Hey guys, those who follow my rhythm closely will likely have noticed that I've been a bit off my game in terms of release cadence this month. My mods were slow to come out this month, and unfortunately, there will be no second round of poses this month, I just wont be able to get around to it. I'm sorry :(

Why have I been "off my game?" well I basically fell vicitm to my own hubris. I bit off more than I can chew and burnt myself out.

After discovering that I can pull levers in the plugins and shaders space, I began to greedily and hastily make all of my long standing wishes for the game come true. And in that haste, I kinda tried to do too much at once and messed myself up. I stepped away for a week to rebalance, which has lead to the current delayed state of things. Since I've sort of been on my ass recently, this post will feature more work from other creators in the community than usual.

During my self imposed emergency break, HSG reached out and did a little interview with me, which was pretty refreshing.

If you are curious about how this patreon got started and my view on the state of the game and community, please check out HSG's interview post! I think its really cool that someone in our community has taken up the role of journalist! Thanks HoneySelectGirls!

Okay, so what have I been working on that burned me out?

ClothingHelper

Over the past two months, I've dumped like a hundred hours into this plugin, trying to stomp bugs out of edge cases. This plugin touches some really stubborn inner workings of HS2 and I sort of regret opening that can of worms. Clothing helper is a new dependency for my clothing mods (meaning that my clothes will require it). After all this time sunk, there are STILL some bugs that persist in certain people's installs and its driving me crazy. But this will be worth it in the end because:

Clothinghelper enables bodymasks and bodydoubles to be used in conjunction, and also allows clothing to clip into the hidden body. Basically what this means in english, is that clothing will look a lot more realistic going forward, instead of being stuck with the vanilla "bra-less" look, as demonstrated above.

Its like having perfectly dialed in "Pushup" settings on your character which loads with each piece of clothing your honey puts on and then goes away when you put on something else!

Custom Glitter Hanmen Shader:

The other big thing I've been working is rather self explanatory and you might have already seen it in a previous post. I'm pretty proud that I managed to implant these effects onto Hanmen's shaders to make the ultimate shader combo! You know I'm a sucker for glittery stuff in clothing, and now at last, I will have native, self emissive sparkles that really shine.

Thank you Hanmen for giving me permission to iterate on your incredible shader work 💖💖

Check out: Lance's Animated Effects Plugin

Speaking of cool effects, my friend Lance has been hard at work on a really cool dissolving clothing effect and a plugin to control this effect and other aspects of HS2:

This effect is probably one of the coolest that I'v seen in HS2 and the plugin that controls it looks really powerful too. Most of what it does flew over my head, since the animations are linked to timeline, but if your curious please check out Lance's post.

Character Preview: Lana

I am fairly sure at this point hat our girl for July will be Lana:

I hope you find her cute and look foward to her release next month! I have not started work on her blendshapes yet so all she can do right now is gently smile hehe.

Ongoing Mod Work

I am still working my way through the reference board. So far two down, two to go.

The babydoll 3 top from image 2 was just completed today, be sure to check it out in this post!

My implimentation of timed releases for exclusive clothing items has admittedly been a bit messy with all the dates that fly around. So from now I will be posting a collage of exclusive items, exlusive variants, and their expiry dates. After these dates, the items will be purchasable in the store.

Ok thats all I have for you for now. Again, I am really sorry for dropping the ball this month and missing a pose pack... I'll see you when I see you 💖

-Freelancer604