Defining character mechanics (Patreon)

Hey guys! This week I managed to give the first coat of paint to all the characters. Instead of painting one character at a time, I separated the steps and painted them all at once, this helped speed up the process, so much so that I forgot to take screenshots.

With all the characters textured within the game engine, it is easier to identify defects and make corrections. But before moving on to the next step, which would be painting the clothes, I had to define some questions regarding the mechanics of the characters.

I chose to start with Angel just because she's first in line alphabetically, but I did tests on the other girls to see how the mechanics behave in different proportions. The idea was to test the combinations of mechanics for look direction, jiggling tits and hair, and the rigging system. This all worked in previous versions of the game, but I wanted to achieve the best possible result with the best performance.

The look direction mechanism existed from day one, but it was common for me to turn it off in some scenes to save performance and that's why I received complaints about the character looking the wrong way. I replaced it with more optimized code that I can leave on all the time.

Nobody ever complained about the jiggling tits, but I mainly had problems with collisions and performance. I got much better results. With this, I hope to use more interactions with the breasts, which I used to avoid for fear of glitches.

"Rigging" is essential for 3D animation, it's like controlling a puppet by pulling strings. For a game, the animations are done in advance, but there is a need for a rigging system when the character needs to interact with the environment, such as reaching for an object with the hand.

This is usually quite laborious to put into practice and it is common to see even current AAA games where the character just stops in front of the object that disappears and appears in the inventory. Imagine how complicated it is to make two animated characters simply hug and kiss in a real-time game.

When I started making this game there was no native rigging system in the Unity engine. I had to create my own system from scratch and you saw it working. In fact, my system worked better than some paid tools I had the opportunity to test. But during this time Unity implemented a native rigging system and it's time to abandon my code in favor of better performance.

But there are two systems where my code remains unbeatable, one is penetration, which simulates the movement of the penis entering and the vagina opening, there is nothing like it on the market. The other is the first system I created from scratch, which controls facial expressions and lip movement during speech.

Now I need to pass all the settings made on Angel to the other characters and I'll have to program an automatic way to do this since there are too many characters. The important thing is that I've defined which mechanics should be on the main skeleton and which ones will be on the skin. That is essential for the next step which will be adding clothes, but I'll explain this better when it's ready.

Many thanks to you. I wish you a great week and the best regards.