Bikini3D - Dancing 3D Bikini Babes

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Why the babe has no shading?

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Doesn't look bad, but you didn't change much since the contest 2002, did you?

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I would recommend you to update to a6 with the new lighting system and the bone animations, that would really improve the visual quality. And with the latest a6 version (still in beta) you could even add some shaders (per-pixel lighting, shape blending...).

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We used A5.51 at one point for some newer Strip Kittens girls and got a ton of complaints from previous users (and demo downloaders) that the new versions did not work on their older video cards (due to the newer way it handled DX). Most of our customers are repeat customers, meaning they buy every girl we come out with, so that was a huge problem. Because of this, we reverted back to A5.24 and re-released those particular girls. We would have loved to use A6 for the Bikini3D girls but the whole point of this project was to make money and a large portion of our traffic base are using older video cards so we kept with what we knew would work on the largest base of computers. We would try the new A6 betas for Bikin3D if we intended on continuing with the 3D girl programs, but we've moved on the other projects and at this point there's not a whole lot of sense in fixing what isn't broken.

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Anyway, I would rework the security system.

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Thanks everyone for the comments.

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A.Russell: I actually tried to buy one of your packages, but your payment system didn't like my card (funny, everyone else loves it).

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Damocles: Nice Animations, Where Did you get the motion capturing data.
Did you make it yourself?

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A little but important tip:
Try:
var d3d_transform = off; // always A5 mode

this will run the A6 engine in A5 mode, there should be no problems with older card then...
Guess you want to use A6 ?

Damocles

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but at that point we'd lose any of the cool A6 lighting stuff, so there would be no real difference.

We played with A6 and also noticed our transparencies, etc. were messed up which would mean reworking a large portion of the project as well. Basically as I mentioned, it works, it sells incredibly well, people who buy it like it, and that's what we set out to do. Any new projects we do with this engine will be with A6, but this is an old project and does what it needs to do. I just thought I'd post it as an example of something that's been professionally produced with Acknex and still makes good money after over a year of release (Strip Kittens is a year+ old).

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Thanks for the commercial perspective.

Your credit card processing company aren't very helpful, though. I wonder how many sales you lost through them, and which credit cards they decline. Mine is a Visa card issued from a New Zealand bank. As I said, I rarely have any trouble purchasing anything with it.

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I'm not going to go to a great effort to buy it. I was bored and it looked like a good amusement. Plus I'm learning modeling, so it was interesting to me.

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Its cool stuff and it looks great but i would never buy it cause well ehm it doesnt do anything. It's more a screensaver (A cool one ) then it is a game.

It's fun to watch a mp3 or 2 but then the fun ends. How ever it good marketing by making them dance in bikini's

Lol the tile of this topic draws enough attention.

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Realspawn you hit the nail right on the head.

At this moment we are working on an actual game, in house, totally funded by ourselves. The funding for that project comes primarily from the sales of Strip Kittens and Bikini3D (Strip Kittens selling about 100 times more than Bikini3D does, go figure, lol).

By coming up with these (and being able to create them so quickly thanks to Acknex), these two products contribute greatly to our financial resources we need to create the real games we want to make. They aren't exactly inspired works of art, but they do indeed pay the bills.

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PS: But in some parts Russels avater is much better

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Ask him who made it.

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Can you reveal to us your art paths for the girls and the animation?

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Can you reveal to us your art paths for the girls and the animation?

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Already has - MoCap for animation, and hand modeled girls.

There are a number of sources which sell standard MoCap files, and then you will need to tweak them a bit for your exact needs.

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The models look good. It's a simple and effective marketing idea. It's fun, and by the sounds of it, makes money.

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What he said. The models look very good, and move well. It does what it was designed to do. Mission accomplished I say...

Jak? You there?

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Hehe yeah I'm just getting here for the day.

The models were created using a combination of 3DSMax and Milkshape, only because they were the first human models I've ever made from scratch and I wasn't sure which program would offer the best results for the engine, lol.

Once I finished the first one (Greta), Dawn handed over the club architecture she'd built, and then I textured it, pathed it, lit it, etc. in WED. Textures were all created in Photoshop.

The beach ball animation was a combination of renders from 3DSMax composited in Photoshop and output as BMP frames. The frames were then imported as skins on a flat screen object in MED, and we scripted the skins to show as a repeating animation in the engine.

Cameron Aycock provided the MP3 dll and I wrote a simple mp3 and playlist player in C-Script that ties into the DLL to handle the music playing.

There are a ton of different camera moves in the full version that aren't in the demo, plus a bunch of different bikinis, etc. Also, in the full version you can walk around inside the club without being tied to a specific camera. Press F1 in the demo for a list of all the keyboard commands. The ones with a * after them are only available in the full version, but it will give you an idea of all the stuff that's scripted in.

That's about it. There are of course a million and one changes that could be made to make it better, but then again it does what we wanted it to do and that was the goal. Not everything done with GameStudio has to be a game... For that you'll have to check out Digital Dave's Beach Blanket Bikini Racers.


Thanks again for all the comments everyone!
Jak

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Cameron Aycock provided the MP3 dll and I wrote a simple mp3 and playlist player in C-Script that ties into the DLL to handle the music playing.

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WHOO HOO! Thanks for the mention.

I didn't think you would still be using it since the new media functions are in A6, but GREAT! Glad I could help.

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Yes indeed that dll has come in handy, thanks!

Hey check your private messages...

Jak

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Check Showcase II if you're lookin' for bikini babes. There's some hot babes in jaknine's thread, and a free demo!

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Back at ya jak!

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Awesome. Much appreciated Dave! And hey, that mechanical bull idea is great. I might just think about doing something along those lines.

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And hey, that mechanical bull idea is great.

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It's golden. If you don't, I might............
I'll give you first crack at it though since you did so well with this one.

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Well we seem to be on the same wavelength as it is. We had been talking about doing a bikini girls on ATVs racer since we came out with Strip Kittens, but we waited too long and you beat us to it, lol! We're pretty busy lately so we can't do anything with a bullriding girl, so have at it if you want. I look forward to it.

Jak