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Development Update for June
With us halfway through June, there is very good progress to report at the five month mark since I began the Unreal Engine transition. I'm working on custom animations now, along with addressing other issues that I find. Animations and then sequencing those in Unreal Engine will be the final two big pieces. I've brought in another tool to help out with this process to hopefully yield more natural animations. That's going to be a process with training my eye (and learning the tool), but I'm looking forward to it. Along with that animation work is the control rig for the characters. I'm working on that each evening a bit, and I'm adding things to it like expression selections and fine control of facial muscles. It is going to be a process, but this control rig will help me with setting things up in Unreal Engine sequences, and will make small adjustments much easier. At this stage of development, I'm as ready as you are to get the next release out. It is now a time of pushing things that are not essential off into the future. The wonderful news is that all this preparation before all these wonderful new animations can be created and put together for Chapter 11's release is nearing an end. It's been an adventure, but there is a lot of the character and environment work completed.
A bit of good news is that I was able to get all several hundred of my custom Daz poses converted over to animation sequences in Unreal Engine. They are, of course, just a single frame animation, but this means setting up custom animations, or just transitions from something like sitting to standing, is going to be easier for me since I can use these as a base to start those. Very excited!
I'll end this five month anniversary post by quickly highlighting what's been accomplished thus far:
[ 2023-06-19 16:08:20 CET ] [ Original post ]
Learning new Tools
With us halfway through June, there is very good progress to report at the five month mark since I began the Unreal Engine transition. I'm working on custom animations now, along with addressing other issues that I find. Animations and then sequencing those in Unreal Engine will be the final two big pieces. I've brought in another tool to help out with this process to hopefully yield more natural animations. That's going to be a process with training my eye (and learning the tool), but I'm looking forward to it. Along with that animation work is the control rig for the characters. I'm working on that each evening a bit, and I'm adding things to it like expression selections and fine control of facial muscles. It is going to be a process, but this control rig will help me with setting things up in Unreal Engine sequences, and will make small adjustments much easier. At this stage of development, I'm as ready as you are to get the next release out. It is now a time of pushing things that are not essential off into the future. The wonderful news is that all this preparation before all these wonderful new animations can be created and put together for Chapter 11's release is nearing an end. It's been an adventure, but there is a lot of the character and environment work completed.
Excited for the easier Workflow
A bit of good news is that I was able to get all several hundred of my custom Daz poses converted over to animation sequences in Unreal Engine. They are, of course, just a single frame animation, but this means setting up custom animations, or just transitions from something like sitting to standing, is going to be easier for me since I can use these as a base to start those. Very excited!
I'll end this five month anniversary post by quickly highlighting what's been accomplished thus far:
- Daz characters converted in Unreal Engine with all their morphs, expressions, poses, and clothing.
- Hair converted to the Unreal Engine groom system for high quality and realistic movement.
- Character eyebrows & skin textures converted for improved realism.
- Real time character physics implemented for the breasts, butt, and thighs (jiggle physics).
- Most environments converted into Unreal Engine and using Nanite meshes for higher quality when viewed close up.
- Basic lighting presets selected and configured for scenes.
- Custom animation testing started.
- Clothing conversion process refined, and real time clothing physics added to existing Daz converted clothing.
- Initial scene setup testing completed.
- Model optimization to improve performance in future use cases.
- Character model conversion time decreased from about half a day to under 30 minutes.
- New background characters created with LOD support for improved performance in heavy crowd scenes.
- Cronut's model converted to a custom posable skeleton.
- Facial motion capture support for converted characters.
[ 2023-06-19 16:08:20 CET ] [ Original post ]
To Be A King - Volume 1
IT Roy
Developer
IT Roy
Publisher
2022-09-30
Release
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🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse
Very Positive
(209 reviews)
As a newly appointed royal minister, brought in after the previous minister was deposed, you take your position during a time of uncertainty. You've been loyal to the king ever since you two rose up the military ranks together. Serving in the eastern part of the kingdom, your victories earned new territory and riches for your king, your soldiers, and yourself.
Three recent assassination attempts have left the entire kingdom on edge. Are you entering a greater position of power during a time where your role can be solidified? Or will you be swiftly removed as the kingdom continues to unravel? Throughout your time, you'll learn more behind who really controls power in the kingdom, uncover plots against it, and have many opportunities for romance. As the kingdom experiences turmoil, alliances that seemed stable are quickly shattered, and everyone seems to be out for themselves. Do you have what it takes to make the right decisions and emerge as king? Throughout the game you have choices in who to ally with, which women you want to pursue, and what extra side stories you want to pursue. This is a harem game where you can have all the women, one, or none.
As an interactive adult visual novel, you can choose your own adventure. You'll get to make choices that influence how other characters respond to you and what happens in the story. Set in an alternate history where the Roman Empire continued, though under a different name, you will face significant challenges, but can emerge victorious. Will you take the cautious approach or assert your control through your army? Which ladies vying for your affection to secure their own riches, safety, and influence will you choose to bring along with you in your adventures?
Three recent assassination attempts have left the entire kingdom on edge. Are you entering a greater position of power during a time where your role can be solidified? Or will you be swiftly removed as the kingdom continues to unravel? Throughout your time, you'll learn more behind who really controls power in the kingdom, uncover plots against it, and have many opportunities for romance. As the kingdom experiences turmoil, alliances that seemed stable are quickly shattered, and everyone seems to be out for themselves. Do you have what it takes to make the right decisions and emerge as king? Throughout the game you have choices in who to ally with, which women you want to pursue, and what extra side stories you want to pursue. This is a harem game where you can have all the women, one, or none.
As an interactive adult visual novel, you can choose your own adventure. You'll get to make choices that influence how other characters respond to you and what happens in the story. Set in an alternate history where the Roman Empire continued, though under a different name, you will face significant challenges, but can emerge victorious. Will you take the cautious approach or assert your control through your army? Which ladies vying for your affection to secure their own riches, safety, and influence will you choose to bring along with you in your adventures?
Volume 1
This is Volume 1 of our story, and includes the first seven chapters of To Be A King. There is one more volume that is currently in development. It will be released on Steam as DLC once it is completed in several months.Features
- Chapters 1 through 7
- Over 5800 renders
- 46 lewd scenes
- Scene replay gallery for all sex scenes
- 10 current love interests (more to come in Volume 2)
- Pursue a harem or just a single love interest
- Codex with biographies of the characters you meet, as well as a way to track your love interest choices.
- Multiple paths that change the story
- Over 30 achievements
- Thousands of lines of dialogue
- Several hours of play time
- Numerous choices to make multiple playthroughs interesting
- Political intrigue
- More drama than a daytime soap opera
Extras
You get the full release of Volume 1 along with the bonus image gallery with over 100 special images of ladies from the game.Sexual Content
This game includes explicit sexual content including: harem, anal, group sex, creampies, facials, vaginal, oral, and handjob.Gameplay
This is an interactive visual novel where you make choices that determine what content you see and what parts of the story are shown. There are ten available love interests, each with their own unique story and motivations.MINIMAL SETUP
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or Kernel 3.x+ distributions
- Processor: 2.0ghz Core 2 DuoMemory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
- Memory: 2 GB RAMStorage: 4 GB available space
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Memory: 8 GB RAMNetwork: Broadband Internet connectionStorage: 30 GB available space
- Storage: 30 GB available space
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