I like her face not her hair so...
It looks like he changes or disables some render settings before he does the animation in DAZ. He also tends to instantly make the characters sweaty or wet, hair included at the very start like they are getting all hot and heavy but I don't think it works. The denoising also looks very high so the skins and whatnot look more doll like. Unless he does the videos in 3delight which could account for a lot of what happens.
she is the most gorgeous with her short hair...having any other haircut would ruin her completely.
that much that you dont know wtf you are talking about?
I've seen a number of devs recently trying to get away from Daz entirely and learning to do more in Blender even for the still renders, and the difference is staggering. Better lighting, more realistic flesh physics and jiggle, cleaner animations, etc... more options in general. Though it apparently has quite the learning curve, the devs that are making the switch are really standing out lately. Hopefully STWAdev is working towards that as well.
That's exactly the word that came to my mind when looking at the animations in Pt7, all the girls are wet (not the MC strangely) and look like dolls, no more skin texture nor grain. Ines was the worst because she lost all her natural charm, no more freckles, just a plastic skin.
There is a learning curve sure, but it isn't staggering or anything. I don't think it's worth a switch this far in to an already started project though. Maybe the next one? The project I'm working on is in blender but I make the base scenes and characters in daz. The difference in render times alone is staggering. It would take me 2 hours to render just a still in daz with my meager setup but the same one in blender doesn't go over 10 minutes. And that's with cycles at 4000 passes, eevee is like 1 minute tops but the shadows are a pain.
That's a reasonable explanation for the MC's behaviour in game, and indeed I think it works to a degree for some of the LIs as well. It's not a perfect real-world excuse or anything, but it's enough to create that "escapist" framework required by a fictional story.
STWAdev is indeed a master of visual storytelling. Not many other devs can get such a wide range of character emotions across to the player in just a single image.
I agree that the Ines skin rendering issue was jarring, and the "sparkly" hair was distracting as well, but I think the animations were generally acceptable. They are suitably realistic enough and framed well to engage the interest of the player. To my eyes, some scenes just felt overly reliant on the animations, and there were fewer interesting renders in addition this time around. Also, after playing some other AVN's the last few days and having some time to think about it, I wonder if it's also because there's a lack of raw "passion" in some of this update's scenes? There's not as much sexual banter and everything feels a bit too cerebral compared to the way other AVN's approach raw and wild fucking.
Ah yeah, the manhwa! I read that ages ago, almost forgot about it. Thanks!
right but also wrong, no incest in any forms on this.I know how childhood friends work in these type of games.
Actually, while it might have been US lead, it was a coalition mission or McNab would not have been part of it. It doesn't matter, however, the mission to "clean up loose ends" was subsequent and separate. We know this, partly, because MC did not know about it until after the fact. It could have been any of the major coalition partners who decided it was necessary. Anyway, it's mostly just a wild idea but, I wouldn't put it past STWAdev to toss in a twist like this... Jus' Sayin'
On one hand, I've always disliked the idea that everything and everyone should be interconnected in a story. But on the other I'd quite like a twist like that tbh, Valentine and Els' whole lives would be turned upside down and I'd be curious to see how they'd recover.
After closer inspection you are rightActually, while it might have been US lead, it was a coalition mission or McNab would not have been part of it. It doesn't matter, however, the mission to "clean up loose ends" was subsequent and separate. We know this, partly, because MC did not know about it until after the fact. It could have been any of the major coalition partners who decided it was necessary. Anyway, it's mostly just a wild idea but, I wouldn't put it past STWAdev to toss in a twist like this... Jus' Sayin'
I have 2 paths. Elspeth and Kana. It that scenario would happen, my Elspeth route wouldn't recover. She would be promptly dumped to the curb, following my MC ditching the veteran's office and cutting all ties to her.
