[WIP] My first VN - Isabella

[badtimetales]

After so many great VNs I've played I decided to start my own.

A little bit too optimistic about "how easy this it", I started last year, about this time, with my first DAZ and RenPy experience.
After a few month and a few hundert renders later, after learning a lot in the progress, I recognized, that I can do better.

So I started from scratch (except of the story) and while there are many devs which do better renders, I'm now happy with what I'm able to implement.

The story is about a mid 30 yo man and what is happening in his life - and it's focused on two main love interests (li) and a few "sidekicks".
It is not a harem game, but there will be enough sex to keep you entertained. No NTR, no incest, no forced sex, but a story I hope you will enjoy and a lot of different sex scenes.
It will include animations, but I'm to silly to do good body physics with blender oder other programs.
So only Daz animations, but as recreation proved: They can be really good.


The VN is heavily story driven (so if you want to skip dialogs and only want to fap, this will not be the right VN for you) .
Decisions will matter, for the story and for the relationships.

I'm working all alone, so don't expect a weekly or monthly update.
CPU Ryzen 3800 is ok, but a RTX 2070 is not really a GPU you want to create Iray renders with.
The new RTX 3080 looks promising, should give a 150% boost in render times.


EP1 will be released in October (i hope) and cover about 60-90 minutes in game experience.
The following episodes will be split in 3 parts each, so I will be able to update frequently.

I will add some pictures soon .....

 

[recreation]

Thanks for the mention.
PS: Your pc specs are better than mine

 

[badtimetales]

Some pictures of the main LI

Meet Alex and the main LI Isabella.

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[badtimetales]

Thanks for the mention.
PS: Your pc specs are better than mine

We talked about this

And your animations are (for daz only) really great.
Can't wait for an update ...

 

[badtimetales]

Some more pics.....
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[badtimetales]

I hope you like what you see ....

 

[Deleted member 185293]

Not bad at all

 

[badtimetales]

Not bad at all

Thank you, trying the best I can.

After learning a lot while creating the first episode, I think the renders for episode two will be better.

 

[fitgirlbestgirl]

Not a fan of the alt/punk/whatever style, but the blonde looks like a snack.

 

[badtimetales]

Not a fan of the alt/punk/whatever style, but the blonde looks like a snack.

I thought that her character would not be so popular and tbh, the clothes and the makeup don't look good in the first episode. That was a very bad choice, but there is no way I rerender the scenes.



For the story I had in mind I wanted two completly different characters.

First the strong lady who doesn't care about anything, a little bit crazy (I guess she just wants to play ) but but also reliable, as long you treat her good.

But she can be can be cute, at least when she is sleeping



Just kidding, yes she is crazy but open for nearly everything.

Her elder sister however ... let's say she hates you - for good reasons.




The second LI, as I said, is the complete difference, by body and background.



And not very self-confident



But this will change and you will be able to choose both, or one of them.

(these are renders from the beginning of EP2, so it will take some time until you see them).

 

[badtimetales]

Since the VN name is Isabella, I have chosen this avatar

 

[fallgay]

The render is good

 

[badtimetales]

Trouble or fun ....



you never know

 

[badtimetales]

Well ....

after playing EP1 one more time, I needed to change Alex's makeup ... the first version is really bad, so, yeah, ~100 renders to be redone.

And there is a problem ... I've got one scene with 10 renders, where the first render ist working (GPU mem use about 5GB, redner time about 90 minutes), but the next renders will only use CPU.
I have no idea why this is happening, so I have to render these manually and not over night, using a batch render tool.

But most of the work (setting up the scene, lightning, posing) is done, so it will be only a hard time for the GPU



Unfortunatly - or fortunately? - some of my very first animations have to be rerendered too, because of the changes.
This will take some days, but I think the release date this month is still good, as texts and so on are done, and the scripts only need a few changes.

 

[badtimetales]

I was trying to upload some renders, but after uploading, the pics are crossed out.

No idea if this is a server problem or whatever it is ....

 

[badtimetales]

Rerenders are stressing out the GPU, but with the changed makeup and lightning, it's definitely worth a few days of rendering time ....

 

[badtimetales]

Hmpff...

Pornhub doesnt allow webm for uploading (welcome to 2010), so I converted webm to mkv.
The result is ...disgusting!

Have to figure out how to upload a proper vid to pornhub

 

[d3faultgamer]

webm and mkv are just containers. use mkvtoolnix gui or ffmpeg to make the webm file mkv

 

[badtimetales]

webm and mkv are just containers. use mkvtoolnix gui or ffmpeg to make the webm file mkv

I know and I tried with ffmpeg and handbrake.
The converted video looks as good as the webm on my local PC (no surprise, as the new vid can only be as good as the old one), but after uploading to pornhub the quality is really bad.
I guess it has something to do with PHs internal compression.

Hopefully I still have the pngs I used to create the vids, so I can use them to create an mkv or mp4.

 

[badtimetales]

Well ... the rerenders are still rendering.

120+ still renders and about 800+ animation renders will set me back for a few weeks, but I still think I might be able to release S01 this month.