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Dev Talk - Personal Trainer RE Progress

Lots of progress and changes to report this time around. It's a nice change of pace from the prior monotonous vague "continued coding" reports.

Coding:
The rewrite is essentially complete. At this point, the last version of PT is completely playable with the new code base. I initially spent a few weeks creating new classes and functions to not only be able to implement new features, but to keep things as clean, robust and bug-free as possible. Along the way...

In a Scent Ep 4 Pt 1 is now available for $2 tier

You can grab the download link here.

Cheers,

Dom

In a Scent Ep 4 Pt 1 is now available for $5 tier

Forgot to announce this last night, but the new episode is now available for the $5 tier.

You can grab the download link here.

Cheers,

Dom

Dev Talk - Tits, Towels, Tools

Last weekend I was out of town for the wife's birthday, but overall it was another quiet week. Wrapped up the extremely slow to render bathtub scene and finished and rendered the animations.

Was also dealing with Steam for Personal Trainer. They want a game build to check the sexual content before approving the store page. Said it doesn't need to be a final build, just something for them to be able to check the sexual content. So I spent a few days preparing a build. They rejected it sa...

Poll: Gary to officially become the Main Character

EDIT: The people have spoken, Gary will become the main character. I knew I could count on you guys to make the right decision.

In case it wasn't obvious enough, this was an April Fool's day joke.

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To celebrate the addition of polls and voting power by pledge tiers, I've decided to make the very first poll open to the public.  As you all may have already noticed, Gary is unofficially the main character. He's mature, se...

PC Parts Arrived!

Finally received all my parts and spent the better of today putting everything together and stress testing the system. OZ absolutely helped me find the right items in German so no need to kick him too hard just yet. I was fully expecting something to break but somehow all the parts and drives I brought with me work and no data was lost. I even took this opportunity to buy a nice monitor for color grading.

Going from an office to a tiny kitchen table in an Airbnb being shared ...

Happy New Years

Hope everyone had a great new years celebration.

I'm boarding a plane in two hours and beginning the next step of my new life. Let's hope Oz is kind enough to help me source the new PC parts once I arrive.

Publically shame him if he doesn't.

See ya on the ground,
Dom

Dev Talk - Gypsy Caravan

Just a quick update of where I'm at personally.

As you may know, I'm moving to Europe right after New Years. I'm finishing up packing and will have the movers swing by tomorrow to grab everything. The shipping container can take up to 4 months to arrive, so instead I'm parting out my computer and taking the vital parts such as storage and graphics cards with me on the plane.

I've been frantically backing everything up to external drives just in case the unthi...

Dev Talk - Cool Story Bro

Decided to make this Dev Talk public as Patrons were already more or less aware of some of these hardships.


Overall I'm feeling relieved and good about episode two. It was well received but also did have some fair criticism over the long development cycle. I've briefly touched  on some of the pain points in the past, but will summarize them again. I wanted to wait until the episode release before publicly coming out with the typical dev excuses. Are porn devs the unluckiest an...

Episode 2 Release Date

The private test build should be completed and ready for testers within the next 24 hours. If nothing major is discovered, the $10 Patron beta build will be released this Friday.

Episode 2 is roughly 30% larger than Episode 1 and I'm looking forward to hear everyone's feedback.

Cheers,

Dom

Billing Change: Subscription Billing

Patreon has just offered "Subscription Billing", which charges patrons on the day they pledge and reoccurs every month on that same date. Previously, patrons would be charged on their initial pledge and then again at the start of every month.

I've immediately switched to this new form of billing as the previous way made no sense. Now you will get a monthly charge based on ...

Blender Geometry Nodes

In the recent Dev Talks I was discussing minimizing addons/third party tools and trying to stick to internal Blender stuff for stability. This is a great quick example of what I was talking about and shows the power of Blender's Geometry nodes. Miki3DX developed this tool but since it's entirely done internally within geometry nodes, it offers a degree of stability that 3rd party addons don't and I have full access to adapt it as I please.

Here you see me painting fluids direct...

Monthly Render Backlog

Was sort of dreading catching up on the backlog of monthly 4k renders I've accumulated, but this one has been fun as hell. Will be ready soon.

Transforming old assets to something new

Seemed like a good idea at the time... 30 mins later OH GOD NO!

:Hidethepain:

In a Scent - Episode 1

PC: MEGA 

Mac: MEGA 

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In a Scent Episode 1.0

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Looks like no bugs were f...

POLL - Which header do you prefer?

Character Reveal - Gary

Manscaping is not gay, it's the tool of the modern man. Way to go Gary, be a King.

Character Reveal - MC

MC obviously stands for Master Chief.

Character Reveal - Right Arm

And a partial face. Spooky stuff, amirite?

Character Reveal - Selene

Our third lovely lady has decided to make an appearance. Selene is in upper management. Would you go full Karen and demand to speak with her?

Maia "Ma" Reveal

I'm happy to introduce the lovely middle-aged housewife, Maia.

Never underestimate the benefits of lots and lots of moisturizer.

In a Scent - Game Reveal

I'm excited to finally reveal the next project, In a Scent. Personal Trainer was the first project casting a wide net to learn as much as possible about game development. There were a lot of lessons learned not only about developing the game but my own personal preferences. In a Scent will be taking a much more focused approach. The character cast as well as the overall scope of the project will be smaller, allowing more breathing room to dive into character development with a focus ...

Quick Update

Another quick update. Still here, still solving the character creation process. I last mentioned working on a custom skin shader and painting textures. After easily spending 120+ hours on nothing but this topic, it's now been solved.

Now I'm focusing on resolving a similar level of quality for hair. It...

Dev Talk - Quick Update

Hi everyone, just a quick update on the next project.

Although the idea has been known to me for quite some time now, actually turning it into a proper, well-thought out story is another matter.  This time around, I'll be working on a Visual Novel with a much smaller cast of characters where we can focus on developing them in meaningful ways.

It's been over a week of 12+ hour days outlining the entire story, writing, reviewing, removing and rewriting events.  I feel li...

Version 1.0 Test Build

The test build is now in the hands of the bug testers. If everything goes well, expect the new version out this Friday!

Personal Trainer 0.75 Test Build

Just a quick update for you guys. The test build for the new update has been sent out to the testers. If all goes well the update should be out some time this Friday.

There's still some issues in the code to solve but I have high hopes. Fingers crossed!

Gym Shaders Redone Preview

Dev Talk

Alright guys, I'm excited to finally come clean. This will be a bit lengthy.

So a couple of months ago I was planning to do a Christmas special focusing on a lot of fun animations. You guys may have seen a few of them that I had posted. Well, I absolutely lost my shit in frustration with doing animations in Daz. Most of the time was spent battling the software. You may have seen some of the fun bloopers in Discord where I moved the position of Sophie's foot and half her face disappeared...

Personal Trainer 0.55

PC:

MEGA

MAC:

MEGA

ANDROID:

MEGA

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0.55 Changelog: 2019-12-14 15:54:46 +0000 UTC View Post