👷🏻‍♀️Lots of things

Resume

I will have the update finished next month, so the billing will be not paused this time, a lot of technical and artistic problems, and I really apreciate your support, thank you for keep staying there <3

WTF happens

It has been a combination of things, on the one hand I wanted to solve a problem that I will try to explain.

This was the base human model.

As you can see the base human body is not a good base, it is very shaped, the base model has boobs, has penis, and a very stylized femenine looking, the first problem with it is technical, if I have a base model as shaped, I can't go so much further from it, you have to know that the deformations in 3D are relative to the base shape, and the values used to make the engine know how the volume would look is expressed in floats, a type of value not as precise as I need. So if I want to create a more manly looking first I have to make a deformation to flat the boobs...

And then make the chest wider, it causes this:

As you can see there are artifacts, I thought that being able to use something called "recompute tanges" will solve this, tagnents are a information to calculate how light behave over soft surfaces, like skin, but I had a side effect, recompute tangents affects to the deformations caused by bones, so the more contorted the character is more artifacts will appear.

Knowing about these limitations I had to decide, either I make a more modular cosmos, where you choose pieces for your character, or I make a real base model, I think there is something beautifull in being able to watch how the body can change and reach shapes so diferent each other, like a bridge between all bodies that makes they to be connected, something that makes player remember that we are all the same and we all come from the same, so with this in mind I started to create a new body.

Also the maya project where I work on the humanoid model is too big, and unoptimized, so each little change I wanted to make meant waiting too long.

All of that was the problem with the body, on the other hand I have updated the project to Unreal Engine 5, I think that I don't lie if I say that that's the most powerful game engine. This is a big change for many reasons, for the near future it means that I can now make very detailed props without having to worry too much about optimization and level of details, which will increment the speed when I start making builder things, also I'm now animating from engine, and that makes the process really fast and allows me to make changes without having to fix many other things, a win win.

The model in the gif is a simplified version of the final looking, it has also the new base shape for the human body. I want to clarify, the fact the base shape looks like this does not means that the characters in game would be similar.

Also, and obviously I have changed a lot of things in how the sex system works, cosmos, physics, and I have to change even more things during next month, it will not be a visual update, I have changed a lot, but most of these things are things that are not visible, maybe the more visual thing I have changed is that cosmos is now a physic object where you can enter and go to another map where you can edit your character.

❗Patreon

I have thinking a lot about this, last months I have stopping billing, that is because I made bad decisions and I wanted to asume the responsability, but I am nobody to decide for anyone, you are supporting this project for your own reasons, that's why I will not stop billing anymore. 

I also changed the tiers because I found it a bit elitists, I want people to be able to play the game at any of its developement states without having to pay more than 10$ adding taxes, now the two tiers that offers steam keys have limited capacity, and I added a new tier for people that just want to play the upcoming patreon only updates.

Tiers:

🟢 minitaco: it will keep the same benfits.

❗ young taco: now young taco is for who want to play JUST the patron exclusive updates.

❗ young taco (code): it is like the old "young taco" tier, if you stay on it for two months you will get a steam key when the game comes out, and now it has limited capacity.

❗ adult taco (code): now is a limited capacity tier and has a total of two fancy parenthesis in its name.

My god, I'm really sorry for this super long post. Thanks a lot for your support!! ❤️