v0.4 Work Begins!
Added 2018-03-26 06:51:45 +0000 UTCI've begun work on v0.4 over the last few days. This update cycle is going to focus on updating and improving the 3D renders used in Lab Rats. Last night I went through every clothing item that is currently being rendered for the game and converted them to greyscale. This will mean that almost every item in the game will work with the dynamic colour system of v0.3. The outfit creator will need some modifications to list out clothing items and all of their colour variations in a reasonable way.
Next, I'm going to take a look at the body types currently in the game and make them more distinct. This should help different characters look more unique. While I'm at it I'll take a look at breasts and decide if I want to make a change to them. Facial features are going to receive some attention to, with the goal of eliminating the cutout issues that currently exist. New facial types will be added, and the current three will be made more distinct.
Once the fundamental changes to body types are done I can start the rendering process, which will likely take several days to finish. While that is happening I'm hoping to write more random events, sex descriptions, and personality types.
Comments
Ok so it seems I'm the only one having bad luck with LR2. I just can't seem to keeo the company alive long enough to get anything really fun to happen. Anyone have any tips or tricks for keeping the game going?
Mizino
2018-04-03 18:09:34 +0000 UTCIt's actually done by using canvases. Add the piece of clothing to a canvas while the model is left visible but unassigned. When you render the canvas the model will still occlude the clothing but otherwise be rendered as the background colour (in my case, transparent). Then the different images can be layered in Ren'Py to build up a character with everything looking like it's hidden properly.
Vren
2018-04-01 08:18:58 +0000 UTCI like both suggestions, but I think the "quitting girl" issue is actually a symptom of other issues. In my company, it's always recent hires, rather than more established employees, who try quitting. And there's really no good reason to give raises (much less bigger raises) to recent hires, when they are fairly easy to replace. As to why older employees don't try to quit, job satisfaction is job satisfaction = happiness deficit + obedience deficit + salary deficit and since it's free to pump the employees you care about with happiness, they never even try to quit. Once costs/limitations for actions are introduced the player will be much more likely to have prized employees at low satisfaction levels. And those employees will then be likely to become dissatisfied when, for example, they are sent to seminars, since their skills will outstrip their salary. And in these types of cases the salary increase is very likely to make a difference. TLDR: part of the problem is that other game mechanics skew the population of employees who try to quit to be employees who are too dissatisfied for the bonus to matter, but on the other hand those are also the employees the player cares the least about.
Bingbong
2018-03-30 20:17:57 +0000 UTCSuggestion: Just as you can offer money to keep a girl who wants to quit, a girl you are firing ought to be able to make you an offer to keep her around, such as wearing sexier clothes to work (sluttiness increase?) and/or offering sex. (Sidebar: Offering a raise to a quitting girl almost never works for me. How about a second option to give them a bigger raise, with a higher chance of retention?)
Dubsington
2018-03-30 17:23:06 +0000 UTCQuick question man, When your working on the clothing, did you set the model to transparent inside Daz to make is a little easier for you cropping the excess stuff out?
Perversity
2018-03-29 06:19:56 +0000 UTCNot yet unfortunately. I'm trying to get the v0.4 rendering process started because it will take several days to finish. During that time I'll be able to troubleshoot the Linux and Android versions.
Vren
2018-03-29 05:27:53 +0000 UTCIf I remember correctly he mentioned eventually having the girls from LR1 be available, but I'm not 100% on that.
2018-03-29 03:11:58 +0000 UTCCool
Lust and Kinky Games
2018-03-29 02:00:32 +0000 UTCDoes this mean you fixed Linux?
Mylen Ploa
2018-03-28 01:22:00 +0000 UTCIt would be really really nice with some tit biodiversity, some small, some large, some long, some perky, some saggy and last but definitely not least some torpedo formed!!
waffel
2018-03-27 10:05:25 +0000 UTCIt is very good! It will be interesting, I do not doubt it! (✿。✿)
SexBook _____ ADULT PHOTO AND VIDEO SIGNATURES
2018-03-26 12:46:12 +0000 UTCMore body types sounds great!
Discontinued
2018-03-26 10:23:52 +0000 UTCSounds great. Will there eventually be any unique girls ? I hope not everyone is autogenerated.
onen
2018-03-26 08:02:07 +0000 UTCGreat news! Good job! ;)
Terebonkoff Game Studio
2018-03-26 07:00:53 +0000 UTC