Hey there,
hope you're doing well.
I'm deep into rerendering the images for the VN.
What started as a simple rerender turned out to be a much needed rework of all renders up to v0.15. Except v016 because since the virtua game is intended to be a virtual recreation of the ingame reality it can look the way it does without changes.
Cary-June got a new black-golden dress and some repairing of her underlying UV map which caused cracks in her skin texture. You, as the player, never saw them but they were there and they annoyed the hell out of me.
I'm also using the latest iterations of the tall amazonian Zandra and her smaller girlfriend Geena. The former got a new skin in, I think 0.14 or so. Her bigger frame caused the skin texture to look like a pimple swamp around her butt. Not anymore. Zandra was a real banger before but now she rocks.
Geena got some changes to her body and face and according to your reactions it made her just they way she was supposed to look. Petite, sexy and fierce. You will be surprised when you see her for the first time!
Trish's face got a slightly different nose and some changes to her mouth doesn't made her look "a bit intimidating" as some of you were putting it. Her blonde hair got a new shader and now it doesn't have that strange plastic shine anymore. She's gotten some Cyberlines under her eyes in orange-purple. Her lips were improved as well.
Easy to see that Trish benefitted the most.
Asako will keep her tattoo which you have seen in the july wallpaper.
Keely remains unchanged, just like A-Z. Tried to convert her from G3 to G8(a technical description for the version of charactersG3 is a few years old and G8 was introduced 2 1/2 years ago. Neweset versions are so called G9 which I don't use because there are barely any cyberpunk or sci fi assets for those character models.)
The conversion made A-Z's face too ... smooth somehow. There must have been other changes happenning under the hood. Her smile turned out to be looking like someone stomped on her foot and she had to tolerate it. That change wasn't very usable so I throw the conversion over board.
Anthea also's gonna keep the tattoo that she had in an older wallpaper and maybe some back tatto.
Deanna got no changes until today. There could some but I have no idea what I could add or throw out to make her even more cute, so she will be her old self.
All those changes on top of updating to DAZ 21.05 with improved IRAY lighting(the render engine that produces the images) and many more other things are responsible that the images look way way better than 3 years back.
Another setting that looks way better now.
This is just a short glimpse on the many improvements
Cyberlinxxx is undergoing right now. There are still a lot of images left that will be rerendered and replaced in the next weeks. It is also one of the reasons, if not the biggest, that the VN will release in early access ... sonn.
That's it from me today.
Have fun
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