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Baking For Mara DEV 0.2 and Simple NBO For BFM Module Now Available! [Oblivion Remastered Mod]
This release was delayed a slight bit as I had some stuff come up that needed to get done and then proceeded to get distracted by other things, so I waited a bit to get a Nexus Mods version ready before making a proper release, but it's here now! Releasing along-side this new version of BFM is a simple module that makes NBO affected by BFM! The focus for this version was breaking into the game's IK system, clothing system, and character identification systems. There was a lot of research here that should help make future additions much easier and the community around Oblivion Remastered modding has found a bunch of new methods for various aspects that'll also make other additions viable in the future, such as getting comms between Gamebryo and Unreal working without direct memory edits! There's still a good number of gameplay oriented issues with BFM, for instance there's still some dynamic animation blends and IK systems which haven't been fully disabled, which can cause some oddities with animations, but this is probably the first 'usable' version for actual animations!
The NBO for BFM module releasing here also makes erotic animations including male humans viable, and we already have some animators jumping on to showcase its use! The Simple NBO for BFM Module is extremely simple and just makes it so that males using the NBO Male body will get erect when aroused/in an erotic animation. This means we got hard males, however don't expect much dynamics from it yet, there will most likely be a more advanced version (or even directly NBO integrations) in the future.
- Baking For Mara Animation Framework - - Changelog from Dev 0.1 > Dev 0.2 -
Baking For Mara Animation Framework - DEV 0.2
Notes :
Public release of TEST 0.1.3
General :
Added backend changes for a Nexus Mods available version which removes functionality not available through the Nexus Edition
Baking For Mara Animation Framework - TEST 0.1.3
Added :
More aggressive check added to try and force idles to disable, this method is temporary until we have a better solution and still may not always work
Changed :
='Males' now also have their upper body equipment removed when starting an animation (found edge cases where the upper still covered the lower, also looked a bit odd in some cases)
JSON Format now uses underscores as a delimiter for Offset params (ex. "LocOffset":"0.0_0.0_0.0")
Old offset format values will not work and may cause bugs, json configs will need to be updated
Fixed :
=Fixed Sexual Pleasure gain in erotic animations being drastically lower than intended
I accidentally divided by 60 twice when changing the rate from seconds to minutes >.>
When switching the Animation Event, the ObjectTarget should now be accounted for
Baking For Mara Animation Framework - TEST 0.1.2
Added :
BFM_GetCharStatus API Function which returns the CharStatus for the given character reference
BFM_ED_AnimEventSwitch and AnimEventPlayer_ED_AnimEventSwitch API Dispatchers which calls when the AnimEvent is switched in the Anim Event Player
Added backend for switching Anim Event during playback, which apparently I forgot to port from SCake
"ArousalMorphValue" added to CharStatus which stores the value of the internal Aroused Morph for easy use by modules.
System for undressing equipment (Clothes/Armor) implemented, BFM can now 'hide' clothing/armor in specified slots
During animations, 'male' humanoid characters will undress their helmet and lower body by default, 'female' humanoid characters will undress their helmet, upper body, and lower body by default
Changed :
Arousal gained during erotic animations is now per-minute rather than per-second
Fixed :
Fixed ArousedSnap setting to 9.99 instead of 0.99, causing morphs to act unexpectedly
Added additional delay to both sides of BFM to work around an uncontrollable race condition caused by UE4SS's UE initialization behavior
Under certain conditions, BFM's C++ side would not be able to catch BFM's BP side before it initialized, or would initialize too early and crash, causing it to stop functioning entirely and leading to no animations being able to register
Baking For Mara Animation Framework - TEST 0.1.1
Note :
Going to consider this the first version with a 'usable' API, although the API was there before, I had considered the method to be potentially temporary. However, after failing to find a better method we're just going to stick with what we got and see what happens.
Previous API implementations was most of SCake's basic API functions but translated to BFM, including "BFM_StartAnimEvent" "BFM_StartAnimEvent_Basic" "BFM_ValidForAnim" functions on BFM_SuperWidget, "BFM_ED_CharAroused" "BFM_ED_SexEquipChanged" "BFM_ED_CharTrackEnabled" "BFM_ED_CharTrackDisabled" "BFM_ED_AnimSwitch" "BFM_ED_AnimStart" "BFM_ED_AnimEnd" "BFM_ED_CharClimax" "BFM_ED_EventClimax" Dispatchers on BFM_SuperWidget
Additional dispatchers on other objects include "CharStatus_ED_Aroused" "CharStatus_ED_Climax" "CharStatus_ED_NotAroused" on BFM_CharStatus, "AnimEventPlayer_ED_AnimSwitch" "AnimEventPlayer_ED_AnimStart" "AnimEventPlayer_ED_AnimEnd" "AnimEventPlayer_ED_EventClimax" on BFM_AnimEventPlayer
Not all API Usable functions mentioned, but these are the major ones, Additional API functions will now be noted in the changelog when added
Added :
BFM is now capable of temporarily disabling FootIK for Human characters
Creature support requires a lot of manual work, so will be in a future version
"FootIK" added to AnimSlot JSON Config, when set to "True" the FootIK will remain enabled
Note when FootIK is enabled leaning will also be enabled since it is part of the FootIK
"BFM_ED_CharNotAroused" and "CharStatus_ED_NotAroused" dispatchers, which calls when a character is no longer aroused
Ported the backend for Adjustments/Offsets in Animations from SCake with the required adjustments
This officially marks the last thing which can be ported from SCake 'easily', everything else from here on out will either be development alongside SCake, or requires a lot more work since it requires gameplay integration or new methods
Changed :
Arousal now caps at 1000 similar to Sex Heat
This prevents run-away arousal and make it so the time it takes to correct remains reasonable even at absurd settings
Fixed :
Fixed version number display with much better logic that should help prevent errors in the future
Adjusted the C++ delay thread and BP's initialization delay to prevent a race condition that would occasionally cause BFM to fail loading JSON files
Arousal Multiplier is no longer set to 0 by default, should start at 1x (100%) and increasing arousal should now function correctly
Fixed Min Arousal also adding in base-heat to the equation
- Simple NBO for BFM Module - DEV 0.1 - - Changelog -
Simple NBO for BFM Module - DEV - Version 0.1
Added :
Now checks against BFM version the module was made for, displaying a message if version doesn't match
Using an old enough version may also trigger a crash
Simple NBO for BFM Module - TEST - Version 0.0.1
Added :
Simple arousal detection, when aroused the Penis will become erect, when not aroused the Penis will become un-erect
Simple animation detection, when entering an erotic animation the Penis will be forced to become erect, will return to the aroused state after the animation ends
"The night was still for all but the sound of sin in the kitchen quarters. Interweaved together upon the prep-table, two devotes prepare their gift for Mara, making sweetrolls for their nine of choice."
I've not really talked much about this project outside of Discord and a handful of forum posts on LoversLab, so let me introduce Baking For Mara, an Erotic Animation Framework for Oblivion Remastered! I'll get into more details of the framework later in the post, but longer-story short, I was able to use the custom code found within the Sugar Cake Animation Framework and port over large portions of the code to speed up the development of a new framework. This was still a TON of work, obviously the 2 games are very different and I had to even expand into making C++ UE4SS mods to get this up and running properly. But even still, this is launching with a lot of features that SCake has, which is a huge push forward, and we don't even have animations yet! This includes the full animation player, furniture support, (untested) creature compatibility, a complex backend with a lot of modularity and customization (though settings are not exposed yet X.x), and much more! I was holding off on a public release until there was a usable animation, and so now I've released my own solo female animation to test the framework with! (Had an issue where some of the animation got lost, so it's only 1 stage and 1 climax Q.Q) Hope you're all ready to make sweetrolls for Mara, with Baking For Mara!
- Baking For Mara Animation Framework - DEV 0.1 - - Changelog -
Sugar Cake Animation Framework - Version 0.6.1 DEV
Notes :
Baking For Mara has a lot of elements ported from the Sugar Cake Animation Framework (0.6 DEV), so many additions are being done in large general chunks, however the two frameworks are not 1:1 and new systems will need to be built specifically for Oblivion Remastered
Not all features from SCake were able to be ported over, however listing every single feature as 'added' would have been silly, so instead this initial release will just mark some general ported systems, these systems do not contain gameplay integrations and only consider the custom code such as the animation player
The comms feature between Gamebryo and Unreal is currently unusable and incomplete, so all animations must currently be triggered by the Unreal side for now
An SDK for these very early versions won't be provided, awaiting to see if game patches shake things up and to give time to figure out more viable long-term solutions to a large number of potential issues
If a json starts with an underscore it will be ignored
Added :
Initial porting work from SCake mostly complete, does not include any gameplay integrations/persistence/or adjustments systems, just things which were fully custom and could port over without major overhauls, reworks, and were not awaiting larger fixes (adjustments system needs fixes before being ported over)
Implemented backend for storing animation data
Implemented modified compatibility checker
Implemented modified animation player
Implemented basic API features for starting/interacting with animation events
Implemented modified parser and register
Created a C++ UE4SS mod which can find and load the AnimJSON files automatically
Currently hard coded for the Steam version's file path, need more info on XBox version before adjustments can be made
Added some basic validity checks to prevent animation errors, however these checks are heavily incomplete so expect strangeness
Implemented CreatureID system, attempts to get the type of creature/humanoid being animated for AnimSet matching and creature compatibility
Added assumed genders for each creature based on the base-game appearance as either 'male' or 'female'
Added very basic debug display for notifications, waiting to see if a sufficient MCM style mod shows up before creating a more complex system
Implemented basic debug controls, based on SCake's debug input features and is enabled by default
Select targets then start an animation with the designated targets
J - Add player character to debug targets
G - Add 'aimed at' character or object to the debug targets
B - Clear current debug targets
H - Attempt to start animation
P - Stop animation played by either player or 'aimed at' character
Debug display will attempt to show the Actor's name, if unavailable it will attempt to show the FormID, also includes 'Player' check (If nothing shows for a target, please report it as a bug!)
Implemented an 'is running' and version notice for the debug display when the mod loads up
When the player is involved in an animation, the camera will transition to third person automatically
If no name or ID is found when using debug controls the notification will show the BP name instead of being blank
When the player starts an Erotic Animation Event pleasure bars will now show up in the top left above the notification space (May overlap with enough participants, this is all temporary)
How much "Sugar Cake" is in Baking For Mara?
It was a bit of a meme when Oblivion Remastered shadow dropped and we found out Unreal Engine 5 was involved. Since i'd been deep in Unreal modding for a bit over a year now it was an obvious joke to say "SCake for Oblivion when?" But... after not much research I realized it could 'actually' happen, because not only are the most complicated parts of SCake completely custom and transferable to pretty much any UE project, but I was also really interested in modding Oblivion Remastered since it was using both Unreal AND Gamebryo at the same time! So once I got my hands on the game (which was possible do-to my supporters! Huge shout out to everyone helping support my work here, this wouldn't have been possible without you!~ =^-^=) I started to dig deep into the game's system and reversing what I needed to get stuff working.
Just how much of SCake is in Baking For Mara? Many of the custom systems still needed drastic changes, but the 'Anim Core" and 'stats' system of SCake has transferred over, but anything that integrated with the game has to be redone from scratch since every game is going to be completely different for these aspects. The exception is the Adjustments system, which needs some fixes in SCake before it's ported over, but stuff that's ported over, the Animation Player, Register/Parser, Tracker+Stats, Storage/Cache Backend, and customizations like settings. This makes the initial public release of Baking For Mara pretty massive compared to how SCake released, however because none of the gameplay stuff could transfer over it's still a jank mess and feels like its release number despite it's feature count.
Parallel development of BFM and SCake
One of the major hopes I have from this project is the potential to cross-pollinate between both BFM and SCake. Similar to how things are starting, I hope to add features to one framework and see how they work then port them over to the other once things are confirmed working. This is already happening as I learned C++ UE4SS modding to get BFM up and running as expected and this knowledge is not going to carry over directly to SCake's (and Altermatic's) development! I'm also hoping that knowledge will leak between the 2, given SCake and BFM are very similar from an animator/modder perspective, knowledge with one carries over to the other relatively well, we even had an animator set-up an animation to test relatively quickly for BFM and proves this is possible!
So in-short, development for each framework will be on its own trajectory with its own priorities, however features added to one are very likely to be ported to the other if it's custom logic and viable on the other framework. This means even if you don't care about one of the frameworks, developments will still benefit the framework you DO care about!
Baking theme again?
Yep. To be fair, I tried to come up with a different kind of name but when asking the community (Thank you everyone who suggested names and helped us come up with ideas!) people really seemed to like the idea.. it also has the slang 'making sweetrolls' for naughty time, so that's pretty hard to resist. Either way, it's fitting enough given it is technically based on Sugar Cake which also has a baking theme. This time around, however, I'm going for more of the medieval but clean and sharp similar to how Oblivion Remaster's set-up kind of is, and honestly after making the text logo I'm quite digging the style already! While Sugar Cake is kind of goofy in its premise, mostly because Palworld itself is very goofy, Baking For Mara will side a bit more on the serious tone visually but with the baking name there's a ton of room for fun! Ultimately it's a pun with 'baking' having plenty of innuendo potential.
I also plan on making a 'badge'/illustration for BFM, my current plan is to look into doing a vector image of Mara in a somewhat suggestive pose (upper body) with some sort of sweetroll and 'cream filling' about. I'll be taking inspirations from both TES lore images and the logo I designed for Succubus Heart with my high-contract vector styling. Keep in mind this idea is very much extra and for later, just something I'm excited about for when I get in a drawing mood! =^-^=
What's Next?
Honestly this project just kind of rose out of no where, so I don't really have solid plans at all or know what people would like implemented next. My main goal is to clean up the jank, such as disabling player movement during animations, figure out how to disable footIK safely so it doesn't interfere with anims (maybe make it a toggle, but not sure), and get systems integrated with gameplay with a some comms between the Gamebyro and Unreal sides. Aside from that though, I'd really like to mess with actually animating more, I really dropped the ball in that regard when it came to SCake so I'm hoping not to repeat that mistake and really would like to practice and expand my animation skills, then obviously I'll be listening to feedback and seeing what people are looking for within the framework.
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