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Continuing Character Customization Part 6

Hope you had a nice Labor day break. I got plenty of work done on the customization and am now aiming to have the first Beta test this upcoming weekend for Supporter Tiers. That's right, my predictions for getting the code to a point where I can start putting the characters into cards was pretty close. First some new goodies:

The character shader was tweaked and improved. Old shader from v0.55:

The problem with it ...

Continuing Character Customization Part 5

Got quite a bit of work done for the tweak tab. The model is now properly linked for runtime head swapping. I also made a new animation to test your model in the Tweak tab.

I need to add a color picker for matching the skin color. This will probably be addressed for next devpost.

So far everything is going very well. The tweak tab for the eye section is fully operational and is very hand ...

Continuing Character Customization Part 4

I got more work done on the character customization station.

To start, I finished polishing and making sure that the Create tab is easy to understand.

Yes Miku is derpy because I'm currently working on the backend for eye logic. However, do notice how I am now using the cursor instead of my head to navigate the menu. This was a nice addition. Also, your player hands will move down when yo...

Shinobu Model v4

This includes the Blender 2.8 file for my Shinobu model. It includes the DEV and EXPORT versions of the model. The export version is used for the game while the DEV is used to build the body. Some parts of the model like the hands are only rigged in the EXPORT version.

The script for exporting to the Unity game is in this blend file as well. It is not yet packaged as an addon but you can simply...

Continuing Character Customization Part 3

The in-game editor for character customization is almost done! I have decided to use the mirror as the station for customizing characters.

The above was a temporary preview method for my debugging but the full editor will use the actual mirror behind as a screen to preview full models. The editor will be just like the clothing customization wardrobe but with better features. There is a Browse, ...

Continuing Character Customization Part 2

The backend for custom characters is almost done! I just reached a milestone with the pipeline, complete model import at runtime! I used an MMD Miku model as a test. I will now demonstrate the current process to import a custom character into the game. It's subject to change as the pipeline matures over time. Some modeling experience may be required to understand the following but I'll do my best to explain it in layman's terms:

First I went on the internet and downloaded a raw MMD .pmx...

Beginning Character Customization Part 1

Before I begin, please note that I updated the game to v0.55.3 which fixes yet another sleeping bug that went under my nose, among other bugs. She shouldn't get stuck anymore. Also I included a new VR controller option to switch between "pressing" and "touching" when turning (Useful for joystick users [Vive Index/Oculus Rift]).

This post will address some of the capabilities and limitations of ...

Vacation Time

I will be out of town from Thursday to Sunday as part of my yearly vacation (half of it). Yesterday I uploaded v0.55.2 hotfix for the game which provided lots of stability for the new sleeping mechanics. It is very stable and thus it will probably be the last update for v0.55 itself.

I have a lot of exciting new features coming very soon. I have started the pipeline for creating/importing custom 3D character models. It is nowhere near complete but presently it is a working Blender addon...

Viva Project v0.55 Release

I will be on high alert for serious bugfixes. Please contact me at panainodev@gmail.com or on the discord for speedy responses!

Download both rar parts and unpack it into any directory. Use Winrar/7zip or any rar opener.

8/6/19

+Fixed fence outside porch and cactus don't have...

Finalizing Sleeping Mechanics

As stated before, Shinobu will wake up with enough poking. I just didn't poke her enough times in the YouTube video. There is a new sleeping mechanic that affects her mood.

If Shinobu has a good night's sleep, she will wake up happy. If you bothered her at night, she will wake up angry. For the wake up animations, they needed to properly blend with the sleeping animations. When she is sleeping, she has 3 states;   SLEEP_PILLOW_UP,  SLEEP_SIDE_PILLOW_LEFT , and  SLEEP...

Sleeping Mechanics!

This trailer only displays half of the mechanics for sleeping. She will properly awaken when poked enough times. Then she will resume her daily activities. I just kept it a surprise for release day.

Also there are some new props as seen in the video!

Beta v0.55b Pre-Release

This beta addresses the issues with SteamVR. It has finally been fixed and should work properly. You can now map your buttons using SteamVR Input interface and not have any weird glitches within the game.

There is a new feature that needs testing, ambience! You can cycle between Morning, Day, and Night using the Pause Menu button. Or you can wait as it changes by itself in 10 minute cycles.

Continuing Sleeping Part 6

I'm getting very close to finishing the sleeping behavior module. First I'll talk about other general fixes and improvements I have attended to.

First off, we are no longer going to be using .shino files for your game session. They will now be replaced with .viva files and they now properly store everything about your current game session, meaning the Save & Quit will actually save and reload next time you open up the game. Currently it will save:

Y...

Continuing Sleeping Part 5

I got some more work done on the sleeping component. So now that the loli can jump onto the bed, she can also now crawl to a random position and orient herself to lay down. Demonstrated below.

Her hair is being fixed right now so it doesn't spazz out as she gets onto the bed. One neat thing however is that I've made it so her dynamic hair bones will lose stiffness and collide with a plane on th...

Continuing Sleeping Part 4

The past few days I've received tons of new sound assets to include into the game. They include new sound effects for when gestures are activated, to ambience, to new music pieces! You can check out a sample of the WIP night theme attached below.

As you can see, the bedroom has been reworked to look better with new props, textures, and improved lighting. The mirror is back and uses my corrected parallax shader. It is not a true reflection but good enough to fool you. That's why I angled...

Beta v0.55a release

Here you can test out the following work-in-progress features:

There is a TEMPORARY button in the pause menu to enable/disable her WIP tired behavior!

There are also 3 new clothing cards in the wardrobe.

10 minute day/night cycles are in effect!

Shinobu can now use the camera, give he...

Continuing Sleeping Part 3

Got a lot of work done since it was the weekend. This one is a big one.

To start out slow, I've been knocking out bugs that have been brought to light and confirmed. You can see what I fix as I go in #confirmed-bugs. You can report them in #bugreports.

A few old big have been fixed including glitchy item pickup animations and the towel teleporting you through a wall. Some things have been...

Rebranding

A long time ago I set out to make my own silly autistic weeb fantasy with my waifu Shinobu. This fantasy was never intended for making money. Purely a passion project. However, I realized that if I wanted to make my dream VR simulation, I needed money for voice acting and music. And thus I opened this Patreon on July 2018. Everything went well and in 5 months I gathered enough for it.

Then I became ambitious, I wanted to expand my project. I wanted more behaviors, more models, more musi...

Continuing Sleeping Part 2

ALOT of stuff has happened in the past few days. I am still amazed at how much spotlight this project has received. Twitter is now at 1000 followers and the Discord is now at 1,100 members! We also now have many new people who are contributing to this project.

We now have:

Jelly - Developer - 3D Modelling 

Troid - Developer - 3D Modelling

 KempeiDidnothingwrong2 - Developer in Training - 3D Modelling

2019-07-05 08:29:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Your Platform Choice

New VR devices are rapidly coming out right now. I need to gauge once again what devices you are interested in using. It seems a lot of the new Patrons want to use the Quest and WMR. Please select your preferred device for playing the game. If you are going to FOR SURE be buying or upgrading to one you dont have yet, you can mark that one instead:

Depending on the results, I may end up buying a Quest. Valve Index support is coming later as well since it's going to be my next personal up...

Beginning Sleeping Part 1

First of all, I'm very impressed that this project went up in popularity. Analytics says it all started from a simple tweet. It spread like wildfire with 12k+ likes on Facebook, Discords, and even Funnyjunk. I am very grateful. Thank you for finding this place. I can't believe I gained almost 500 twitter followers in such a short amount of time!

And now for today's devpost. I spent 2 days pushing out another big bugfix v0.5.0.3 which is now live on here and itch for download. It address...

Beginning Day and Night Cycle

v0.5 was really fun. There are some users starting to get comfortable using the clothing customizer. I hope more do moving forward.

Keeping the train rolling we roll into the sleeping behavior which was supposed to be part of v0.5 but did not make it in time. This will allow Shinobu to sleep on the bed. You'll be able to bully her or pat her head when snoozing. There are lots of japanese voice actress lines that will be used for this behavior. Since she will be sleeping there needs to b...

Shinobu Project v0.5 release [Download at the bottom]

AT LAST. Took 1 more month than usual due to some issues with Unity but it is here. All the hard work has been boiled down the usual downloadable .rar parts below.

 I am currently on high alert for hotfixes in case there are issues with trouble shooting. Send me a message on discord, or comment be...

Polishing Before Release Part 2

It's the last devpost before I release the long awaited v0.5. I've added the last few things to the game before I work on nothing but bugfixing and improvements. Before we begin, we have a new modeler. His name is Troid and can be found in the Discord. Troid has recently helped me complete one the last outfits for this release. We have 3 new to showcase today.

First we have the jacket:

It...

Polishing Before Release Part 1

There are only a few things left to add before the full release next Saturday! I am now carefully tweaking and polishing existing features. There are a few new things in the works.

To start off, Shinobu's skin and clothing shaders have been improved to catch light better. Originally I liked the idea of Shinobu looking toon and her clothes looking realistic but over time I saw that she looked better if her clothing was also toon.

2019-06-14 08:31:13 +0000 UTC View Post

Customizable Clothing!

Don't forget to share and download other people's cards in the #clothing-cards channel!

Technical devpost is below this one!

Finished Clothing Customization

Clothing Customization has been completed. There is a video demonstration above this devpost. The system came out well and it is in dire need of testing. That said it is pretty stable as a Beta v0.5d for Supporter Tiers. I have opened up #clothing-cards in the Discord where you can share and download other people's cards. I expect it to grow once I release the free v0.5 version on June 22nd.

Some improvements are now per-clothing type snapshots. As in, shoe cards will show the feet, ski...

Beta v0.5d Release

There will be an in-depth devpost tonight to explain the completed clothing system but you can try it out right now and head over to the Discord and share your cards in the #clothing-cards channel! https://discord.gg/z2qx7B

This beta also fixes some bugs that I received for the bathing including fixing the d...

Continuing Clothing Customization Part 2

I covered a lot of ground on the interface for loading custom textures. The entire pipeline is nearly complete. The following is a demonstration of how easy it will be to customize clothing:

First you go to the "Create" panel which has simple instructions on what to do:

Since there are for the moment only 3 clothing pieces, 3 customizable base models are displayed. Me and Jelly will be ma...

Beta v0.5c release

 Recommended play mode: VR

This includes everything in the trailer as well as some new bathing idle animations! I've tried to make bathing very very simple so you don't need an tutorial but if you need any help knowing what to do, reach out to me.

This was compiled to output debug so if you find some rare crash, post a screenshot of the yellow text so I can know what...