April 3rd Update

Ps leave VR for the next project, that's something I'm looking into at the moment. You will lose a lot of time messing around there! :-)

Riging and animation all the way, even if you just record and lay some music over for when it isn't a live steam that would be awesome!

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Tinybone

I'm still working on getting a look I like. that's actually not a decal, but painted onto the texture. Its currently the best looking one I've gotten so far, but I'm still working on it. Her mons pubis is a stylistic thing, but if you look carefully there is a controller there to change volume. There are a couple spots that are gonna look a little weird in maya that don't have that effect in Unreal engine. That area is one of them. The butt actually does have that geometry, and its not just going into a solid form. I think maybe it looks better in motion, but I'll keep working on it!

Mithos56

wow I'm long-winded :S

Tinybone

Just checked out the images: really exciting stuff! Some things that may be worth looking at: -The cumsplat is a little too finely detailed relative to the rest of the art style and its scale on Meridiana. It ends up looking very sharp and flat, almost like fiberglass or a paint ball impact. Try playing with transparency and larger, bolder, drippier shapes to play up the viscous liquid aspects of it. That should help it look less sand-blasted on (unless that's the intended look). Currently, the left and bottom parts of the decal read better as cum than the center and the right side. -It's a fairly small detail, but Meridiana's mons pubis looks flat enough that it almost gives the impression of being concave. Especially considering how plump and round the rest of her vagina looks (which I think looks really great!), it's kind of a stark contrast to see her have such a lack of volume right above it. Maybe this clashes with your ideal art style, but I think fluffing up her mons pubis just a bit to match the rest of her curves wouldn't hurt. (I think this is all most apparent in Screenshot 2016-04-03 14.22.36.png) -The "crease" between her labia majora and inner thigh looks like it needs some more vertices in Screenshot 2016-04-03 14.22.36.png. This might not be a problem if you don't intend to get too close with the camera, but at least in the current workspace environment, it looks kind of torn up because too few tris are being stretched too far. -To improve the readability of anal penetration, you might want to consider adding a torus/o-ring shape to Meridiana's anus. By having some volume to work with, you can animate stretch and compression better, and you'd be able to more easily read that there was actually something going on other than the phallic object clipping into a static, solid form. Granted, this would be practically equivalent to adding an extra set of lips that you'd need to rig & animate, but depending on how much butt stuff is going to go on, it might be a good idea to explore this while you're in animation revamp mode. That's a lot of words for some pretty minor stuff (the cum decal is the only one that I might consider an actual concern). Everything is coming along really nicely, and I'm still impressed by each update!

Tinybone

I deleted one of your comments, Don, as it looked like a duplicate. I do hope once I get the cum looking right that it does STICK around for a while.

Mithos56

I'd agree about not spending too much time on VR; for now, it's a novelty at best. It'll probably be really awesome for a couple people, but completely useless for practically everyone :(. Unless UE4 dev tools make it super easy to just plug in VR features, seems like time would be better spent on making a game that's fun to play. (Also, I like the idea of "battle damage" persisting with Meridiana :D)

Tinybone

Since VR is still a tech enthousiast thing with a very small install base i'd advice against delving into it in the middle of the dev cycle, maybe it'd be better to push it at the end, when everything's good and done... (Also, question ! Will we have the option to keep the cumshots after the sex animation?)

Don Banini

Meridiana is a magician that investigates magical happenings.

Mithos56

I dunno, I thought I remember reading it was against their TOS to post stuff directly on their site. I try to be especially careful if its a public post.

Mithos56

Looking good Mithos! As far as the streaming goes I think covering all of the basics of what you do across several streams is a great place to start. I'm sure people will be interested in all of this regardless. Unrelated question: why are you afraid to put of NSFW images on Patreon? People produce porn on here all the time lol.

Snizzlefit

Mithos is still very much figuring that out. I've asked him several times lol

Snizzlefit

Absolutely would love vr Shut Up And Take My Money!!

Redam

This is really coming along! Out of curiosity, what is the story of this game and Meridiana?

Voodoo Monkey