Goals for demo 4: sliders and lewds

There are two main features planned for demo 4: body sliders, and lewds.

“Body Slider” is the feature that allows for alterations in the body’s appearance. For example, make the girl taller or shorter, make her boobs larger or smaller, and so on. What exactly are modifiable is still TBD at the moment. But I am i aiming for a more extensive system than what HR had (which is only boob size). 

Like HR, this is a dynamic system, and it is not limited to “set body shape once” at character creation only. However, the players wouldn't have direct access to the sliders all the time. Instead, they must utilize in-game means such as consuming items or with services of NPCs to apply the visual changes incrementally.

“Lewds” are, well, lewds. However, this time, instead of having only “fixed” animations between the 2 partners, Inverse Kinematics will be applied to handle some (small) variations the in body shape. For example, in HR, boob fondling doesn’t work well if the boob is not at the default size.

This application of IK is where most of the technical difficulties lies in.

Obviously, even with IK, this wouldn't magically allow animations made for partners of a certain size and shape to work for partners with drastically different size and shape. Another limitation is that this animation system probably wouldn't work well for poses that requires lot’s of “contact points” such as the interlocking of limbs in a wrestling position (without a significant amount of effort at least). 

Now, how does lewds work in this game?

Remember the downed state? Characters in the downed state are vulnerable to grabs. Knock down an enemy (in combat) first and then knock her up. This applies to your character and companions as well. (Reminder that only uniques (the player, companions, and special enemies are “grabable”. Minions can only start “grabs” but not receive them.)

Watchout for “traps” too.

It is possible to have sex out of combat as well. For example, between you and your party members, between you and other NPCs for favor and/or money, or build/buy a brothel and whore out your party members, or as “training,” or a pure sex-fight “minigame.”