The new animations are...! (Patreon)
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Since I've spend a lot of time this week rendering some new animations for The Shadow over Blackmore, it is time to talk about them in detail.
First of all...making animations in daz3d, my new render engine, is a lot more difficult than making them in Poser Pro, my old render engine. That is not only because they take longer to render, but because the engine has trouble pinning bones in place. For animations that is crucial. And because of the longer render time, if you make a mistake and have to re-render it, that takes a lot of time.
I guess that is why you see so many 3D Visual Novels having no animations at all. Which is a shame, because on the upside...the animations look stunning once you get it to work. It looks just awesome because of the detailed characters!
Because the new animations will be videos instead of repeating pictures I not only can use more pictures for the animations so that they look even smoother than in Femdom City for example, but it also should get rid of the memory leak that causes frequent crashes if you play the game for too long! It should be an awesome experience to play.
I have currently rendered 4 scenes...and I have noticed that I have done them in pretty much the same way as I do the scenes in Femdom City...only with more dialog.
And this is where I currently scratch my head a bit. As a dev you always want to get better and do better things than before, but on the other hand I think my animations are a huge part of my success. So if we just do better looking and smoother animations with some more dialog options but the rest is pretty much like the femdom city animations...is that enough?
I want your input here. Think about it for a while. If you would be the CEO and in charge of the new game The Shadow over Blackmore, what would you tell me? Is there something we can do to improve the animations even further? Am I missing something obvious? What would you tell me if you HAVE TO tell me something?
(Keep in mind that even though the pictures have a 3d look, they are still pictures. If you say something like "I want different clothing styles in animations" that is not possible unless I render every picture scene multiple times in different outfits)
Let me know!
As always, have a nice sunday and
stay kinky! :)