A bit of a late update this month because I've been a kinda busy, but you know the drill, here is your usual feed of previews!
My main focus these weeks has been to to improve the bust area of characters when wearing my tops. As I explained in my Stewardess uniform release post:
My problem with most HS2 clothing so far is that the default character model has an unsupported, braless shape.. which is good when naked, but terrible when clothed. Most real clothing does not droop and warp around the wearer's sagging breasts. It should instead push and support them into that attractive shape that all men know all too well. I think I have the solution now.It builds on the foundations laid by the sportstop project to achieve something new to HS2, a true, clothing-specific pushup look. It does this without requireing blanket solutions like "pushup" or the sculpted solution I have used thus far (which has the side effect of making breasts look two sizes larger). You will notice that your honey looks more photogenic, while maintaining consistency in her proportions.
Basically the TLDR is, youll need to install the plugin that comes with some of my clothing in the future, and it makes stuff look good.
The plugin will only respond to specific mods of mine and will not affect other items in your wardrobe. My two most recent releases use the new "ClothingHelper" plugin to achieve their shape. You can see them at the bottom of this post.
Male Model Poses 01 Preview
Ok, even though this preview is late, the post is still locked to members for a few days so I will post the preview here. The latest pose pack finally puts the guys in the spotlight, with 12 male-specific model poses. Some of them are meme inspired, but most of them are just "casually cool dude" poses.
The exclusive pose pack for this month, which im working on now, will be a bunch of "Plus One" poses for guys so that you can use them in conjunction with the male model poses to make a sort of Idol group poster for your honies to gush over.
Tina Preview
Next month's girl for 😗Enthusiast😗 tier will be Tina. Here she is, rocking the new stewardess uniform:
Tina will be coming June 15th along with an exclusive variation card which will be revealed when I actually come up with it, as usual 😅
Plugin Previews
The main plugin that I am working on now is the second iteration of ExtraMoveAxis+. The plugin bears little resmblence to the source code it was derived from at this point, since I have added so many features. While my pose packs constitute "giving you a fish", my goal for this plugin is to essentially "teach you how to fish."
What I mean by that is, I hope to remove enough friction from the posing processes that it will become genuinely fun for number of you. For the rest, I will of course still be handing out "fish" as usual, in the form of my regularly scheduled pose packs.
Ok so what does ExtraMoveAxis+ V2.0 actually do?
Compensated rotation will be added, allowing easy reorientation of root nodes like the torso, shoulders, or upper legs as seen above. Shifting poses like this would usually take upwards of a dozen clicks, and no small amount of concentration on the user's part... now its a simple click + drag.
Also new is the ability to use the gizmo to perform rolling actions ( 'rolling' means rotating like a clock from your perspective).
For me, rolling motions were the last cornerstone missing from the gizmo. It used to be very difficult to rotate joints relative to camera perspective like this.. it required silly tornado motions lol.
Oh.. and last but definately not least, the moveaxis+ V2 plugin will be coming to HS1/AI/PH/KK/KKS as well.
There are still some bugs to squash, but I hope to have this out within a week from time of writing. Hopefully it will make some posers out of this crowd!
Mods Previews
Okay, when it comes to mods, here is what I am currently working on, in order from left to right:
The cat top exists in-game, but its a bit dated. I will take a new crack at it. Work on the wedge sandals are underway. Next, lets recap some recently released mods, incase anyone missed them:
Sports Top
I found that reference really attractive so I have recreated it ingame for you guys. The reference version Sports Top will release mid June to the public, and until July 16th, 😎Fashionistas😎 can pick up the exclusive latex version too.
Exclusive Mod #32: Stewardess
This Stewardess dress makes full use of my clothinghelper plugin that I talked about at the top. If it is displaying incorrectly for you, please go back to the install package and make sure you have installed the BepInEx folder along with the other stuff!
In response to user feedback, I have also trimmed the bodymask so that people who want to use overlays to hide the skirt can do so. I have also taken the opportunity to update the clothing helper today, optimizing it so that the occassional momentary hollow chest phenomena no longer occurs when first putting the top on. Those who want the updated version can find it on the Mega now.
Those who just want the plugin update can simply download the lightweight package below instead.
Alright, that does it for this update! Thank you for tuning into this one, and thanks as always for your continued visitation, engagement, and support! 💖