Patch around the corner

0.6.0 was one of our biggest releases yet. It contained a lot of new features and content, but also changes to previous behavior. Several core systems were removed and replaced with new ones. Naturally, doing such a thing increases the risk for bugs. And sure enough, there's been several reported.

We're happy to announce we're just a day or two away from releasing a patch to many of these bugs. This release will however not only contain bug fixes, but also some improvements in general.

Dragoness is one of our favorite accomplishments so far, and we want to make sure she looks as good as she possibly can. So we have developed a new driver that improves the ass deformation.

Squash and stretch driver

This driver will transform the ass cheeks as the leg is affected by the bone deformation. It's similar to what we've done previously, but unlike those, this one affects all components of the transform rather than just the rotation.

Video

https://gfycat.com/UnconsciousImmaterialCur

With the new driver

https://gyazo.com/0037871018e65ef55e4b199fe15b9382

Without the driver

https://gyazo.com/db035cf4d843cd7a954a397d3f2dbc99

Dragoness is the first to adopt this driver.

Tweaked belly

We noticed the belly of the Dragoness behaved a little crazy, so this has been tweaked too.

New behavior

https://gfycat.com/VacantFrenchGreatdane

Old behavior (for comparison)

https://gfycat.com/GloomyFlawedJerboa

You might also notice that we've tweaked the normals and smoothness during inflation.

New maps

https://gyazo.com/de1ade4388e84e67458c68862243e626

Old maps (for comparison)

https://gyazo.com/e12ee298fabe5ac5527cdb6126994175

The mesh deformation has been slightly tweaked too and should be better now.

Dragoness shoulder drivers

With drivers

https://gyazo.com/d5a59d66f49b643a3bd911f3f74e25ac

Without drivers

https://gyazo.com/392d9c697d1e64c638ca4196f2c93891

During the development of Dragoness, we disabled the shoulder drivers as they caused problems, and then we totally forgot about them. Since the shoulders affect the wings as well (as you can see in the first picture), poses would look differently depending on what shoulder driver setting the user had when saving as well as loading the interaction. So new behavior had to be developed to handle this.

The way we chose to solve this is by saving the shoulder driver setting together with the interaction. Then, during load, if the setting is equal, then nothing is done. If it isn't, however, a calculation will be performed to try and position the wings as they were saved but with the user's configured driver setting.

Other things coming in 0.6.0b

Angle snapping

You will be able to launch the rotation gizmo in snapping mode (snapping to increments of 15 degrees).

Penetratee force

Previously, penetratees haven't used any of the force sliders, only the penetrators. This will be changed in 0.6.0b. As this greatly changes how the sliders are interpreted, any interaction made prior to this release will be translated into this new force system upon load. (Force sliders will be set to 0 for snapshots where control is less than 0.5, thus mimicking old behavior).

POV tilt snapping

Camera will now snap to the closest 90 degree tilt, to avoid uncomfortable angle. I.e. if the character is tilted 15 degrees to the side, then camera will be upright.

Furthermore, the POV camera behavior has been improved and doesn't mess up when looking left/right when lying on side.

And of course the bug fixes...

A bunch of bug fixes that we'll detail more with the release notes.

That's it for now! Pardon the bugs in 0.6.0, but with such a big release it is to be expected. 0.6.0b should hopefully clear up most of it.