Theanthria
April 7th Build: Panties, New Clothes, and UI Improvements!
Changelog:
- Added More clothes
- Girls have panties now
- You can change positions during sex
- Removed blur during sex
- You can teleport to any girl now
- UI aesthetic changes
- Girl voices now change with their
- Prettier park
Hello again friends.
I have many improvements in this build, some aesthetic and some related to gameplay. Special thanks to ant4578 for some of these suggestions. Thank you friend.
Also thanks to Mi_Hu1995 for pointing out a very dumb mistake I made that caused the game to not open properly.
Overall I'm proud of what Theanthria is becoming. Tho I can still see many things to improve, correct, and add, I'm confident I'm in the right track.
Changes:
Panties added! (New clothes too!)
I was dreading this for so long because adding layers to a character's model that closely fit without deforming arbitrarily or clipping through the model itself, is impressively complicated. But I managed to find a solution and now I finally gave the girls panties more form-fitting clothes! They look so cute now :3
Part of my solution involves a toggle that you (player) can select to turn on/off their panties. You can leave them on for skirts, and off for clothes like tight pants so they don't clip through.
Change positions during sex!
I don't know why this didn't occur to me before. In retrospect, it's very obvious.
Now you can change positions during sex! You just need to ask the girl to change positions and select from the list.
Removed blur on sex scenes!
There was an issue of sex being too blurry in first person. The way it worked, is that the depth of field adjusts to any collider that is in front of the camera, so it "adjusted" to a very close distance to the camera because the anthros have invisible colliders for different interactions. I fiddled around trying to make my dynamic DOF system work well during sex, but I realized that removing the blur altogether just makes it look better.
So the blur effect is absent during sex, but -if enabled on settings- reactivates itself after sex.
With a similar idea in mind, I removed a dynamic cloud system I had. Again, I thought it looked cool because it was more "realistic" but removing it makes everything look sharper and more pleasant, especially at night. I hope you prefer it this way :v
Added teleportation to the girls location!
Now you can teleport to any available girl you want! I was a bit against this for a while, but after integrating this system and playing it, the game feels way better. Feels snappier, and is easier for new players, or player who just don't want to bother with the jump-pack/grappling hook moving system.
There's this little button I added that teleports you to the girl's location. You can see which one's are available (walking around the streets) and which ones aren't ("in their homes", "waiting for deliveries"), based on their schedule.
I also change the dialogue UI a bit, so the name box matches the main color of the girl's fur/scales, inspired by Animal Crossing :v
It's such a simple change, but I loved it so much. Looks so cute.
Also! The girls' voice pitch is more varied now. Pitch is determined by their size now. So big girls have deeper voices, and smol girls have cute high voices.
Back then, before introducing the anthro-customization system, the girls had a variety of pitches. But I straight up messed up how their pitches were selected after that update, and left it at that; with a single pitch for everyone. Now I decided to have it change with size, which seems logical to me, and feels more immersive, I think.
Lastly, I made park prettier!
Not a very important update overall. The central park is functionally the same, I just added some grass, modified the texture a bit, and improved the shader of the trees. I'm just happy cus it looks cool now :3
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Hey, nice to see the game is coming along. Here is some of my feedback. I'm not sure if making a topic, or replying here is the best option.
The way I see it right now, the game is going to need to figure out how disconnected the dating/sex is from the delivery system in it's current and future state.
The teleport system is overall a good idea for those with 0 interest in the loop. But it carries it's own problem of making the system feel even more pointless for those who actually want to do deliveries.
When it was set in a small town, it made sense that the sole delivery guy would be able to build these kind of relationships with people, but the change to a large city not only makes the deliveries harder to complete, it also makes the big empty world feel even more shallow, with the MC somehow delivering the exact same orders to the exact same people.
I don't have much advice on how a 100% "everything is tied to delivery work" thing would work, because just going with the classic "delivery guy" porn trope is just gonna result in all the characters feeling the exact same after enough deliveries have been done. I can definitely understand the more outgoing personalities being eager to flirt and get to know the MC better, but not every character is supposed to be like that. It feels like there has to be some other way to romance the others outside of this loop that feels more natural.
Even so, I think being able to do deliveries to non-modeled, generic NPCs that exist solely as delivery fodder would help the world feel a bit less empty, and fits the big city atmosphere the game seems to be going with now. If you've seen those Youtube channels where people film their Uber Eats shift, you'll know what I mean.
This is a very light worldbuilding complaint, but it's a bit strange seeing how the MCs human status, which IIRC is supposed to be the same as seeing a dragon flying IRL, is no longer at all referenced in the game in it's current state. You can even freely take your mask off and no one seems to mind, nor do any of the characters bring it up, even during sex.
I'm not sure if this detail has been softly retconned, and now humans just exist alongside the characters, whether this is something that'll matter further into development, or it's simply been forgotten.
Again, this is one of those details where you need to think how the different personalities will react to the information once they get it. I don't have much advice on this, other than perhaps some type of "suspicion meter" that fills when the MC fumbles a question about his species status, or is seen without his mask. Then again, sex alone would probably cause this to fill up, unless the MC convinces them he has some kind of shaving fetish, or never takes his clothes off.
I hope this feedback doesn't come off overtly harsh or mean-spirited, I truly do appreciate what you're doing with the game, and I think some people didn't like the shift from a small town to a big city, but I personally think the idea itself is fine, but it definitely needs some work down to make the change worth it.
perhaps i'm missing something, is there a way to actually see the panties unless you set the NPC to walk around in their underwear?
Nah you are not missing anything. They are pretty much just for underskirt views and, as you said, if you want to have them walk around in their underwear.
nice