The Weighting Game - WIP

find it very sad that peoples are just paying to see some renders, and not that much progress are seen even if i know that you are certainly making

Have you played his game? He delivers high-quality daz renders, unique dialogue, and gameplay based around variables that are affected by your decisions. I don’t think it’s fair to say people are just paying to see some renders. It takes a tremendous investment of time to design/render 3d images, write story, and write code by yourself like he does.

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Quite an odd way to offer help. No reason to try and sugar coat an insult with empty compliments. Some times people work on stuff in private. If you want to know the story, they’re not putting out any more updates until the game is finished. As for why no low shots it’s just what they want to do. Everyone has their own style. As for “paying” At the moment nobody is paying anything due to the latest update being free for everyone. At least be grateful Tigger was nice enough to give that to us.

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I assumed the ‘paying’ comment was refering to my Kofi page, seeing as @daftidiot1 rightly says, the current version of the game is completely free to anyone who wants it.

@ero646545 You are aware that the Kofi page is voluntary? Nobody is being forced to donate to it.

Games like this take a lot of money to make and I can’t afford to develop it at a loss. All the assets you see in the game (notice how most of the characters wear different outfits in almost every scene?) don’t come free and neither does the computer power to create them. Not to mention the thousands of hours that I’ve put in over the past two years or so actually working on this. The Kofi page is a tipjar to try and make enough money to finish the game with.

As for progress, yes, that’s slow, but you can blame the pirates for that. As I no longer have to try and meet any deadlines, I am working at my own pace these days rather than every single free minute that I have.

I definitely won’t be changing to Blender. As you’ve played the game, you’ll be aware just how many images there are. 0.7 has just over 2,600. I already have more than 1,000 new images for the next versions of the game. I’m not switching to Blender at this point :stuck_out_tongue:

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Sorry it wasn’t what i mean, i just say like you’ve said that its costing a lot for you, and if you send more picture of how is the game made, you may bring more kofi subs…
Sorry for the community for the misunderstanding,
I totally trust You TT, but my question about the game progress is for the growing septism of some people that i really feel bad when i read it.
I want personnaly want to suscribe for the game like i did just before deleting patreon. Paying for something that i see.
And about pirates, i still dont understand how do they scrape all that content behind paywall…
But nevermind, it is as it does.

About blender my advice was just for you to try to make the scene render more efficiently than Iray(i found it much slower than Cycle X)
I wish that that the game funding system be more efficient.

I ve recently found some nvidia or other company’s AI that can create photorealistic images from a sketch(check Gaugan)

As a 3d artist i know that a lot of adjustment takes for ever to adjust, so artist needs tool to simplify there workflow
(also to make it more efficiently)
Haha sorry i speak like if you were a working machine… But.i hope you understand what i mean…

The reason people use daz instead of blender is quite simply that getting started in daz is easier than getting started in blender, and as well daz has a massive catalogue of pre-made assets of all sorts which can be plugged in. If you were actually making everything from scratch blender would be far better. If you were planning to use animations at all blender would be far better. If you just want to make an illustrated story? Daz is basically perfect. While tiggertoo’s renders are pretty good I’d say that I view tiggertoo as an author first, and I imagine tiggertoo feels the same way.

Yes 3d technology for pro-sumer grade creators has improved quite a lot in recent years, but constantly going back to the drawing board and recreating the workflow from scratch would mean tiggertoo’s game never actually progresses and the story is never finished.

There are plenty of porn games with a totally irrelevant plot that almost all the players just skim/skip through in order to get the “payoff”. In those games the artist is often iterating their 3d rendering techniques over and over and continually improving the photorealism of their animated sex scene renders. That’s just not what this game is about though.

Also, daz studio is perfectly capable of making a low angle render, it’s just that the story doesn’t call for low angle renders? I think low angle renders would be great in sex scenes, but this game is basically pg-13 and doesn’t have any hardcore sex scenes, so of course a technique that’s only useful in sex scenes isn’t being used.

edit: ero646545 if you’re so skilled at blender, you should absolutely showcase your renders for us though. make a DeviantArt. or a separate forum thread. if you can find a way to render fat girls in blender that’s effective a lot of us will become fans. Although from looking at that video you linked, what I’ve gathered is that it’s actually much harder than you’re implying, which is why a lot of people consider it not worth learning.

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@namad I’ll have you know that my images are the BEST ever!!! Nobody will ever produce better images than me. Ever, ever, ever. And if they do, I’ll cry.

(Joking aside, although I am quite proud of some of my images, I know there are a lot of better Daz artists out there than me.)

You’re completely correct about Daz Studio. When I first started to look into writing my own game, I checked out a few render engines and Daz was the best choice at the time. It’s free, very popular (so there are LOTS of tutorials/forums to help with any problems), relatively easy to use and has a massive pre-made asset library.

Sure, there are better programs out there, but if you want to simply produce a lot of images for your game without having to spend an eternity on each one, Daz is the best tradeoff between power/speed and usability.

@ero646545 You mean spoilers for the game? I’ve always been in two minds about those. A lot of people like them, but a lot of people hate them! And personally, I’d rather much come across something for the first time in a game and think ‘yeah, that’s cool!’ than know about it beforehand.

I should maybe run a poll and see what current opinion on the subject is.

I’m not aware of any real scepticism about the game. Where did you pick this up from? (If it was on a piracy forum then I’m not particularly interested as I couldn’t care less what they think :stuck_out_tongue: ) I’m assuming it’s towards how slowly it’s coming along? My attitude towards working on the game hasn’t changed one bit since I restarted. I’ll go at my own pace and it’ll be ready when it’s ready.

Back in the Patreon days, I was working a minimum of 100 hours a month (often quite a bit more) on the game. Nowadays I put in maybe 20-25 hours a month. So I’m afraid there are going to be long gaps between versions.

Oh, and it’s a piece of cake to produce images with a low camera angle. I’ve just never really needed to do so…

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Yess, I agree, I think a poll would be great

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Heyy who is she???
Actually i do not consider my self as an artist, i am not fully making art and if i like TT’s render its quite because i can’t do as beautiful renders…
I use blender mostly for CAD… (yes its strange)
And when i talk about blender its just about exporting the 3d scene from daz and importing the .dae file, and pressing F12😅(for render)
I know its not always as simple… And i know how many short cuts they are…
About the video its a soft body simulation of an imported 3d model from daz studio.
And i just alwayss wondered can 3d fat girl have an animated soft belly… It works but it needs som ajustment to ask to only simulate the belly part… And yeah after 0.2 game i wanted to see if there were other people making as beautiful game… I was quit disapointed…
So keep on working tt, i hope you will not again put the game links for free when finished.
Please note that wholehog and the weighting life are really not that close of your game.
I wondered creating a game like yours in blender(with daz 3dmodel) and making renders with blender. But i don’t really have the time… Is dating simulation more important than dating?
What a philposophy question

Don’t cry Tigger! IMO yours are the best!

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Just a random girl I made up. There are a couple four more images of her over on the Kofi page.

Will she make an appearance in the game? Who knows :wink:

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Been meaning to ask - is there any content after the “end”? My ADHD brain is insistent on mindlessly clicking through my character’s daily routine in hopes that I get new dialogue.

I want more Lacy, damn it :smiling_face_with_tear:

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That depends. Have you found the hidden scene where Alice and Sarah end up in bed together? *

Or the scene where Lacy finishes all the leftovers at the cafe and eats till she can’t move? *

Or the scene where Becca overeats at the office and rips her skirt just before an important meeting? *

Joking aside, there is absolutely nothing new at all after the TBC screen. It hasn’t been tested at all. The only thing you’re likely to find is bugs.

SPOILER ALERT (*There is a possibilty one of these scenarios will eventually be added…)

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Aaah, you’re a menace! Had my hopes up there. Noted. Will stay tuned. Probably good that these things take a while. It’s addictive as hell, it swallowed like 3 days of my life when I first played lol

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Cheeky fu*cker, lmao. thought I’d spent all this time missing content for a few secs. That said, every scenario sounds great, always wanted to catch Lacey out overdoing it. Definitely visited the pub, and the cafe numerous times each new stage. That said I want more of everyone, and I’m of the apparently rarer group who very much enjoys Hannah.

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Couldn’t agree more! More Lacy!! Altho Tigger has put out some great Lacy renders on the Kofi page if ur interested in supporting

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There will definitely be more Lacy!

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I want more lacy too

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She seems very popular!

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My vote would be on the first * scenario… with the MC in between them, also in the bed = P (You know I want a harem.)

There will also be more of Lacy = P

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