Gohan Update: Hina NSFW

Sorry for the Delays,
Here is current Update:

TLDR: Gohan fixed maps (Images below), Hina Model is Complete, Hina NSFW Previews Below



Hinata's Model recently got completed. I've been going at it since, I apologize for delay and thank everyone for their continued support. To explain delay, From Hinata WIP previews, she was in the final stages of completion (last month). My mistake is that I assumed it would be complete within timeframe of April month so I included her in the poll. Please do not worry, I did not rush modeler, I told them to take as much time as they needed. I just made a wrong estimate I apologize. But she is now complete and she was sent over to me this last weekend.

And for Hina NSFW have preview. for Animation Release Early-Mid May. Sorry again and I thank everyone for their continued support. As soon as that is released the next poll will go immediately up and it will be a bit different this time, to ensure proper timelines.

As far as I have been, Blender has been so much better. I am able to edit clothing itself. I need to improve but I enjoy that I am really free with what I can do.

Gohan's Last SFM Animation and First B******

7 minute long animation Please watch before reading post

(Attachement below or watch on Youtube here)

This is what I’ve been cooking in the background all this time. I didn’t want to say anything until I got a good enough grasp of Blender. Whenever I had time away from SFM (The animation software I grew up with).

I’ve been using that time to learn Blender. I took courses, tinkered with it in my free time, and I had the help of many different people (Shoutout to Lambo Xiao Long in particular).

I grew up with SFM, it’s very heartfelt software to me, I doubt I would have ever picked up Animation if it weren’t for it. I’ve poured over 10,000+ hours into the software and it’s meant a lot to me. So please allow me permission to complain about it a little about SFM and my time on Part 3 (Please Feel Free to skip ahead past number my 15 complaints to the Blender portion if you wish, I’m just venting)

• SFM is a Single Core Software. While 10+ cpu cores are chilling that 1 cpu core is drowning for help.

• SFM crashes… A LOT. I had over 3 GBs worth of .dump files (Crash files) at one point. I once lost 4 hours worth of progress, now I can never go 1-2 inputs without pressing Save (Which in a sense is a blessing, because you should always save).

• (Arguably the worst part of SFM) SFM freely decides to Resample Micro-movement automatically/randomly. So Resampling is basically the computer takes your Animation Inputs and says “ooh you idiot this is how you’re supposed to animate it” and gives you its own deterministic output. This mainly applies when the animation has subtle movements (Breathing Animations etc.) I think it tries to round to the nearest whole number and time in the waveframe data. 

• NSFW scenes crash the most because of constraints. (Male Hand’s locked to Female boobs/butt etc.) SFM hates this.

• God Forbid you had a bone selected when you switched to the graph editor your chances of a crash are 80% higher. I will even say if you want to learn animation the correct answer is to use the graph editor. But the amount of times it’s crashed on me when I needed to make a deadline I just stayed in the motion editor. 

• AutoSave shoots itself in the foot in SFM. It can be turned off but there have been times where it saved hours of my work, you can thank AutoSave for the reason the Hinata Animation’s for making it out the door. But the way AutoSave works is that it goes off every 5 minutes, but the timer is only ticked when inputting something in SFM. So if you clicked something with a lot of moving parts in SFM and AutoSave decides to go off at that moment. Sayonara partner, SFM crashes and AutoSave couldn’t even save it. 

• The Graph Editor is made of Straws, Motion Editor is made of Bricks

• This sounds crazy and could have been fixed easily, the entirety of Part 3 I had to animate Boruto with his Left leg being his Right leg, and his Right leg being his Left leg. Meaning in the U.I. If I wanted to move his actual right leg, I had to press left leg in the U.I. And the reason I didn’t realize sooner (Until 4 months later into Part 3’s production) is that SFM has 2 U.I.s you can select bones from. The viewport U.I. and the Animation Set Editor U.I. It displayed correctly on the Viewport A.I. but only until I tried selecting his bone in the Animation Set Editor Window, I realized wtf happened. And this could have been easily fixed by just renaming the bones in the rig file and detaching and reapplying, but this leads into another issue. 

• Detaching a Rig in SFM can screw up the animation. I was already balls deep into animating. And Applying the anatomically correct Rig at that stage would have run the risk of the animation data randomizing. (Forgot to mention detaching a rig, can randomize animation data sometimes) So I just completed Part 3 in that confusing way. 

• There’s  a certain menu in SFM that has a lot of important features needed for Animating, but it’s only accessible when right clicking an empty portion of the Animation Set Editor. So if you have too many models loaded in, right clicking that portion that a model occupies brings up a different menu. The only way to get to that important screen is to scroll all the way down but, SFM only lets you go 2 pixels worth past the last model if you had to scroll down. So getting to that menu is practically an FPS Aim Trainer. At that point. 

• There is no pose library, everything I did was by handI Wanted to Push/Exaggerate Poses more but bones will break. A lot of my animations have clippings. A lot of Eye and Facial bones will randomly get locked in a certain position unless moved significantly but eye and facial bones are not meant to be moved more than a few cm’s worth, This really affected how expressive I wanted shots to be.

• Nude Versions of some animation look terrible because I bent the pose too far, or exaggerated it too much, and broke the vertices and now Hinata’s thigh looks like a 2 pixelbit chicken wing.

• Models will stop allowing you to animate them at a certain point (It’s called Channel Clip Duration) when you load a model into the scene it looks at how long the scene is then only animates for that duration. If you later change the scene duration you would think it will scale to it but it does not. So if you have over a dozen few assets loaded you have to select each one and change the duration one by one. 

•  When using models provided by the community in the Steam Workshop, to use them you need to subscribe to those people and you will gain access to that model. That’s not an issue. The worst problem is if that creator ever decides to take it down from their Steam Shop, The system for the rest of time will  ping your copy of SFM asking to have these models removed. So you have to deselect every, single, model and asset from being deleted and then press ok. There is no “Don’t show menu again” option. This occurs on every single bootup of SFM. SFM wil freeze itself andl not work until you press Ok. This has always taken 3 minutes of my time every startup, after every crash I have to do this again. 

• My final complaint, and the crux of it all before I lay SFM to rest, is that the Error Asset (Spinning Error Message) that I used in this animation you just watched, wasn’t even loading in properly as it’s own error.