Happy new year (Patreon)

Hello everyone,

I wish you all a happy new year !

Thank you again for your continued and growing support.

As last year, it's the occasion to make a little recap and talk about what's coming.

A look back in 2023

• 41 models released which is on par with 2022, accounting I took a month off.
• Improved rig, body and materials : IK/FK fixes, new normal maps, wet droplets, feet morphs etc.
• Major UI updates : integrated fix for older models, automatic eevee/cycles switch handling, improved interface, more features and many fixes
• Smooth switch to blender versions which broke stuff (3.4 & 4.0)...smooth for you at least :)
• Model list was added on gdrive

What's coming in 2024

More models obviously, I've got some exciting stuff coming but I'll probably trade some quantity for quality. Two reasons for that :

1) Outfits take more time because I'm now importing and rigging them myself entirely. I used to rely on ports from daz but quality was too unpredictable : rigging errors, missing textures, unwanted deformations because of cumulative processing. Now I almost always import outfits and hair from the games directly in blender and hopefully you've seen some improvements over the year in that aspect.

2) I'll likely do more models from scratch directly in blender, or at least port some additional face/body textures myself, relying less on ports from daz. I've recently learned how to bake textures so I can get some extra textures from the original models and get more likeness. I can also do an entire model port in blender, which allows to go for models that nobody ported yet.

Body wise, I said last year that we might switch to genesis 9 (currently G8.1). After giving it a try in 2023, I wasn't convinced and unless something new comes up, I'll wait for G10 to make the next jump. G9 opting for a unisex body was a mistake in my opinion. The main appeal were the textures but I found a way to bring them to us instead.

Outfit library updates will be back. A tier 4 reward has been introduced where you can suggest and vote for new outfits, starting this month.

I'd like to start the community pose library also, where you can share your poses/animations.

Finally, no promises but I'd like to simplify the outfit library process if possible, making it more integrated into the UI and with less steps...we'll see if my python understanding has grown enough for that to happen. I didn't know python at all 3 years ago so I'm really happy with the current UI state but I'm far from being an expert.