Animation System Polish and Actually Animating Stuff

It feels a little strange to near the end of a three week long development and still not quite feel confident everything is going to work, but the last bits of the shader animation system are all finished up now. At last I can breath a sigh of relief and declare that it's all going to work! (Probably! Hopefully! Android testing still needs to be done...)

The mechanical core of the animation system was finished a couple of days ago, and since then I have been integrating it with the existing LR2 drawing mechanics. Thanks to some proper code structuring back when I designed the original character drawing system I was able to basically just drop the new animation code in alongside it. Characters also now have a default idle animation that's used any time a specific one isn't called for, to help breath some life into scenes that already exist but don't call for a specific shader. There are also checks to make sure the animation code is only called on platforms that support it, and if desired animations can be disabled from the main menu.

The way clothing removal was previously animated needed a rework, but ended up being significantly easier and cleaner than the previous version thanks to the addition of the backplate being used for animation. Two versions of the girl are drawn, one with the piece of clothing being removed and one without, and then the image is blended together over time, moving from the clothed to unclothed version. This integrates seamlessly with characters that are being animated, as well as working with all previous static images.

Lastly, I have been giving myself some tools to tweak and control the animations in interesting ways. I've given each animation the ability to modify region weights, letting me use similar shaders to affect sections of a girl differently (ex. jiggling her boobs without moving her ass or vice versa). I have also given each character their own region modifiers, meaning different girls can react to the same animation in different ways. I've put this to use in a couple different places. Girls with large breasts have a higher breast region weight, meaning they will jiggle and move more in any animation that affects them. Girls who get a boob job have their breast region weight increased by less than if the growth was natural, meaning fake boobs end up a little stiffer in animations. Breast changes from serum effects give the full breast region modifier.

I'm working on a blowjob specific shader at the moment to add some movement to the blowjob and deepthroat positions, then it will be time to add a little extra written content to the game!