VoodooMonkey
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Dev Blog #24 (Busy Week)
🕑 Added 2020-04-14 04:25:44 +0000 UTCThis has been a really busy ass week. Alright, where to start.
I've been pushing as much as possible to finish the H-Scenes, I got another one done and it's going to be glorious. I've sent progress updates to supporters as I've been working on them and I think they'll agree ^_^
Can't post a preview here cause it's too spicy. Let's just say that Piezo makes "Lyla get a little handsy with him". The next one I'm going to start is a scene where Piezo makes "Lyla do it with no hands".
Alongside trying to get this content completed while still maintaining quality, I've been also developing other processes that I'm so stolked about. This might be more boring to most but on the technical side it's going allow me to hopefully produce work faster. After finishing up the H scene on Friday, I had the itch go back and try to develop a proper toon shader. I've been off and on trying to tackle this beast and I finally did it! I've come up with a shader, it looks banana's, but it renders 3d in the same style that I draw in. @.@
What sorcery is this you ask? Well let me show you an example good sir....er person.
Feast your eyes on this. If you're confused...good. Why do they look the same? That was the point ^_^ The left image is my original hand drawn scene for the pawnshop. The image on the right is what I 3d modeled and rendered using my new toon shader :)
I'm not making it up I swear...
The shader is kind of a beast but I got a lot of help from Lightning Boy Studios on this.
Here's the node group, well the condensed pretty version.
If you open up the condensed group, this is the actual logic structure for it:
Man that was lot. I'm beat and about to go to bed now. I hope everyone is staying safe and getting by alright. And welcome to the new supporters and thank you to present supporters :) We're doing our best with the craziness going on.
Oh one more thing, I know a lot of people have been asking for an Android port of the last game update. I sent one out for testing today and if it comes back as working out well, I'll push it as an official release. I need to find a good Android porter and I've been having trouble. I currently don't know how to port to Android from Renpy successfully.
Comments
Voodoo Monkey
So where this will really help me is reducing the amount of post work I need to do on the environments. In my workflow, I generally will knockup the basic layout in 3d to take care of all of the perspective for me so I don't need to spend the time setup my perspective grid and ensure everything is correct. Then after modeling, I'll save the image and paint over it to illustrate the background. Where the shader will really help is, if I push the details of the scene further during my modeling phase, I can just render it and would have to do basically no post work. Essentially removing my need to draw the scene completely.
Voodoo Monkey
Yeah that's what I'm hoping, I know spending time on this was a little bit of a setback in terms of completing the update but I think developing this tool is going to be more beneficial to me for future development and stress. Cause if I can have more time devote to actually drawing the good stuff, then I'll put more time into making them better and juicier :) These H Scenes I'm working on now will be an example of that.
bsnick
I guess I don't know enough about the technical side to understand how this was necessary, but I'm happy it makes you happy! I thought one technique artists of games used was to layer images so they didn't have to redraw the backgrounds. Is this unrelated?
Toadsith
Congrats on the new shader!! All of the redrawing of scenes you'd already built in 3D was aesthetically pleasing but did seem to be a massive workflow bottleneck. Hopefully this lets you focus more on the H-scenes and stress less about the location visuals ☺️
