In both cases, the lighting on the "before" images actually looked slightly better to me; the "after" images have less contrast, which makes the faces look kind of flat.
Not sure if this is a Mac gamma difference or if it would be helpful to add more key light and reduce the fill light just a bit.
But the extra detail looks great.
Running into a glitch with saves:
AttributeError: 'Char' object has no attribute 'activeconds'
Everything seems to work afterwards, so I *think* it is ignorable unless you're reloading a save that was in the middle of combat, because it is only used by the combat engine, but I thought I would ask if you could add that attribute back, along with a comment that it is deprecated/unused, and retained only for saves backwards compatibility.
Google Drive downloads have a limited number of downloads per day, after which it gets blocked for a day. In my experience, that's way, way worse as a delivery mechanism when you have a large number of people downloading it all at once. Some AVNs end up being not downloadable for weeks after release when they use Drive.
Is it really that bad to have to wait five hours for the download to continue? :-)
I mean yes, in a browser, it would be miserable, but use the mega downloader app or the megadl command-line tool, and it's no big deal.
Part of it is because Itch groups discussions per project and not per creator. So if someone doesn't follow all of a creator's works, it's easy to assume that no status update in a particular project = creator has quit/died/been abducted by aliens.
As for me, I always assume abducted by aliens. A few months later, the creator usually pops up again, and that makes for a far more entertaining explanation than working on other projects.
Do you not still support direct credit card payments? It seems like a lot of stuff available for sale can only be bought through PayPal, which is a non-starter. You couldn't pay me to deal with that company again. I used to see this for occasional titles, but now, it seems to be a lot more widespread, and it basically invalidates Itch as a software distribution platform.
I'm assuming this has something to do with the mass censorship campaign you've become engaged in at the behest of your payment processor? If so, then you need to seriously get your act together and find a payment processor that isn't trying to strong-arm you. The current state of your platform is seriously bad, and users are leaving.
There are plenty of payment processors that don't do stuff like that. There are literally companies that specialize in handling payments for adult content and similar specifically because so many of the major players have turned into abusive a**holes. Find a payment processor that supports your specific business model, and by that I mean your *entire* business model. Trying to change your business model to suit a payment processor just doesn't work, and can only lead to serious problems in the short and long term.
In the 0.8 release, at least when run with the Ren'Py 8.3.4 engine, the music is kind of bugged for me. When it gets to this spot:
play music2 ["<silence 2>"]
queue music2 piratewellermanfast fadein 4
it sounds like it is playing two copies of the track at the same time and jerkily switching between them. If I stop music2 and requeue it, it's fine. Should that be
play music2 ["<silence 2>", piratewellermanfast]
maybe?
Not even close, I'm pretty sure. It is only up through the end of the first two seasons.
It's absolutely worth checking out, though. It is among the top-tier AVNs out there, right up there with Eternum in terms of having a rich story, deep characters, and solid writing.
It's more than an AVN. It's an epic saga at this point, with each update dropping a whole movie worth of content. The 0.14 update alone kept me occupied for probably three or four hours, and I'm a fast reader. It's jaw-dropping.
Saves from 0.5 don't work in 0.5, either. I'm running into errors caused by not being able to roll back.
I think the problem is that you have 7,000 lines between labels and a maximum rollback buffer of the default, which I think is only 40 lines. You need to A. increase that and B. keep the distance between labels shorter than the limit or loads won't work.
Specifically, anything within that limit will always roll back to the previous label instead of starting at the load point, and anything outside that limit will throw an exception.
So basically, crank up the rollback limit to several hundred, and then add a label every couple of hundred lines at natural scene breaks, and these problems should go away.
I can't remember if I asked this before, but if you have the non-character assets (I'm assuming things like the house are commercial models), have you thought about setting up the scenes in Daz with the base model (e.g. G8F or Victoria 8 or whatever) and get all of the character positioning, facial expressions, lighting, etc. figured out for each scene, so that whenever you finally get the character assets back, you can drop the real model in, copy the pose from the mock, and start rendering?
One is based on currency equivalents for the purposes of international trade. The other is based on what you can buy with that money locally.
The average annual wage in Egypt is 156,526 EGP, which is a little over $3,000 U.S.,, so in terms of income you can think of 3 EGP as being equivalent to 1 USD.
A typical car costs 500k EGP, which is under $10k U.S. So in those terms, you can thin of 10 EGP as being equivalent to 1 USD.
But in terms of currency conversion, it is about 51 EGP to the dollar, making goods bought from the U.S. anywhere from 5 to 17 times as expensive as they are from the perspective of someone living in the U.S.
This is why most store systems allow you to set different prices in different countries. $18 U.S. is a meal for one person here in the U.S., but enough money to feed a family for a week in many parts of the world.
Not a very thin line at all. NTR = You see your love interests hooking up with someone else. Cheating = you hook up with someone who is already in a relationship. In the second case, there's no NTR as long as the existing relationship either ends after meeting the MC or isn't a romantic/sexual relationship (e.g. a marriage for money or power).
The only time it's a grey area is when that existing relationship remains ongoing, so that you don't know whether the love interest might be doing off-screen things as part of that existing relationship. It's arguably not NTR, because nothing is being shown or talked about, but it is at least a grey area.
Some itch.io sites (bitingthebullet.itch.io, possibly others) are triggering an invalid certificate error in Safari. The site is currently using a wildcard cert from Fortinet. Your main itch.io site is using a different wildcard from a different CA, so I'm assuming that this is fallout from the Fortinet compromise a couple of months ago, and that somehow the certs on certain sites just didn't get replaced correctly. Either that or someone is actively trying to MiTM me, but the former seems more likely.
I've never understood the whole "force the Patreon model on Itch users" approach, regardless of whether developers do it by doing stupid things like creating new products for each version and charging each time or just do it by abandoning Itch releases as this developer appears to be doing.
IMO, all that is likely to do is make a lot of former users mad and guarantee that they never pay you anything. After all, if we wanted to support something with continuous payments, we'd already be supporting you on Patreon.
If, instead, you just charged some reasonable percentage of the expected final Steam price to buy the next version and all future versions, from a financial perspective, even if every single person who is no longer getting it for free buys it on Steam, you'd still probably come out ahead by selling it for 2/3rds of that price now and investing the money, because it would grow to more than the final Steam price by the time you release it, and if necessary, you'd have that money now.
That's not even factoring in how many of the users will have entirely forgotten about it by the time it makes it to Steam, if it even does. (Remember how high Steam's rejection rate is for AVNs.)
And speaking as a professional software developer myself who has an absolute "just say no" policy towards any software that even starts to smell like a subscription (including serialized content) because of the perverse incentive that it creates to dribble out fixes just quickly enough to make money without actually delivering something that is complete/usable, I'm forced to agree with the folks who say that this is as good as dead, at least as far as most Itch users are concerned.
If it doesn't take too long, maybe some of us will still remember it by the time it appears on Steam and buy it there, but I wouldn't count on it unless that happens a lot sooner than this last version's 15-month release cycle suggests.
I wish you the best of luck, but I don't think this will have the effect that you think it will.
I am not a lawyer, and more to the point, I am not a German lawyer, but to give strictly non-legal advise, at this point, I think it would be more than reasonable to contact a German lawyer to inquire about filing a civil suit against the police department for financial damages arising out of their repeated and unreasonable delays in returning your equipment or a copy of your data from that equipment.
Their delays are costing you actual money, their delays are far beyond what any reasonable person would consider acceptable, and it seems highly likely to me that a judge would agree with both of those statements and find in your favor. If they can't clone a hard drive in under a year, then the only reason they're holding your drives is for a fishing expedition, which is illegal under pretty much every country's legal code, including Germany's, as far as I know.
And to be blunt, the longer they take to return it, the more likely it is that you'll end up suing them anyway to get it back. But the doctrine of Laches (which AFAIK is also a thing in German law) will end up limiting the payout if you take too long to file such a lawsuit, because they'll be able to reasonably argue that by waiting to enforce your rights, you allowed the damages to accrue, so there's likely no advantage to waiting any longer.
There's no defense like a good offense. Just go on the offensive and be done with it. Enough is enough.
You need to find the earring just to the right of the girl in the grass (tiny and purple).
Related bug: The dog cannot be found, and the if statements are backwards, so if dog_found ever does get set to True somehow, you'd be able to keep clicking on the girl and getting a $1000 reward over and over again.
If you have HomeBrew installed, just do "brew install megatools" and then use "megadl https://mega.nz/..." to download from the command line. Or use Chrome, which doesn't have the 2 GB limitation, but megadl works better.
Having trouble with 0.99. It won't load any saves from early in version 90 onwards with the error "AttributeError: 'absolute' object has no attribute '__dict__'". Basically, every save from September of 2023 onwards is failing.
Any ideas short of mass nuking everything from the last year and starting over?
