A plea for basic utility overlays: sweat and blood.

[WandererZero]

So, now that Leito has updated his anims, and @riot_punch has made some excellent progress in patching the cum overlays to work, @Halstrom has been a madman with theme tagging...

 

I want to make a plea for some more basic utility texture overlays: sweat, blood, etc. Maybe tears, or makeup that looks like it's running after crying... With things like Violate by @EgoBallistic and more being regularly improved, better situations being engineered into mods...these are things which are woefully lacking, but seem very possible in the current landscape. Right now, if you want sweat, you typically go with a full skin texture that shows it. But sweat and blood are not, should not be...permanent states. What better way to implement this than with AAF, scene triggering, and layers and overlays? 

 

Sweat and blood overlays would be great, and set things apart. Being worked over in Violate, or even SEU should make you sweat. I think fucking a deathclaw is going to bring on more than a papercut. 

 

But then again, what do I know...I could be asking for the moon on a plate. I just think, this is something that appears doable, and would add more depth to things. It would give modders more utility functions to make their mods add to MUH IMMERSIONZ. With the new skeleton coming soon, it seems like now...we have a lot more meat on the plate, and adding some of the garnish would be a cool thing to do. 

 

[riot_punch]

4 hours ago, WandererZero said:

So, now that Leito has updated his anims, and @riot_punch has made some excellent progress in patching the cum overlays to work, @Halstrom has been a madman with theme tagging...

 

I want to make a plea for some more basic utility texture overlays: sweat, blood, etc. Maybe tears, or makeup that looks like it's running after crying... With things like Violate by @EgoBallistic and more being regularly improved, better situations being engineered into mods...these are things which are woefully lacking, but seem very possible in the current landscape. Right now, if you want sweat, you typically go with a full skin texture that shows it. But sweat and blood are not, should not be...permanent states. What better way to implement this than with AAF, scene triggering, and layers and overlays? 

 

Sweat and blood overlays would be great, and set things apart. Being worked over in Violate, or even SEU should make you sweat. I think fucking a deathclaw is going to bring on more than a papercut. 

 

But then again, what do I know...I could be asking for the moon on a plate. I just think, this is something that appears doable, and would add more depth to things. It would give modders more utility functions to make their mods add to MUH IMMERSIONZ. With the new skeleton coming soon, it seems like now...we have a lot more meat on the plate, and adding some of the garnish would be a cool thing to do. 

 

At the moment there are limitations regarding overlays, such as it could only be applied to the body and not the face since it uses the overlay mechanism of looksmenu and not using the face tattoo/paint mechanism from the vanilla game.

 

But I remember a mod called "get dirty" which adds dirt layers to the body, head, and even clothing but since it doesn't use the looksmenu mechanism then it won't translate to AAF.

[WandererZero]

35 minutes ago, riot_punch said:

At the moment there are limitations regarding overlays, such as it could only be applied to the body and not the face since it uses the overlay mechanism of looksmenu and not using the face tattoo/paint mechanism from the vanilla game.

Yeah, I'm well aware of the facial limitations here, unfortunately...

 

36 minutes ago, riot_punch said:

But I remember a mod called "get dirty" which adds dirt layers to the body, head, and even clothing but since it doesn't use the looksmenu mechanism then it won't translate to AAF.

Yeah, I used GD for a time. It eventually became annoying. ?

 

That said though, putting the head aside for the moment (and you can decide if you want to view that as a pun, or a double entendre  ): if we're dumping cum overlays on the body, adding sweat and blood overlays for that portion should theoretically be possible on the body as well, no? 

[riot_punch]

It is possible.

I have an idea to add bruises, dirt, scars, etc on aggressive animations. Just need the textures and I'll see what I can do to implement them, during and after the animations unlike cum overlays which is only added afterwards.

Are there any overlay mods that add such textures?

 

 

[riot_punch]

@WandererZero Can I post these ideas on the overlays mod page?

adding something like "future updates" or something a long those lines, ask people if they have the skills necessary and are willing to help.

[WandererZero]

10 minutes ago, riot_punch said:

It is possible.

I have an idea to add bruises, dirt, scars, etc on aggressive animations. Just need the textures and I'll see what I can do to implement them, during and after the animations unlike cum overlays which is only added afterwards.

Are there any overlay mods that add such textures?

 

Not that I know of. That's the thing. Lots of whole skin textures available....nothing like this. Of course, with AAF/LM it was never really possible before. 

 

5 minutes ago, riot_punch said:

Can I post these ideas on the overlays mod page?

adding something like "future updates" or something a long those lines, ask people if they have the skills necessary and are willing to help.

Of course you can. Take anything I say as a possible ball to run with. I'm not one of those types looking for my name on everything. I just hope, wish for, and want better quality stuff. It never happens in a vacuum....and ideas are worthless if you never share them. 

[riot_punch]

Thanks!