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I personally just don’t support any projects before I check alpha release. The reason is simple: 95% of all announced projects die and sink into oblivion. This is why I think that best advertisement for raising investment is the release of alpha version. Before that developer can just make posts with progress so that people don’t think that project was frozen. Not sure why most developers prefer to write a huge post about progress once per month, but for my project I just made a discord server where I post progress every day when I worked on project and add screenshots/videos if there is something to show. I think with this method it is easier for people who interested to follow development, engage with conversation of developer, maybe share their ideas etc. People can open discord server when they want and check the date of latest post to see when developer worked on project last time 
Felt like doing some extra work on the character model.
Currently planning out the different weight “stages” of the model (as in parts where a simple blend won’t work out). These don’t really work like drawn weight stages because you can typically get away with way fewer stages and still result in way higher quality because of shape key values, it just depends on how significant the changes in body shape are.
Here’s a list of what I think would be needed for the full beta planned sizes for the character model:
Note that each stage added significantly increases the amount of work needed later so it’s best to have the fewest stages possible while still looking good. I will start with the last stage first and see how it blends. It may need more or less than what is planned here (2-5 estimated).
EDIT: The “full beta planned sizes” refers to the model’s beta, not the game’s beta. The model is a separate (free-to-use) project called FaeCharm (Faehna Engine Character Model) designed to make it easier for anyone to make 3D games on this site.
Hm, you can use one model with shape keys transformation from thin->chubby->bbw->ssbbw. Then another model for shape keys from ssbbw to ussbbw. Then another for ussbbw to blob. Depends on how complex developer plan to rework animations to fit body shapes, but at least I think from thin to bbw could be used in one model.
What reasons would there be for using multiple models? I believe I’ve heard the idea before but I’ve been trying to avoid it since having to manually apply certain actions across multiple models when updating them instead of having them as the same model sounds difficult.
Glad to see you here again i thought Faehna was considered a dead proyect but it’s more alive than ever!!
Setting up a Discord server at the moment because people really want it for whatever reason. Game announcements will still be here but I’ll cross post to Discord.
It’ll mainly be:
If people actually talk in it then I’ll probably add more community-oriented features but it’s basically just news/info at the moment with a few chat channels because I don’t expect anyone to really care that much.
I also fixed some issues with the character model and made preparations to start designing textures.
Oh, sorry, that was misunderstanding: I thought the list of planned sizes which you mentioned was about different models. Well, using different models isn’t necessary since it is only how I personally do to avoid clipping issues in animations and to make sure chained jiggle physics for body parts work correctly. If character use only fat morph sliders I guess there is no reason to make multiple models and only adjusting of animations needed. In my case character have morphs for boobs, belly, muscles, fat and all morphs need to look good when player combine them, so I decided to create multiple models to make sure all morphs combinations fit correctly.
After a couple days of trying to get bones to cooperate, using multiple models instead isn’t looking too bad…
I would like to avoid it if possible but it does seem like it would make it much more manageable.
Main issue is that the bones can’t be easily moved around without causing certain things to get a little weird when editing shape keys. If you have any tips on this stuff then it would be appreciated since I’m not as experienced.
It depends on game engine which you are using, so my advice may not work for you. I am making game on Unreal engine and using Animation Blueprint to adjust bones position if needed. For example I created a locomotion animation for thin body shape and it look fine, but when character get fatter her hips get wider and arms in walking animation start to clip with new hips size. So, I am adding “transform bones” nodes in animation blueprint (postprocess) which control bones rotation. I am changing angle of “upper arm” bone by increasing it on some amount (custom variable) depending on value of current fat morph variable (or weight variable). With those when character get fatter her arms angle automatically increases to prevent clipping with new hips size. This method will work until character get SO BIG that simple angle correction wont work and animation changes needed.
I would just like to give a small apology for the lack of progress the past week.
As some of you may know, I live in the United States with my (abusive) mom, though even she has been nicer with what’s going on recently.
She has worked for a long time as a mail carrier for the US Postal Service and has been saving up money to hopefully get a house some day, but now USPS is potentially being dismembered and privatized, meaning she will lose her job and all of the benefits that came with it, including our insurance. As she is fairly old, it will be difficult for her to get a new job after this, especially as the job market becomes less regulated, and housing prices are extremely expensive here.
I have been doing my best to help her plan ahead. With how things are going, we may need to leave the country, which is very difficult for most people. Fortunately, my grandma (on her side) is an immigrant from Japan, meaning we can easily receive long term residency there as long as we have all the documents (which we likely will). Less fortunately, we don’t have much money and my brother doesn’t know a thing about the language. If anyone else needs to leave then I recommend checking a few generations back for anyone who was an immigrant because many countries have similar laws.
I do not mean to be political with this post. I am not trying to shame people for voting for Trump or not voting at all (I didn’t vote either), nor am I saying the democrats are any better. I understand why this is happening and that we should not blame each other, but instead try to help everyone get through this together.
Development will slow down a little most likely since I need to study Japanese (I’ve got decent knowledge but not nearly enough to live there) as well as try to make money through other means since my family will need as much as we can get. Patreon does help but I don’t expect to make much short-term which is why I’m not just betting everything on the game’s success.
I wish everyone good luck in what’s to come.
Small poll because I’m unsure whether to focus more on getting the gameplay done or getting the visuals (mainly the model) done. This won’t affect what is released in the full version and likely won’t affect the demo’s content, just the order in which some things are completed, though I might keep the results in mind when planning future versions.
Also another poll, which will affect future versions and maybe the full version, though the game will always focus on gameplay over purely being fetish content. You should always be able to enjoy the game even if, for some reason, you don’t have any fetishes and just like sandbox games.
Hello everyone. Sorry for the small break the past week or so, I had a lot to deal with but I’ve adjusted to everything that has changed recently. There’s a lot more that I need to manage around the house and a lot of other work that I need to do daily but the game should be worked on about the same as before.
I’m currently working on getting the built-in color picker working so you can style characters however you like without worrying whether the developer happened to put the exact eye/hair/skin/etc color that you want for that one OC who has some really crazy color palette for some reason.
It hasn’t been styled at all currently so it looks awful but it seems to be working properly so I’ll probably spend a bit fixing that up.
We are getting very close to the “game” part of the game, by the way, as the character creation part likely won’t be too much longer.
The Patreon membership has tanked (an entire >30% of my monthly income is gone) ever since the recent announcement (I think a lot of people misinterpreted and thought that meant the game was dead, which it isn’t) so it would be appreciated if anyone could help support the project.
Please choose an amount you think is stable for you. A one-month gold membership doesn’t help as much as a recurring bronze membership or even a tip membership over a longer period of time and I prefer the stability.
Hi, I’m new and I would like to ask some questions about the project. First I would like to know if you plan to add a futa gender,
2nd I would like to ask if you plan to add different kinds of vore like breast vore and unbirth, and the effects of those on the body like unbirth = pregnant, breast vore = milk, and cock vore = cum; the collectability and consumability of that milk and cum,
and as for my 3rd question my brain is working overtime, as I want to ask how hard is it to make a “numbers system” for the weight gain (like with project wild one) with a balloon like effect in-between the planed sizes on where it increases the player fat with the numbers allowing the player to be more specific on where and how much they want to gain weight on their character modals and of course every character will probably need their own values for vore results. As the weight of the vored character will have to slowly decrease as they digest before reaching a number that can be absorbed and divided across the body’s fat, but how hard is that to accomplish?
“Gender” doesn’t exist to the game, technically speaking, other than what you write in your character’s profile. You could write attack helicopter in there if you really wanted. Gender in the character model is just setting a bunch of sliders, so you could have a female face with a very masculine jaw, a man with boobs, a woman’s head on a man’s body, etc.
Genitals haven’t been added yet. They aren’t personally very high priority to me, but this is an open source game. Anyone can add anything they want to the game, whether as an official feature (has to be approved by me first), or as a separate version of the game (requires no permission from me). When genitals are added, you likely will be able to choose both, so that’s a yes, but it’s more of a long term thing.
It depends. Not personally something I’m into, but unbirth is mechanically and graphically similar to standard vore, so that seems reasonable. The others likely require messing around with the character model.
With most fetish-related features, you can answer whether it’ll be added with a few questions:
If any of these are yes, it’s probably getting added. If not, I hope you’re ready to learn programming /j.
I honestly don’t have a clue what you’re talking about here but I can answer how vore and fat distribution work from a technical perspective.
You have 4 weight-related numbers. Let’s call them fat, standard weight, breast size, and hip size.
Standard weight makes everywhere fatter. Breast size makes breasts fatter. Hip size makes the lower body in general fatter.
Fat is your weight. If you have 0% breast size and 0% hip size, standard weight is equal to your fat. If you have 100% in either breast size or hip size, standard weight is equal to 50% of your fat. If you have 100% in both breast size and hip size, standard weight is always 0. (Though there is one exception: bonus breast size from lactation.)
This basically simulates fat distribution. More boobs means less belly and butt, and more butt means less belly and boobs.
If you’re wondering where vore comes into this… it doesn’t. Vore uses belly fullness which doesn’t have anything to do with fat distribution. Belly fullness is also used by stuffing and pregnancy.
I see, also the “number system” I was referring to from project wild one works as follows;
height: 7’1"
weight: 684lbs (obese++) “(+30lbs)” = what is stored in the stomach and intestines and is usable at that moment to ad to weight “684lbs (obese++)” and to refill reserves, and can be refilled by using fat on your body or by eating, and will just normally ad to that number,
meanwhile prey if alive will ad to that number “(+30lbs)”, but won’t yet be able to ad to the weight or reserves until it is dead, after which will get divided into fat and not absorbed waste(there is no skat).
reserves: 84 (max=99)
reserves: can be used as energy and can be replenished by using the lbs. stored in the body, food, and prey. weight loss takes place when you have no reserves and need to refill by using your “684lbs (obese++)”
hp: 100/100 health automatically replenishes
wp:100/100 battel and vore actions uses “wp” energy that replenishes automatically(fast), but if reserves are empty it replenishes very slowly.
Oh also what I meant by “the player choses where to ad the fat” I meant that you could have the player choose where to put each individual lbs.(this is where the “balloon like effect” I talked about takes place) from the “(+30lbs)” or they can just keep it sitting there in their stomach and intestines as energy and food reserves for emergences when they need energy. (And yes this is something I would like to see in a videogame someday.)
Faehna’s system is somewhat similar but without reserves. You’re always either losing or gaining weight depending on your energy expenditure and digestion.
Every X ticks, digestion and expenditure are calculated based on your stomach fullness, calorie density, digestion rate, weight, and current activity. You need more calories as you get bigger, especially if you spend a lot of time moving around (which you often have to for progression because this game involves a lot of exploration).
There isn’t really much reason for a reserve system in this game. You already choose where fat goes with fat distribution customization in character creation (as well as with certain rare items).
Weight in lbs/kg is probably something that will be added at some point but only for display. Most likely, there will be a number from 0% to 100% internally. Why? Because a 100 cm goblin, for example, at 200 kg would be incredibly fat, whereas a 250 cm elf wouldn’t be nearly as fat at the same weight.
The “no digestion until dead” thing is also a feature. Anything vored will fill your stomach but won’t actually turn into food that is digested until it’s dead.
Currently working on making the game easier to work with, both for modders and for myself when adding new races. Trying to keep it simple and modular. Here’s a bit of a preview of how easy it is to set up a new race at the moment.
Values aren’t final. I actually changed a lot of them while writing this.
You can hover over properties to view a full description of what they do and how to fill them out.
The technical part of this should be over soon so you can expect to get some screenshots of the actual character creation process soon-ish if I don’t have another panic attack.
NOTE: I will probably not be implementing the leveling or attribute system for the first demo, but you will get a preview of how the attribute system works. Descriptions refer to Alpha 1.0 features. Characters will also not carry over from the demos to Alpha 1.0.
Testing out physics a little with this red cube.
I don’t know why I like watching it hop around so much.
I was hoping that, in the near future, we could get some slob-related content (sweating, burping, passing gas, messy eating, etc.).
