I was doing some work with the program the other day and was trying to get some more facial expression.
So i found a few that i think i could be added if possible.
By the way love the updates. Keep up the great work.
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If I could suggest something off this, I think it would help if the default face for the male character better illustrates this intention? Because the default face is pretty boyish compared to the body, and the male expressions don't particularly give an "adult" impression on their own.
With the previous art style the defaults looked roughly the same age, but when the default female is a young high school student at best, I think it's understandable folks would assume the male is intended to be the same since there doesn't seem to be anything suggesting otherwise.
So, hrm. Possible solution: Maybe make the default hairstyle balding or something?
We'll see. Thanks for the suggestion! We do understand the underlying reason of wanting a similarly 'aged' templates. We'll try adjusting what's exists here and there, but we think providing multiple templates will be the best option in the end. Some wanted the male template to look younger, and others wanted to make it look older. Some wanted a shounen manga aesthetic, and others wanted shoujo manga aesthetic (with tall, skinny, beautiful guys). We'll try our best to accommodate each of those aspirations.
Hello AR14,
Thank you for your time and effort in developing this very useful tool. I don't know if its difficult to implement but having another angle view of the models would be nice and would vary the visuals. For example front view 0° and a 45° view... or maybe there is a way already and I am missing it. I d' like to use a view that changes slightly when they speak .
Hi, I've been using this for a couple of weeks now and I think your tool is amazing! One thing I would love to see is the inclusion of different poses when batch exporting. All the characters I'm creating have a number of poses that they use and being able to have a list of poses that are exported (like expressions/hair/outfits) would be a great QoL improvement!
Hello again! Since I'm already in love with this software, I'll submit some ideas I got.
Thanks for reading all of this, and I obviously know that it's not possible to add most of this since you must already have a lot of work by correcting bugs and improving the software!
Hello! Most of these features are already planned for future updates, but one thing that we would like to comment more is explicit details (such as nipples and genitalia).
Our stance regarding those is that we wont provide any official support, ever. It will be possible to make it yourself and integrate into the app using custom libraries and components (the tutorials for making those will be available in the near future) and we can't stop anyone from doing that. We won't provide those items by default, though.
Thank you very much for your suggestions!
Created a funeral outfit out of the new 0.3.8 content, and I'm wondering if there are any upcoming plans to add more formal attire?
Edit: added image to post.
Yeah, this is part of what we're planning for the next revamp of the face templates. Eye will be split into eyeball, eyelash, eyelid (upper and lower), iris and eye gloss/reflection. It's gonna be a big change and probably break compatiblity with older versions when the update is applied, but it should provide more options for makeup and face colors (dark eyebags included). Thank you very much for your suggestions!
The recent addition of multiple poses to Batch Export got me thinking about combining poses and facial expressions together. As the system stands now, Batch Export can result in about 1440 exported images based on combinations of outfits, hairstyles, expressions, and poses alone. By making poses into a component of a facial expression, that can potentially reduce the export load into a more manageable amount.
I hope I'm explaining this somewhat adequately.
Have you given any thought to batch imports or command line arguments?
First off thank you for creating this! As a developer with zero artistic talent, I am very grateful.
I've taken a look at your file format and its well laid out. thank you for using JSON. it makes these assets easy to version with source control. I'd like to utilize your software as part of the build pipeline. to do this it would have to handle a sort of batch import.
basically I'm requesting that it accepts a set of command line switches that would start the following workflow:
I understand this would probably require a desktop (i.e. its not going to run headless). But making sure that all a projects assets are up to date would be worth running this overnight.
Thank you for your time! and you are doing a great job!
Hello! Thank you very much for your suggestion. Indeed, at this point the app cannot run properly without a desktop. Accepting command line switches and outputting return codes after an automatic processes, however, is something we can do. We'll let you know if this feature has seen some progress in the future!
Hi!
Just bough the sofware on steam, because I think it's a very good idea!
I saw that we will eventually be able to have curly hairs (can't wait to have that option to be honest)
Also, I was woundering if we will have the possibility to add facial hairs to the mens?
Like beards, mustaches? Thanks!
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Just started using it bc I'd love to make actual VNs someday. It feels like it's missing some things, though.
Still, what you guys have so far is great, and I'd love to see it go further!
Maybe this is actually already possible and I'm just not understanding the settings, but one feature I'd like to see would be to be able to copy other settings to all of your expressions besides for their colors.
For example, say you decide a character's eyes should be a little bigger, but you've already made a bunch of expressions for them. Going through each expression to adjust the size one by one, while not necessarily a difficult task, can be time consuming (especially if you have more expressions/characters to consider), but being able to copy the size settings the way we can colors would be able to cleanly get past that in one swoop.
Another thing that might be good to add would be different filters for outfits and such? As is, your average user might not think to click on "default library" to discover there are Christmas and Halloween options- What if, instead, the "default" actually included everything, and then you organized all of the clothes into smaller, separate libraries like the Christmas and Halloween ones already are?
Hello! Thanks for your suggestions! We can implement an 'apply to all' for size modifiers just like the 'apply color for all expressions' button which is already available. Regarding library view, we have to evaluate further first. As content grows, displaying a lot of items all at once can be detrimental to performance; but at least we can say that displaying all of the content from all of the available libraries makes a lot of sense for search result.
Hello there! I just found out this software existed and I am extremely impressed so far! I downloaded the free version to give it a try and see if it will work for me, I'm mainly looking to use it for poses but also for some clothing.
As I'm still on the fence about buying the full version, I'm wondering if it has more variety of both male and female poses? That would sell this to me 100%, mainly more male poses.
I was really hoping for a thoughtful hand on the chin pose and also a hand on the back of the head pose, as if scratching the back of the head (embarrassed and thoughtful type poses I really enjoy).
Also, is it already implemented or would it be possible to add choosing each arm's pose individually?
That way, you could choose to have one hand on the hip, but the other raised to the chin.
Under hair options, could I request a shaven headed style or two, please? I thinking so we can do characters with shaven (but not entirely bald) heads, and styles with undercuts. So, like shaven sides and hair on top, swept to the side.
Also, I don't know how feasible this is, but could there be options for hair tip colours as an addition to base colour? For example, a character with black hair, but the tips are red?
Thank you for your suggestions! We'll try to add more option for shorter and shaved heads in the next update. As for hair extensions/streaks, we think it's already possible with the current structure of 'Additional Hair Parts'. We already has plans for something like this, just haven't been able to execute yet.
Request/Suggestion: "Remove" and "Reset" buttons for "Hairstyle" items
Currently, there are no quick way to remove something for hairstyle items, only for additional parts.
One complexity I would see if a hairstyle would not have a "None" default, like "Default hairstyle" has a "Bold" option instead.
However, for some items there is a clear "None" option.
It would be great to keep things consistent and have "Remove" button for hairstyle items, like "Beard", "Bangs", "Sideburns" etc that are non-essential and have a "None" option available.
Hello! First off, I want to say thank you for making this game! It’s exactly what I need because I’m not an artist at all so a character creator is what I need. And this one fits the bill. But there are some things I'd like you to add at some point down the road. Maybe some of these you were already planning.
Spikey, Shonen esque hair options
Medium or Long ponytails
Muscular male body type (Maybe a slightly muscular female type too for tomboy characters)
Tube tops
The ability for characters to carry certain items in their hands (Swords or food items for examples)
Dress’s
Male Swimsuits
I really hope that you consider these for future updates!