Rexx / Orcslayers

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It's now September and I really wish time would slow down. Feels like my kids just got out of school for summer and now they have been back IN school for two weeks.

On another note, fuck ADHD.

The only reason I had the stamina to learn porn animation was because sex was the only thing that gave me happy chemicals. My entire life outside of posting orcs fucking elves is a mostly joyless, static existence.

It gets worse as I age too.

Terrible month. Trying to just get my bearings again as a living person after personal health scares and my brother almost dying.

Can't even enjoy my comfort of posting updates because gamedev has staled a bit and the few things I have experimented with would make most of you probably hate me.

When you need more flexibility with how to organize animations without 2000 different project files so you just make your own internal packaging system. Each layer acts is it's own rig retargeting to a master rig through a reference, much easier to scale.

Taking a week off dev work because I feel so burned out. I need to cool down so I can work on it again, refreshed.

It's low key, but I like my victories. Refactored down my entire character load logic and encapsulated into an actor component. 90% less logic.

Here is an example of me using the new system to quickly build and easily load my characters into a thumbnail generating actor.

So one thing I have considered is a lust system. Concept is bare right now but as action happens over time certain small things change, like skin blush and expression. Sped up for the video.

Ended up rewritting the speak system, removing around 80% of the code. New system has built-in subtitles and can scale, allowing longer chains. Sivana also leveled up her sass a bit.

Just letting you all know, I got in a car accident this week. Luckily I was not seriously hurt, but I am still recovering a bit from the event, some physically, but mostly mentally.

Part of me wants to make a tutorial series. There are tons of tutorials for Unreal, but zero designed for someone who might want to make an adult game. Only reason I don't think I will is I barely have enough time to even work on it, let alone record and talk about it.

The worst feeling in the world is spending ages working out a solution to something, then a month goes by and you need that solution again but you don't remember how you did it so you have to start over researching again.

So I have been thinking of more characters to convert from my old ocs. Definitely going to do some of the orc girls, even though it be tough. Anyone else have suggestions?

Not like the others, no, but I did do some really quick personal animations during that time.

Canonically, the last place I left her was she had escaped Hellfire and rejoined the Sentinels.

Random comment but being unable to get much dopemine sucks ass.

Yes, but it's hard to time manage. I was never great at it already but with a full 50 hour a week job and my family I had to give up almost all my gaming hours just to game dev.

Yeah I would have loved to show these off years ago. I didn't feel safe to do so though. I'm giving a small taste simply for closure on that part of my life.

Horrific Visions was a dungeon type at the end of BFA. I never even played them, as I had quit the game before then, but I used the concept as a way to kind of run wild with "bad ending" type situations. They were all personal, as a way to get out some stress, but I couldn't release them.

If it makes you feel better, that is the official ending. They retired happily to Grok's treehouse. The earlier image was the last of a big group I called horrific visions, if you remember that game mode. Here, have one more from that group, even had a hazy border. Never released these.

Eh should be more clear.

As someone that can't draw if my life depended on it, AI has been cathartic when I just need to get things out of my brain. I don't post any of those for obvious reasons, but as a creator AND lazy bum I find standing on the line between the two a little stressful.

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Everyone on here fighting about AI making my untalented ass feel like this...

Thanks. It may never get me to the place I was with wow, but I enjoy it, and that is what I was looking for.

So little fact, but this was my last wow animation I ever did, and it was years after the scare.

I was getting out major aggression on my old OCs. Made 50 mini-anims of my OCs in terrible situations before I got strong enough to say goodbye and stored them in my attic.

Why do I keep seeing people talk about Ghibli art styles so much right now?

Dev: Been itching to animate again so I am going to try and just animate new stuff for a bit. Reverse Congress was a must have for me, so I am testing out a quick WIP. As an aside, I added a little more texture to the skin too.

Having a cold sucks.

So I am experimenting with how many voice quotes I am okay with in my banter data set.

Generating is easy, but if I ever plan to go to actual VA that can be a hell of a project to update.

Do you think 2 per type is too repetitive? Maybe 3?

I empathize. Honestly I kind of just hate social media in general these days. Sometimes I miss old Twitter before it became a shithole, much like I still sometimes miss Tumblr.

Dev : Adjusted my speech systems a bit by adding a new branch for instances when one actor or another is going down, so other actors will know about it and can comment.

Also goofing around with allowing speech between clone characters, like Mortal Kombat loading scenes. Been fun.

Back in my bed. Going to have a nice sleep and then try to work on things tomorrow. It was a nice vacation but I am itching to restart my hobbies.

Huh I would rather not.