Meg, Resort, and more

New Character: Meg

As you may or may not have already gleaned from the trailer I posted on Twitter, Meg will be the next venus joining the Gravure Studio cast. I've also just uploaded a higher quality version of the video to the Mega Repo.

Meg, as I've interpreted her in Gravure Studio, is a short statured slightly chubby girl with massive breasts, the largest in Gravure Studio to date. As you might have noticed, this isn't a 1:1 interpretation of how she's depicted in DOAX:VV.

Meg in a cowprint monokini.

Gravure Studio and DOAXVV

The subject of accuracy comes up from time to time, and while I've explained myself many times already, I feel it's always good to revisit the subject. DOAX:VV has 3 body types, and 3 body types only. These are colloquially referred to as "Common, Honoka, and Marie" respectively. Common, as it's name suggests, represents the vast majority of the cast, such as Kasumi, Kokoro, Hitomi, Leifang, etc.. "Honoka" aside from her namesake, represents the bustier girls such as Luna, Shandy, Elise, etc.. You get the idea. Those 3 body types are stretched across the entire spectrum of the DOAX:VV roster and have little to no variation between, using bone scaling to implement only minor variations so that the DOAXVV Staff can create a "one size fits most" model.

The point I'm attempting to illustrate is that there's little variation from character to character when drawing from the source material, at least with regard to their bodies, and that this is a product of saving time and money rather than a creative decision. What I attempt to do is try to capture the "energy" the character gives off and afford myself some creative interpretation when shaping their build.

On the subject of why I picked Meg, I simply fell in love with her at first sight. While the angular, elegant beauty of Nyotengu, Kasumi, Momiji and the like get a lot of representation, the more doughy, placid demeanor Meg just makes you want to reach out and grab a handful.

A new pose card with an inviting posture.

Resort Stage

After a lot of effort, the Resort stage is finally ready for Gravure Studio! If only you guys knew how insanely obnoxious it is to import/create stages in DOA5. This is a staple of DOAX and it's barely changed in the DOAX franchise since the first game! I'd been putting this off due to the sheer volume of meshes on the stage, and just how difficult it is to work with non-character models with the available modding tools. I hope that some day I can increase the draw distance of dynamic shadows, but until then we'll just use a heavy amount of depth of field.

Some scenes like the floaties are moving to the Resort, and of course this stage will be available for all the Pose Cards. You can of course expect new scenes too!

Stretching by the poolside

Candid Moments, Precarious Clothing

With literally hundreds of scenes in Gravure Studio already, I do make an effort to add titillating scenes and ecchi scenarios aside from standard modeling, posing and beach activities. While the last update featured several pose cards featuring the cast revealing themselves to you, this time I've added a handful of live-change/walk-in pose cards. I've also started adding more elaborate camerawork to pose cards, as I think we have a fair number of static landscape shot pose cards already. Also expect more scenes where clothing mishaps occur.

 Unclasping her bra, moments before disaster.

A swimsuit slipoff, and a lecherous camera

Costumes and Clothing

Lately I'm trying to have a little bit more fun with the costumes, adding more variants using clothing transparency more liberally.

Relaxing in the pool wearing a somewhat shameless swimsuit.

A wet variation of Meg's debut swimsuit.

Hanging in there.


Meg's debut costume, but with no Bra.

Semi-translucent cowprint monokini.

Concluding Thoughts

A new character, a new stage, new scenes, new costumes, bugfixes. a quality pass on some old costumes, and more I'm not quite prepared to share with you at the moment. I really hope you enjoyed this preview and look forward to the next update. With that I bid you adieu.