Not only is a “port” of Date Ariane to Renpy not happening (see last post), but a “remake” is not in the cards either. As I explained hover text is very difficult to do in Renpy. I have also found that converting the javascript code to Renpy is proving too difficult even with simple menus. The javascript implementation is split
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This weekend, I set myself a goal of recreating the first 10 “pages” of Date Ariane in Renpy. I was going to call it my “Proof of Concept”. I only got to page 3 before deciding it is way too freaking hard. I’m not saying there won’t be a Renpy version of the Date Ariane story, I’m saying that the
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I thought I’d take time out from working on Something’s In The Air, to show some changes to Ariane. If I get around to updating Date Ariane, I will be using these models. So this is more of a preview of the prequel remake, I think. Ariane’s looks have changed once again. This time I changed the shape of her
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As I have mentioned numerous times before, the “sequel” to Date Ariane, known as Something’s In The Air features an updated model of Ariane, that took quite a bit of work to get right. Redoing over 1000 pictures from Date Ariane is out of the question for the foreseeable future (but I’m not saying never). But if I ever got
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I thought I’d post about a common problem in 3D art, and what I have done to solve it. It is called the “crowd problem” and has been a difficulty with all 3D animation. The first 3D animated movie Toy Story solved it by never having any crowd scenes. AntZ, the second 3D animated movie had hundreds of ants doing
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I knew after doing the 7.1 update that I would do one more update to Ariane’s Dating Simulator, or as I am now dubbing it Date Ariane. This update consists of three or four minor changes, mostly updates of the home store and the dress shop. Also the “Date Experience” code shows up at the end of the date. The
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7.0 worked out pretty good, fewest bugs ever! Because I fixed those bugs, and added practically no new content, this one ought to be even fewer, or hopefully none. The primary focus of the 7.1 release is to set up the sequel, but since the sequel has at least a good year before release, there should be no rush to
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I just discovered that not only have I been on Second Life for 7 years. Ariane Barnes has been around as a virtual character for 10 years. The above picture is rendered from the oldest complete “Ariane” poser file I could find, dated April 30, 2001. Ariane has been an online character for over a decade now. The original concept
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All the stuff I wanted to do for version 7 is finally complete. So I am officially releasing version 7 of Ariane’s Dating Sim. The full release can be downloaded here. If you already have the 7beta version download, all the changes since then can be downloaded as a small patch here. The primary changes made since the beta release:
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Yes, I finally finished it to the point it is releasable, and I’m declaring it version 7 because there is so much new stuff. I basically got rid of most of the video game screenshot backgrounds and replaced them with new 3D art renders. There are 291 new pictures, and I have at least 8 more I still want to
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