Sunday Progress Report (Patreon)

Hello ^_^ 

Update, stuff worked on this week, further work to the fluid sim/stickiness solver, fluffing up a yeen, and doing more work on Staying In Eating Out Part 3

Staying In Eating Out Part 3 is almost done. Everything is there now and just needs some refinement, smoothing and polish. This is what I'm concentrating on this coming week. I've included a hybrid playblast/render to show you where I'm at. 

NOTE: the lighting in the playblast is now 'flat lighting' as I've a project specific glitch where shadows messed up in the viewport. As Renders still look identical and this only affects the work area. The work area has been switched into this mode and will deal with it till the project is done (as there is no real reason to rebuild the project at this late stage) 

Something I ran into when doing the sim for SIEO3 is skin should be a lot more slippery than fur, I needed a way to specify the amount of friction on different parts and have updated the stickiness solver to support this. 

As a basis for this randomness is applyied and and then refinements can be made to define what parts need to be slicker than others. I made a quick demo of this on the Basted otter anim with random friction, no wetness, zero cleanup (random small particles) but you can see how the fluid behaves, it sticks more heavily in random places and when dragged there is stringiness

Something I'll look at in future is tying this into the new fur system so shorter fur will imped it less and longer fur with catch more, to give even more variation.

And last (but not least) I've been adding more floof to the yeen, he's still WIP and still needs work, and the colors/fur may change a bit between now and the finished version as I'm still 'feeling out' how I'd like the character to look :D 

Note on files, as Patreon limits file size to 200mb I'm providing all files bigger than that as a split zip. If all parts (.zip, .z01, .z02, .z03 ...) are downloaded to the same location, (and your browser should do this by default) double click the .zip file and Windows 10 (or an archive manager of your choice) will happily open it up.

If you have any issue with this please message me directly and I'll sort out alternative download means via DM and I'll also be sending links out to those who've requested one previously.