I redid the Whore top. Probably wouldn't have bothered if not for the stupid typo, but I think it looks better. What I did was use Outfit Studio to turn the mesh into an OBJ, then loaded it in Blender and applied the labels there.That took a lot of guesswork out of things.

There's a bit of a black line down one side there where I forgot to erase the bounding box. So I'll probably end up doing it over once again.

Redone tops:

I'm happier with the graphics now, but the meshwork needs looking at. I think I'll revert back to the original and try again.

Most of these are the same wording as before. I changed some of it, but mainly it's tweaks to the textures.

That motto made so much more sense for a laborer than a slave.

I will say that I never noticed just how much that 3-pole distorted the arms and shoulders. I don't remember it doing that.

Already posted this, but what the hell...

I found a tileable digital camo pattern for the security caste:

I think that's a big improvement. Mot for camo purposes particularly, but its more the look I was going for originally.

Part of the challenge here was getting the dirt and sweat to apply to the writing as well. I think it's worked out fairly well.

New words for the slave motto. Opinions expressed by the Raider Reform School are not necessarily those of the author, by the way.

Here's everyone lined up for my photoshoot

One more thing to report: I've managed to get tattoos to apply automatically when one of the tank tops is put on. Kudos to @Invictusbladefor helping me get my head around the process.

Currently it's only on the "Just Another Sex Slave" top and it applies a Breeder tat on ass and belly. But having got it to work on one, the rest should be fairly simple.

I just need to make tats for the remaining castes. And fix that clipping at the back. Definitely that.

All tats done and auto adding with the tank tops.

Little bit of distortion on the roundel, but nothing that's going to bother me unless I look for it.

The tats are bigger than I wanted, but at least they're all readable.

I know, we've all seen the breeder ones before:

Although I did switch "Free Use" to solid text and make it a bit bigger. That's helped a lot.

I seem to have lost the shadow jail cell on this one, which is mildly annoying. I might try a version with a little more black to it.

That, at least, is readable now. The "Work Me Hard!" at the bottom could be clearer, but it'll do.

Not sure about this one. It's a bit big and a but unsubtle.I'm temped to shrink it down a bit and maybe put a heart behind it, see if I can't make it look more like a logo and less like graffitti.

I'm happy with that ass tat.

Another one where I got rid of the outline font. Much improved for it, I think.

And that one is pretty much unchanged.

All the tops are now scripted, so if you give a girl a breeder top, she'll get the breeder tats as well. And if you take it off, the tats go away. And that's more or less the last thing I wanted to do before release. It would be nice to fix some of that clipping though. And maybe add a holotape or two around sanctuary with some flavor text.

It would be nice to have some sort of quest structure as well. Maybe just a script that listened for various events and paid the player some caps for various events (on the basis that someone else is sponsoring the school). Maybe 50 caps for each girl captured, another 50 for each fetus implanted in her womb, and 100 for each baby given up for adoption by responsible citizens. It's going to need something like that or else the population boom is going to kill your settlements. And selling them to Trashcan Carla seems a bit low, somehow.

But most of that can wait. I'll look at maybe a 0.1 release.

otherwise your settlement

I have a strong urge to do some right-cheek designs specific to the Raider Queens. Just something simple like "THIS is Sparta!" Or "Red Fucking Tourette". Just so you can tell who they are when they're in the pillory and all you can see is their backside.

The trouble would be thinking up enough jokes.

Thinking about it, I might use the chain-and-book motif as a frame for some of the more wordy front tats

I wanted the chains to add a little nuance to "back to school, and the book with "R.R.R." written on it was originally to cover a bit of a mess where the chains didn't link up properly. But as a general framing device, I could do a lot worse.

Like any good school: concentrating on the three "R"s

Now I want a flag blank.

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It seems to work as a frame for the front tats.

Have to see how well the detail hold up with the smaller text. Shouldn't be a problem in this case.

How about:

For the "Laborer" caste? A little classier than "Punish Me".

Maybe I can squeeze a few more words in:

The self-righteous tone of the Raider Reform School is one of the things I like about the institution. Nice to hark back to it when we can.

Works for those "name" tats I was thinking about, as well:

Not sure the jokes entirely fit the somewhat po faced context of the chain-and-book frame. I might leave them out.

Yeah, I think that works better. I like the fact that the chain is somewhat reminiscent of a funeral wreath as well. As if to say that the people these women were are now effectively dead to the world.

Found a flag blank:

Not sure I'm sold on the color scheme though. Will ponder.

This could work:

The dark red and black has a sort of scholastic feel to it, but without being too antiseptic. I might go with this.

Flag in-game.

And I redid those tats with the chain-and-book border

I think it was worth the effort.

I had another look at the flag. Every time I looked at that last screenshot, it bothered me how flat i looked. Turns out, that's largely a product of the lighting I set up. I hung one in Red Rocket workshop and it's shadowed the way you'd expect.

That said, I also looked at some of the specular and normal maps for vanilla flags. The minutemen ones were generic and didn't depend on the image on the flag. So I used them for the flag. It brings out the grain a bit more and generally gives a better result.

Not that the flag's going to be what most people spend time looking at...

Damn. I just now noticed that missing section of catwalk above the flags.

Post a link when you can...

On 4/20/2020 at 12:05 PM, bluepigeon said:

Post a link when you can...

On the basis of "better late than never"