Things I Been Doin // 3Dec2023 (Patreon)

Hope you guys had a great Halloween. Mine was okay— A week or two ago, with the help of a dear friend I've just acquired Softwrap— and after a real successful first test, I'm hoping I'll be able to show you the results soon, and get to all the projects that I've been  meaning to now that I got it. But above all, the GTA V project that's been sitting around unfinished since January 2021 where I lost the steam for it, along with that whole game.

For now, here's just something silly I put together yesterday evening during festivities.

No funny poses, because i never got around to finishing the re-rigging, just wanted to share the pictures with everybody before the holiday was over.

Aaaand... i wrote that section of this post on Halloween or November 1st. See, I've actually been having a great time in the Discord server posting all my casual progress thoughts and more there instead of these posts. So this Patreon blog has been a bit radio silent the past month. It also hasn't help that i had a kind of bummer of a birthday. But I'm going to make a nice summary of what I've done in that time here for posterity sake.

Now, who wants to see something just awful?

With the contribution of a dear, dear friend of mine, I finally acquired the addon I'd wanted for a long time now for various projects, and with it, I'd made this abomination... But he serves a higher purpose. I still need to muster up the drive to get fully back into GTA V and its extra nonsense involved, but that will be happening hopefully very soon.

Yeah, a lot of the work i've been doing all this time has been done to a pop-out window of Modern Family. But You'll see more of softwrap later...

Many of you have definitely seen this already! Made pajamas based off of the 2015 GTA Online pajamas, but its default texture i've made myself, scanning fleece, making a seamless texture, and making this out of it. It's even available right now on GTAInside, released on my brithday, although with its deeply imperfect chest seam, as I further wrestle with the seamless drawables attempt. Another reason why that tank top hasn't been released either. The arms are great, but has an excessive orange sheen to it the way Niko's head would if you used an opaque texture for it.

It was when I was taking screenshots for this top that I realized i need to release a fix for the McReary Christmas Lights, as now that GTA IV's Shader Fixes are commonplace for IV modders right now, the fix that involves swaying tree leaves being fixed... the railing garland now dances. It's very silly.

Another GTAInside release, I put the beta fingerless gloves on Niko's actual final hands, as opposed to the gloved hands being visibly... off, compared to the standard hands. Also ended up doing a little texture seams fix on the standard hands as well.

And then i didn't do very much after my birthday... That is, until the past few days.

I've begun working on HD Internet girlfriends, starting with the absolute roughest looking of the three, Alex Chilton.

Alex now has the topology of, and is much closer to the detail level, of any cutscene character. And she looks... WAY better. In my opinion, at least. In solid view she actually looks a lot like Anna Faustin...

The texture for her is a pretty simple Gracie edit right now, but I still feel as though she's a massive improvement and when finished will look far less jarring stood next to Niko or a story girlfriend like Michelle/Karen or Kate. I'll work on the more higher definition adaptation of her clothes, maybe give her new clothes, and will definitely post her .blend file and early access on here before anywhere else, even including a cutscene version of her, should you want to pose her for renders.

Maybe one day a wacky implementation of her and the other internet girlfriends into the deal ending of GTA IV, where they take Kate's place (who was in this cutscene but placed far below the ground)??? Who knows!