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I second that. Shortcake is smokin, and unlike jaw1986baby, to me Ashley, church girl, and the Twins are super spicy also. But several characters just look strange. Yuki looks good from a distance, but she has this strange splotchiness to her face that doesn't look good. Same with Connie, her body almost looks like it is partially zombified. Also, lots of their clothing is hot, but others are amazingly not-attractive, for a game that is supposed to be sexy. I am thinking of the hotel uniforms. If I went to a hotel and saw such hideous uniforms, I would not want to come back.

I don't mean to pile on. I quite enjoy SL, almost as much as the first half of Melody, but Mr.D is way, way, too big and successful a dev to be relying on poor quality images, weird, inappropriate facial expressions, and cringey sex scenes, after many years in the business.

I get that he likes to use shortcuts to speed development, but if it looks bad or is laughable and cringey, it is not a success.

I hope he listens to his fans and tries to make the next game an actual improvement, rather than rehashing the same expressions, weird sex motions,and bland backgrounds, I guess he has saved up years ago from DMD, as his last 3 games (including this one).
 
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I second that. Shortcake is smokin, and unlike jaw1986baby, to me Ashley, church girl, and the Twins are super spicy also. But several characters just look strange. Yuki looks good from a distance, but she has this strange splotchiness to her face that doesn't look good. Same with Connie, her body almost looks like it is partially zombified. Also, lots of their clothing is hot, but others are amazingly not-attractive, for a game that is supposed to be sexy. I am thinking of the hotel uniforms. If I went to a hotel and saw such hideous uniforms, I would not want to come back.

I don't mean to pile on. I quite enjoy SL, almost as much as the first half of Melody, but Mr.D is way, way, too big and successful a dev to be relying on poor quality images, weird, inappropriate facial expressions, and cringey sex scenes, after many years in the business.

I get that he likes to use shortcuts to speed development, but if it looks bad or is laughable and cringey, it is not a success.

I hope he listens to his fans and tries to make the next game an actual improvement, rather than rehashing the same expressions, weird sex motions,and bland backgrounds, I guess he has saved up years ago from DMD, as his last 3 games (including this one).
we know - and he knows too. As i mentionned before, he will change the development. He hopes that he will learn blender fast. If you have been in a rythm over years, it's hard to change XD But after i showed him what blender can do, he instantly decided to switch to blender for the new game. So let's hope for the best - lol.
 

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we know - and he knows too. As i mentionned before, he will change the development. He hopes that he will learn blender fast. If you have been in a rythm over years, it's hard to change XD But after i showed him what blender can do, he instantly decided to switch to blender for the new game. So let's hope for the best - lol.
Hardest part of Blender is there is a limited amount of DAZ assets that convert to Blender, it is not 100% of DAZ assets. Then there does not seem to be a good marketplace for Blender assets outside of the DAZ bridge. At least not one I have heard about. So that plus the Blender program being a bit more tricky to use and difficult to master can make switching to Blender daunting.

If he wants to learn Blender before the next game maybe after SuLo he should put out shorts. Like the DMD "what ifs" and maybe some SuLo "what ifs" to throw the fans some meat while he works it all out.



But that is of course just my thoughts on it.





PEACE
 
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Why do the sex scenes all have these weird, unnatural motions? It looks very uncomfortable for both participants. I've never seen this in any other (non-Mr. Dots) game.
well don't ever look on talothrael's games, compared to those dots scenes are normal.

So that's my guess. Other possibilities are bad guy hotel owner or the Mayor.
sc is much older than trisha's relationship with mayor and doubt she ever met connie's dad.
 

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it's a known RenPy issue. YOu don't see the actual screen on your screenshot but one of the past ones.
You can solve that issue by NOT using fullscreen. Windowed screen should be possible to capture.
I've always used fullscreen in the past. This is the first instance of the issue I've encountered. I haven't been playing forever, but I have been playing for a little over a year, 18 different RenPy games, most through multiple updates, and this is the first time encountering the problem.
 

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well don't ever look on talothrael's games, compared to those dots scenes are normal.
You are right, I forgot about Sorceror. Those animations are also not the best. Plus, they are unskippable, which is annoying. If you try to skip, you end up having to watch the whole thing, and then it skips the next 20 lines of dialog. When you go back to read it, you have to watch the whole thing again!

To be specific what I mean with Sunshine Love, the MC's dick has this extreme curved shape, and whatever act they are doing, the LI has a weird curved motion to follow along the path. It is very similar to in True Facials, if you aren't lined up right, everything just kind of is at an odd angle. It looks very unnatural. The non-penetration animations look completely fine. It is just the jerky odd angle, and curved path that the animation uses in SL. DMD was exactly the same, though I haven't played it for about a year because of obvious reasons.

Compare that to just about any other game with sex scenes, or porn, or real life, where the thrusting of either the MC or the LI is more or less mostly straight in and out.

Hopefully at least one person has an idea of what I am talking about, haha. Just rewatch the scene with Shortcake in this update, and you'll see what I mean. Or any scenes with Sis. They all use the same motion.
 
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It's weird that he invites cousin on a date when he's not on her path and even has option to kiss her, I made sure that I'm not on her path and still???
This is a known bug that we have corrected but it is unkown at this time if it will be a hotfix we release, or if it will need to wait until the next release. Thanks!
 
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we know - and he knows too. As i mentionned before, he will change the development. He hopes that he will learn blender fast. If you have been in a rythm over years, it's hard to change XD But after i showed him what blender can do, he instantly decided to switch to blender for the new game. So let's hope for the best - lol.
Why Blender? The best program for making animations is Poser!
 
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Hardest part of Blender is there is a limited amount of DAZ assets that convert to Blender, it is not 100% of DAZ assets. Then there does not seem to be a good marketplace for Blender assets outside of the DAZ bridge. At least not one I have heard about. So that plus the Blender program being a bit more tricky to use and difficult to master can make switching to Blender daunting.

If he wants to learn Blender before the next game maybe after SuLo he should put out shorts. Like the DMD "what ifs" and maybe some SuLo "what ifs" to throw the fans some meat while he works it all out.



But that is of course just my thoughts on it.





PEACE
There is a big "marketplace for Blender assets outside of the DAZ bridge". That's Second Life and Open Sim!
 
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I don't know if this is so originaly in the game or is it from the mod but after sex with Yuki MC decided to spend the night there as we see in this image b51388a3a6c6c46b663b7b6e6ad80372.jpg after which we get another image of the door, in a different light which is by no means morning 4edcd6c4f192c82b506995401577db9b.jpg in which the MC decides to head back to the hotel for dinner. And then the scene with his sister follows. This makes no sense if it's the original.. either he stays with Yuki for the night or he heads back. If it's the mod, we should have seen before this a choice to stay or to go or to SEE BOTH. That choice is not available!
 
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The DAZ Genesis figures are incompatible with Poser, though.
Hmm.. I didn't know that. Are they compatible with Blender? Can they be imported in Blender. I found no way to open a .duf file in anything else than DAZ. I would like to be able to import some modified DAZ figures in Second Life and that would work through Blender, but they all come as .duf and that can't be imported in Blender. I would need .dae (collada) or at least .fbx and i don't know any converter from .duf to any of those..
 

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not stepmother, mc's and sis's daddy never married ashley so no official relationship.
That's not necessarily true. Where I live, a couple that cohabits for a year or more is married according to common law, and the relationship does have official standing — they can file as 'married' for tax purposes, for instance. Not married does not equal no rights.
 

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OMFG: Shortcake Lady in Red! She looks mind blowing.
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I want an end with Shortcake! Sister or not.. I don't care :)
 
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