More progress (Patreon)

Well working on the new physics system took a bit longer than expected. I had to rewrite it a couple of times after hitting roadblocks and coming up with better ways to structure the whole thing. But I think I finally got it down this time!

In the old system used in previous works, the "physics bones" (roughly equivalent to body parts) had a hierarchical structure, and each was running it's own, single script to update its position and rotation. In this new system, bones have no hierarchy and affect each other as equals, improving realism. Also, each bone now can have multiple "transforms", which are added together each physics frame to figure out the bone's final position, orientation and scale. Where before if I wanted to add some new movement to a bone I had to rewrite a whole bunch of stuff in that single script so that nothing breaks, now I can just program up any arbitary rule in it's own script on how a bone should behave, slap it on top, and it just works™. So while this system has been a bunch of up-front work, it'll be more physically realistic, save me a lot of work in the long run and enable me to create more complex scenes without having to write as much new stuff every time.

Here's a video clip you can check out. Note that it's still very much a work in progress when it comes to the exact physics behavior. But the groundwork is all there!

https://streamable.com/7izap0

You can see some features of the new physics system in the clip, with the bones pushing against each other (notice how her head barely moves), and the thighs, butt and belly jiggling independent of anything else they're doing.

Despite the setbacks and no release this month, I'm fairly certain I can get both the demo and the final version out in september. There's still quite a bit of work to be done, but I'll be able to lift a bunch of systems from the Rouge game (Namely the cum system and thrusting controller), drop them into the new game and save a whole bunch of time that way.

That's it for now. I ought to have something for you to download and try out in a couple weeks time! -Joni