VN Ren'Py Untitled kinetic novel by Midzay [Development Thread]

[Midzay]

Hi!! Congrats on your game, i can see you are making progress. Im starting one myself. Can i ask you what software are you using for your renders (enviroments and characters). Ty

Only IRay in Daz Studio

 

[Midzay]

I'm back from my trip and have already made textures for all the apartments of all the rooms. So far it's the same room design, but I only need one apartment, so I'm starting to fill the rooms with items. There are a total of 2 rooms and a hallway to fill. This seems to be the last work on the location.

I spent last night looking for an HDRI picture for window views, and couldn't find what I wanted. All the pictures are taken from a 1.5 meter level. And I need а shoot from the height of 2+ floors of a building. So far I left the image that somehow fits. The problem is not solved.

In the last month I have received two threats to denounce me to the police. Reason: I don't like the government and president Putin and I don't support the war. One threat from my best friend. We have been best friends for over 20 years. I did not reply to both persons, because if I make them angry, they might write a denunciation against me.
My friend had a very hard time with the last police search. Her sleep has been disturbed for over a year. Trying to help her get a positive environment.

 

[R1k0]

I'm back from my trip and have already made textures for all the apartments of all the rooms. So far it's the same room design, but I only need one apartment, so I'm starting to fill the rooms with items. There are a total of 2 rooms and a hallway to fill. This seems to be the last work on the location.

I spent last night looking for an HDRI picture for window views, and couldn't find what I wanted. All the pictures are taken from a 1.5 meter level. And I need а shoot from the height of 2+ floors of a building. So far I left the image that somehow fits. The problem is not solved.

In the last month I have received two threats to denounce me to the police. Reason: I don't like the government and president Putin and I don't support the war. One threat from my best friend. We have been best friends for over 20 years. I did not reply to both persons, because if I make them angry, they might write a denunciation against me.
My friend had a very hard time with the last police search. Her sleep has been disturbed for over a year. Trying to help her get a positive environment.

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It's not like a normal environment for Daz3d, are you creating HDRI map from a scene?

 

[Midzay]

It's not like a normal environment for Daz3d, are you creating HDRI map from a scene?

I'm just making a panorama of the apartment so you can see all the walls at once. I'm not going to have this picture as an environment map, although that can be used. Here's an example:

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(click on the photo to turn it into a panorama).

 

[Midzay]

I made a basic set of furniture for the room. For the girl we need to add a make-up table. Next I will make filling the rooms with items.



For the most beautiful works I make a rendering of 6000x6000 pixels. I want to hang these works on the walls of the house (I think there are few walls in the house). At this size a lot of imperfections of models and textures come out. I also keep in mind that the interiors are very sterile/new/artificial. So I thought of enriching the image with AI. Then I remembered about Genesis facial expressions not being good enough for me. I'm going to try using AI instead of Photoshop to make the images better.

My girlfriend told me that while I was sleeping, she secretly masturbated imagining 7 young men looking at her naked. I did a trial AI generation to explore this tool and to amuse my girlfriend. I apologise for her wearing clothes - she's shy



This image will probably be the first one I print for the wall. I will make a composition change and add two more characters for this poster later.

 

[Oliz82]

Hello.

I made a basic set of furniture for the room. For the girl we need to add a make-up table. Next I will make filling the rooms with items.

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For the most beautiful works I make a rendering of 6000x6000 pixels. I want to hang these works on the walls of the house (I think there are few walls in the house). At this size a lot of imperfections of models and textures come out. I also keep in mind that the interiors are very sterile/new/artificial. So I thought of enriching the image with AI. Then I remembered about Genesis facial expressions not being good enough for me. I'm going to try using AI instead of Photoshop to make the images better.

My girlfriend told me that while I was sleeping, she secretly masturbated imagining 7 young men looking at her naked. I did a trial AI generation to explore this tool and to amuse my girlfriend. I apologise for her wearing clothes - she's shy

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This image will probably be the first one I print for the wall. I will make a composition change and add two more characters for this poster later.

Nice.

Funilly enough, there's only 6 men.
I must say it's nice to have a group scene from time to time since it's usually absent with so much harem games. There's a lack of variety in their build though.

Good continuation.

 

[Midzay]

Modeled a computer, sets of Anime books for the main character, pillows, and some rugs. Now I'm going to look for wall posters and other little things.



While I was looking at pictures of AI generation for my girlfriend, a picture composition was born in my head. I have one scenario where the main subject is a girl and a lot of blind guys studying female anatomy on her to become masseurs. But that's not where this picture came from. A quick sketch so you don't forget.


Tried to improve the rendering with AI. Found a picture where I don't like the girl's mouth. Tried to improve the smile. I got it. Tried to improve the hair. I did it.
Learning AI takes a lot of time. Later I'll take paid lessons from an AI tutor so I don't have to waste time looking for the right information.
I really want to make a beautiful rendering. Haven't done anything new in a while. Picked a simple plot to not waste a lot of time. Can't show here.
Now I will read the forum F95 - 150 new topics.

 

[Midzay]

The long phase. There's a little bit of corridor filling left to complete the first location. A long and not my favorite job is nearing completion. On the walls of the corridor hang family photos from the life of the landlady. I used Naive-style paintings.




It is distracting to study AI image generation. Looking at AI-picture bugs came up with another story about mutant humans with superpowers. Had to write down a synopsis.

Now I have earned the right to read the forum make a few posts on my blog

 

[Midzay]

It took a month to finalize the filling of the locations. Daily work for about 2-3 hours. Slowly.
The next stage is preparing all the characters.
I've abandoned the incest theme and will just put three people in one apartment. The concept of the script changed a lot in my head. The main role of the ugly sister will be weakened and will go to another character. The main theme will be “age difference”.
So, tomorrow I will start on the appearance of the characters: guy, girl, woman, doctor. Secondary characters: show host and theater critic.

 

[R1k0]

It took a month to finalize the filling of the locations. Daily work for about 2-3 hours. Slowly.
The next stage is preparing all the characters.
I've abandoned the incest theme and will just put three people in one apartment. The concept of the script changed a lot in my head. The main role of the ugly sister will be weakened and will go to another character. The main theme will be “age difference”.
So, tomorrow I will start on the appearance of the characters: guy, girl, woman, doctor. Secondary characters: show host and theater critic.
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I don't mean to be indelicate, but why does it take so long? At this rate the game will be out years from now.
"v0.1 took me about 3 weeks to develop and 1 week to test", this was written by a developer I was subscribed to, and he has a pretty big game with lots of characters and locations.

 

[Midzay]

I don't mean to be indelicate, but why does it take so long? At this rate the game will be out years from now.
"v0.1 took me about 3 weeks to develop and 1 week to test", this was written by a developer I was subscribed to, and he has a pretty big game with lots of characters and locations.

I model assets (90%). I have a lot of work that I have to do. Added to it is shoveling snow in front of the house and the driveway to the house Maybe that's why.

 

[R1k0]

I model assets (90%). I have a lot of work that I have to do. Added to it is shoveling snow in front of the house and the driveway to the house Maybe that's why.

Why not take ready-made assets? This way you'll never release your game, sorry but it seems like wasted effort. Probably you like to model assets, but what you can do in a day you do in a year, that's a weird way to develop a game. I just want to see your game, but taking too long to develop a game will most likely result in you simply abandoning it.

 

[Midzay]

Finalized all the actors. Replaced the full girl figure. For this first time I used Genesis-9 model. Had to deal with the shader of this version of Genesis. Overall I liked it better than Genesis 8. Still in doubt about skin customization for the main character (guy).
The next step is to customize the clothes for the actors. And will be looking at the guy's skin.
The older man in the novella will only be in dressed form. So with his old body I did not work. I'll work on his body in another novel when he has to undress.

 

[Midzay]

Episodic characters will not change their clothes. But I think the main characters should change at least the color of their clothes. What do you think?
The next step is to work out the interface in Renpy. I need to size the interfaces for the computer monitor and tablet. Does anyone read novellas on a phone? Knowing the screen sizes, I'll know how much text will fit next to a single illustration. Ideally, a new picture would appear on each new page of text.
Totally forgot about the names of the characters. It seems simple, but I'm having trouble with it. I found a random name generator, hopefully that will help.

 

[R1k0]

Episodic characters will not change their clothes. But I think the main characters should change at least the color of their clothes. What do you think?
The next step is to work out the interface in Renpy. I need to size the interfaces for the computer monitor and tablet. Does anyone read novellas on a phone? Knowing the screen sizes, I'll know how much text will fit next to a single illustration. Ideally, a new picture would appear on each new page of text.
Totally forgot about the names of the characters. It seems simple, but I'm having trouble with it. I found a random name generator, hopefully that will help.
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I mostly play these types of games on my phone. But I don't understand your "size the interfaces for the computer monitor and tablet" because I play the computer version on my phone using the emulator. "A new picture would appear on each new page of text" also did not understand this point, I think it is too much, depending on the situation, but there are such visual novels where you read the text for a minute and look at the same picture. Of course the more pictures the better but it takes a lot of time to generate them, there needs to be a balance. About character clothes, you don't want to download free assets for your characters?

 

[Midzay]

This is what the interface looks like on a computer. On a tablet, this interface has a small font. This is a problem I need to fix.
To see a photo on your phone, all you need to do is make the text hideable (photo below the text). On your phone, how do you hide text? Through the Renpy quick menu button?
I don't model clothes. Finding good clothes takes time, which I don't have much of.

 

[R1k0]

This is what the interface looks like on a computer. On a tablet, this interface has a small font. This is a problem I need to fix.
To see a photo on your phone, all you need to do is make the text hideable (photo below the text). On your phone, how do you hide text? Through the Renpy quick menu button?
I don't model clothes. Finding good clothes takes time, which I don't have much of.

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I meant regular RenPy games, but I forgot that you're not a regular developer and you do things differently. But it looks cool, though it looks more like a picture book than a visual novel.
I don't understand why hide the text? And about clothes I meant sites with resources for Daz3d, like render-state and shadowcore.

 

[Oliz82]

Hello.

Episodic characters will not change their clothes. But I think the main characters should change at least the color of their clothes. What do you think?
The next step is to work out the interface in Renpy. I need to size the interfaces for the computer monitor and tablet. Does anyone read novellas on a phone? Knowing the screen sizes, I'll know how much text will fit next to a single illustration. Ideally, a new picture would appear on each new page of text.
Totally forgot about the names of the characters. It seems simple, but I'm having trouble with it. I found a random name generator, hopefully that will help.
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Even though you're not satisfied, I find your selection of clothes really fitting each character. As for changing, it depends on their activities. Certainly, we change often IRL, particularly the underwears, but I've never seen a VN do that outside special events like gym, beach or parties. It would be useful if it was a sanbox game with a wardrobe functionality.

What you did on your other VN Goover's big love was fine. You just need to make sure there's enough text (I remember some images with only a short sentence next them).

As for names, I can't help since I don't self insert. I just need to know the relationships between characters.

Good continuation.

 

[Midzay]

I meant regular RenPy games, but I forgot that you're not a regular developer and you do things differently. But it looks cool, though it looks more like a picture book than a visual novel.
I don't understand why hide the text? And about clothes I meant sites with resources for Daz3d, like render-state and shadowcore.

I'll show you later what hiding text is for when I work out the interface for the phone. The problem is that I don't watch novellas from my phone, and I don't understand how I can arrange things there yet.
Yeah, I know about those clothing sites. The difficulty isn't with where to find it, it's with what to choose for the character and then praying to god that it works well.

 

[Midzay]

Worked on a game interface for the decktop. I had to remember Renpy after 2 years. A new version of the engine came out, so I didn't just migrate the old rpy-files. I wanted to make a table of contents, there's a bug popping up that I haven't been able to overcome yet. If there happens to be a programmer here who wants to help, check out this post:
https://f95zone.to/threads/problem-with-screens-when-jump-to-the-label.240966/post-15958244

What's next: work out the interface for the tablet.



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