Update Post (Patreon)

I'll be updating this post during the week on the progress I'll be doing be it on the modeling of the character body, clothing making, or stages creation. 

the reason why I'll be skipping around is that I still can't do 1 thing from start to finish in one go since I get stuck easily so having multiple projects helps in the flow of creation

Pick your selection on the Polls in the link for easier navigation 

https://www.patreon.com/DeathJoeProductions?filters[tag]=Poll

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Update 4

ok so in the past 2 weeks I have been quite busy in RL so I have not had the time I wanted to do almost any progress as I wish, but I think that's set for now so I'm should be free again

on the upside, I have placed a few new polls so see where I should be focusing on so that I can have some results and not just random projects here and there. I think I'm past the entry-level in blender so I think I can start to do projects in it and actually get some decent results now at the end so from now on we should be having better results out of it. the only issue now is that those new projects will be taking me a long time to finish as I now have a general idea of all the items I need 

this is some of the basic steps I need to do when I need to make something from scratch 

01 modeling - sketching

02 sculpting - refining

03 re-meshing - optimizing 

04 UV editing - optimizing for textures

 05 texturing - painting or creating new looks

06 attaching to model - merging into the same item

07 motion testing - finding any glitches on the new mesh to the body this take long loops in step 06 -07 over and over till I'm fed up

08 ray cast texturing - trying to make MMD texture look somewhat good

09 final video rendering - finally getting a video with all the looks 

each one of these steps takes quite a while to do and this is why I'm going to be asking in more polls what projects I should focus on

let's see pastime when I focus on one project I made 1 outfit in a week from scratch to video render, so something simple I should get it done on a weekly basis but a more complex will take longer

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Update 3

ok so this time around I was trying to fix a problem I had with the Kangxi body base

these items cause some bad issues wherein mmd the mesh would separate 

as we can see on the rear the mesh would stretch away from each other.

I still don't know when this happen since before I started to mess with it. It was just fine but since I have done quite a few of edits I must have fuck up something and made the mistake. I can't quite redo the work since it's been weeks of edits and testing so I'm kind of screw at this point and I can only go forward so I'm going to try and patch this up as much as I can.

after a few hours of testing, I manage to almost fix this issue and only have 1 jagged line but for the most part, we won't notice it.

during the past week, I was working on this new high heels. they are an upgrade from the original. I'm still working out what or how they should look at the final render

as we can see they will be almost the same but with some knee-high straps or strings that will wrap around the legs up to the knees 

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Update 2

Last poll results

It's been a while now and it seems like the ones that wanted to place a vote have.

this is mostly what you folks want me to do more of

Night club/ Strip club is the majority 

A pool or Cafe comes in 2nd 

a beach its a maybe

as for my demon island and the abstract themes are a NOPE

the abstract is pretty much the style of stages of what my last stage and latest videos look like so no more of those for quite a while.

ok So the Idea for the new stage would be either a combination of the top 3 picks or individual stages at the end

the beginning will be a dance floor with high rise stripping areas with poles in the center

2nd addition might have an indoor pool next to the dance floor

3rd a bar with stools and maybe some shadow customers

a VIP area with sofas and tables on a corner of the dance floor

a Front entrance that will look like an outdoor patio Cafe with the logo name of the club. it will have 2 4 chairs round tables with umbrellas to make some shade from the sun. and in the center the entrance door

"Cafe Naughty"  

this is the first thing that came to mind and I might go with it

with this idea, I think I can checkmark all the request votes at the end

I'll start with some basics and improve over time until I'm satisfied with the end result

meanwhile, the new outfits will be more bikinis, bunny, maid, and other sexy types 

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Update 1

for the most part, I have noticed that all MMD models I have inspected have very poor typology. the models do work to an extent but have the joints collapse on themselves selfs and we see sharp edges and lines. this is because they have been made using triangles in the wrong areas. this causes odd shapes and weird textures 

the standard mesh of an MMD model

the areas with the arrows have bad meshing where it will cause texture shadows or bad deformation

Doing retopology of the model. my goal is to have proper deformation on the joints where the model will bend.  still doing basic shaping of the loops, I think I got the stomach area done and I'm about 50% sure that the breast will work the way I want it to

the difficult parts will be the shoulder, hands, feet, pussy, and ass

so far I'm about 1/4 of the way done

once I'm finished I can easily modify the shape of it and be getting different body styles