Controlnet is a new AI extension tool that I am really excited about, because not only does it copy the image better, it also copies the pose being used in the figure.
The result is that the img2img using controlnet preprocessing (I use the HED model here), basically turns 3D renders into near perfect photographs, bridging that gap between 3D art and AI art.
It has the same problems as im...
2023-03-02 21:59:01 +0000 UTC
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I am making a couple of new story paths for the revamped Something's In The Air Redux and this month I am releasing one of those new paths.
This new versions of the SITAR beta available at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/patreon-access or you can use the attach...
2023-02-25 01:19:37 +0000 UTC
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Pics 102 featured experiments creating an AI version of Ariane using text prompts only. They generally looked good though often off model.
Today we are going to experiment with another AI technique that is supposed to be better called img2img, because instead of a text prompt, we start with an image.
Last week 2023-02-23 21:59:01 +0000 UTC
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New material takes longer to make than recycled material. It took 2 and a half years to make Something's In The Air originally, but the remake has taken 9 months so far because for the most part I am recycling old content.
I decided to add two new stories at the end and will release versions 0.8 and 0.9 when they are done, but because they are new there is nothing to recycle except may...
2023-02-16 21:59:01 +0000 UTC
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I've been writing new material and doing gaming research, and haven't been generating any new 3D images. But if you have been following my blog, you know that I have been dabbling in AI a little bit.
Automatic 1111, the tool I mostly use, has two modes txt2img and img2img. This week I am focusing on the first, txt2image where you type in a prompt (the more detailed the better) and i...
2023-02-09 22:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to February. Been busy in real life with other things, and I still haven't really started on the final two stories in SITAR. Both require a bit of research before I can even start writing, though I have the general plots in my head.
In the mean time here is the final set of...
2023-02-02 14:29:26 +0000 UTC
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I completed the rewriting and remastering of the complete Rachel Meets Ariane, and added audio and music to it, so it is now officially part of SITAR.
While working on the audio for RMA, I also went through all the SITAR and changed and updated all the audio.
This new versions of the SITAR beta available at 2023-01-28 20:20:19 +0000 UTC
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This is one of two new pictures I made for the Rachel Meets Ariane update for the New York scene. Introducing the New York trip used to be two pictures: a picture of a 3D private plane flying over New York, and one with Ellison and Rachel walking the red carpet, with about two paragraphs of explanatory dialog.
I decided the explanatory dialog needs illustrated so I added two new ...
2023-01-26 21:59:01 +0000 UTC
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After the stuff happens at the Top Club, Ariane and Rachel spend a week doing stuff as friends. This is sort of a montage of "friendly" activities: Going out to breakfast, going to the mall, going ice skating, watching videos.
Plot wise nothing happens, but every picture is a different setting and requires a fair amount of work as a result.
For example, the above picture's background was...
2023-01-19 22:00:02 +0000 UTC
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This month as pictures go, I'm finishing up the remake of Rachel Meets Ariane, and this week is the Top Club.
The secret sex club was an idea I had since I started making Something's In The Air in 2012, but it never got put into the game except for some hints of Heidi having a lot more money than she should -- and this was the reason from the beginning, but I held my cards close unti...
2023-01-12 22:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Welcome to 2023, and thanks for sticking around, here is part 2 of last week's "lost stories". As an update on SITAR, I'm almost done with the Rachel Meets Ariane graphics update, and once done with that, I want to add sound and music, which the game never had, and feels sorely lacking.
In the meantime enjoy this little bit of silly fun:
Rachel: Why did you ...
2023-01-05 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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In January 2020 while trying to decide what game to work on I decided to move Ariane and Rachel into the same house. When I originally wrote these stories I was experimenting with new models based on Poser's La Femme, and they turned out kind of ugly. I decided I want to resurrect these lost stories with their current models so they look better, so here are the first two lost "Moving In" stories with much better pictures.
2022-12-29 20:00:02 +0000 UTC
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Nearing the end of a productive year, it seems appropriate to have a holiday party featuring major cast members from both Date Ariane Remastered, the game I worked on for the first 5 months of the year, and Something's In The Air Redux, the game I worked on for the other 7 months.
The above is also the Picture of the Week on my website, but the following are Patreon exclusives...
2022-12-22 20:00:02 +0000 UTC
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After completing all the graphic updates last month, this month was about creating new material, adding Rachel Meets Ariane, and adding a bunch of new features to the Achievements page, now renamed back to the "Gallery" which was the original name in 2013.
Also, the popular walkthrough paths have been added to help you avoid getting stuck. Full notes can be found at 2022-12-18 15:17:02 +0000 UTC
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As we enter into the last official week of Autumn, I thought I'd share the new Autumn Photoshoot from Rachel Meets Ariane that I have been working on this week.
You may recognize these pictures, if not the old ones are available here, as I did not change the poses or camera perspectives much. &nb...
2022-12-15 22:00:02 +0000 UTC
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I'm kind of at a point in the project where finding weekly pics to share is hard. I'm working on three areas of the game: 1. An ending I don't want to spoil, 2. A bunch of coding and debugging that doesn't result in images. 3. An update of Rachel Meets Ariane.
Only the third actually produces sharable images, but my focus this past week, and probably for the rest of the month is ...
2022-12-08 20:59:01 +0000 UTC
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The last two Picture collections were part of the 0.5 release of SITAR that came out in mid November. In the last two weeks I have been producing a large number of pictures for the new ending I am working on. The problem is I don't want to release these just yet until people have a chance to play the new ending.
In the mean time, I've been very entertained with the show "Wednesday"...
2022-12-01 22:00:07 +0000 UTC
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By the time this scheduled post goes live, version 0.5 of Something's In The Air Redux will be out and available to Dater level patrons and higher.
The main thing about this beta release is that all the old pictures that are set to be part of the Redux game have been fully updated. The last batch of pictures were the various scenes set in the fictional MMORPG Elemental Realms...
2022-11-24 21:59:03 +0000 UTC
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Finished updating all the old content, so time for the monthly Patreon release. After spending basically the last 3 months updating old pictures, it is nice to finally be done with that somewhat tedious part of the project.
This means except for the bonus content of integrating Rachel Meets Ariane into the game, the next releases will be mostly new content including new endings a...
2022-11-18 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Last path to update is the Paula path "Something's In The Air" where the game itself gets its name. The biggest issue with updating the path is how many sets and settings there are. It opens in a video game (more info in next week's picture collection), then involves a downtown scavenger hunt.
On...
2022-11-17 22:00:03 +0000 UTC
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As promised this past week was all about updating the Bonnie path. This one took less time than the Wendy path and I actually had some fun updating it.
Spoilers for the old game, but I won't spoil changes. This path has a strange history. The original Bonnie was poorly designed and not very attractive, and not well liked by play testers, so I redesigned her. The story was based on me play...
2022-11-10 20:59:01 +0000 UTC
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When I was making Something's In The Air originally 10 years ago, I knew the professions of the extra characters, but needed to come up with names. So I picked names that started with the first letter of their profession: Wendy the Weightlifter, Bonnie the Bartender, Stacy the Strip Club Owner, Paula the Professor, Veronica the Villain, Lydia the Lead singer, and Heidi the Hairdresser.
2022-11-03 20:00:06 +0000 UTC
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Note: This is a story I wrote for my website in 2015 speculating what would happen if Ariane and Rachel were to meet. I eventually added 4 more chapters and eventually turned it into a stand alone game. My current plan is to update it and merge it with Something's In The Air Redux as a bonus epilogue that will change based on what the last path you did.
Meanwhile, I wanted to do something special for Halloween, and while I was updating Rachel hous...
2022-10-27 16:59:01 +0000 UTC
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Just finished uploading new versions of the SITAR beta available at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/patreon-access
There have been a fair amount of updating done finishing up the missing Ariane paths, and all but the video game scene in the Rachel paths.
2022-10-22 17:38:39 +0000 UTC
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I have claimed a few times that I created the first ever 3D rendered visual novel in Renpy, but except for some old forum posts I have never been able to prove it.
So in this public Patreon post, I give you the proof: The March 2012 demo I made just over 10 years ago. Details about the history can be found in a post 2022-10-20 22:33:37 +0000 UTC
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Response to last week's sexy photoshoot pictures seemed pretty positive so I am dropping nine more. I'm working on finishing Rachel's house pictures. There are 4 scenes that take place there. The photoshoot, the "LARP" sexy ending, and the "Gamer Girl", and one more I will share next week (can you guess?).
Photoshoot is done, and I am working on LARP and Gamer Girl this week, ...
2022-10-20 20:00:03 +0000 UTC
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This week I worked on the Rachel Amusement Park scenes, and they took a lot less effort than the House Party scenes, especially since about a third of them were just reusing the Ariane amusement park pics from Date Ariane Remstered and replacing them with Rachel.
Finishing those I started working on the Rachel House pictures, which is over 100 pictures, but I hope to finish next week a...
2022-10-13 21:00:00 +0000 UTC
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I decided to switch my strategy to doing the hardest scenes first to get them out of the way, and decided among the scenes left to do, the House Party scenes would be the hardest.
I was right, these scenes are the hardest. I got renders up to the "wet t-shirt" part on both scenes, which means I'm kind of done with Ariane, and about half way done with Rachel.
Crowd scenes are done in layer...
2022-10-06 21:00:05 +0000 UTC
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SITAR 0.3 update is out for Dater level Patrons. Thought I'd finish with some left over filler scenes I did for the update.
Last week I showed a picture from "Action Girl" set on the parking roof. The second half of that path is set in the players car where a wet Ariane dries herself off until the lights come back on. These pics are just the old pics re-rendered with the new texture...
2022-09-29 19:00:03 +0000 UTC
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September has been a busy month filled with distractions, but I manged to get a decent amount of re-rendering done with 6 new paths more or less completed.
Details can be found at https://arianeb.itch.io/somethings-in-the-air-redux/devlog/43...
2022-09-25 17:31:19 +0000 UTC
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