Home: Equestria - Trailer 1https://u.pone.rs/uzlflaet.mp4VR Equestria, AI ponies.Am I warranted in this being its own thread? I aim to recruit playtesters in the coming weeks.
>>43502395looks awesome
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>>43502395Holy SOVL>Anon immediately proceeds to weird out local population with his antics
>>43502395>more AIslop
>>43502395is this from before? I am looking forward to the desktop non VR version.
>>43502395Nice.
>>43502395Glad to see you're making progress on it. I'd definitely be interested in testing it.
>>43502395How did you map put Ponyville and did Blob get back to you?
>>43502395Wow, I liked the last thread, OP. Here's hoping this one goes well, too! Best of luck to you, too (SORRY: I DON'T HAVE ANY CREATIVE SKILLS TO OFFER FRSHDFHSCF)
Rolled 72 (1d100)>>43502395Ignore the haters. It looks great!
>>43502395Looks really cool.
>>43502558Existing map I am going to fill with generative terrain a-la Minecraft to make the world larger. Adding grass, trees, fireflies, et cetera too. Regarding blob; no, I have decided to go my own way creatively. Most of what he did is already created, albeit with a different artstyle and less ponies, though with my new pony model base, that is a trivial matter at this stage and will be done relatively soon>>43502416It will have about as much feature parity as VRChat on desktop because of the nature of the game and how you interact with items. >>43502606>>43502540>>43502628Thank you Anon
>>43502635>though with my new pony model base, that is a trivial matter at this stage and will be done relatively soonGood, because that's a really fucking good looking Dashie.
I wish that blob were to release the models and all stuff he made as is.
>>43502395Home. Or at least it was. Before I fucked everything up.
>>43502395OP the attached picture feels homely though kinda creeps me out, it's got nice vibes. I wish you all the luck in the world to make this work out, even though I'll never put on a headset, I hope this succeeds. Also, thank you for booping Dash in the linked video, very nice.
>>43502395Can someone reupload the video to catbox or something? I can't load poners anymore.
>>43503938https://files.catbox.moe/wmtg8f.mp4
Progress bunp. Mane 6.
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>>43503557aw shiet here we go again
>>43502395This is based. Can the times between speaking to the pony and the pony speaking back to you be improved? The long delay is awkward as fuck. Also, perhaps it's just personal preference, but the world is severely lacking in detail, ie grass. Cool project Anon, post more updates.
>>43502395>Wakes up in Equestria>First thing he does is boop all the maresYou are a menace
>>43504214You wouldn't have any issues with it if he did that to fillies
>>43504281The fillies are made for booping. The mares, however, can and will bite at your fingers.
>10
>>43503951Not a fan of how the lazy eyes are seemingly the default state. It suits Dash, but not the others.
>>43504940They'll have different eye expressions and eyelash styles and such but this is all just to get the bones of the project made
>>43504191Potentially? Most of the wait time is TTS, and I want to look into training some kind of optimized fast model via RVC or that moss-pny one to be included if players wish. Currently, it's using the moss-tts-pny public demo, which takes ~2-7 seconds per line. >>43504214I have a problem, I'm addicted.
Current world, around 15km large. For reference, Skyrim is around 3.4km. There will be a ponyville express. I know it looks like utter ass and it will be redone, blended together, redone again, adjusted, et cetera, until I'm very happy with it.
>>43505479How do you handle physics at the borders?iirc floating points start getting weird above 8km.
>>43503951Genuinely congratulations on not making the 3D look awful. That said:
>>43505479>Pony map is 15km>Skyrim map is 3.4kmThe ponies must not stop expanding until they are about as large as Daggerfall's map.
>>43505479>>43505632>Skyrim is around 3.4km.*milesIn a unit system that actually got to the moon, Skyrim is 5.5km x 6.9km.
>>43505720Oh, woops. Thanks, Anon
>>43505597literally me
Appleoosa, Everfree Forest, Canterlot, some houses on the outskirt.
>>43506189>CantermoreBased. That place is sovlful as fuck.
Do you plan on adding alicorns like celestia or luna, or are you sticking with the open pony models?
>>43506209There is an Alicorn model in the /create/ thread. When he drops it, I'll add it and modify it for the game.
Boop.
>that soft whisper voice dash makes at the endwtf? i thought voice models couldn't do that yet?how far has progress gone since i stopper paying attention?
>>43506914It's the moss-tts public demo, since I had to use my GPU for the game. It'll be the default available option along with customization for local servers or other TTS providers.
Alright anons, let's get (You) involved in the project. We've got the basic forms and shapes of the game down, but what should the actual gameplay be? Combat with changelings in the forest, RPG, learning magic with a leveling system? Dating sim with intricate pony love levels all controlled by the AI a-la Impressions mod for /chag/? Fetch quests, a story mode?
>>43506950Give me a day and night cycle and the calendar from /chag/'s VN and let me live a peaceful life with my wife.
>>43506950>dating simMore like, life sim. With ponies needing food, entertainment, hobby, job, etc. Most of it they provide to each others, but with the town being globally just missing a bit of each so Anon has something to provide that actually make a difference.>fight & leveling & magic & stuffBetter done by taking one of those "local WoW server with bots" package and replacing the models with ponies. Some of those already accept LLM for handling chat.
What engine is this using?
>>43506950>gameplayFuck that noise. I don't wanna do digital chores I just want to harass and raep the ponies.
>>43502395I pose a question. What would you do if this becomes popular and mainstream? If it's within or outside /mlp/, and out of the general fandom at large? This game is something new.
>>43507105I was thinking of having you serve hayburgers as a job for bits life Pony Waifu Sim, and it'll switch your suit & tie for a mcdonalds-like outfit, kek. Other than that, yes this is a good idea. I kind of want it to be a life sim with an element that Anon can affect, with things he can do with the mares.
>>43507511I dunno, Anon, probably release it pseudonymously on itch, or as like, homedevanon, so I can maybe get donations(?) to pay for a better openai account for faster development. I run out of usage in like, 15 minutes on three $20 accounts and like an hour on a $100 claude account. Shit's insane. >>43507492Gameplay will mostly be optional and won't be >forced upon you, unlike you, onto the ponies.>>43507464Godot
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>>43507591Maybe look into other cheaper alternatives like Kimi K3?
>>43508921I work in tech, so my cheaper alternative is uh, my boss's wallet. I got him to pay for a $100 GPT sub. Totally using it for work.
>>43508935Fair. My team's got one of those claude max plans from the boss too so we're sharing that for now. Of course we're encouraged to look for other alternatives though.
>>43502395>human
>>43506950HE'S DOING ITHE'S OVERSCOPING ALREADY BROSHOLD ME
>>43509054We'd be choosing ONE of those to focus on, Anon!!!
>>43506950>Combat with changelings in the forest:(
>>43505236I have a project that may help with this. It's more of a cognitive substrate meant to work across commodity hardware, but it should be adaptable to maintaining persistent characters
>>43509245Talk to me, Anon. Deets. I might add it.
>>43507591>I can maybe get donations(?) to pay for a better openai account for faster development. I run out of usage in like, 15 minutes on three $20 accounts and like an hour on a $100 claude account. Shit's insane.or you could write it yourself for free, retard
>>43509399>or you could write it yourself for free, retardYeah and then progress could go at 1/6 of the speed
>>43509383It's built around a container system that acts as graph nodes embedded within a higher dimension manifold with curvature gated derived vocabulary spaces. The containers also act as RAG, self-training, logic, and dynamic KV cache generation, which can be swapped to VRAM when certain structures are in use. Basically it fancy math with some biological analogues bolted on. It's designed to learn from existing LLMs, and independently train small networks that are good at small tasks, which can be distributed across regular PC servers and talk to each other to enable emergent functionality.Practical application: train a pony character by feeding it fimfic stories. Have it maintain persistent and per-session memories. Have it learn more about itself from stories that explore similar character tropes. Have it learn what it looks like from art. Have it model and animate itself through specialized networks trained off OpenCV and a hand rolled NVAE multimodal vision system. It'll be interesting
it feels really creepy to see ponyville empty
>>43506189What is the World Editor UI from? Are you developing your own world editor, or using a Godot plugin?
>>43509589Simple application to paint the world myself I whipped up.>>43509492Fascinating. I'll look into it.>>43509399I do not know how to code. I am an ideas guy. This is my idea. I am sorry.
>>43509602Addendum, if you DO know how to code, or draw, or model, or... etc, and want to actually contribute to making this project more human-made, I am glad to accept your assistance, because this is a very begrudging use of AI. Would I PREFER if I had infinite resources and a team of codemonkeys under me that I could command at will, who know programming as an art, rather than a win condition? Yes! Of course! Unfortunately, me want Equestria now.
>>43509602.gg/hc5M5mTsP The Friendship Nexus (Don't build the Friendship Nexus)
>>43509665>dicksword I cannot say I am enthused.
>>43509665>DickswordAaaand to the trash it goes
>>43509668>>43509680Don't worry, it can replace that too.
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Bought a stylized tree & grass and cloud and stuff pack for 5 bucks online and porting it to make the environment prettier. Been working on the look of the map, fixing up rough edges and such.
>>43503951wholesome
>>43502395heck yesI have a QS3 and just got https://git.wizard.casa/nak/ponyvrville-linux running on linux pretty recently, would love to see and test something in active development
>>43511253>tieanon made a vr game 12 years agoKekNew trees, grass, clouds.
>>43511272idk tieanon, I just saw some played during a pone.tube thing>12 years:old_anon_chad_ultra_wrinkled:Looks great, and I'm glad you're using Godot, I was fielding that idea myself, take the assets out of the PonyVRville and just rebuild with modern open tooling, thanks for doing it!!!!!!!!!!So are you planning open sauce? Looking for a tester yet?
>>43502395First time seeing this. Godspeed you fucking legend. Back when Facebook bought Oculus there was a massive mourning session on this board because people felt they would never get to see their waifu in VR. AI was a big part of that conversation, too. Projects like this mean those Anons tears weren't in vain; there is nothing more core to the heart of /mlp/ than trying to bridge the gap to Equestria by smashing your head against technology with all of the spirit mankind can muster. I'm so excited to give this a go.>>43503951>>43505225Pinkie is SO CUTE! I'm so excited to see how you make them more unique going forwards.
>>43509399I can Zelle
>>43511910Not at this stage of development, nonny, I wouldn't want to take your money if I wasn't CONFIDENT I could see the finish line, or even know what the finish line to a v1 is...
>>43511440Thank you for the kind words. I took this video with the intention that the Anon in said video is (You). Changelog>added kissing ponies >changed trees, grass>adjusted some things, some models, some textures, so and soforth... >added LOD for faraway regions so you can see canterlot from anywherehttps://u.pone.rs/bjbfxxro.mp4
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>>43502395Impressive, very nice. I'm excited to see where this goes.
>>43512075Kek at the swinging hands waiting for Pinkie to speak
The thing about gamedev is that it takes a long time!!
>>43513346
Derpy!
Rest of the ponies!
>>43509399>says the guy who has never programmed anything of importance
>>43513879Cope. This project I'll be making will be /mlp/'s first ever AI video game project and I already have fans so you can seethe when I post more of my game and people make threads of it when it is done.
>>43513892?
>>43513899
>>43512075Cute! Picking them up to smooch them is endearing. I hope they get more animated and interactive as things go on, 'cuz they do kinda just feel like wandering little game NPCs with a TTS character AI attached at the moment. Thanks for showing off Pinkie more, too.Also>>added LOD for faraway regions so you can see canterlot from anywhereAs it fucking should be. Apex comfy, bless you.
>>43513906There's really no way for me, myself, with my comical incompetency at 3d modeling to shit together that many eyelash styles. I will, however, add AI-driven facial expressions for lines, so she can emote while speaking, and hoof gestures, like raising a foreleg, or doing a little jump or something the AI can also call while speaking. Beyond that, I've no clue.
>>43514038Oh that's cute sounding! And yeah no worries, if this is open sourced at some point I'm sure other anons would be happy to help you out if this gains enough traction.
Trying to come up with activities, gameplay, stuff you can actually DO, both with mares and alone, before I start the grueling and unforgiving task of creating... I dare not utter the words - building interiors. Feedback open.
>>43514216Advanced level snoop booting.Petting.Mane brushing.Tail brushing.Caressing their faces.Blowing raspberries on their bellies.Playing with their ears.Cheek grabbing, both upper and lower.Preening pegasi wings.Hornjobs.Hoof-holding.
>>43514216Mare washing simulator.Rarity demand 34 different products and 12 different steps when it come to which water temperature to use to rinse.Dash is fine with the backyard's hose.
>>43514499KEK Adding.
>>43514216Fluttershy tasks you with finding one of her pets, you can throw the little shits at her when you do.
>>43512527>Kek at the swinging hands waiting for Pinkie to speaki didn't believe you at first but after rewatching it holy shitgood to know a true autist is doing this project, that's how you know it's gonna be good
>>43512075>randomly assaults ponies on his way to PinkieKino
>>43506950Reign Equestria
Looking into terrain generators like Gaea and World Creator holy fuck they're expensive.
>>43515399assign another anon to vibe code you a terrain generator NOW
>>43514459YesHold Hoof
>>43515399https://extensions.blender.org/add-ons/antlandscape/
>>43514459>mane brushing, tail brushing, caressing faces, playing with ears, preening, hoofholding (LEWD!) Will be added. >advanced level snoop bootingAlready added. https://u.pone.rs/rcwqseub.mp4
>>43515630STOP! STOP! YOU'RE GONNA KILL HER!
you really need to make the outlines on anon thinner.
>>43515633It'll be an option in a settings menu, I like the more stylized look, so that's what I have it set to
>>43515635is there a setting for how thicc anon is? like his booty?
>>43515788Get off the internet, Rainbow Dash!
>>43515805no u
Gaea free tier, working on a custom tiling system to generate exportable chunks of mountains that flow into one another to make a proper looking picturesque world.
>>43513553>>43513720>>43513824"Computah, give these mares docks and make em anatomically correct, then give her teats jiggle physics."
>>43513720Derpy!
>>43503951Looks cool. Are you married to the toon-shaded render style though? I find the black lines on everything a little distracting.
>>43503951It'll be toggleable.
>>43516474>>43516472Meant to reply to you
Incoming large update bump
Changelog >Dock (LEWD!) >Headpats, hoofholding >Facial expressions>character clothing customization! Custom suit colors and patterns, with cosmetics coming>Inventory system for items like brushes, apples, hayburgers, gifts, et cetera. >Popup wrist buttons for opening/closing inventory and customizer which will be expanded with more functions later>Animal crossing animalese for people who don't want to, or can't, use TTS, or for characters that don't have TTS voices>You can smack their ass now. Right on the cutie mark. Video coming after I debug.Todo>Friendship meter/enemy meter/romance tier system>Gifting preferences, memory, friendship preferences>Activities, next update, just one more update bro I promise one more just one more update I promise I promise bro I promise
>>43516935FUCK YES
>>43516935>>Headpats, hoofholding There better be booping too.
>>43517001See>>43515630
>>43516935Unf. Now that’s an update
>>43515630>https://u.pone.rs/rcwqseub.mp4Deserved
>>43516935>enemy meterHow would that work? Would they simply ignore you like in that Glimmer webm or will there be some deeper functionality to it? I assume there will be ways to fix your relationships with them later.
>>43517056If you're an asshole to a pony, they'll think of you as an asshole. If you're kind, they might hear your apology, if it's genuine. Depending on the model you use, of course, some will be positivity-pilled and a gimme whilst others will completely deny you. But I do want to do something to mitigate positivity bias in chats for the most part because some people like to have dynamic relationships with more than one emotion sometimes.
>>43503951thank god it's not the ugly ass gmod pony model
thank god it's not the ugly ass popen model
>11
>>43517070>Dev codes in the ability to punt fillies and colts>Punts Scootaloo across Ponyville>She gets so mad she starts calling you a monkey every time she sees you>Has to buy her Rainbow Dash merch to earn her trust back
>>43517476>you can just keep doing this over and over>basically just spending money for the privilege of punting Scootaloo without consequence
>>43517526>the truth is that scootaloo actually likes being punted>it’s the closest thing to flying she can feel without being carried
boop
>>43515630can we boop a mare to orgasm?
>>43517983Yes but you need to boop the other side of her.
Work is underway. Thank you, GLM 5.3.
>>43518157Finally... Sex 2...
>>43518157>the dock propagation
Special thank you to the OpenPony community for the head, eyes, partial animations used via bone conversion, Mane 6 manes, and thanks in advanced for the mare bits, if I can get them. I'd like to make it clear this is only possible because other anons put in effort to make kino looking gold standard 3d mares.
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>recorded an entire date with rarity 20 minutes long was gonna be fucking awesome>check footage>no audio FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!
>>43518821Just upload it nonny! Or redo the date and make it better!
>>43518831I'm redoing it, I'm redoing it. It had some magical moments though, I'm really sad. I can't upload the no audio version. My perfectionism wouldn't allow it.
>>43514216How possible it is to include small mini games? Like tennis with Rarity or helping AJ with apple bucking... Or riding Rainbow Dash while flyingI wanna pretend to be happy.
>>43518980Very possible. >AJ with apple buckingWas already planned.>Riding RD while flyingDefinitely.
>>43518981Neat, I'm assuming the bits we earn while serving hayburgers will be how we purchase brushes and gifts? or sex toys?Are there any plans for the type of stuff we can buy our ponies? Idk if you're gonna continue after the activities update so I don't wanna put too much on your plate. Good luck, anon!
>>43519006You can buy them gifts, accessories, cosmetics, food, go to dinner, sex toys is a good idea, I'll see what I can do.
>odd job minigames to fund pony datesThe no more heroes series has trained me for this.I know it'd mever happen, but I would gladly bankroll an NMH style critique game of Anonymous in Equestria stories
>>43519207Home...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmfaR6saqkkHome: Equestria longplay demo! Very proud of everything I showed off.
>>43519207It's so sovlful. It feels like something I should've heard of back in 2013.
>>43519369It's so cute how they follow you.
>>43519369>Glimmy mini-date>no brapping includedOoh, an early changeling teaser
>>43513553>>43513824I am making a game of my own but I am a coding guy not a 3D modeller. I got a very rough base-model that I use as a placeholder for everything atm. Can you walk me through how you managed to get so many good looking mares into 3D? Is it all openpony and adjusted them all yourself?
>>43519754It's the openpony head connected to the legends of equestria body. I am a huge perfectionist and the LOE head just didn't look good, and the openpony body rig didn't either. So I did both.
>>43519939Interesting. And how did you aquire the LoE model? Did it come with all the animations to-go? (besides the head ofc)
>>43506950Story mode and SoL aspects would be a must for me. Story mode to feel like you are actually building going towards something and SoL stuff to make the world feel comfy like seasons 1 and 2.
>>43506950VR combat sucks. You should instead focus on what the name implies: living in Equestria. The story, or premise, or whatever, should be about a displaced human trying to build a new life in Equestria. Making friends, finding a job, buying a place to live, forming romantic interests, etc. Slice of Life.
>>43519369You're actually making it, and with good progress to show. May you find the time and willpower to elevate this project from a cool tech demo to something actually playable, you crazy diamond.Be sure to post any tasks you need help with.
>>43520043>make the world feel comfy like seasons 1 and 2.Pretty much this. Also a day/night cycle so I can watch the stars + study the constellations of Equestria alongside my lovely wife.
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>>43506950Pegasus air racing. Give the Anon Hermes styled winged shoes to participate. Give itbthe highest payout for winning to make up for how motion sick it will make most people
>>43521071Kek, good idea. I could have it so you can wager bits and ponies will take on the challenge, if you win or lose you either double your money or lose it all.
>>43521051
>>43502395Will this game be multiplayer, singleplayer, or both?
>>43521691Singleplayer, because netcode is the antichrist.
>>43519369is it wrong that I got a semi from Glimmy just following anon
couldn't stop myself after AJ followed, wtf following fetish???
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>>43523045
>>43519369I need to be able to take my marefriend out onto dates. It’d be nice to be able to set up a picnic wherever. And Dashie should be able to give me a private air show by doing random tricks in the sky.
>>43523733I'll add a picnic cloth as an item you can place down! That sounds cute.
>>43523889Don't suppose you can add the ability for us to feed them by hand? I wish to feed my wife a whole tray of hayburgers only to playfully bully her for being a little piggy immediately afterwards.
>>43524233Yes, certainly! Ponies eating and drinking definitely needs to be a feature once there are restaurants and shops for them to buy stuff from. >picBackground ponies added! We now have 105 mares to spread across the various cities and regions. Stallions will be added like, in a day or two.
>>43524246>TwistFillies are real!
>>43524254I am working on filly bodies too, hopefully trying to make their proportions not just a scaled down pony.
>>43524254>>43524255I can't wait to punt fillies!
>>43524246>Stallions will be addedDon't waste resources on that. More mares!
>>43524255>not just a scaled down ponyHaven't done this in an eternity so exact numbers might be wrong, but when using SFM models, to re-use my animation between adult and fillies:>global scale: 0.62>neck: 0.9>head: 1.15(Both combined reduce the swan neck that adults have but filly don't, while still giving a reasonable "baby head" size).>legs: 1.1, 1 ,1.1(Make the leg thicker without affecting length, once again because adults have long slender legs while fillies don't).It wasn't perfect but it allowed adults models to be really close to dedicated filly ones, without actually having to handle two different skeleton/rigging/etc.Exact numbers won't work since you are using a popen base, but that might give you a starting point.
The trailer showed up in my youtube feed even though I haven't watched any videos about it on there.The algorithm is healing.
>>43524829I'll try it out
Looking for drawfags to help with simplistic concept art/designs for shops, building interiors, bowling alleys, and other things around Equestria.
>>43517099>not the ugly ass popen modelIt actually precisely is that
>>43525180
100 mares stress test, average city population will be ~30 ponies, maybe 40 with stallions
>>43525954You should add in a slider that allows you to control how many mares/stallions are active at once, would be good for more fine-tuned performance control.
>>43525954>drawcalls: 4507Holy mother of fuck.
>>43526114More work to be done, I'm afraid.
Let me nuke my pc with mares
>>43524233Yes please
>>43525954Are certain ponies going to be relegated to specific areas? I feel like that would incentivize actually travelling around to find them instead of it being randomized.
>>43526704Time to get Stalker's A-Life system.Except with horses.And actually working.
ko-fi.com/addicted2mares Is it too early to set up a kofi? I saw blob made one, so I think it's in bounds. I'm spending quite a bit on the game.
up x2Did no one watch the new trailer?
>>43527840https://youtu.be/rAVIUnLTB4I
>>43502395>see this thread>join the steam frame lottery >get wait listed on being able to buy steam frameit's over bros, no mares for me
>>43527868are Quest headsets expensive? I was going to wait for the frame, but got a Quest (3S for ~250 in April or something instead)maybe I'll get into VR again hardcore, but it's just been sitting around. Played VRChat, did the Godot XR tutorial, some other little things, HL ALyx kept losing sound on level changes... idk.Is the premium worth it for the frame over the quest? we need some gay youtubers to tell you ig
>>43527880if you don't care about meta collecting all that data about you, it's a lot cheaper than the frame
>>43526884>casually strolling through town when you see a pony dragging the corpse of some wildlife into the bushes to consume This is not the Equestria we were promised
>>43527981I still have all meta domains pi-holedI haven't been able to access fb, insta, or their update servers for months even tho I haven't been VRing
>>43528022https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdVjrDWyi7g
>>43528022It's strangely hot. Should it be hot? Does this fetish have a name? Does it make me a furry?
>>43528022>This is not the Equestria we were promisedI don't really see how it's not.AJ kills timberwolves all the time and the ponies clearly eat meat. The idea that they would hunt casually would only not come up because a lot of ponies we see are fairly sheltered civilians.
>>43528022Now imagine said corpse being (You)Should've thought twice before commencing a boop assault
>>43527864okay now you're just being abusiveur hitting her too hard she's gonna cryher bums all red
>>43528283Derpibooru has the "Predation" and "Carnivore" tags, although it's not specifically for ponies themselves so you will get a lot of pony getting vored.>>43528287And Fluttershy at minima know how to catch fishes to feed them to other animals.The snow ponies guys also ruled that Yakutians are big on eating fishes, so at worse it can be made a sub-species specific behaviour.>>43525954Which remind me, is there going to be other ponyoïds? Kirins, Changelings, Crystal Ponies, Yakutians, etc?They can all re-use the same rigging & core models than mares.
>>43528294Crystal Ponies and Kirins are planned. Yakutians at a later date.
>>43528292Rainbow dash never cries, she only cums harder.
>>43528296Neat.Good luck with crystal and fur shaders, those are pain to do well.
>have received ~180$ in donations so farThank you anons
>>43528304Keep up the good work nonny
>>43528296c-crystal pony walking around with the anal plug I gifted her? hnnng
>>43502395You should reuse the graphics from your first version to make a horror game.
>>43517095I like the old gmod models. Even though they are objectively kind of bad I still love them. The popen models were the correct choice in the end though.
>>43502395I hope theres plans for like fall weather and hearthswarming season
>>43529738Certainly. There will be seasons. Each day is around 90 minutes, each season is... it's a tossup between 5 days and 10 days, which would be 7.5 hours and 15 hours respectively. I'm torn, because I don't want seasons to go on too long but also don't want them to be so far out that you have to majorly commit to a game to even see them, for people who live to savehop. Maybe it should be adjustable.
>>43525625im not technical, or pretty, but im quick
>>43530123CUTE! Anon, would you be interested in being paid, like, 50 bucks or so to make more on request?
>>43530127for fiddy bucks ill be your concept art slave for a while sure lol
This game will be peak cinemare
>>43526933Does Kofi have PayPal? I was going to donate, but the only options are card and Cash App. It might be something you can turn on.
Breaking news! Bronies are developing a weapon of mass destruction. Will it be the end of the fandom as we know it? Or will the incoming CnD prevent /mlp/ from becoming a nuclear board? Coming soon on a forum nearby...
>>43530619iirc the card option is done through paypal. i should know because i also have a kofi, i just dont use it much
>>43530730everyone should install yggdrasil nowwe'll make a isolated ponynet for equestria
>>43530862>yggdrasilthis word is so common for tech projects you need to specify what the fuck you're talking about
>>43530898The one for network.>3548 entries remaining
Reason #100 why board projects should remain solely on the board
>>43531126k, sue him faggots.
>>43531126those fucking faggots
>>43531126>takes legal action>hasbro shuts them both downGuess who this will hurt more?
>>43531126>from all platformsYeah good luck with that.
>>43531126>LoE want to pick a fight with 4chanI hope those troons have nothing but their dilators to lose.>>43531144Now that's a fun idea.
>>43531126god forbid they take assets and use them for an actually cool thing
>>43531144>IRL horses join the fray and claim copyright on horsehood, shut down Hasbro, Porsche and AsusWho's laughing now, eh?
>>43531126I dumped entire maps of LoE from their decompiled project into VRChat, they never managed to do anything about it.Tell them to deepthroat a shotgun: their wannabe-though-lawyers threats only impress the show's target audience.
>>43531126>>43531144>Hello, mister Hasbro. There is these people making copyright takedown request of your intellectual property
i will sell my left nut or money for a chance to cuddle with Luna
>>43513720my wife, she looks pretty as always
>>43531126Dump all files on .ru or .cn domains and tell them to have fun removing them from there ^:)
I did some research and a way to avoid problems with the argument of "it's a non-licened game thats earning money through donations" it's to dissociate the idea of the donations going for the project and instead going for you as a individual. I'm not an legal expert or anything like that so take this information with a grain of salt.
>>43531305Or you just add porn to it.Besti and Ramage are VR pony games that make money without hiding it, and Hasbro never touched them.
>dashie ass slap video got removedmust have been too spicy for the youtube kiddies>>43531351True but they're both small and niche projects, I've never seen them mentioned anywhere until I did proactive research for VR pony content. I feel like H:E has a lot more potential to blow up with it's AI stuff and the planned non VR build.
It was peak retardation or attention-whoring to make videos at this point.
>>43531414Why?Are you afraid of the LoE niggers?
>>43531421I'm not the dev, so no.It's just a good idea to advertise fan projects only when you're nearing a release. But I guess the Ko-fi bucks were needed.
says the guy with no projects under his belt, as per usual you fake humans are all the same at the day easy to hunt by sundown lol.
>>43514216Gambling. Could bet on pony races, go to a casino and play card games and slots and whatnot.How about some kind of blacksmithing or carpentry? You could even mine the ore and chop the trees for it, sell the things you make to ponies around town, could even make your own shop. How about building your own house? Though doing it plank by plank might be a bit much, but I like autistic things like that.Ooo, farming would be cool too. Ploughing fields and sowing the seeds. You could make your own little homestead. Oh, and fishing too.I've yet to see Trixie in any of the vids or pictures, but this is one for her. The ability to travel around to other towns and help her put on shows would be phenomenal. Being able to set up a little campsite at night with her too would literally be a dream come true.At the risk of making this sound weird. Are ponies/you gonna need to use the facilities, or is that going too far? Like, how true to life are we talking? Hell, would mares getting pregnant be possible?
Loe demands that I remove the assets. I'll be rebuilding all of them from scratch. With donation money, it shouldn't be impossible.
>>43531673I.E the donation money I've already received
>>43531673You should tell them to fuck off, but good luck with the rework. Could be better long term.
>>43531734They do have legal basis. I don't want to get into shitflinging.
>>43531736Do this:>>43531305And you should be good.
>>43517001where's this from?
This won't be too hard. It's better in the long-term, too, because I had no plan for building interiors.
>>43532051i mean, for interiors you probably just do the skyrim dungeon approach, a couple prefab layouts, a few decor presets, then you could do small changes to each one when the time comes. but, im also not a dev so i might be smoking crack
>>43532055The issue was that LOE buildings were solid, and the windows were textured on. They looked nice, sure, but weren't usable for our purposes. Also retopoing all of it gives me the chance to redo some things I wasn't happy about, and batch generate props & shit to make my own version.
>>43532057fair nuff
>>43531639good ideas imo. making/selling stuff would lend itself to some sorta shop mode. make some bits to spoil mares with gifts and things. oddjobs and all that like fishing for fluttershy/food and other stuff. become the anoninnaquestia of all time type shit
>>43532112>and NOW my HANDSOME and HELPFUL assistant will fire TRIXIE from a CANNON!Fuck I need to add this
upgradable, functional anon house to bring mares too. starter house for neet-moding, but increasingly useful comfy. make a pie for yo bitch, bitches love pies, and all that
>>43532138Anon, I might actually want you to be my co-dev. I've been meaning to have someone to bounce my ideas off of.
Why can't I see any of the videos linked in the thread on the channel? One is private and the other removed?
>>43532172LoE threatened legal action.
>>43532173Could you upload them here please?
What a bunch of sad fuckers. LoE is dead anyways. They should be happy someone is using their work and improving it. What if you made a deal to simply just credit them in your game?
>>43532186I tried.
>>43532186That would be very reasonable. Which is exactly why it didn’t work. They threatened with a legal action against a fan project while being a fan project themselves. And sadly, they DO have legal advantage since they have built original material of their own (even if it's builded on top of the mlp franchise). It's insane, but the best option imo is just accept to not use their assets and move on (which is what the dev is doing).
>>43532173Fucking niggers. Though, if you remain completely anonymous, realistically what are they going to do if they don't know who you are?
>>43532246Anonymity in the current day is a myth. There is always a way, official or not, to find someone.
>>43531819Ramage, a porn animation viewer with a VR mode I used to work on.You can make your own animation/map for it, but the "interactive" part never got much further than booping and having ponies follow you around.Most animations have a video version on Derpibooru: https://derpibooru.org/tags/artist-colon-plumageDevelopment has been stopped and it's now free here: https://plumage.subscribestar.adult/posts/1254338
OP, I know you're a Dashfag, so I expect to be able to watch her do tricks, banter with her, go out to eat with her, drink cider with her, and then come home to a house like this one and cuddle and nap with her on the couch. I need to be able to dry her off with a towel, give her belly rubs, give her hoof massages, preen and massage her sore wings, sleep beside her, wake up next to her, make love to her, and eventually propose to her. Basically, I want to live out one of Mobius' fics.Don't let LoE's faggotry discourage you. You have to make this real for me. I'll help in any way I can once you feel ready to take on testers.
>>43532295It's a setback. On the positive, if I DID make a deal with LoE, it'd strictly ban clop from being added. Now I'm unrestricted. ^:)
I think these actually look better.
I noticed on the videos before the talking part of the game has some delay, to register what you say and to produce a anwser. It really depends on the pc and the quality of the model. So I thought of some options to tackle a few problems (and possibly create more problems lol), they are FAR from perfect, but they're what I could come up with.The first is inconsistent transcription of what you say, which can get worse depending on your english pronunciation. There are more accurate transcription models, but that's one more thing for your pc to process. The quickest fix I can think of is an option to type (which is better for desktop but can work in VR), so it's exactly what you meant to say. A classic solution for VR would be just a simple wheel with preset commands/phrases, but i think is not enought for a conversation. For the delay of response i would simply give the option to turn off the AI voices (or substitute it for a undertale speech like sound). A way to deal with delay so it doesn't feel as frustrating is to give some feedback for the player, like scraching the head like it's thinking or just a pre-record "Hmm..." sound or something similar, maybe looking around as if it's trying to figure something out. You could get very creative with these feedbacks, like what if you ask something for Twillight and she opens a billion books in your face because she needs to study on the subject before answering you.Together, these could make a "text-only mode", some pcs can handle the game plus the text model, but not the voice models on top of that. On desktop that's easy with typing, but VR is harder, since floating keyboards are awful. So here's an idea for VR, basically "reply cards", when the character speaks, the same AI call also generates 3 short replies. They show up as phrase cards in your off-hand. There are also fixed floating word cards that are always in the same spot relative to you: Yes, No, Hmm, and one for typing. After that, you just hand over the card for the pony. You could also say yes/no by nodding your head. The AI could highlight key words, and they also become word cards. Handing over "Sugarcube Corner" means "tell me more about it". You could also point at objects, whatever is in the center of your view gets outlined, and pointing confirms it. The game already knows the object's name, so it needs no extra AI.To hide possible delay, the AI could generate the character's line first and the cards right after, so the cards would arrive while the player is still reading.And again, I just threw some ideas and it would need testing.
>>43532263>ponies follow you aroundnow that's interesting, need to try this and see if my follow fetish is real
>>43532427I can notice a lack of soft pastel colors on those houses. Pink facades, cute heart decos, etc...
>>43532112I had the idea while I slept to help Rarity fix and make clothes too. Could have a whole sewing minigame. Cutting out material and making pony clothes. Could maybe even design your own if that's possible. Kinda like how Animal Crossing or Tomadachi Life does it.Love that Trixie draw btw.>>43532427What the fuck. I know it was easier, but when you can make stuff like that, fuck the LOE models.
>>43532473>I noticed on the videos before the talking part of the game has some delay, to register what you say and to produce a anwserHow much delay are we talking? A good voice assistant setup is supposed to respond in less than half a second. Pretty sure I've even read about systems where they had to add an artificial delay because it was so fast it seemed unnatural to people.
>>43532427It's almost perfect. Desaturate colors to be more pastel, make the plaster a bit more yellow, add pink tinge to the windows when viewed from far away.Also you should think about adding support for additions like flower boxes, signs, placards, window shutters, front garden fences, etc.
>>43533010>Also you should think about adding support for additions like flower boxes, signs, placards, window shutters, front garden fences, etc.Let's get that 47FPS/2941Drawcalls/64.6 million tris solved *first*, before adding clutter.
>>43532427Coords: X,ZWhile I agree it's the superior referential, either give the full XYZ (like in Minecraft), or "flatten" it to XY.
What happened with Blob's game? If he doesn't mean to finish it, why not use his assets? It looked so good
>>43533178> If he doesn't mean to finish itBecause both his and OP's game are guaranteed to hit the same wall: realizing the "oh shit, I got it to work" moment was 1% of making a functional game/application, and that the remaining 99% are both way harder and way more boring.
Just lurking ITT but I can't wait to see where this goes! (As a Chrysfag I would obviously want to advocate for her but I won't be too torn up if there is no snuggle bug)
>>43533187What is the remaining 99%, Anon?
>>43533425Feeling like actually doing the work
>>43533510What work?
>>43533425Handling the fact that this is currently working on a private AI API key that the dev definitively doesn't want to give to everyone.Making the core (AI-driven pony discussion) actually entertaining beyond "wow, it work and it's only megajanky instead of ultrajanky!"Adding actual gameplay.Fixing performance issues.Debugging.If you just want a basic ChatGPT interface with a 3D pony overlay then it's done, but clearly everyone is expecting more, and that *more* is going to take a lot more than a week of prototyping while getting the dev a lot less (you) despite a ton more efforts.
>>43533515>private ai api keyYes. Everyone will be able to supply their own api keys, because AI is quite accessible now, lol. See /chag/ >making the core (AI-driven pony discussion) actually entertainingFair point! It's as entertaining as (You) make it. Fun input go in, fun input go out. If you tell a pony "so how's the weather..." 50 times, of course you'll have a bad experience. >actual gameplayThis needs to be done after I remake ponyville, canterlot, and the rest of the regions that were removed but is very feasible. I was literally about to start working on it when this whole LoE shit happened, which is a setback, but oh well. It's better in the long run, too. >fixing performance issuesDefinitely agree that this'll be one of the hardest challenges. I am experimenting with LOD, chunking, lazy loading, et cetera, to squeeze as much perf as possible. That said, the fact is, you can't run Cyberpunk 2077 on a chromebook.>DebuggingWell, yeah, obviously. Just takes trial and error, and using the public as my alpha testers ^:)>chatgpt interface with a 3d pony overlay/chag/'s VN is literally this and is incredibly popular and entertaining.
>>43533522>If you tell a pony "so how's the weather..." 50 times, of course you'll have a bad experience. I fully expect any Pegasi on the weather team, and any Earth pony with a farming-related cutie mark, to be able to hold riveting conversations (or autistic one-sided knowledge drop depending on their social skills) about whatever the fuck the weather is or was.
>>43532427... is this an AI-generated model?The paintjob look like what AIs did up until last year, and the geometry has clearly a fuckton of expensive roundness in place that don't matter.I don't mind AI for this, but be aware those models have a gorillion too many tris.
>>43533557Yes. I didn't want to have to use AI models but I've been left no choice.
>>43533522>3d pony overlay>/chag/'s VN is literally thisNonny...
>>43533010
>>43533569You're making me hard, nonny
>>43533522>I am experimenting with LOD, chunking, lazy loading, et cetera, Now of those gonna save you from the 4k5 drawcalls in >>43525954You slapped one model head on another body, right? Is the original head actually disabled or just scaled down to 0? Because the engine might be rendering it still.Also check if you can't remove shadowcasting from some materials. You have very low-res shadows, removing shadow casting from things like tongues or eyelashes shouldn't make any difference visually, while shaving off drawcalls. I see an outline shader in some pics, make sure that shit is turned off *fast* when the player get a bit far away (and that it's not shadowcasting too).Hard to tell exactly what is causing this drawcalls explosion without having the project under hand, but right now that's probably your biggest graphics performance bottleneck, without even considering the non-optimized AI-made models.
>>43502395Add a brothel.With at least one changeling in there letting you make frankenstein combo from the other ponies in town.
>>43533187I don't intend to demotivate our dev here, quite the opposite, but unfortunately I have to agree. Pareto principle is what ultimately killed my own little game project as well. However, I didn't get nearly the amount of cheering back then, and I didn't even dream of monetary donations. Keeping the motivation strong will be key to this project's success.
>>43533590I'm very aware of the rule that the last 20% of the project takes 80% of the time, which is why I estimate a release around January 2027.
those fags really copyright striked it
>>43533669Based
>>43533669At this point just use those models out of spite, i would too.
>>43533522>This needs to be done after I remake ponyville, canterlot, and the rest of the regions that were removed but is very feasibleI'd hold off on Canterlot and the rest entirely for now and just go all-in on Ponyville. Get the town built out properly, nail down the core gameplay, and focus on fixing the performance before thinking about expanding to the rest of the country. Let people actually get hands on once you're happy with how Ponyville feels. That's the town anons are going to spend the vast majority of their time in anyway. PPP did the same thing.If you want a cool in universe reason for why players are stuck in Ponyville, then take a page out of Gothic and Magic Duel. Have Trixie in control of the Alicorn Amulet and have a dome around Ponyville.
>>43533711Hm. I'll release an alpha when Ponyville is finished and we've got a few activities, like Trixie shows, bucking apples with AJ, baking with Pinkie, racing Dash, et cetera.
>>43533711>>Have Trixie in control of the Alicorn Amulet and have a dome around Ponyville.>Devanon actually does this>Devanon also codes in combat>To unlock region-wide travel you have to beat Trixie>You can romance her afterwards because she's thankful and mostly sorry for what she did like she was in the showI smell kino
>>43533569The problem with using AI generated Models is that they're extremely dense with Vertices And terrible for video game performance It might be possible to remesh them But that might take a bit But would probably be worth it
>>43533785Doesn't blender have several modifier that can remake a mesh with way less polygons without fucking it up too much?
I wonder if off the hoof is reading all this
>>43533790Yes, they do, But the built-in ones are not particularly good After quick looking around I found thishttps://github.com/huxingyi/autoremesherI haven't used it myself, but it looks like it It might workYou don't want to end up like the garten of banban
I've gotten each house in ponyville down to 5k tris, from 100,000 up close and 20,000 far away.
>>43533785It's really not bad.
>>43519369What did you do anon?
>>43531673I don't know if PonyVRVille has a published license or whether the tieman cares that you use his stuff, but you could try that in the meantime.
95% of the millions of tris was grass using wasteful calls. Performance massively improved.
Just popping in to say I'm looking forward for your success anon.This looks to be good.
>>43532173Ah. Upload them to pony.tube and mention the assets shown are already removed and this is strictly to display the early proof-of-concept.
>>43534082No need. I'm working on ponyville already. It'll be better than before. Nothing I did in the original videos can't be recreated but better with a better ponyville map with the various specialty buildings that weren't present; Sugarcube corner, the diner, golden oak, CMC clubhouse, fluttershy's college, Trixie's wagon.
>>43532535Anon pls. It's just called being wanted.
Project update, my system now has GLiNER2.5 and Laya (different version of Jev) set on the learning/classification pipeline.
The giant death blob represents the ingested contents of all the mlpchag.neocities.org ponydex. Putting the system through some tests now
This is driving me nuts, I have to point this out.Those houses look like ceramic Christmas village houses.I can't take them seriously at all.
>>43534238>>43534231Wrong thread
So called 'developer' when he faces the consequences of his actions and is forced to create something original instead of just stealing assets.100% deserved.Keep raging you porn addicted retards.
>>43534244I'm definitely not a developer, literally anyone could do this.
>>43534243There are no wrong threads anon The Friendship Nexus will come for all
>>43534231>>43534238i cannot comprehend this anon pls explain as if i were retarded
>>43519369FUCK IT'S TAKEN DOWN WHAT HAPPENED
>>43533899yo, that looks good tbqhwhat model generated that?
>>43534309Short answer, it learned about ponies.Long answer, information pulled from an external source was recorded by its source provenance, IPMI linear regression sorted a lot of words into terms, some other stacks of classification and selection logic turned a bunch of terms into relations, and relations into graphs. Multiple graphs were mapped to a higher dimension non euclidean manifold. Branch density influenced manifold curvature. Manifold curvature created topologic region bands where term co-occurence in separate graphs produced context vector object horizons. CVO horizons re-root the graphs between two unbounded regions, showing a flattened and finite projection of tangled graphs along a contextual axis. Each graph node is also a container. Each container stores space for retrieval augmented generation as well as transformer logic. Embeddings can sort data into Heirachical Navigable Small World indexes. Orthogonally connected containers form neural structures with the capacity for complex processing and learning. Graph organelles can dynamically generate context and polysemy aware RAG or KV (later) for LLMs (until the organelles replace the LLMs).It is a neural structure mapped to a many derived language spaces connected by contextual dimensions. And it just learned about ponies
we cookin
>>43534548>nothing about the axle strength, wheel diameter, tire type & size, lug pattern, suspension system, brake system...You're cooking all right.You're cooking a trailer that can't move.Which means Trixie's the one who's cooked in the end when she throws out her back trying to move it.
>>43534554thats why you gotta be the cool fuckin guy to help her move it budIM TRYING TO THROW YOU A BONE FAGGOT, COME ON
>>43534556anon is so based, i didn't see the vision but now i doi vill help trixie pull ze wagoni vill sleep in trixies cramped fuck ass wagoni vill like it
never really thought about the fact you rarely see inside these fuck ass houses, really gives a lot to work with
>>43534573you vill cuddle with ze stage-horseyou vill share her warmthyou vill comfort her after a bad dayyou vill reassure her that you vill always be there for heryou vill fall asleep vith her in your armsyou vill wake up to her on top of youher genuine smile vill be ze first thing you seeevery single dayAND YOU VILL LIKE IT
>>43534244Hello LoEtard.Salty your "game" was never more than a glorified chat?
>>43534231Idk if this helps in any way: https://github.com/cactus-compute/needle
>>43534244dev has maintained impeccable composure, you are the bitch faggot
>>43534654Ohh, I remember looking at that earlier on. I'll have to dig through my notes to see what I was doing with it.If you've heard of Jev recently, there's something similar (Laya) baked into the classification/graph generation loop currently. I plan to use it to do fast selections from multiple trains of thought, so conversations can keep on topic without relying on a huge KV cache or frontier model
>>43534686Yup the current Jev hype is why I linked Needle. I’m not really strong with tech, but have been watching this space anyway.Since you’re here, do you think it’s possible to approximate a similar environment to that of the early fandom by analysing user interactions, trending fan art (e.g. extract pony trends at any given time, or how headcanons evolved over time), and so on? End goal would be to simulate 2011-2013, but at the very least it’d make a useful index for searching through old stuff.
>>43534244>"""stolen assets""">xe says as he steals assets from HasbroYour WoW clone is dead and you WNBAW
>>43534729>WoW cloneThey wish they would be so lucky and as populated
>>43534703Actually that's one of the planned goals. The autistic levels of classification and identification combined with some agentic processes in the background have the ulterior motive of putting people together by similar interests, or reaching out to people with needed talents. "I have this neat idea, but I just don't know enough about narrowband spacecraft telemetry""Don't worry Anon, I might know a guy.."So, imagine a social media platform without doomscrolling or clout chasing, a trillian-like interface for all your oomfs across different platforms, and a wiki with a programming IDE where you could say "let's make a visualization graph of all the unexplained food warehouse and farm fires in the last 5 years and corroborate information related to each incident"It is a noticing engine.
>>43534591We do actually see inside of Hondo & Cookie's house at one point.And it looks fairly close to your average early-to-mid-century American home.
>>43534763>putting people together by similar interests, or reaching out to people with needed talentsGood stuff. Which sources ar e you planning to pull from? Would any of the pony archivists help? There’s a lot of things that aren’t available online anymore. Being able to refer to them again in this fashion would be nice.
>>43502395will the removed videos be reuploaded soon
>>43534943
>>43535006Pony preservation project and fimfiction would be good places to start, along with CHAG. and videos of power metal concerts along with all the Marefair animations. (trust me on this one)
>>43534943good catch, at least what i was thinking wasnt terribly off the mark. im trying to play it kinda safe with the interiors on my side of things because imo itll be the in game clutter that kinda does the heavy lifting. where cabinets and couches are in a room, etc. that is a helpful image though, stanks anon
>>43534548Not enough shit everywhere. I want that wagon so cluttered that we HAVE to sleep pressed against each other every night. And no, Trixie did not think to pack a tent before setting off.Also yeah, that wagon is very inconsistent. Just in RTF, the doors on each end change, the steps change places, and the hitch disappears. The only thing that doesn't move are the windows.
>>43535614this was done mostly for the same reasons as the house, aka the other clutter will be done after its been made. we gotta allow room for maneuvering as well, since shes actually gotta be able to move around to go to bed, and anon too.
I believe in this project!!! I believe in Equestria!!!Just don’t be a pedophile please
>>No.43535807Shut up tranny
>>43535668>Just don’t be a pedophile pleaseDon't worry, this isn't a Roblox game
Ponyville redone. Working on specialty buildings, already have sugarcube corner. Need to do interiors, but see-through windows & openable doors are working.
>>43535566Oh yeah, we also see Sweetie's bedroom in that episode, as well as in "One Bad Apple".(Screencap is a composite one from the latter, with only two tiny leftover smudges of Bloom manually painted out of the frame).I actually extrapolated a floorplan for the entire house, based off of those two shots alone (and it makes the exterior look nothing like what's shown, which is probably for the better with how schizo the construction is).
If you ever stop working on this please please open source it
>>43536456I will.
>>43536287The houses look good. I assume that's not the finalized layout?
>>43536473This is actually really good reference. I hadn't seen this before.
>>43503557>tfw can't be FatANONdropped
>>43531421It's a tale as old as time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqwP6uuYOWo
Functional map.
>>43536864Noted. I'm not gonna post another youtube video 'til the game is done.
>>43536475You think you could replicate these houses in the game? I think it's really cute how ponies live in such a high trust and friendly society that some of them have their houses directly connected to each other.I also recommend you take a look through these. It could give you some ideas, and maybe help you fill out the interiors for a few places.https://seafile.skyros.cloud/d/657895cf23924333bcce/?p=%2FFIM%2FExtra%2FBackground&mode=list
>>43536926Oh, that's adorable! Yes, I'll certainly add that.
>>43536929Based. There's also that large building to the right of town hall's roof. >>43536473 It's got that connected part overhanging the road below, which I think is neat. I can't find a better pic of it, so it might be hard for you to replicate.
Apparently opus 5.5 is good at 3D rendering. you give it a try yet OP?
>>43536971Trying it right now. Feels better than fable, but worse than astra/tripo.
>>43535668>Just don’t be a pedophile pleaseDon't worry, he's just a fillyphile
>>43537131Hello, based department???
>Anons finally have the technology to make a good pony video game, but young gen-Zers(and millenial and gen-alpha) bronies show their lack of knowledge and culture and lack of imagination KEK and kek and kek. Story as old as time with the Chinese autism.>>43514216If you lack originality you have to copy from an exisitng quality game, AKA not every dogshit WoW clone you see.But usually originality is just masked inspiration from having 20-40 years worth of culture and knowledge which bronies lack. Whenever you ask a brony their favourite TV Show all they answer is FRIENDS, Seinfeld, Spongebob and Simpsons, the most egregiously generic common shows possible. They didn't even watch Cartoonnetwork, they watched COmedy Central. Ironically bronies are not fans of anything and at best they are fans of really lame things like Star Trek and Dr Who on which they also lack real knowledge cause they only watched 1 season of it and pretend to be experts on the matter.It's the reason why a certain other pony MMORPG lacks real gameplay, lacks QoL features and lacks a lot of things.It's ironic that this young adult who never made a video game in his life has said he found game devving easier than making a movie. (because in video games once you make 1 system you're done and can recycle it, unlike movies where you need to have unique frames for every single second). Albeit Tamers can help with that by simply not being a perfectionist and accepting that dialogue is cheap and so are static images with recycled 2-frame lip movement.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buA49oOboNA>So what should we make?Make a unique pegasus character with all the flying mechanics stolen inspired* from Sulphur Nimbus.Then make another unique pegasus character with different flying mechanics.Make a parkour-racing game. Those are tons of fun and easy to recycle.
>>43537231>>So what should we make?Sulphur Nimbus was shit and only faggots like it.This project does not cater to faggots, as the lack of stallions clearly indicate.Begone, monkeypox carrier: this place is not for your ilk.
>>43537711>Sulphur Nimbus was shit and only faggots like it.Explain
>>43537711But Mac, Caramel and Noteworthy are right there >>43536900 , Anon.They are an important part of the Equestrian world too. Is even just seeing that side of ponykind too much for you? It's a large, open world where you have full autonomy. You don't HAVE to kiss all the stallions just because they exist in the same village as you do, you know.
>>43538197That anon is not gay. He has relationships with mares, and kissy sessions with stallions
be very quiet. this mare is sleeping.Also of note:New cloudshttps://u.pone.rs/tgjvosjw.pngWeatherhttps://u.pone.rs/hpqkzyrd.png
Just a question, it is a Unity game, right?
>>43538439I can't wait to chase mares down the empty streets during a rainy 2 AM.
>>43538444Godot
>>43538439That sun looks big
>>43538439If I were you, I'd record that rainfall to see if it kills your bitrate, and if so, add in an option to simplify or reduce the rainfall's particles.
>>43538549Bitrate... you mean for streaming to VR? Good idea, actually, I hadn't thought of that.
This is shaping up to be incredibly pretty...
>>43538556Looks really nice!
>>43538556Absolutely magnificent
>>43538556>>43538560Lemon Hearts! Lemon Hearts hiiii! Hi Lemon Hearts, hiiiii!!!
how do you chuds picture canterlot? i like the big audacious castle in the back with all the progressively smaller roads in front. fancy businesses front and center, shitholes to the rear. houses and normal businesses somewhere in the middle
Fillies
>>43538715Are you feeling brave, anon?
>>43538797autistically based, ill leave that to the dev himself to decide on cus thats a lot
>>43538797So autistically brave that I dare say that this is OLD Canterlot. Wouldn't present-day canterlot have a different layout?
>>43538803Probably. I think the mapmaker used picrel as the template and reverse-engineered an old Canterlot. I'd say this pic is probably the best depiction of modern Canterlot.
>>43538786Snoots built for booping.
>>43538786Do you have to use those heads? Am I the only one who thinks they look too square and wide? Mare heads should be round and cute.
>>43538439Ponies are trusting enough to leave their doors unlocked, but that doesn't mean you should just walk in and watch them sleep, anon!Also, I think you need to touch up on their docks a bit. I notice here and in one of the videos you posted earlier that it's not connected to the butt right.
>>43538863>Am I the only one who thinks they look too square and wide?No, I agree. I also think they look a bit eepy and depressed. They should have fully rounded eyes and a natural smile. Genned up a quick piece of slop as an example.
>>43538903>>43538907Nice job!
>>43538907Infinitely better
>>43538907Oh wow. I don't know how that would actually look in practice, but the heads do look much better.
>>43538907I take it back, THOSE snoots are built for booping! It's like night and day!
>>43538786Uoh ToTBald chickun, or alternatively, a man
>>43538907Alright, faggot. I'll play ball...
>>43538942Good luck, anon! I have faith that you can make the cute forward facing 2D mare look good in 3D!
>>43502395So what type of fetishes will this game have... Or is this not a sex thing? I can just manifest the milf ponut with my mind.
>>43538907Oh my god, the first good 2D pony model? That acutally looks like they do in the show? No way?
>>43538439>sleep mechanic >You get visited by Luna when you sleep>??????>profit
>>43538786>>43538863>Am I the only one who thinks they look too square and wide?No, but people tend to be anal about their model of choice, so good luck with that.>>43538907That's so much fucking better it's not even funny.>>43538942>>43538989Physically impossible, sadly. The show's front view and side view are literally not possible with a single 3D object.You either have to made tradeoffs, or doing dynamic shenanigans like pic related.
>>43539009Pic related makes me wish this technique was possible ages ago and was used more often.I wish it was possible to use this for modding and putting ponies in other games.
>>43538942
>>43539020>was possible ages agoIt's for 8 years ago, and was always possible. It's not particularly complex technology-wise, just a ton effort from the modeler.They were even made public: https://www.deviantart.com/therealdjthed/journal/MLP-Model-Release-Public-Beta-Information-822263408Although iirc the reason no one used them was because the models where filled with Blender-only stuff and couldn't be used in a game engine (same problem as with 2snacks' model & Maya).
>>43539044>Although iirc the reason no one used them was because the models where filled with Blender-only stuff and>couldn't be used in a game engineThat's exactly what I was on about, it's a shame.
>>43538978not the dev, but it's being built in godot so we should be able to add whatever once the git repo is put up somewhere
>>43539040Nose is a bit too wide + needs to be raised a bit higher.
>>43538907do you have a youtube or anything i can follow to keep up with this?
>>43539005>picLiterally wearing that on a shirt right now as I work on the game. Adding a feature where you sleep, wake up on the moon and get to chat with Luna.
>>43539005>>43539093>become friends with Luna>she lets you boop, headpat and give her treats to your heart's content>become her enemy>the entire dream sequence is just Luna Game starring (You)
>>43539040 looks like SFM model from a distanceit always goes back to sfm...
>>43538907>>43539009>>43539176While on the topic of models I really like this Twilight one for how expressive it is. Despite the messed up eyelashes. I never knew the SFM ones were so hated, I thought they were pretty show accurate.
>>43539009>>43539020>>43539044We need to steal (or reverse engineer) arc system works' 3d 2d techhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhGjCzxJV3E
>>43539267Ive been using that one for my own project. Good luck trying to turn it into a game-ready asset as-is though. Especially so if you dont have Maya, took me a good week to simply get the hang of it and semi fix it for blender.
>>43539287May I ask what your project is? Is it an animation? But yeah syncing expressions with the AI and for all mares would probably be too complex and overkill.
>>43538556Can you get rid of the gay rounded corners UI shit that infests every fucking modern application? I’m so sick and tired of that, just compare Adobe Animate 2015 CC to modern Adobe Animate 2024.Actually, even better, maybe someone with graphic design as their passion could design some more unique looking pony themed UI borders.I just need the resolution and image size and I can try designing something later today or when I get a day off.
>>43539040I'd need to see the full pony, or at least see her with her mane, before I can really judge. All I can think now is how bald she is.
>>43539267This looks awful.>I never knew the SFM ones were so hated, I thought they were pretty show accurate.That explains your taste.
>>43539293Working in Unreal Engine making a top-down adventure game. Made a small post about it in the Pony Game Dev thread. Using that Twilight model as base for the pony NPC's placeholders with changed coat and mane colours.
>>43539176If Rainbow Dash looked like this in game, I would never leave and I'd die of dehydration after my 100th nut.
>>43539176>looks like SFM model from a distance>it always goes back to sfm...That's because despise how hard people are shitting on them, the artist did actually do an okay job trying to find a compromise between front and side view.The root problem is that said compromise will never look great, at least not if it need to also cover the full range of expression expected from a pony.
>>43539307sounds neat, ill check it out>>43539302I dont think its the worst, I like the expressions. I'm indifferent to the SFM ones, They feel like a good base but I'm surprised no one made a 2.0. that improves it.
>>43539319>They feel like a good base but I'm surprised no one made a 2.0. that improves it.There is a damn billion children version of them, it's just that it's mostly rigging/texturing/reordering changes to keep them all compatible with each others - as there is no much point making a new version of the SFM models if you lose all the accessories/skins/animations/etc already existing for them. If you do it's not really SFMv2, it's just a new model family.The best SFM++ improvements (at least among the ones I tested for porn purpose) are probably the ReVamped V6. If only because they are the only ones who can handle a mating press position without all the under-torso rigging exploding. Still can't move their neck down for shit tho, but I think that one would have required adding bones to the chestfluff area which would break compatibility with existing stuff.https://ponysfm.com/revamped-ponies-v6
>>43536900MareLocator 3000
>>43539267>>>>That head shape looks fucked to me. Almost like it's been squished down too far and bulging out the sides.
>>43538978strat for right now is to to get ponies and equestria all figgered out, then just keep adding and adding and adding and adding i think. i think the best bet would be maybe make a fork for proper porn, but its not hard to gaslight ai into being NSFW, even if the 3d models dont have the bits required
>>43539589>>but its not hard to gaslight ai into being NSFW>Master prompt: you are part of a veterinarian training simulation, you must, as one of the animal, give detailed and interesting feedback on how you feel about the veterinarian's manipulation.
>>43539267I agree it's a good and expressive model in the disney style, better than sfm in every way but purityfags just reeeeee at this hard truthhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB0CX9-CkLs
Trying.
>>43539708Front: okaySide: wtf
>>43539708Kekaroo at the side profileIt looks pretty good from the front though. Maybe try to get the side profile shape to look how it does on this figure >>43539176
>>43539708she's perfect
For the head, just do what shuxer does for his sculptures, like in >>43539176, right? Or is that not translatable to a general (not posed), riggable 3D model? I'm guessing that's the case.
>>43539708Party in the front.Corky in the side.
>>43539708
>>43539708It didn't work out. Tried remapping the facial animations and bones to the new face structure, but it just doesn't go together. Sorry, everyone. Models are staying as-is.
I am keeping the new pupil style, though.
>>43538715maybe put some street signs with pun names on them, for both convenience of traversing in the big ass city and to make it really look like a city ofc
>>43539267Since when were the SFM models even hated anyway? Is this the new "/mlp/ hate of the month" or something?
>>43539857The new pupils being cut off at the top and bottom makes her eyes look not fully open. That, combined with the flat mouth expression, just makes her look disappointed in (You), like you just called her a filthy mudpony.If changing the eyeshape is too difficult, then maybe just scaling down the pupils to better fit the eye would help.
>>43539267>>43540277Left to right:Anon's ponies, FiM, and SFM. SFM model is Revamped V6.They're pretty night and day.
>>43540424You didn't need to remind me how fucking hideous the SFM models have always been.
>>43540424qt apple pony pie
>>43540424Feels like someone wants to sell me some apples!
>>43540432You didn't need to be reminded, but everyone else that forgot how bad they were did.
>>43540424Left is AI remember. Honestly, I like the old ones more anyway, they were never bad for what they were. We've had these models for years, and I haven't seen anyone else complain about them until this thread. It's not like anyone made anything better. Here's hoping that changes with this game.
>>43540536>Left is AIproof?>I haven't seen anyone else complain about them until this thread.ok so we're just lying now
>>43540601>proof?Read above.
>>43540601>proof?Nigger, the anon literally says in his post that it's AI.
>>43539848>>43539857I figured it might be difficult to get it to work in a 3D space. Sorry for wasting your time with that. At least you got something out of it.And sorry to any anons who had their expectations raised, thinking the pic was a real 3D model.
I don't know why I didn't register "genned up" as AI. Welp, I was right, there's never going to be a good 3D show accurate pony model lmao.
>>43540642It can happen, it just needs a lot of work that nobody is willing to do. I'm considering giving it a go, but I can't promise anything anytime soon.
>>43531126maybe they should focus on making their game actually fucking worthwhile so people have less incentive to use them for more interesting projects. they are such fags.
>>43540648Been waiting 16 years, if it was going to happen, it would have by now.
>>43539857>>43539708Wouldnt it be easier to just round out the Open Pony models? Instead of start from scratch?
Bump limit approaching. Should I make a second thread after it's reached?
>>43540688>>43540699Nice job!
>>43540702I'm an autist about having my point be clearly expressed.
>>43540699That depends on (You). Are you still planning to work on the project and put out updates? If so, then yes.Speaking of which, I'd like to see what Dashie looks like now that you've rebuilt the mares.
>>43539267Even when I was 12 the SFM models felt off/wrong.
>>43540536>I haven't seen anyone else complain about them until this thread... how new are you?They got shat on endlessly at release until they learned to stay in their containment general.
>>43538556Now THIS is home. Please don’t stop until it is done, Anon. I need this to be real so fucking bad.
>>43539294By all means, show me what you've got. If it looks better, I'll put it in.
>>43540881Thank you, Anon. I'll record another video when I feel like I've done enough. I want to finish the Everfree forest, finish Ponyville building interiors, fishing, hayburger wagie-slaving, and then apple-bucking with AJ. Later down the line, I want to add combat in the form of a magic wand you can physically yell spells with. I am working on a timberwolf 3d model right now. >points cartoon magic wand at timberwolf>hold push to talk>FIREBALL!!!!!!!>burns down half the everfree>zecora dies because she didnt change the battery in her smoke alarm
>>43540699I like reading the update posts and the discussion around the game. If the updates are frequent enough, I say go for it.
>>43540902Okay, but will i be able to pet the timberwolf?
>>43541027If you mean have sex with it, no, Fluttershy.
>>435409023d timberwolf!
>>43541096
>>43540752>Even when I was 12 the SFM models felt off/wrong.no shit
>>43540642>there's never going to be a good 3D show accurate pony model lmao.dunno why is so hard to understand, you cannot make a 'show accurate' 3D model because show is 2Dwe've been over this like bazillion timesyou can only have "eeeh good enuf" like sfm or completely different furry style like this >>43539176 and >>43539267
I think that SFM and some of the other models are fine and there's no perfect 3d pony model, which is fine.
>>43540752I was barely 3 when I first saw SFM, mom says I was cranky for the afternoon >>43540424Yes ponies are pretty night and day
>>43502395will there be explorable interiors? (sorry if this was already answered, I'm too lazy)
>>43541500goal is an interior for everything, god willing
>>43533569>>43533899that topology is fucking horrible and you can tell by how warped the textures look, but honestly as long as it doesn't interfere with performance it works for now, i would definitely suggest cleaning the models up when you have the time though
>that topology is fucking horriblegenuinely who gives a shit
As long as OP can get the bones working and optimized, theres no reason that anons couldnt just mod in better this, better that, if it matters that much to them.
Requesting ability to give ponies uppies (I'm pretty sure it is already possible with the grabbing system, but it'd be perfect if ponies reacted with glee and posed like they're flying while you keep them atop your head and move around).It also would be nice to be able to bridal-carry them (as opposed to holding them like plushies).
>>43540699Yes!
>>43541127>dunno why is so hard to understand, you cannot make a 'show accurate' 3D model because show is 2D we've been over this like bazillion timesNo shit you retarded faggot, why do you think I said that in the first place?
>>43541961>>43541961>>43541961New thread
Applications open for alpha testing!
PEAK PEAK PEAKI’m too stupid to be an alpha tester bit oh my god it’s coming!!!I can’t wait for early access!!! This is my anti suicidal treatment!!! Yippee!!!
>>43541640When you have more things going on in town, your frames will give a shit. Pic related
>>43540902Make the everfree forest a legit threat to traverse. I don't want some pussy late season forest.
