bendzz

I've been hard at it since Becumming #8, and my soft body physics engine is really starting to take shape:
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For those just joining us, I think physically simulating the body down to the bone is the missing key to making sexy 3D characters, especially naked ones. Hollywood's been doing it for a decade, but it's never been in games before- I'm not exactly sure why, but soft body sims can take hours to process per frame, so that's my bet.
Well. My simulation runs fine not just at game speeds, not just at VR speeds, but even on cheap mobile VR headsets like the Quest! The sim only eats about 20-25% of that little mobile GPU atm, hitting an easy 72 fps and leaving plenty of room for graphical TF goodness. I'm super hyped!

There's still a lot to do yet obviously, this isn't the final look. Aside from rebuilding the models and lighting to match my pay comics, we need:

-Collision detection and handling (for VR groping and sex)
-Proper point weighting (so the nipples don't drag like lead weights)
-Volume preservation (for squishy fun)
-Stretch limiting (really important for breasts)
-A zero G base model (so the body reacts to gravity accurately)
Plus lots of little things like preventing element inversions and more serious physics weighting tools. But good news! Based on past research papers all that stuff ought to require way less GPU power than what's already done.

Whew. It's been a long 3 years of R&D but it's really starting to look like this might happen! Thanks again to Bio and NRN for all the help. The porn implications here are obvious, but I'm perhaps most excited to see what it does for face animation
Of course, it's not a sure thing yet. I've been at it about 6 months full time and I bet it'll take another 6 months until sexy TF is happening. I can keep self funding, but dealing with the setbacks and coding grind is going to be the tough part. Cross your fingers.

Kaeso and Gillpanda are putting together a TF and sex heavy visual novel game, and as a tribute to the TF community they're giving folks like myself cameos    Gillpanda's doing all the characters, I'm hoping to see a TFTG like this one somewhere  www.furaffinity.net/view/17931…  

Go check out the kickstarter, it's all funded so they're shooting for bonus characters and art now bit.ly/familiartravelsgame  And look for my wanna-be mischievous fox character in the background somewhere  =]

I'm just bouncing around until October 16th. If you live here and want to get drinks, let me know. It's nice hanging out with locals who know tf

I've already done Amsterdam and London. I'm thinking Dusseldorf, munich and Switzerland next. I'm meeting people in Switzerland (Lucerne), Sweden (Örebro and Stockholm), Austria (veinna), and the Netherlands again later, so those are musts.

It'd be nice to visit more Nordic countries too, I'm curious about the politics there. From a Canadian perspective they seem pretty nifty


discord.gg/CVHcb3 here's my discord for quicker chatting
EDIT updated link discord.gg/9VPFbyy
EDIT: updated updated link discord.gg/7ckN7ch

It's much too soon to be making any real announcements, but briefly: I put in a few months of R&D and got to here trello.com/c/dmiqCZcD/41-new-c…  
You can see a breakdown of the effort on my twitter twitter.com/bendzzTransform

Again, it's too early to be making promises. But this algorithm, if it works in full, would take a solid chunk out of the uncanny valley and make some truly amazing porn (not to mention character animation!). In its current state it'd already be great for boobs and butts, but we can do better, I know it!
Unfortunately it's going to be quite a few months yet before we'll have anything solid. And right now I have to stop and draw a pay comic or two.

Also believe it or not the majority of my time in 2016 went towards TF stuff, I just haven't finished much of it heh. 2016, the year of WIP

I want to develop an overly ambitious, never before done porn video game. It will rely on procedural animation techniques that don't currently exist in real-time, and take a minimum of 1400 work hours. I have no experience in professional AAA game development.

Phew, ok that's a high bar. Much too risky for crowdfunding in its current state. It wouldn't be the first time I've failed an endeavour either, last year I spent 6 months full time building porn animations, and weeks coding add-ons for Blender to allow a new form of 2.5D animation... All of which I had to abandon when my credit ran out. Shit.

What do I have going for me? Well, 13 years experience in programming small video games and simulations, a few years of university. Not that special, what else. Well... I typically spend under $15k USD per year... But if I worked full time on pay comics, the math works out to nearly 6 figures of yearly income. That's quite a disparity!



Cut to the chase? I'm going to crank out loads of pay comics to buy time, hire experienced developers, and go full force developing the insane foundations I want for the TF game. I just turned 24, this is perhaps my last chance to completely uproot my life on some crazy project. The volume of pay content will probably piss off my audience, but I'm sick of just endlessly talking about the TF game. The time's come.