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Digital Commission #17: Flin and Amy dancing, pressed together by the crowd

Added 2023-01-17 10:02:32 +0000 UTC

For Patronese! Phew!
Put some extra effort into this one, thanks to a few people who recently gave me a free pass on their commissions. Might put this one into the game someday.

I imagine this scene happens before Amy and Flin have ever done anything together. So if it were to go into the game, it'd replace Amy's scene at the second rock band gig (the only early rock band gig where it's possible to have sex).

I struggled for a little while trying to come up with a nice way to handle the background silhouettes everywhere. Eventually, I decided to try taking advantage of a powerful and relatively recent feature of Blender's, which is geometry nodes. Geometry nodes are a node-based workflow that allow you to generate geometry by plugging inputs and outputs properly together. They're cool as fucking shit.

Basically, I have some different silhouette models, and I told a massive plane to just spawn one or another (or nothing) on each vertex of the mesh, creating an instant crowd of people. They're all posed the same way, but with randomized rotation and silhouette color shading, it works DECENTLY well.

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