Where it all began [v.0.1 Reworked Beta + Incest Patch] (2021) (Rus/Eng) [Ren'Py] [Linux] [Android] [Demo]

Hello,
So, Summer's Gone has been fully released. (My biggest update to date.)
Almost 2900 still renders (Ch4 + Ch1 rework.)
This means the focus is again divided equally between WiAB and SG.
So, WiAB is approaching the 4-Digit render count and I assume the update will finish with around 1250 - 1450 renders.
We're very close.
In comparison to the last update, this one will be 80% to 100% bigger. At least in the render count.
As always, I don't give out release estimates or dates, I'll do it the old-fashioned way and will make a post one day before the release.
That should also be it.
Ah, one more thingy before we get to the previews...
In the last SG Dev log, I mentioned that the energy prices here in Germany are skyrocketing.
I currently pay ~ 300€ a month and the predictions are an increase of 75% to 300%.
I'm currently saving up a little money to dampen the shock that might await me at the end of the year...
The development will not be affected by it, BUT I won't be able to buy as much music and assets as I did before... Just a heads up if the next Chapters do include less music than the ones before.
All images are attached in 4k
We're now back to the usual Bi-Weekly Dev Log schedule.
- Ocean

Chapter 2 - Bibi Log #9.5
Hello,
So... I actually wanted to create this post a few days ago but real life and a lot of damn Birthday parties came into the way.
May/June/July and August are always a birthday party mess.
I was also pretty slurped out by the SG release week.
Anyways,
A short update on everything.
As I mentioned in a previous log, Summer's Gone Chapter 4 was about to release.
And the Beta has released a few weeks ago.
It had 2300 still renders alone and until now, it's my biggest update.
The Beta was just the first step.
Soon, the SG Chapter 4 final will come out with another 600+ renders.
Chapter 4 will then have added a total of almost 3000 renders.
Anyways, the biggest part of the SG final is done and WiAB will continue its development on Monday.
As soon as the final is released, it will also be available here for certain Patreon tiers.
Now to WiAB.
WiAB Chapter 2 is around 70-75% done. I now have to do quite a few animations... and oh boy... I acquired some new tools thanks to my friend SLim.
I now have some tools to automate some animation processes. This will save some time along the way.
I also acquired some really valuable knowledge... I don't know why... But I made all my animations "blind."
I couldn't preview them and just had to hope for the best.
Now I learned to "see".
This is pretty much it... Oh.
I also acquired some new music for the games. I managed to get both games licensed at once. Pretty neat.
And... there's one thing I really reeeeeaally miss.
And that's my favorite Li next to Leia... Dana.
The last previews I posted of her first version are a year old.
Now I just couldn't take it anymore and made some simple renders with her current version.
I gave her a custom sculpted body + some small adjustments to her face. The previous version featured a very common face. Morphed together out of a few known morphs.
I now gave her more of a unique look... and thanks to my developing Zbrush skills... I might also bring back her old hair.
I might still decide against it... as it's below the quality I'd normally choose... But it just fits Dana.
High Res is attached below.
Legends say... Other female lawyers hate her.

"I'll get you out of there."

There are still going to be some changes before she reappears in the game... But man... I can't wait until she's back.
- Ocean

WiAB Chapter 2 - Dev Log #9

Hello,

So, today will be a very short log.

Summer's Gone is currently rendering its last cinematic, meanwhile, I'm doing postwork on 2250+ SG renders.

So yeah, SG is going to be released soon.

And I limited my work on WiAB for the past week to push through the release phase of SG. After SG is released, I will be returning to the old schedule of "One day SG, next day WiAB and repeat."

But until then, I will be focusing on releasing SG.

WiAB Chapter 2 is around 65-70% done.

It will release not that long after the SG Chapter 4 final release.

2. Music

As many of you know, I've been dealing with a lot of music stuff lately... With the next release of WiAB, some music will be removed from Chapter 1, as apparently I'm too small of a fish for them to go the extra step of contacting artists for me.

More about this some other time...

But I did personally contact some bands/musicians to get some licensing deals... These are more expensive but there's no other way to get high-quality music.

WiAB won't be getting as much new music as SG... Cause one license costs almost as much as WiABs entire support.

I already heard back from one band and we're in contact... If all goes well... I might get the music for both, SG and WiAB for a relatively affordable price...

Otherwise, WIAB will have to wait for a little while until it gained more support and I can purchase them without literally using 100% of its current support for a single license.

3. Laptop

I invest so much into rendering, that I know had to invest in another very important part...

Writing.

I got myself a laptop and it's already paying off big time... I sometimes have trouble writing in my office... but when I'm outdoors at a lake, etc. I am always super inspired.

Every morning since I got the laptop I'm going outside and I just write... And it's a world difference.

In the past two days, I've written more for SG and WiAB than in the past 3-4 weeks. Just amazing.

The Laptop is also powerful enough to edit cinematics, lewd scenes, and do postwork... So even if all PCs are rendering, I can still keep working on other visual aspects.

After SG Chapter 4 is out of Beta, Summer's Gone will be available for certain tiers here, too.

For those that don't know yet, Summer's Gone and Where it all Began are deeply connected.

I'll see you in the next Dev Log.

Ocean

Вкратце: глава 2 выйдет вскоре после релиза SG4.
Превьюшки Кати и Леи
Кстати, у Леи те самые сережки, которые в SG стали непарными

Привет,

7-й дев лог...
В этот раз коротко, потому что особо не о чем рассказать.
Продолжаю создавать рендеры. Также придал последний штрих модельке Даны.

1. MotionBuilder
Итак... Как многие из вас знают, я люблю анимации.
Я делаю их много. И я делаю их длинными.
Другие люди/разработчики всегда удивляются, когда я говорю им, что использую обычный Daz, а не какую-то внешнюю программу.
Для тех из вас, кто не знает... Есть причина, по которой в большинстве игр нет длинных анимаций. Анимации в Daz — это боль.
Очевидно, я искал внешние программы, чтобы вывести свои анимации на новый уровень, но я просто не нашел подходящей.
Пробовал Cascadeur, IClone7 и т.д.
Все они отстой по своим причинам и не дают мне того, что мне нужно... Но потом я нашел MotionBuilder.
По какой-то причине я не натыкался на это... Скачал пробную версию и сделал несколько тестов...
Это было чудесно... Я чувствовал себя маленьким ребенком в канун Рождества... ПОКА не увидел цену в 2000$/год.

Я не нашел ежемесячной альтернативы...но, скорее всего, цена была бы еще выше.
Это программное обеспечение именно то, что я искал, но стоит больше половины всей моей поддержки (до уплаты налогов).
Я бы смог заплатить за это 170$/месяц... Но платить больше 2000$ за раз. Это за пределами текущей поддержки.
В настоящее время я все еще использую 30-дневную пробную версию и постараюсь научиться как можно большему, но после этого мне придется накопить на это дело дополнительные деньги.
Меня просто выносит, как все резко перешло на форму подписки... Но я не могу без этого обойтись.
Это слишком ценно для аниматора вроде меня. В этом году, вероятно, больше не будет апгрейда железа, учитывая все затраты на музыку и программное обеспечение. Лол.
Но весь этот негатив насчет цен не должен затмить важный момент... Я нашел внешнее программное обеспечение для анимации, которое идеально подходит для моих нужд. Это невероятно.
Это открытие, меняющее правила игры.

2. Анимация текстур/шейдеров
Я также нашел хороший способ анимировать текстуры и шейдеры в целом. С этим открываются новые хорошие возможности.

3. Превью
Теперь давайте перейдем к визуалу.
Что я усвоил за последние несколько обновлений... Всегда показывайте превью нового персонажа, поскольку собственное видение и восприятие может быть искажено.

Всякий раз, когда я леплю персонажа, мне нужно сделать это побыстрее, иначе разум начинает играть злую шутку. (Поэтому художник всегда должен брать паузу на 5-10 минут, чтобы потом еще раз посмотреть на свою работу.)
Теперь о Джине.
С Джиной я совершил эту ошибку. Когда я ее изменил, то сразу же бросил в бой.
Еще раз посмотрев на нее, я внес изменения с момента выхода последнего дев лога.

Арка Джины более менее такая же, как и в старом мертвом WIAB.

С самого начала у нее есть парень и у ее арки будет уникальный рут Reverse-NTR/Cuckold (в этом случае ГГ будет получать удовольствие (Нетори).

И завершая дев лог, вот рандомное превью Кэти.

Удивительно, как сильно меняется ее внешний вид при переключении между двумя прическами.
С хвостиком она не выглядит такой неприступной... В то время как другая прическа дает +10 к стервозности.

В любом случае, на этом все.
Надеюсь, я ничего не забыл.

Увидимся в следующем дев логе, в котором я дам более подробное обновление статуса разработки.

Chapter 2 - Dev Log #6
Hello,
Welcome to the 6th Dev Log.
(High Res of all images attached.)
First of all, sorry that I didn't do a Dev Log last time it was due.
I just really didn't have anything to say.
I was tackling one of the most annoying bugs I have encountered yet and other than that, I was just rendering animations.
But next time I will make a post, even if it's just a small one saying that everything's okay.

So, the bug I encountered leads back to the Vram usage. The scene in the backyard is a performance killer.
3 Chars + the Environment take up 18GB Vram.
And I had one scene that did go completely haywire and it must've actually damaged the duf file it was in.
Every time I tried to keep working, my GPU refused to render. Loading other scenes that had nothing to do with it: Same issue.
Restarting the PC helped but the second you loaded scene ad522. (Now called SCP-522) my GPU refused to work until I restarted the PC.
Anyways, fixed it by doing all the changes of 522 again. (Lots of little items. You'll see.)
SCP-522 is now in containment.
2. Phone
I've been working on a phone for quite a long time. The project was on ice since 2021, as I had to focus on my mental health and work/life balance.
Which is great now.
With Chapter 4.5 of Summer's Gone, the Phone will release.
WiAB will get the Phone in Chapter 3.
I bought the license to a High-quality phone case and I and my coders will soon be finishing that boy up.

Background: Mila from SG
Why is a phone necessary?
Its social apps will increase the immersion significantly. You will be able to see what the others are up to and liking/commenting/posting can have effects on the game.
Example: Girl X you are dating might not like that you keep liking the posts of Girl Z. Or in the worst-case... Girl Z posted a picture of you and her.
We've got quite a few interesting things planned.
3. I found the holy grail.
Okay... As many of you know, I use Zbrush for sculpting work. When I first discovered Zbrush two years ago, it changed everything.
There was always just one big issue.
You can't sculpt in High Res if you're not a Daz3D PA.
A PA is a person who creates assets, etc. for Daz3D. They gain access to this ability.
You might not understand a word but let me show you something that will help you understand.
This is low res:
(убрал)
You can see how big all those rectangle thingies are. When sculpting, you'll be moving the edges of these rectangles.
There's no way to work precisely.
This is High Res:
(убрал)
I think you get it.
For the past two years, I've been casually trying to find out how to do it...
And my tests and tears brought me pretty close but the last puzzle piece was missing... Until yesterday when a little bear gave me the last ingredient.
I can sculpt high res now.
I can't use the High Res technique in Animations but I can use it in still images.
And this is all I needed.
It will take a few months until I've become good enough for some High quality sculpts, as sculpting in High Res is completely different from that cavemen work I did before.
And I will also not overdo it with the sculpting, as it takes a lot of work. So there might be a few images of each scene that will benefit from it.
Breasts and butts will look amazing in tight clothing.

4. Gina
Speaking about tight clothing...
Gina...
Gina is one of those characters that only got slightly changed. A little bit here... A little more there...
First, let's take a look back.
Old WiAB Chapter 2 Gina:
(убрал)
I remember those days... There was this black something on her forehead (No, not her skin.) and I didn't know what caused it back in the days.
I did put the images into GIMP as I didn't have Photoshop yet, selected the pen, and pixel by pixel I started removing the black spots with a colour that looked like her skin.
It took hours... but it has some sentimental value to me.
Old WiAB Chapter 3 Gina:
(убрал)
Old WiAB Chapter 6 Gina:
(убрал)
The new WiAB has much more dynamic characters. This is mostly due to their backstories.
People change over time... Some get fitter and some might add some weight.
Gina's backstory now goes hand in hand with her new appearance. She always had rather small/Medium boobs and a relatively powerful butt.
Back in the old WiAB, it was planned to have Gina on the camping trip... But my GPU's back then just couldn't take it.
This did really hurt her development as she did go from a Semi-Main girl to a side character. In the new WiAB, Gina will accompany you on the trip.

High Res attached. (Those images are worth looking at in 4k.)
Personality-wise Gina has a lot from the old Gina but a few adjustments have been made.
Gina is a main love interest.

5. Outro
Here are two more random previews..

Good boy Lucas has appeared.
Will you help him get that one girl from class? Or will you take her for yourself?

Imagine what High Res sculpting could do here.

I'm almost finished with one of the most annoying scenes... The one that kills my Vram and the rest should be a rather smooth sailing.
As GPU prices are dropping and the new Threadrippers are about to release... It got me thinking about a Workstation for WiAB.
But more about that when I (WiAB) can actually afford it.

SG Chapter 4 is about to release in the near future (это когда?) and will also be available for certain tier levels here.

See you in the next Log.
- Ocean

Hello,
Welcome to the 5th Dev Log.
So, we're about 550 renders in. (Not counting animations.)
And the update is more than 50% done. Chapter 2 is also as big as an update from SG. So you can expect around 70% - 90% more playtime than Chapter 1 had.

Since I first created Scarlet back in WiAB Chapter 3, I always had a problem with her eyelashes.
And tbh, I forgot about the damn bug until I started posing the current model.

But I was able to figure out what caused it all this time.
Her forearm was somehow connected to her eyelashes and hair.
Bending the forearm, also move the eyelashes and the hair. It was really weird and I discovered it while looking through the "Hidden parameters".

Glad that's solved.

Monica.

Ahhhh... Good old Monica... You remember her? No?
The major reason why WiAB is getting reworked is the story. Old WiAB was a mess and had no real structure whatsoever.
Cop Monica was mentioned in the very first episode in both, the old and new WiAB. But she never made an appearance in the old one. Which did really hurt Abigail's story arc.
Anyways, now that the story is structured and thought out... She will make her entrance in Chapter 2.

Expecting the worst.

Some info about Monica.


Monica's a tall and proud girl.
She has relatively short hair, small breasts, a little bit of butt, and long legs.
Her face will be a surprise. But I can tell you that Monica is different from most other characters and I really like the diversity she adds to the cast.

I have gone back to the backyard outdoor scene and started posing the new Scarlet.


I have to admit, that I currently kinda struggle to light the place correctly during the day. It's a nice challenge but it still bothers me a little.

And we end this Dev Log with some Katie. (Katie's tits look really big there. The power of angles. But one change I made was to give her some custom sculpted boobs.)

All Renders in high res are attached for download.

One big problem with the backyard is, that the scene is absolutely gigantic with a lot of polygons.
It sometimes lags really bad when you've got around 8 people in the scene. I do plan on switching my current Blender learning routine onto Modeling for a while.
If I was able to create some environment parts myself and optimize them correctly, I should save myself quite a bit of frustration down the line.
But the WiAB Pc also isn't that great and doesn't feature the power my Workstation has. But I'm sure we'll get there eventually.

That's it for today.
I will be making another small post at the end of the month, talking a little about my personal routine and changes. As I've been working to optimize my personal life more and more.

Take care!
- Ocean

WiAB Chapter 2 - Bibi Log #4.5

Hello,

Sorry for being one day late, but I had to fix the most annoying bug I have encountered yet.

Back during Chapter 3.5 of Summer's Gone I encountered this bug for the first time. I'm suddenly unable to send a certain character to Zbrush. It then says that Daz is unable to find a working ZBrush install.

I can send any other character to it except for this cursed one. I don't know what causes this bug but in SG's case, it was Nia during the basketball game, and gladly, I had lots of previous scenes with her where she was still fine.

This time though, Katie was cursed and apparently through every single render I did with her besides the original duf that I used in the first render.

But I've made so many changes to her after that, that I had to rebuild her again...

Sorry for that little rant but damn did it infuriate me. You set up an entire environment, the posing, etc., and when you want to apply the last touch by sculpting the clothes... The actor refuses to work.

Anyways, I spent the majority of the last two days building our girl Katie back up and now she's back to being a cutie that I can send to Zbrush.

I will make this one here a Bibi Log as I now can't show what I wanted to show.

Work has been as good as it's never been before. At the end of this month, I'll give some numbers to show how incredibly productive this month has been.

The update is now more than half done and yeah... Now I've gotta do some animations.

A point I wanted to discuss was my approach to lewd scenes. I will go into it with the actual Dev Log using the correct renders and videos to describe/showcase what I'm doing.

Here are some visuals to the animations that I'm going to do next.

"Let's get banned from the gym."

Ocean

Hello,

So, welcome to the next Dev Log


The last Dev Log was quite a bit controversial due to the changes I made to Scarlet.
And I expected this.

I'm a person that tends to overthink. And that's pretty much what happened with Scarlet. At first, I was like "She looks too young."
Then I was like "Stop overthinking, Ocean."... But what if I was right?
So I made the decision to not do any more renders with her until I got some feedback that either support my thoughts about her looking too young or her being mature enough.
I personally am a huge mature/milf fan and so I just had to go back and change her again. (Gladly, I didn't do any more renders with her.)
The second new version I created just didn't do it for me. That wasn't Scarlet. It felt wrong.
So I did go back to what felt right and left some parts of Scarlet untouched. But changed others quite drastically.
To refresh your memory... Here's the old Scarlet from various chapters.

Chapter 2


Chapter 3


Chapter 6


In Chapter 6 she had a visual upgrade.
So, for the new new one, I custom sculpted her body and changed her hair again. Did some small skin and material changes and that was it. This Scarlet just feels like Scarlet... But I still had to do some changes to make her fit more to her updated personality and story. (4k version attached.)


While the old Scarlet always embedded some sort of Rocker theme, the new one needed some "classy" drops.
With the next Dev Logs, I will show some actual in-game renders with the new model.

2. Zoey and Katie
Now we get to the next point of today's Log.
Two other well-known characters will be previewed.
I did preview Katie before and she didn't get changed much. Zoey on the other hand got a full-out rework.
In the old WiAB, I wanted to start Zoey's story much MUCH later. Which was a big mistake because a major story point would've started way too late.
In the new WiAB, Zoey's story will begin within the next two chapters and quite some lore will be dropped on you.
Let's get to some visuals. First the old ones.

Old Katie (Chapter 3)


Old Zoey (Chapter 3. Warning: Nightmare inducing.)


Both together (Chapter 6)


One thing I always hated about Zoey was her weird body. She had huge tits, a super narrow hip, and a big ass.

I had already previewed her with these two renders:




Her body got custom sculpted and reworked her skin map.
Here is an actual Chapter 2 in-game render.


There's one issue I still have with her and it's the SSS (Subsurface Scattering.) I will work on that while I go through the update.

Now Zoey... Good old Zoey... She gave me quite the headache and I tried a lot of different variations.


The new Zoey changed quite a lot.

Besides the obvious hair and skin material changes, I also changed her body.
She's now thicker and a little chubbier. I will preview some actual body shots of her in the upcoming logs.
And her personality also got updated. She still has some things from the old Zoey but she's way less "Sexual for the sake of being sexual."

So yeah, I guess that was it.

All new renders are available in High res at the bottom to download.

Take Care!

- Ocean
:)