So I haven't been very active here recently, and I kinda felt bad about it. The things I like to do most is creating poses and videos and of course playing around with all the cool addons people create here. Plus, there were a bunch of people repeatedly asking me whether I could share some of the poses I've created for my movies, and I'm actually willing to share and to put something together for this great community. But it is also clear to me that I do not just throw out something unfinished / unpolished, so packing up some poses together for a release means that I need to invest some time...and that's exactly where the problem starts - there's just sooo much stuff to do!

I don't even know where to start. For example, I've thought about trying to create something like a VN with renpy based on TK17 for quite a while now. But of course, that means diving into a whole new world and spending a lot of time just with learning about how to do all the cool stuff in renpy. And then you still need to come up with a halfway decent plot and of course all the visuals and animations... Welp, after hours of investigating and with a little help of GPT I've managed to get a video playing - nothing more nothing less. We'll see what I can do in the future, if I manage to stay motivated.

Speaking of GPT or AI, respectively... I've recently stumbled over a post here on KE showing a Video made with TK17 and then faceswapped with a tool named roop. The advantage of that tool is that there is no need to train a model, which saves a lot of time getting a video done, so I really wanted to try out the possibilities that this offers. But again, this meant investing a significant amount of time into getting everything to work and learning how to do things. After my first experiments with it, I have to say that it has potential, but it's still very limited in terms of quality and situations in which it works halfway decent. For example, it doesn't work at all for scenes where the target model has something in its mouth, and it also creates some kind of strange artifacts when the mouth is open. Check the video for a reference (I did not include a bj scene because trust me - it looks just wierd..). Some of the roop variants have the option to define masks, so that results for swaps with objects in the target models mouth look a bit better to some degree, but it slows everything down so much that for the current results it's just not worth it. The same goes for any post-processings that improve the face quality and reduce the open mouth artifacts. However, it sure has potential and I will keep following the development and continue to experiment.

As I mentioned, my main interest lies in creating videos and poses, and I've been working on a very steamy scene with these two beauties here for quite a while now:

null

I've created almost all of the poses already, and now I'm working on putting them together in the sequencer. But my god how I hate that fucking thing! It just crashes on me all the time, even in rooms which work perfectly fine in all other game modes. The worst thing that happened was that I've created almost a third of the entire sequence already, and all of a sudden the game crashed almost every time I've started the sequence. There was no way how I could continue to work on it. And of course also even after a nerve wrecking journey of disabling an enabling addons, textures, toys and so on I couldn't find out the reason why it crashed, so I finally decided to start all over again. But this time, instead of chaining all together in one big sequence, I've split everything up into smaller chunks. So far, that works, but who the fuck knows what that diva of a game throws at me next....

And last but not least there still is my Claudia vs. Ivy Project, which I also had to start over...  It was mostly due to the fact that my old system had serious gpu throttling issues which lead to very low fps rates and accordingly bad recordings. So once I've found that one out I first had to invest in a new rig, and then of course re-record everything. And yeah, when I've almost finished the second run, Diddy released a new version of his Xbody with all of these cool new sliders... I just had to use it! but of course, this meant again to start all over again, since I not only had to adjust all the body settings but also most of the poses that I've created so far for their sequence. To be honest, I haven't found the necessary motivation to finish it yet, but eventually I will take another attempt and finally nail down that movie....

..Oh, and I've almost forgot that there is also work and all the other RL stuff keeping me occupied, of course.. 

So yeah, long story short: Sorry for not being too active atm and for not having released any of the poses you guys requested yet. But I'm constantly working on my stuff and as soon as I find some spare time I will try to release some of it.