TheGatewayOfRealities

Modular Creature Kits

Rrah-rrah! It's been a while, but that is not because of the lack of work on the project, no-no! You see, I keep digging into programming side of things, and while I have some decent progress, it's nothing I can show (yet). However, I realized that if I keep at the same pace, I'd have leave my beloved Patreon without updates for a long time, not ideal.

But while conceptualizing a gameplay...

New Artstyle (Game Continues)

I have finally figured out the art style for the rebooted game project!

Since I recently acquired a superpower of being able to program on C++, I returned back to Unreal Engine 5. The picture you see has Lumen enabled but no Nanine or Megalights - because my old GPU can't handle all the features at once - 6GB VRAM is not enough...

All environmental models are my own - they are simp...

Planning How to Expand & Avatar Progress

Rrah-Rrah!
I'm a bit late with the post - I'm considering a lot of ideas which I didn't want to talk about before I was absolutely sure. But now I feel like I found my way that is worth talking about.

Levelling Up

First up, here's a short story about my development struggles and successes.

A few years ago, my discontent with Unreal Engine's reliance on a i...

The Node Hell of Progress

Greetings, beloved creatures!

I have been working hard on the Dragonkin model pipeline, its shaders and tools. While the the progress is slower than I'd prefer, I comfort myself that all the work I do will be reused across many VR-avatars and game-characters in the future.

Even if the model looked almost complete in the previous post, I have already remade the shader from scratch ag...

Dragyren

Greetings, Kin!

For the past month I've been tirelessly working on the Dragyren model, without even taking a single break almost for three weeks straight. As per usual, I don't just make a new model: most of the time is spent on developing new art-styles, writing shaders, and programming tools in preparation for making more models in the future. I've done similar pro...

Improvements are coming!

First of all, happy slit day! One day I'll remember about it in advance, one day make some art for it…

I have been working on the Discord overhaul for the past few weeks - It took me by surprise how much more I needed to plan that wasn't even Discord-related, but still affected by what wanted to change and improve. It's not just a "place to talk" for the community, the server will also ...

Going Public

I'm working on making my art known in the public once again through various methods.

While attending various VR meetups, I met several people who told me "Oh, you're Salireths! You used to make art, I remember favoriting it!". The focus here is on "used to" - despite that I create more than ever now, people in general think that I stopped?

I suppose that comes down that I don't uplo...

Year of the Dragon Rear

First of all, Happy new Year! The best year, the year of the Dragon! (although it technically will start on Jan 29). And may it brings us plenty of Dragon rears to enjoy!

For two weeks, all through the holiday season, instead of celebrating, I was painting this picture in preparation for the big upcoming overhaul! The picture will be used as a new cornerstone for my work going forward. I ...

Going Virtual

I got my PC working back a week ago, I have reinstalled windows, and I'm getting back to the working groove again. It also took a while to finish this post, as I kept re-writing it making sure my plans are clearly explained. Now, let's continue, onwards to two last posts of the planned series!

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2023-12-12 11:52:29 +0000 UTC View Post

Technical Explosion

I interrupt this broadcast because... Well, I can't post anything - my PC stopped working.

Over the course of last 2 days, when I promised the next post would go up (I still have two more posts to go!), my PC just shut off, and a couple seconds after I heard a distant explosion outside.

Turns out there was a spike of power that might have knocked my PSU (power supply) out, despite t...

Going Wild

During my break I managed to get myself into VRChat even deeper than before. By this, I have spent 900+ hours in social VR (Neos and VRC combined), I have tried dozens (and made a few) avatars, met so many interesting people, but nothing made me feel anything so special there. But that has changed very recently… I couldn't even imagine how deep this VR rabbit hole can go…

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Going Forward

I took a long break in-between posts, and while I wish I could be more productive, I also feel I needed this time to gain a fresh perspective and new inspirations.

As of what happened recently: I moved to a different country - unfortunately, the country where I lived has stopped issuing visa extensions, so I had no other choice but to leave. Then, upon arrival I fell very sick for three w...

The Journey

While I told about the "Dragon Internal Cleaning Co" game idea in the previous post - it is something I might start working on with others eventually, for me it's a side-job (and it hasn't begun yet). I will be making designs, models, textures for it. I will port my existing Unreal Engine work to it as well. But the important distinction is that I'm not going to be the force pushing that game f...

Game About Kobolds Washing Dragons... Sensually!

Last month offered me the most crazy, lifechanging experience in recent memory. So much has happened that just flipped my worldviews upside-down. I feel like I have evolved, a new Salireths has emerged with new creative avenues, new connections, new friendships and a handful of new kinks to enjoy… But first, let me explain!

So it all started with me attending Furality Sylva - I wasn't e...

Character Design with Tentacles!

Recently I started re-introducing myself to gameplay programming - and doing it all by myself now. This might be a surprise for you, but I haven't done any real programming in years, instead I've been working on everything that is related to graphics, but not the actual game's functionality. I wish I had infinite time to do art, rigging, animation, design and (learn) coding all at once, oh well...

Easter Egg animation

This is the Hopfel's "missing" Easter Egg animation I mentioned earlier! Enjoy!

The hilarious low quality (as if it's 1998 all over again) of the preview above is all because Patreon does not support modern webm or apng formats, so I have to rely on the obsolete, space-inefficient, resource-wasting gif to show you at least some motion...<...

Character tools are done!

Greetings! I've been up to a lot of different things lately, stuff that needed to be done for a long time, but something kept getting in the way of me doing them.

Character System

After yet another total overhaul, I think I have my character system at th...

The beginning of Sauria land

After the previous post where I stated that I finally re-started building the world again, I didn't want to just leave environment as it was and move on - I knew I could do better! After all, I achieved very pretty results on the previous version of the engine before.

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2023-02-16 16:40:01 +0000 UTC View Post

Loving Prayer (WIP Scene)

Although my new lineup of Dragonkin character models is not yet entirely finished (I'm struggling with rigging still), while moving over my old work to the new engine I started working on a new environment/scene. To show it off, I turned it into a cutscene, for which a friend of mine made a sweet little animation loop.

A Loving Prayer to the Dragoness

2023-01-27 15:53:48 +0000 UTC View Post

Dragonkin, Part 2.9

Greetings, Kin!

First up, I wish you very merry holidays: Yule, Christmas, New Year.

Yet another year draws to a close soon, and I'm still working my tail off chasing my dreams of bringing more scaly love into this world. What's changed, what's new? Although there's been plenty of setbacks, I'm now more experienced than ever, and my new character model style brings me (and hopefully...

Dragonkin (and more), part 2.5

Last time I told that I'm going to work on animations, but it turned out not to be the case. I realized that if I started animating a character like ordinary people would - I'd be shooting myself in the foot in the future. I instead dedicated myself to finding a way to animate them smarter, creating animations that can be re-used across as many different characters as possible. 

This...

Fireborn Dragonkin, part 2

I left off the last post with the next immediate goal to start rigging, and now I'm happy to report that it is done! Let's take a deeper look at what's new and changed on my Fireborn Dragonkin model - the model that I have big plans to use it everywhere (in lewd animations and art, public videos, as an avatar base for VR , and as an in-game character). I've completed the skeleton and fully boun...

This model has no unique textures!

After I created concept art of the new Dragonkin character, I just couldn't go back to the old model - I like the new design so much more! Despite that they're similar, I remodeled it from scratch and in the p...

More character designs

I felt it would be best to keep the drawing momentum after creating a very successful design of the Dragonkin character (shown in the previous post), and kept sketching a few more characters in parallel with doing more worldbuilding and gameplay planning.

After years of working on this, I came up with a sort-of...

New character, new name and gameplay prototyping

While I'm still struggling with allocating time between improving my financial situation and working on the game, I can't control myself when the inspiration hits! So for a couple last weeks I've been doing nothing but a lot of much needed design decisions for the game. Now I have a much clearer pictu...

Quick status update, lots of things is in-progress

Author: Salireths

Greetings! Apologies for being quiet lately, I've been dealing with a lot of projects and ideas, and I just didn't have time to sit down and write about all of them! But Night is almost over, Dawn is just below the horizon…

I also took a bit of a break, a much needed step back to take a look at my work from the distance. It definitely helps to re...

Sensual Action concepts

One of my pet peeves with adult games is that they never seem to include the adult part into their gameplay loops. At best its just pointless animations or other background imagery, at worst its an animated sequence between two character that's triggered on player's defeat, counter-intuitively asking you to play badly in order to be rewarded with lewds.

What I want is a game where lewds a...

Playable Kobold and his service in a Dragon organization

In one of the previous posts (and the game-jam build) I have shown the chubby synthetic dinosaur called YoYo. But some people have commented that they don't want to play as a synthetic character...

Thus we decided to try to add a second character to both offer variety for different tastes and promote co-op play as different characters (and give an ability to switch contro...

Don't give up

The decision to change the direction of the game was a difficult one: it was hard to talk about it, and even harder it was to see some people leave...

But some of us are still here, you stand by - followers, patrons, friends, family. Your support means everything to me, thanks to all of you I feel I'm not alone - I have the strength to go on.

The times now are difficult and dark, lo...