hey, they either don’t work as I need or have critical bugs.
What is the advantage of the new method? It's simple. The quality of each render is now higher due to the fact that more time is spent on rendering. Also, in the future this will all develop into a render farm >
Post-Processing // away with the stash of thousands of thousands of files!
Daz: using Photoshop and manual saving.
Blender: using Blender's built-in compositor and automatic converter.
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Here’s a quest: find the file with dancing Mariya.
With the transition to Blender, the dependence on Photoshop disappeared almost completely. All work with color and effects have moved to the built-in compositor in Blender, which works with 16bit images and simply buries Daz with its 8bit. Why is it important? Because before, in order to perform color correction in Photoshop, I had to make sure that color banding didn’t appear in the gradients. Additionally, in order for the animations to be the same color as regular renders, all animation frames had to run through Photoshop, color corrected and saved, which is actually very time-consuming and stupid.
Moreover, in order to resave images in 1080p, 2K and 4K, I had to open Photoshop and do everything manually. The new method assumes that the raw renders are stored in .png and have a 4K resolution. My converter itself takes them, changes the resolution, renames them to a unique name and very quickly saves them with the desired size:
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One of the critical advantages is complete control over the size of the game, which puts the optimization head and shoulders above other games that weigh 15GB or more
Our Bright Days // finally time to talk about the most important thing
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The construction of the city is in progress. The final result will be different.
Well, it's time to talk about the game itself, and since a lot has already changed, why not change something in the plot? And the most important change is that the events are moved to a new place - to the foot of the mountains of the Krasnodar Krai
But no need to worry, Suzy and Lucy will sill work together in a cafe, Mariya will go to university, and Ekaterina will work in the office, but all this will be in the new small fictional city.
But... Why was the decision made to leave Clairton, California? The first reason the survey, in which the vast majority of people were not from the USA:
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The second reason is the changing climate, which is more understandable to me. Wouldn't it be cool to see winter scenes in the game?
And one more thing, after listening to an interview with Texic (Russian developer of the game Milf's Plaza) and hearing that he also tried to make his game for an American audience, but something didn’t go according to plan, I decided that it would be right to make my game about what I’m familiar with, rather than trying to mimic a foreign culture.
Some new renders:
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Some old renders:
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Some VERY old renders:
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Plans for the future // <UwU>
I wanted to do this from the very beginning, but due to the slowness of Daz, the idea was put on hold... until recently. I'm talking about Motion Capture and transferring captured animation to kRig. In fact, half the work is already done, and I was able to find a way to transfer animation to controllers! After this transfer, all Blender functionality for working with animations becomes available.
I recorded this video to show how it all works:
You must be registered to see the links
Regarding the animation capture itself, I have a couple of ideas. I can buy several cheap webcams, “calibrate” them and run them through AI (but not the one on the Internet by subscription, but the one on GitHub). Or I can save up for a Rokoko Mocap suit, but it will take a lot of money ;0
What is all this for? For 18+ scenes? Nope, I have an idea to use animations of dances, movements and generally everything else for the in-game social network, game trailer and cinematics. I don't think many people have done this with their AVN games
Finish!
As you can see, the game is in active development, progress is progressing by leaps and bounds, and in technical terms, keyclap has already overtaken the vast majority of its competitors >
Thank you very much to those who supported and who continue to support this project! Without you, the project would have died long ago!
Yeah we're sorry for keep you waiting, we're sorry for feedback every 4-5 months with such unnecessury info, we're sorry but we not going to do any h-scenes so far 'cause the story is one priority for us, we're sorry but the game will arrive in 2-3 years in best case scenario.You must be registered to see the links
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Good day, dear readers of the journal “Notes of the Unpunctual keyclap Developer”. Today we're gonna talk about why the hell has there not been an update for so long. Also, just what the hell the dev has been doing.
View attachment 3720917
A screenshot of the new workplace, where the main work now takes place.
Four months have passed since the fateful decision was made to leave Daz and switch to Blender. And now it’s time to take stock of what has changed since. I will compare how it was and how it is now. I’ll say right away that this decision is the second scariest and best decision in my life after leaving university
Phew. So, let's start.
Scene storing // let’s make Blender an AVN industry standard!
Daz: each frame is saved into a separate file weighing 50-200MB.
Blender: all frames (usually about 150) are saved into one file as an animation.
View attachment 3720918
It would seem that this is not so important and that the only advantage of the new method is less occupied disk space. But how many games have you seen where the new frame is not just the same scene from a different angle, but a full-fledged continuation of the previous frame? The old way of working didn't give me much control over the narrative, and if I needed to change something, I had to open files that Daz opened for 30-60 seconds and edit, being careful not to accidentally move the camera. Because of this, AVN games are just a bunch of incoherent pictures. The old Daz method is simply tedious and slow, it needs to be banned at the legislative level!
In short, the new method should liken AVN to watching movies
Character Posing // down with FK, glory with IK!
Daz: no controllers at all, each bone is rotated individually.
Blender: controllers that move several bones and some Shape Keys at once.
View attachment 3720919 View attachment 3720920
Eight thousand lines of written code in 0.5 seconds create a full-fledged rig that allows me to do absolutely everything I need. This not only speeds up the posing of characters, but also greatly reduces the time needed to create new ones. Much has already been said about this in previous reports, so I won’t focus on it.
Fixing Meshes hammers and screwdrivers in the 3D world
Daz: a mesh was sent to Blender through my old script, fixed and sent back to Daz.
Blender: a Shape Key “layer” is created, on which the mesh is being adjusted, and its value is animated to the desired frames.
View attachment 3720921
It may seem that this is all clear and everyone has it. But I assure you that 90% of the developers on Daz are afraid of this problem like hell, which is why you will hardly see characters who wear anything other than regular clothes: View attachment 3720923
The Rendering Process // happiness is where everything works as it should
Daz: each frame is manually rendered immediately after the scene is saved.
Blender: preview renders are created, scenes are adjusted based on them, and a few days later the final renders are made at night.
View attachment 3720924
In order to not waste time, I quickly wrote a program that I called “kQueue” in a day, which puts projects into a rendering queue. Yes, there are already similar programs on the Internet, but hey, they either don’t work as I need or have critical bugs.
What is the advantage of the new method? It's simple. The quality of each render is now higher due to the fact that more time is spent on rendering. Also, in the future this will all develop into a render farm >
Post-Processing // away with the stash of thousands of thousands of files!
Daz: using Photoshop and manual saving.
Blender: using Blender's built-in compositor and automatic converter.
View attachment 3720925
Here’s a quest: find the file with dancing Mariya.
With the transition to Blender, the dependence on Photoshop disappeared almost completely. All work with color and effects have moved to the built-in compositor in Blender, which works with 16bit images and simply buries Daz with its 8bit. Why is it important? Because before, in order to perform color correction in Photoshop, I had to make sure that color banding didn’t appear in the gradients. Additionally, in order for the animations to be the same color as regular renders, all animation frames had to run through Photoshop, color corrected and saved, which is actually very time-consuming and stupid.
Moreover, in order to resave images in 1080p, 2K and 4K, I had to open Photoshop and do everything manually. The new method assumes that the raw renders are stored in .png and have a 4K resolution. My converter itself takes them, changes the resolution, renames them to a unique name and very quickly saves them with the desired size:
View attachment 3720926
One of the critical advantages is complete control over the size of the game, which puts the optimization head and shoulders above other games that weigh 15GB or more
Our Bright Days // finally time to talk about the most important thing
View attachment 3720928
The construction of the city is in progress. The final result will be different.
Well, it's time to talk about the game itself, and since a lot has already changed, why not change something in the plot? And the most important change is that the events are moved to a new place - to the foot of the mountains of the Krasnodar Krai
But no need to worry, Suzy and Lucy will sill work together in a cafe, Mariya will go to university, and Ekaterina will work in the office, but all this will be in the new small fictional city.
But... Why was the decision made to leave Clairton, California? The first reason the survey, in which the vast majority of people were not from the USA:
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The second reason is the changing climate, which is more understandable to me. Wouldn't it be cool to see winter scenes in the game?
And one more thing, after listening to an interview with Texic (Russian developer of the game Milf's Plaza) and hearing that he also tried to make his game for an American audience, but something didn’t go according to plan, I decided that it would be right to make my game about what I’m familiar with, rather than trying to mimic a foreign culture.
Some new renders:
View attachment 3720931 View attachment 3720932 View attachment 3720934 View attachment 3720935
Some old renders:
View attachment 3720937 View attachment 3720939 View attachment 3720940 View attachment 3720941
Some VERY old renders:
View attachment 3720942 View attachment 3720943 View attachment 3720944 View attachment 3720946
Plans for the future // <UwU>
I wanted to do this from the very beginning, but due to the slowness of Daz, the idea was put on hold... until recently. I'm talking about Motion Capture and transferring captured animation to kRig. In fact, half the work is already done, and I was able to find a way to transfer animation to controllers! After this transfer, all Blender functionality for working with animations becomes available.
I recorded this video to show how it all works:
You must be registered to see the links
Regarding the animation capture itself, I have a couple of ideas. I can buy several cheap webcams, “calibrate” them and run them through AI (but not the one on the Internet by subscription, but the one on GitHub). Or I can save up for a Rokoko Mocap suit, but it will take a lot of money ;0
What is all this for? For 18+ scenes? Nope, I have an idea to use animations of dances, movements and generally everything else for the in-game social network, game trailer and cinematics. I don't think many people have done this with their AVN games
Finish!
As you can see, the game is in active development, progress is progressing by leaps and bounds, and in technical terms, keyclap has already overtaken the vast majority of its competitors >
Thank you very much to those who supported and who continue to support this project! Without you, the project would have died long ago!
I guess the dev removed the tag to protect himself from Patreon.
Not allowed to do that, we don't care about Patreon, if the game has incest, it needs the tag.
Tbf the game does not have incest since there is no sexual content with the sister, but she was a main LI i believe, But who knows, maybe Dev retcons that too, I hope not since it would be a shame.
There are so many milking their patrons. I can never see remaking a game you haven't even finished yet for any other reason. Players get bored with no new content for too long and give up on the game. After the last update, I'm not really sure this dev has any idea what he wants to do with the story, honestly.
