Continuing Bathing Part 6

I am deep in implementing a ton of features for bathing. v0.5 will be released June 22nd (due to a potential business trip I may have to take) with the next beta releasing this weekend for supporter tiers which will include everything so far and today's devpost. I may make a new YouTube video sometime this weekend as well.

Today's devpost is meaty since it includes tons of new animations. As I said before, Shinobu's animation system is very complex and is driven by her behavior modules. I have created alternative body state animations so headpats and poking can work while bathing. The video below demonstrates poking in her BATHING_RELAX body state.:

Just like when she is standing, she will respond to the direction you are poking her. Another body state is BATHING_IDLE which also has had poking implemented:

Notice how the bathtub lights up. This is a bug because I haven't made it so if you poke her, the bathtub doesn't think you are pointing to it. Another meaty re-implementation is headpatting her. Yes you can now do it while she is bathing:

I did have a small heartgasm as well. Still haven't finalized her transition for this one so it's a bit jumpy. Will be fixed by next devpost.

Of course you can make her angry if you headpat her too hard:

Notice how my hand momentarily grabs onto her head. This is just part of the old "Mixing behaviors" mechanic which you can do at all times. Once she is angry, Shinobu will have a different set of animations like when she is standing. When she is angry and you poke her she does this:

This animation design decision actually came from the fact that I'd like to lighten my animation workload so i can get more stuff done. So I didn't want to make 2 poke react animations when she is angry and instead just made an alternative "sinks head" animation that covers both. Also did it for the sake of variety.

The last animation I made was for giving her the ability to switch bathtub sides:

Yes she is now fully censored with bubbles. There ain't anything underneath anyways. Foot clipping is annoying and tricky to get rid of as the animation itself is actually in place and only her global transform is rotating.

When she is angry, this switch sides animation will be used to avoid you. As in, if you are on her close side, she will switch to the other side to stay away from you. When she is happy she will use this animation to get close to you so you can help her wash her hair. Washing hair will probably be started in the next couple devposts. It is the last feature to wrap up bathing. There is a ton of things for it such as mechanics for shampoo items, and grabbable VR hair physics.

There will be some features that I wont implement for bathing because I feel it would be odd during bathing. This includes tummy poking and cheek kissing. Having her hold items will also not be implemented because that would take a ton of work to do. However, I am open to her reacting to available items that the player has. Such as polaroid camera. If you bring it to her while bathing, she will become very embarrassed and angry. That's just an idea for later.

Lastly, I've reached 100 Patrons and I am very grateful. This has been so far a very fun project to work on. I'm also reminding you all that this is my hobby project that I put in about 21 hours every week because it's FUN. I'm not in it for the money but I am in it for showing off technological capabilities. I've enjoyed developing this for you and myself. Perhaps it will grow to something bigger? Who knows, but stay tuned and find out.