Updating Rendering Assets
Added 2018-03-29 07:55:02 +0000 UTCOver the past few days I've been working my way through the different body shapes, skin textures, breast shapes/sizes, and facial types in Lab Rats 2 and updating them. Major recent changes I've made include:
* Differences in body types are now more pronounced. Curvy body type now has a thinner waist, larger butt, and in general is more shapely than before. Thin body type has a smaller butt and more well proportioned frame. Standard body type tweaked to look generally better.
* Skin textures and colours have been improved, should now more closely match reality.
* Breast shapings have been changed. Breasts are generally now more perky than before. Smaller breasts have more natural underboob curves.
Now that all of the fundamental body shape work is finished I can start on other things that were dependent on it. My next task is to go through all of the clothing items and eliminate any clipping issues they have, then ensure they work properly for each render position. After that I will be rewriting my automation script (which has grown long and unwieldy) and setting everything up for a rendering batch.
This update will require me to rerender all of the images currently in LR2, so I'm hoping to get it started soon. Once it's started I'll have a few days to work on other parts of the game, as well as set up new clothing items, positions, expressions, and body types to be rendered.
Comments
That is absolutely something that is in desperate need of attention. The focus of v0.5 will be on adding new character personalities, expansion of dialogue for all personalities, addition of new crises, new sex/interaction descriptions, and refining all of the content currently in the game.
Vren
2018-04-01 08:04:01 +0000 UTCThe models and clothing have been reworked and everything is being rerendered. It will take a few days for the process to finish, but it's all automated right now so I can just sit back and let it run.
Vren
2018-04-01 08:00:30 +0000 UTCYOu rerendered them, or it's just photoshop improvmeents?
Discontinued
2018-03-30 18:07:26 +0000 UTCI like how the game is shaping up, but I'm missing a key element of LabRats 1 in this version 2, namely the excellent sexy scenes and dialogues. Procedural is all well and good, but without the text, renders and animations are not nearly enough to get me in the right mood. Could we, perhaps, expect a focus on texts and dialogues for v0.5?
Norpuma
2018-03-30 14:46:32 +0000 UTCThe only form of body modification implemented in the current build is breast increase/reduction. I could see more being added in the future (I remember Vren mentioning changing the characters height), but I expect that to be dependent on how the models ultimately turn out.
Bingbong
2018-03-29 20:13:12 +0000 UTCGreat news, the current models and facial features (and even hairstyle) are massive turn off. Can't wait to getting back to hot characters like the LR1.
miscemayl
2018-03-29 09:46:58 +0000 UTCThis is good news!
Terebonkoff Game Studio
2018-03-29 09:45:44 +0000 UTCI have a question, sorry if its already been explained or mentioned somewhere but is body shape modification one of the effects that can be added to a serum, and how extensive will the personality modification be? Bimbofication would be a rather amusing process.
liquidphantom
2018-03-29 08:08:11 +0000 UTC
