Author: Demetos
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Diary and Summary
I asked ChatGPT to do a summary of the current written content of “The Couple”. I think it captures quite well the current state, you can read it: Summary ChatGPT (Warning! Spoilers inside) I have – again – reorganized the code.Each scene of chapter one is now in a separate subroutine. This way I might…
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One Thousand
I just passed the threshold of one thousand images. Yea – I guess it would be more impressive if the threshold had been ‘finishing the prologue’ – but that one still stands and is some time away. After finishing “Ani and Ina have Fun” day two – I continued with the other first days. One…
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The Couple – 12th Nov. ’24
I told about my last negative experiences with DAZ. I will not repeat this… extensively. “The Couple” is still progressing. Much slower than I hoped and wanted – but I will not cease. There are other hobbies… games and other programming projects that I do in parallel. It can’t be helped. But doing “The couple”…
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Daz 3D Genesis 9 – Breasts!
TLDR; Beware: “Vo Sorg HD for Genesis 9” They F*”(“§!!! freaking – did it again! ARRRGHHH!I spent days tracking down this “bug!” Alright, let’s talk about this. The people at DAZ don’t seem to grasp that humans come in two different genders. Yes, they sell tons of clothes and hairstyles, but when it comes to…
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Julia and Ani
I did not have much time in the last month. I only came around to finish about 100 images. They all continue the scene with Ani and Julia. Some samples: I sorted all my sources and texts and added most to github – but with private settings. Currently I have no access to my “render”…
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Continuing
Producing images is a slow… and trying process… even though often the outcome compensates for the time spent. I never really liked or appreciated it, when I read in other VN blogs or updates “I have done xxx renders”. But it is so TEMPTING to use the number of renders as a measurement… especially since…
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The Couple v0.1alpha
Below you find a first “playable” version of “The Couple”. The text is more or less complete – although not really proofread.Graphics are only available for the first day – and only for one path.To follow that specific path you need three choices: Note:Some dialog lines of Ina seem very stiff – that is the…
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Daz 3D Genesis 9 – bad Eyes!
For quite some time now – closed eyes of my Genesis 9 figures looked bad!See image above – somehow the eye only closed in the middle and to the right and most noticeably to the left they was still opened. This looks pretty gruesome. Today I finally went on a hunt to find out why…
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The Couple Update 02
I have been changing the ingame GUI to be less annoying and ‘being in the way’. I completely removed the background of the “say” window – and all buttons have been reduced to the bare minimum. The buttons are now very small – and only show symbols and are also displayed in an inconspicuous color…
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The Couple Update 01
I have written probably 98% of the “Prologue” – all together a little more then 100,000 words. The decision tree expanded a bit: As you can see, nearly all decisions take place during the first day, the rest is story telling only. Each color represents one path to take. The player can decide between 5…
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The Couple
(Working title) I keep writing and writing… and keep postponing DAZ. The image you see above is somewhat like the current “scene/decision tree” for the prologue. Seven days and a handful of decisions – as of now about 50,000 words. I estimate that I will need about roughly at least a thousand images – to…
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DAZ – !”&%$!!
Performance … is making me mad! I bought a couple of Assets and installed them… and it got maddening slow. I am not sure what the root cause is… but I travelled far and wide the internet… and did a couple of things – and now it is working again in a managebale speed. Many…
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New game?
I am contemplating on writing a Visual Novel myself. Actually out of the blue I started to write down some ideas… and started sort of a prologue. The prologue – as it seems now – will not have much to do with the story itself. Two of the main characters (male / female) will meet…
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RenPy – GUI
You will all know that RenPy is a tool/environment/library to build visual novels. I will not go into details regarding RenPy. But I’ll – now and then – write about my own journey into RenPy. On the side you see a couple of buttons I made for the GUI. The default buttons are certainly “working”…
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Job Interview
I wanted to expand my horizon – and work on some more visual novel content. It happened that one of my favourite novels posted an “ask for help” message on their discord… and since I did not have anything to lose – I wrote an application. They were looking for different kinds of expertise, like:…