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Monthly Report: February
🕑 Added 2020-02-26 21:59:53 +0000 UTCHi! I'm posting a report like this near the end of each month, reporting on what I worked on behind the scenes and what the vague plans for the next months are. It is intended to help you decide if you want buy-in on the coming month or not.
Life plugin series (incl. Breathing)
Last month I promised to implement the remaining audio recordings for mouth breathing (~50 sounds) as well as the more complicated orgasms (~8-10 multi-breath sounds). I will hopefully get to this in March. However, I decided to spend several vacation days last week improving some other things first:
- I have implemented an AudioDistanceAttenuation plugin. This is an attempt at an improved audio distance attenuation curve over the Unity default logarithm curve. There is also an attempt to compensate for the apparent distances differences when dealing with different camera FoV angles. To say it in simpler words: This improves how the volume decreases with distance from the source, which was always a hassle in VaM. The plugin will be shipped with the Life package but can also be used separately.
- I have added 3 different sound effects with multiple sounds each: wet lube, a fleshy slap of meat hitting meat and last but not least some light bed/mattress squeaking. Thanks to Bluzz44 for providing most of these! These are of course all separate sound effects, meaning they can be located at their correct position in 3D. VaM is (of course) using a spatializer instead of just lame 3D-stereo sound, meaning when in VR your brain can actually locate that the sound is coming from the bed below you and not from the girls mouth. As a side effect, having separate sound effects allows you to tweak timing and volume to your liking individually. I made a quick preview video so you can check for yourself.
- Additionally I would like to spend some time improving how the DriverThrust sub-plugin syncs to the breathing, since it has really trouble with unregular (=normal) breathing. Often it speeds up or slows down to re-sync, which can look weird. I have some ideas that could improve this....making the calculations even more complex....but hey, it's for a good cause. Meanwhile you can workaround the issue to some degree by cranking up the "Rhythm Damping" slider in the Breathing plugin, since that makes breathing more regular.
I'm planning for two separate EarlyAccess releases of the plugin for March. Probably some time next week I will push the mentioned improvements and a second release for the mouth breathing/orgasms end of March.
Tutorials
The first tutorial has been release this month. I got little feedback and few likes on this, so I assume it is not that many people being interested in this after all. Making tutorials is consuming time I can't spend on other VaM things and I also don't gain anything from it directly for myself. Nevertheless, I will try to push out at least that "ready-to-go" Unity Project I talked about, but this is low-prio. Meanwhile have a look at this VaM-template by ivansx.
Cheers,
MacGruber
