Previous threads: >>43502395Home: Equestria is my work-in-progress game that aims to be a faithful Equestria simulator.>Closed alpha, accepting testers!https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1aagj562_2TEci6H5-I3BK-2It6ARTbyXyTxZVbqP3Yc/viewform?edit_requested=trueTalk to ponies with AI, TTS. Pick them up, boop their nose, smack them on the ass, give them gifts, feed them oat slop from hand. Serve hayburgers for bits, buck apples with AJ, bake cakes with Pinkie Pie.All buildings will have interiors, ponies go back home at night to sleep. Todo:>Everfree Forest, 3d timberwolveshttps://u.pone.rs/liohvxvz.pngBeing worked on right now.>Luna sleep mechanicYou'll wake up on the moon and get to speak with her.>Combat>Farming, fishing, eating>Intro scripted story sequence, Anon gets a home in Ponyville>Gambling>Items, shops>Fully finished building Interiors for Ponyville
>>43541961>>CombatPlease don't.Or at least nothing more involved than being able to cuntpunt / fusrodah ponies around.Not shit combat is a *lot* of work, that would neceraly be time taken away from more "core" features, and here there is jackshit to actually fight.>we have a few Everfree monstersGoes into the cuntpunt target list.>Anon gets a home in PonyvilleI liked old timey greentexts where Anon ended up in Fluttershy's care because no one knew wtf kind of critter he was and/or how to handle a non-vegan.Spergle's library under the pretense of studying the alien work too.Please make those 3 an option, maybe with slightly different starting quest / inventory / problems to solve / etc.
>>43541961>>Intro scripted story sequence, Anon gets a home in PonyvilleWhat if I want to live with my wife?
>>43542018Also an option.
>>43541961>>Luna sleep mechanic>You'll wake up on the moon and get to speak with her.Like in /chag/'s VN, I'd like if this was just an optional thing you could do
>>43541961Do you plan on doing an optional story mode of some sort?
>>43542021>Kissing Luna on the dream-moonUUUnnnffF
>>43541961DEV, ADD A PROPER FLATSCREEN SUPPORT AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!I don't care it requires a key mapping scheme to rival that of the nethack, I simply MUST hold and pet and boop all the cute mares!On another note:>feed them oat slop from handCarrot/apple might be easier to implement/more intuitive to use in VR compared to oats. >buck apples with AJPunting confirmed??How powerful is it going to be, on the scale from Duke3D's "mighty" foot to FEAR's kungfu dropkick?>CombatI agree with >>43541997 , proper combat gameplay is hard to pin down, and that's BEFORE taking VR into account. Very easy to get bogged down for months.
>>43541961Mining would be fun, swinging your hands with a virtual pickaxe like the old Kinect gamesCaves could have some hidden spots you need to break through to get toMirror Pool to punt your horses into?
>>43542130>>43541997I don't think it is a bad thing to have combat. Everything will go through polishment at some point so I think it's a matter of what should be prioritized. Just like anon said, it can take months, but it seems more of a time concern than a design problem. Also, it's not like you can't make the combat little by little through updates while players give feedback. This way, the dev can focus on what people want the most while it fixes the combat on the side without compromising the rest. Combat might sound trivial for a mlp game, but it opens a lot of possibilities for quests, interactions and situations.
>>43542188>Mirror Pool to punt your horses into?imagine cloning your mares
>>43542800temporary effect, either by timer, bodycount, or boundarye.g. you try to leave with 20 mares in tow, Twilight shows up and starts blasting
>>43542407Featurecreep kill vidya projects with the same efficiency than EA kill vidya studios.>Also, it's not like you can't make the combat little by little through updates while players give feedback.This kind of approach only lead to angry players complaining the feature is shit for months/years.>but it opens a lot of possibilities for quests, interactions and situations.None of which really synergize from the main point of this game,which is LLM-driven mares.Unless you make it some pony trench warfare world where you play as a medic and need to head pat & butter up mares into charging toward the changelings' machine gun nest, or some other "war is hell" scenario where the combat is actually tied to a lot of talking. Maaaaybe a pokémon-style adventure where you go exploring the world with your herd of mares and need to tard-wrangle them around so it stay roughly "very aggressive picnic with the kids" tier.In any case we are straying very far away feature & style from what's OP is currently making.
Adding a feature to read fanfics as books in-game. Will credit all writers, obviously.
>>43543120I like the idea of combat being a gimmick rather than something like Blade and Sorcery. Though I'm not sure how you'd go about it. Mare wrangling does sound funny. Either something like Pokemon or maybe like Pikmin but you overwhelm your enemys with mares instead.
>picRailroad lines. >combat You guys are getting a little too worried. The MOST amount of combat there'd be is fighting Changelings and timberwolves in the Everfree. I don't want an RPG.
>>43543147>10 millions tris>those wallsAnon, I don't mind this project embracing AI for obvious "getting shit done in less than a century" reasons, but please try to have some quality control on how sloppy the slop is.
>>43543230I know. I'm trying.
>>43543232I should elaborate.I plan to add wallpaper to cover up the texture inconsistencies, and to do another cleanup pass on the worst of the topology. I just want to get the layout down.
>>43543241Fine by me, but those windows' shape and that weird triangle at the bottom of the left wall will take more than just slapping a better texture on it.Kinda agree with some other Anons that it would probably be a *ton* less difficulties having interiors be completely separate objects.At worse you can have a reflection probe sampled on the exterior window but applied as a cubemap on the interior window, so the view from the interior scene roughly match what outside - or some old timey trick in the same vein. And a prompt "look throught the window" when "using" it from the interior object that simply teleport the camera into the outside scene.
>>43543252I have done as much as I can to lower the tri count but, try as I might, the game is ultimately very detailed, and tri counts will reflect that. 10M is the upper limit of what I can see due to my aggressive optimizations already. The average tricount is around 5 million, which in the modern era, isn't insane anymore. That I am getting 250FPS on my admittedly beefy computer is a good sign that performance will be playable down to the lower eschelons, but some level of minimum specs are required. I have always been of the personal, if shitty, opinion that I don't want to limit a game's detail to the lowest common denominator. If you can't play the game because your GPU is a 3DFX Voodoo2 from 1998, I don't know what to tell you. More optimization will come as it comes, and I'm always looking for new ways to improve performance, but I refuse to budge on the actual interior.
>>43543257>I refuse to budge on the actual interior.Fair enough.>If you can't play the game because your GPU is a 3DFX Voodoo2 from 1998, I don't know what to tell you.My point is more that decent optimization mean more mares, more decorations, more interactivity, etc.Any ms spent on rendering stuff that isn't actually needed is an ms not spent on having the CMCs preparing a chain reaction that will blow up half the town in the background.Any ms spent on rendering stuff that isn't actually needed is an ms not spent on simulating [insert best mare]'s fur down to each strand when you pet her.It's not a matter of running on toasters, it's a matter of your project having so much good shit it could spend that power on instead.>I'm always looking for new ways to improve performanceCan't remember if you said you would put this in a Github or not.Could help to be able to directly dissect stuff.
>>43543274That's true. You make a good point. Yes, I plan to upload the source code unobstructed when it's ready. I am working on further optimizations like impostors for the rest of the tree types. In the worst case scenario, where I am overlooking both the everfree, all of ponyville, the Cloudiminium, and the massive normal oak forest I put next to the everfree, it hits 10 mil tris and 3000 draws. That is the WORST case. With 50 ponies in ponyville, it averages 1000 draws and 5mil tris. There is room to wiggle.Maybe I can do that interior thing as a 'potato' graphics option...
>>43543295Update: Cut this by 50% by fixing an LOD script for the ponies that accidentally had their fully detailed 100k tri model load at any distance. Now worst case is 3000 draws and 5 mil tris, which is also being whittled down.
>>43543338Nice!
>>43541961How quickly do you unlock the ball and the gun
Yo boss When can we expect 2 see some footageI loved the vids on ur channel before they done fucked off to the shadow realmI’m sure everypony would love 2 see some footage of the early builds
>>43541961>You'll wake up on the moon and get to speak with her.You should make it so there's a chance to visit Woona or Nightmare Moon instead.and also a rare chance to wake up in the middle of the night and find Luna snuggling with you.
>>43544542>Visit WoonaBASED
>>43541961lovely
>>43543120how autistic do you have to be to compare an optional feature that you dont have to engage with in the slightest to projects which focus heavily on the aforementioned feature? i'd consider killing myself in your place
First public open alpha release will be the OP of the next thread. I'm giving myself a ~2 week deadline.
>>43544664>doesn't understand what feature creep is nor why it's badGo code an Hello World and come back.>i'd consider killing myselfYou should, yeah.
>>43544913wow! good job anon! you missed the entire point exactly like an autist would!
>>43544942Anon.You are posting on fucking /mlp/.
>>43544244I'm not even from /v/ and I got that
Was on a call with an alpha tester and... we can now conclusively say the game isn't suffering positivity bias on Gemini 3.1 pro.>Get hayburgers with Dash>Ask to get married>She says no>Runs to Fluttershy for advice>Goes back to Dash, asks again"So, we getting married or what?">"Try 'or what'. Seriously, dude." >Mid sentence she takes off and rainbooms in his face away from him and flies home>Facing the direct opposite direction>Leaving him>Alone in the night "I'm actually gonna hang myself." It was the most brutal shit I've ever fucking seen in my entire life
>>43545046Plapshie truly is the worst pony
>>43545046>It was the most brutal shit I've ever fucking seen in my entire life... that's good, no?It's not much of an Equestria simulator if you can just autistically waltz into the place and just all the prizes without having to actually seduce/friendship a bit.I'm not against letting Anon manually setup their starting save with "[X] is my wife, [Y] our daughter, and [Z] our nemesis who constantly do mean prank due to jealousy", and having shit like a wand of hypnosis hidden somewhere (with the magic police starting to investigate if you aren't *really* subtle with it), but by default ponies *should* treat you like a weirdo is you act like a weirdo - just with general higher niceness than IRL, except for "canon" asshole like Dash or Trixie.
>>43545075No, no, it's very good and the expected result but holy fuck how it happened was so hilarious. Rejected into flying away at full speed rainbow trail facing her flank as she just, vanished off screen, going 500mph towards her cloudiminium, fuck it was so funny
>>43545046>Anon create the first game where testers have a non-zero casualty rate
>>43545077>See ya later faggot!
>>43545769Unf Dashie come back!
>>43545769>Calls you a faggot for liking her, a mare>Flashes her fat blue ass at you as she flies away anywayWhat is this bitch's problem?
If the popen heads are staying for good, can you at least make the eyes not look... low energy and unimpressed? Scaling the pupils down should help, like >>43540284 said.
>>43545794You were supposed to catch her and assert dominance via high-altitude baby-making, you ground-glued dense monkey.
>>43545890I was also a bit worried about the flat looking expression and the eyes based on that pic, but it all looks great in the playtest. Seeing mares looking up and smiling at (You) is top cute.>>43545918You have no idea just how quick Dash really is until you try to grab her ass in VR and watch as she flies across the entire town in 2 seconds.This mare is FAST
>>43546299>This mare is FASTAs should be, however there should be a tool or something that can close the gap or something that can attract the blue pigeon.
try to go more into cartoony/toon shaded lighting to create the shows looks in 3di feel like realism wont work here and it would be cool if u managed to give everything the same thick lineart present in the show
>development folder is 235gb large already>game is only 6gb >>43546576Kek
Twilight's house, interior
>>43546826>Twilight's house, interiorNeeds cel shading. Nice job keeping accurate to the show, Don't forget about this, though, pls.
>>43541961I hope you won't be tinkering with this alone? It's turning out to be quite a huge project. Otherwise, you'll burn out like the Blob and disappear.
>>43546826i thought her treebrary was like 2 proper floors + basement, with landings for shit like the telescope and stuff
>>43546826Needs a window or two. Also I know this is nit picky but can you drag her bed to the second floor? Its integral to the cozy vibe.
Rolled 7 (1d10)>>43547064>two beds(you) dun FUCK-ed up, OP!
>>43547072This, OP move the one downstairs upstairs at least and make it look like the one in pic related.
>>43547078 I haven't even sorted out the spike situation. How the shit I'm gonna make him exist is beyond me.
>>43547084If you can't give him a voice or make him an NPC, then make him into a static vendor that sells stuff, such as gifts for the ponies, OR make him into a way to earn bits via gambling on Ogres & Oubliette matches. Alternatively, do both.
>>43547092That's genius! Thanks, Anon.
>>43547064>>43546947>>43546826There was an SFM model that was reasonably accurate.Can't find it again on the net tho.
>>43547064>Anon doesn't sleep with Twilight and has to sleep in the cuckbed on the 1st floor.Grim.
>>43547098Still have the model on my hard-drive, I think it's this one on ponysfm.https://ponysfm.com/twilights-room-hdr
>>43547247Thank you! I'll adapt it.
>>43547247Whats that single bed for?
>>43547451DYEWTS?look before you sleep
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Recording a new video for the youtube and re-opening donations. Romantic date night with Rainbow Dash at her cloudiminium.
>>43548295>Recording a new video for the youtube and re-opening donationsC&D incoming
>>43548301After recalling NDOH... probably not donations, actually.
>>43548319Good. The project is saved.If you're really looking to jew, open up a kofi after you're completely finished with the game and take donations that aren't tied to it in any way. Do not touch a cent of money while you're making this unless you want to be fucking raped. I have no doubt there's at least one spiteful LoE fag watching these threads, just waiting for an chance to fuck you over.
>>43548349The reason we got into a pissfight with LoE was because I was using their buildings. Now that I have replaced all of their assets, they have no reason to care. That's what I'd hope, but I wouldn't put it past anyone to be spiteful for lulz.
NEW VIDEO???Yes pookie dis shit peak
>>43548395As much of a faggot move as that was from LoE, you're honestly lucky it was them who told you to quit it first. Because if Hasbro finds out you're making money off their IP, they will kill your entire family.You're not even completely safe doing it for free. Fighting Is Magic was being made for free, and they still got fucked once it attracted enough attention. The only way to completely minimize the risk is to keep it on the board and not monetize it. But I guess getting (You)'s and being called based isn't enough for some faggots anymore.
>>43548576You're probably right. I saw Blob getting over two million views on his stuff, and I just wanted something I make to get out there like that, you know? It's a good feeling to make something that people enjoy.
>>43541961Check your ko-fi messages when you have a chance.
Working on makeout mechanics.
>>43548707
>>43548707damn anon, how did you figure out how i look irl
>>43548707l-lewd...
>>43549147>that eye twitch when boopedSOOOOOVVVVVVVVVVLLLLL!!!!
>>43548590Just wait until its near complete before really showing it off so you don't get fucked over like other fan games that flaunt their stuff too early.If you care about money then idk a plan to ensure safety.
https://u.pone.rs/ukrjypmd.mp4Making out with best pony. While hoofholding. Extremely lewd.
>>43549378
>>43549378beautiful
>>43547084>SpikeDo you plan on giving the player the ability to play as existing characters? Most of the time, I'd play as Anon, but I'd also enjoy playing as Spike too. I want to ride on Twilight's back around town and breathe fire on stuff.
>>43549378She's so happy...
>>43549378Based. I can't wait to kiss my wife in VR too.
>>43549378You really need to improve your outline system if you intend to make kissing a mechanic.Getting close is not kind to your current outline.
Will it be possible to lure a mare into the Everfree and rape her?
>>43550175This but for fillies.
>>43550205Why would fillies rape mares in the forest?
>>43550205>gets raped by Sweetie BelleNo refunds
>>43550219>gets raped by Sweetie Belle
>>43549500How about give the option to play as Anonfilly or Anon stallion.
>>43550292the alien of her dreams will soon kiss her, she has no reason to be sad
>>43549378You're going to make me buy a VR headset aren't you anon?
>>43547248Only thoughts are that Twilight seems to have a proper upstairs room with a balcony rather than just a balcony as a bedroom in her main room. I dunno if that's intended to just be her bedroom or not, though. The little horse statue mentioned here >>43546839 is on the main floor of the library, for example.>>43549378Saw this because of a buddy linking it, fucking kek. This game is gonna hit some anons pretty brutally I imagine. Phantom touch and presence in VR is very real and you can feel characters near you like they're real people oftentimes; having that with your waifu in Equestria is going to oneshot them right in the heart, especially once more features and polish get added to make the illusion more believable and less jank.
>>43549378Anon please make me be able to sleep with trixie and my wallet is yours
Very Low preset for weak computers. Potentially a mobile version for standalone Quest? Maybe? I can try it, see what happens.
>>43550633 (checked)cuddling with poni beside you, having poni lying on top of you, and sleeping beside poni while quietly talking to them before bed sounds extremely comfy and like it would horribly fuck many anons upGreat idea!
is there going to be estabilishments like the café with savor fare and "eat" daffodil and daisy sandwiches, or like going to the spa or even the mail or the school?
>>43550726>cafeYes>SpaYes, with a hoofa/back/wing massage minigame for earning bits>schoolProbably, maybe just a single classroom because we only have like 9 fillies.
>>43550727cheerilee's schoolhouse is just a single room, so it's not that big of a deal. you know what, it would be really funny to be able to teach there, if *something happened* to cheerilee
>>43550707Looks like shit in a charming way. I'm sure my computer can handle it but I'd play on this by choice.
>>43550707>Very Low preset for weak computers. Remember you can also severely reduce draw distance and LOD factors.Silent Hill 1 showed the extreme of that technique, and it work really well to get a machine to punch way above its weight.
>>43550727>school>we only have like 9 filliesPlenty enough for what they need to learn.
Managed to get the game running on the Quest 3 with 40fps consistent, which is sort of playable. It's kind of pixelated looking and I had to make a LOT of sacrifices, but it does work. Running it in this mode with a lower-tier PC should hopefully help with framerate a lot, I estimate 60-80 FPS even on absolute shitter iGPU computers on desktop mode. Given the quest 3's GPU is equivalent to a GTX1060, if you have a PC made this century it'll run well. I think that's the performance issues neatly tied up as best as I can get it.
>>43549378This just became the most interesting project in /mlp/ history.
>>43550707Hey are these models ai-generated?
>>43551513yes, its means itll be done within our lifetime
>>43551516>worrying about immersion when the foundation of the project is built on AI mares to begin withnot sure what you expect dude
>>43551516>>trading completion for immersionGive me a break. We're just trying to fuck our wives.
>>43541961>combat in my pony gameI hope this is a eusocial, atmospheric game unlike Legends of Equestria.
>>43551539Yes. Combat has been essentially scrapped, honestly.
>>43551540Will teh >lewd ever be implemented?
>>43551552I will, as soon as I get someone to make proper mare bits for me. I'll have it as an add-on mod.
>>43551558>proper mare bitsAre we talking something hyper-realistic, more cartoonish, or HVOP?
>>43551561I am a very, very autistic perfectionist about proper mare pussy. Don't you worry.
I want to cunning linguis my horse wife
>>43551562Sounds good!>>43551565Me too, anon
Requesting help: I need hoofstep sfx. Can't find any that sound accurate to the really cute sounds in the show.
>>43551558>I will, as soon as I get someone to make proper mare bits for me.You got ye ol' reliable, as a placeholder:https://derpibooru.org/images/2120859
>>43551647https://files.catbox.moe/3r28fa.zipHere, clipped show samples. Those are the sources I used for Ramage's hoofstep sfx.Can't launch the project now without Unity spending 12hours rebuilding shit, but iirc the 3 "-short.ogg" are the ones actually used in-game and are cut as tight as possible (mostly because you really want the sound to actually "hit" right when started) - although they don't seems to play correctly in VLC so maybe I'm remembering incorrectly.
>>43551662Wow. Thanks, anon!
>>43551662Actually, if you're the dev for Ramage, do I have permission to dig through the files for assets to reuse, accessories, Dashie's room, et cetera? They seem to be really high quality.
>>43551666>do I have permission to dig through the files for assets to reuse(Nearly) None of those are mines: that's all community-made stuff made public on deviantart and co, mostly for SFM/Gmod. Nowadays, ponysfm is probably the last place to have them all. https://ponysfm.com/rainbow-dash-s-roomYou will need some Blender addon to convert SFM files to something your game engine can digest: https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SourceIOorhttp://steamreview.org/BlenderSourceTools/Depending on the exact file one might work where the other don't.If there are some assets you can't find on ponysfm, make a list and I might dig through my folders in case I still have a clean version somewhere.
>>43551558Will mares also be able to fart?
>>43551691holdable hoofas
>>43551730Just mod in a 180° rotation on the model so the AI-generated audio comes out the other hole. Easy.
>>43552280Need that gif of the talking vulvas
Rarity's boutique, sugarcube corner, luna dream visits, sleeping, cuddling, desktop pony boops with animation, more flatscreen support, improved UI and design, 3d home screen, title screen, better fonts, revampes hayburger interior, post processing and a round of polish fixing up houses and terrain and the general experience done. Will post results either tonight or tomorrow
>>43551647Hoofsteps and much more, all clipped directly from the show.https://mega.nz/folder/gVYUEZrI#6dQHH3P2cFYWm3UkQveHxQ/folder/AU5hxQ5B
>>43553059Sounding good. Keep it up, anon!
>>43553059Oh fucking sick! I'm excited to see.Also, unrelated, but I've been hanging out with some vibecoders tonight. Unhinged shit. Saw some guy putting Skate 3's skateboarding mechanics into GTA3, another guy putting playable TF2 mercs and physics into CoD, and another dude who dropped Counter-Strike's gameplay and movement into Skate 3's map and has been surfing around the map. This tech is really going places, and the idea of copyright keeps getting brought up there.If this project gets bigger, maybe open-sourcing it sooner than later would be better? It can be a really good defensive mechanism for fangames, as even if it gets C&D'd everyone just has the source and can fuck around with it. Especially in the age of AI, multiple people could just vibecode and sloop out additions to it. I'm only bringing it up for security reasons in regards to the future of this project 'cuz I'd hate to see it get smacked down before you've gotten a chance to open-source it. Granted, Hasbro has been insanely laid-back about fangames (Fighting is Magic aside), but I wanted to tab into the thread and say this as soon as I had the idea to.
>>43553265First open source release will be the OP of the next thread
>>43553059Messed up. Needs another few days in the oven.
You chat let’s see if this game gets released before I kill myselfI can feel both deadlines getting closer
>>43553980.Delay it if needed. Don’t stress yourself out with a deadline too much. It can burn you out.