Not particularly impressed by the liquid stream effect, but if the switch helps speed up things I wouldn't really mind it either. I was never all that particular about exquisitely photorealistic visuals in these things*, I care far more about the actual lewdness of the scene and a faster development cycle than the merits of the illustration technique used (as long as there ARE some - I don't do text-only stuff). So sure, if it's easier, go for HS...
* with one exception: clothing / straps / ropes hovering an inch off the body (or occasionally an inch inside it) really pushes my buttons in the worst possible way.
wetwizard713 mentioned another one to try that might be better than what I used so I'll look into it. There's not a lot of other things to sim in fluid stuff for HS or HS2. HS at least had a shortcut key to make them pee but IIRC they made everyone pee in a scene so all the jets have to be placed/attached. There's also 2 streams on each one too where one is larger to show some spray (in my 4 hours of doing this it was the only thing close I could find).
Still may go the DAZ3D route since I invested a ton of time in models. The lobby for example, was a scene from another creator - I worked on it to make it look unique. The corridor on the other hand in thirsty stories was made by hand, by me, in blender. I didn't, at the time, want to use anyone else's stuff so the doors, lighting, wood panels (yes they are individually placed), were all done by me.
I need to get back into Southern Nights anyway so this was just a test. TS still has a ton of code changes it needs and I'm using SN as a cannon for it so when I go to TS it will have solid code. I'd hate to abandoned all the work I've done for TS on the daz3d side but if doing HS2 is better I may go that route.
Just wanted to mention too it's something I can't help about the content. I'd prefer more content in both games but I'm still struggling with renders. It should not take this long to make any of these games but it should not take a decent machine like both of mine to render them. Either I am doing something wrong or maybe I'm wrong in thinking the hardware I have will work. Should not take 30 mins to render a still where the MC is talking to a character. I've tried many things including background renders and then rendering the character but this has drawbacks too, mostly with lighting.
I've said both of these games are going to be watersports heavy and they will be because it's what I like but I'm not trying to gate keep anything.
I've also reached out to other devs about fluid sims. They have spent a lot of time tweaking theirs to look good and then others just use another artist so they either don't know how they did it or refuse to say.
