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Thank you so much for your reply and suggestions. I originally used RenPy as my game engine and developed with it for quite a long time. However, it has no graphical user interface—everything has to be coded via commands. Whenever I needed to implement certain visual features, I had to dig through forums and tutorials, most of which were only available in English. I eventually switched to Visual Novel Maker, which features a graphical interface. It did make development much easier, yet it comes with quite a lot of bugs. That’s why I’ve switched to a brand-new engine this time, a visual novel engine developed by a Chinese company. Its support is really solid, though I won’t know how well the final result turns out until I finish the entire project.

I already used ChatGPT and Gemini for translation work on Vision Ghost 2. Back then, these AI models still lacked robust Chinese language support, so many translated sentences ended up sounding unnatural. This time, I plan to try out domestic Chinese AI engines instead.

(This reply was translated by Doubao. Do you think it reads smoothly?)

Wicks992 days ago (1 edit)

Yes this reply translates fine, definitely much better than the one in Vision Ghost now.

Yea I get RenPy can be pretty intimidating at first for non-coders but I suppose now with China AI models gaining market share rapidly, you might be better off investing time and effort to setup an AI agent and buy tokens from Deepseek etc. and have it do almost all of the code heavy lifting for you.

Agents used to be monopolised by GPT & Claude that charge a bomb for miserable quotas, but now other competitors are offering cheap enough even for casual users or small businesses like yourself.

Another thing is if you want to sell to international users beyond China and Japan, animations for key lewd scenes are almost a necessity to stay competitive. They can either be done manually or using AI, but whether this fits your creative vision and investment criteria you'll have to figure out.

Just some thoughts and suggestion. Hope it helps.

Tsai Xiaoren2 days ago

Nearly all large AI models currently come with more or less usage restrictions, and adult-oriented content in particular is strictly prohibited.

I might build a small AI server of my own once the cost of relevant hardware drops in the future, which I could use for animation rendering. Obviously, this is not feasible right now due to the exorbitant hardware prices.

Wicks991 day ago (1 edit)

Actually if you call through API instead of browser chat bots and desktop apps, the censorship is much more muted. I know at least Deepseek has no problems handling NSFW written material, so that should help greatly in AVN coding. As for animations, yea still no way to generate adult stuff on mainstream models to date.

You might be better off just setting up your workflow on something like ComfyUI cloud and just pay for server usage rather than buying exorbitant GPUs like 5090 which is so ridiculously overpriced that you'l need to generate tons of animations to break even.

Even the best 5090D can only host at most a heavily quantisized ~30B model, so it's gonna suck badly at agent work, not to mention much slower. It makes more sense to subscribe or buy tokens on the go IMO. Just give it a try, but $5 worth of tokens from Deepseek or Mimo (2 cheapest mainstream models) and give it a try.

Tsai Xiaoren1 day ago

I believe personal AI hardware devices will become far more widespread and affordable in the future.
There are already personal AI servers available that I can afford right now.
Using ComfyUI, I can generate a 10-second 1080P animation within ten minutes,
though the results still haven’t lived up to my ideal expectations.

Since over two-thirds of the entire production workflow has already been completed,
no further revisions will be made in theory. All upcoming projects will still focus primarily on static imagery.
Animation features may not be incorporated until my next work,
by which time AI animation production should be much more refined and polished.

Wicks9919 hours ago

Cool! All the best mate!

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