Gravure Studio 1.5 Preview

If you haven't seen it already, check out the PV for version 1.5 on my Twitter. Alternatively, you can download/view a much higher quality version of the video on Mega.

1.5 features an overhauled implementation of Pose Cards. Prior to this latest version, pose card animations were lumped together in Pose Reels. The pose card would play for a few moments, and then cycle to the next pose. This was done partially to avoid taking up too many hotkeys, which Gravure Studio had used to select scenes. 

However, collaborating with Grusigast on his overlay companion program, we implemented a system that allows us to have no upper limit on the amount of scenes. It's also, as you can imagine, must easier to select scenes with an actual menu and preview thumbnails. 

His overlay is a companion program that must be run alongside Gravure Studio to access it's features, and starting from version 1.5, it will become necessary and included with each new version of Gravure Studio. As well as providing a convenient interface for selecting scenes, it can also be used to enable my implementation of Soft Engine, adjust camera settings you cannot normally access like Perspective, and modify other Autolink settings you may not have known existed. 

1.5 will feature pose card animations that you can view at your own leisure, more similar to DOAXVV. You can also select one of seven stages to view them on. The beach, bathroom, gym, onsen, studio, bedroom, and casino respectively. 

 Without a user interface for selecting these motions, just these 32 motions and the 7 stages they're available on would have increased the amount of hotkey combinations by 224. This is why Grusigast's overlay has become a necessary feature for using Gravure Studio moving forward.

1.5 also features the fourth guest character to arrive in Gravure Studio, Patty. She occupies Sarah's slot. 

It was a tough decision for me to choose this next character, and likely the last new character for a while until I find out how to add new slots, but ultimately I decided on Patty. Without sounding too esoteric, I want to select characters with a unique "vibe" distinct from the existing cast. Aside from being an ethnically ambiguous brown girl, Patty has a playful, clueless vibe to me. In VV, if you walk in on her changing, she seems to act with indifference. I also wanted a brown skinned girl with pale nipples, comparatively. 

Patty will launch with 10 costumes (11 counting nude).

And there are, of course, new costumes for other characters. Many of these are to fill out Patron requests, some are just ones of my own choosing.

Thanks for reading. 

This update is scheduled to arrive soon. I need to request some final touches for Grusigast's overlay, finish some more Zack Island Gold tier costume requests, do some final checks on the pose card scenes and more before release. Expect it to arrive, hopefully, before the end of the month.