Now I properly approximate the position of the nipple based on the soft body physics, blendshapes, and bone scaling.
I also do real rigidbody constraints in order to attach stuff to them-- but because they update positions so often, it causes some pretty extreme oscillations.
With some more work I think they'll work and look great, b...
2020-07-17 09:32:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I almost didn't make a post for this, but it's still neat anyway.
Settings are now serialized to json scripts found in your data folder, so finally changed settings stick through restarts.
Unfortunately screen resolution settings don't load until AFTER the unity splash screen. I might finally have to buy a pro license...
2020-07-17 09:12:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobolds now spawn with a random hue variation, in the future hues will be restricted to certain species.
I'm also planning on there being a random set of dicks and horns that kobolds can get based on their color.
2020-07-17 08:58:07 +0000 UTC View Post
I originally made the Kobolds have no belly buttons for two reasons:
1. Belly buttons are hard.
2. Lizards and scalies don't have belly buttons.
I found out both reasons were wrong!! Things that hatch from an egg form an umbilical cord just like mammals.
I also realized my skill has increased a little, ju...
2020-07-17 08:53:53 +0000 UTC View PostJust finished handing out keys to new patrons for June. Let me know if I missed you and you think you deserve a key!
2020-07-05 21:54:49 +0000 UTC View Post
Hit boxes of penetrators now adjust themselves based on how much is visible, so you cannot grab an invisible part of a huge dick.
Also, kobolds no longer instantaneously react to not being penetrated anymore, keeping them from looping an animation right at the tip of a penetrator.
Tomorrow I'll be handing out keys to pat...
2020-07-05 02:46:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobolds no longer try to right themselves if there's a big enough penetrator in them.
This lets Kobolds just casually hang from knots. Like so!
2020-07-04 23:30:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Trying to prevent issues like this one. (Thanks LuxIsBored!)
I was surprised to find when I came back to physics, it suddenly "clicked" for me. I understood how to write more stable physics...
2020-07-04 23:14:59 +0000 UTC View PostI used to hate visual programming. Things like Unreal Blueprints are dreadfully slow and very difficult to read. While also being very awful for versioning tools like git.
Though I realized that visual node-based programming is a tool like any other, and for some tasks it's extremely good. (Shader programming, dialogue trees, and maybe AI ...
2020-07-04 22:40:37 +0000 UTC View Post
Sorry I've been so quiet about this update, most of my time was spent trying to home-grow my own behavior tree system for AI. (Technical post soon.) I also spent a lot of time developing a conversation system and dealing with a bunch of bugs that were slightly outside of my control. Anywho I still managed to get some stuff done and I think it's ...
2020-06-30 07:27:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This won't be super interesting for people wanting to see Kobold boobs but I think it's still worth talking about.
I was just running the CI machines near my workstation, hooked up to random monitors, but after a few power outages from the circuit breaker I needed to move things around.
Today, I've finally got them stowed away in the...
2020-06-30 06:21:50 +0000 UTC View PostFrom now on I'll be using Steam to handle distributing builds. So I'll be handing Steam keys to patrons in private messages in order for you to get your hands on it!
I just sent out a set of keys to new patrons, welcome to the party! If you feel like you should have a key but don't have one, let me know!
2020-06-05 21:40:34 +0000 UTC View Post
A new KoboldKare patch available on Steam right now! Still lots to do, but I did some world-building and plopped some characters into the scene. I'm going to be working on NPC interaction and AI next. (Sorry, the Kobolds will still be as dumb as rocks for a while).
Also, for those of you who have been having crashing trouble. Try the "with...
2020-05-31 01:19:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I wrote a proper physics solver for making penetrations work! This leads to slightly less accurate penetrations, but now they have a proper effect on the physics of the characters.
Using my friend calculus, I also figure out how much force should be applied based on the girth curves of the dick. This makes the shape of penetrators matter a...
2020-05-13 03:46:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This is going to be a more technical post, I was surprised how little information online there is about rendering decals on a skinned mesh.
First off, I'm using HDRP, the fancy new render pipeline for Unity and it has built-in support for decals! These decals are hyper-efficient, though they are a very particular kind of decals commonly kn...
2020-04-20 12:14:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Kobolds have a lot of complex calculations going on-- They've got IK to dynamically pose their limbs, soft body physics for bounciness, soft body collisions, and they've got 8-10 colliders so that they accurately collide with things.
All of this doesn't matter when you have a massive ball of them. So I wrote a system that finds the 5 close...
2020-04-14 04:39:06 +0000 UTC View Post
During a system re-write they were lost, I got them working again though!
Though I've received a bit of a negative response to it. What do you guys think?
2020-04-07 03:27:46 +0000 UTC View PostI sent out keys to every "active" patron! (These are the folks who have paid for march).
There's a good 30 of you who are recent patrons and just haven't hit the pay period yet, if you're one of these people-- Please message me on discord (naelstrof#7705) or here on Patreon and I'll get you a key asap!
It doesn't matter wh...
2020-04-01 02:14:15 +0000 UTC View Post
I didn't just release the same build, I've made some changes too!
First off is that my Linux machine hard-drive failed. I didn't lose any work-- but this means that the Linux build is going to be behind until I get my machine back up to speed.
I'm planning on buying a work Mac and Linux machine to do some continuous integration, then...
2020-04-01 02:00:41 +0000 UTC View Post
KoboldKare is now available on Steam! Please wait for me to send keys to all my current patrons, it might take me a while but I'll get keys out to everyone in a bit. Please be patient with me!
All future builds will be distributed through Steam for a while, and I'm going to have to change Patron rewards in order to comply with S...
2020-04-01 01:03:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I was trying really hard to release to steam as the next build, but the trailer I released is reeling in some people and I'm not ready to release to Steam yet! Here's the changes for this build:
The game is in a state where I think it's almost ready to go on Early Access for Steam! Builds from now on will be using Steam as a way to distribute builds and updates.
When it's ready, all current patrons will get a free Steam key as a thank you for supporting me to get this far! (Yes that includes everyone, including the Cuties!)
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2020-03-09 23:24:44 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm sorry it took so long, I honestly was writing up a big post about how porting to HDRP wasn't going to work. Despite being out of preview, Unity keeps pushing project-breaking updates to the render pipeline. It was crashy, glitchy, poorly documented, and isn't performant.
....but I really wanted to use it because it would allow me to pu...
2020-02-27 22:50:11 +0000 UTC View Post
There was a couple assets I've been using that don't support Linux or Mac, with the release of the High Definition Render Pipeline in Unity 2019.3. I've been working on updating the game to work with it. It does come at a cost (framerates), but it should work fully on all platforms!
Here's a tiny video of some of the refraction, planar ref...
2020-02-01 08:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Get it here: https://gum.co/wxdO/patreon
Sorry for no KoboldKare updates in January, I'll make a few progress posts detailing why in a bit. (it involves pushing for Linux and Mac support).
2020-02-01 08:48:16 +0000 UTC View PostI sent free codes for the Kobold Player Model Pack ( https://gumroad.com/l/wxdO ) to Kobold tiers and above.
Let me know if you should've got one and didn't, Cuties and Double Cuties will get a code in the next couple weeks.
2020-01-24 03:34:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Got around to fixing the blendshapes, and cleaned up the math so bellys can bulge again.
In this demonstration the nozzle was hacked to output much more flow, inflation would normally be locked behind gear that has enough output to do so.
2020-01-14 23:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
A Zoey and Rochelle replacement for Left 4 Dead 2! Part of the Kobold Playermodel Pack (https://gum.co/wxdO) It supports the bile shader, full view models, flexes, and even has vgui overrides for when they get downed.
2020-01-08 21:04:14 +0000 UTC
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An Alyx and Kleiner replacement for Garry's Mod, as well as a proper playermodel with view model. Part of the Kobold Playermodel Pack (https://gum.co/wxdO).
Respects player color and work...
2020-01-08 20:58:47 +0000 UTC View Post