The next build isn’t ready yet, but I have good news! We’ve had a breakthrough today!
First, a bit of backstory is in order. For those of you who don’t know this, Yandere-chan’s current character model is a store-bought model from the Unity Asset Store. The same goes for Rival-chan, Senpai-Kun, and even the Basu sisters. These characters come with numerous outfits and around 60 animations, which is what makes them perfect for prototyping a game.
Over the past 25 months that the game has been in development, I have run into problems when attempting to modify the characters’ clothing. It has proven very easy to change the characters’ textures, but when attempting to change the characters’ geometry, I’ve always run into…problems.
Adding or deleting polygons screws up the skin-weights, which results in the characters transforming into bizarre “Eldritch Monstrosities”. I tried to circumvent this problem by leaving the characters’ meshes alone and simply placing new articles of clothing on top of their bodies. For example, an apron:
However, even though the apron was built to use the same “animation skeleton” as Yandere-chan and follow her movements, I was unable to get the apron to follow her body as she moved.
Imagine a person wearing pants, but when they walk, their pants remain perfectly straight, and never bend, even as the legs are moving. That’s what it was like, except with an apron instead of pants!
I tried absolutely everything I could think of to get that apron to follow her body. I called upon every bit of knowledge from all of my years of experience using the Unity engine, and even asked numerous programmers to help me solve the issue. However, the problem remained unsolvable; it seemed impossible to append a new skinned mesh to a character model.
Because I couldn’t modify the characters’ meshes and couldn’t append new skinned meshes, I’ve been stuck with a small set of clothing models that I couldn’t modify in any way. I’ve had to make each character unique using nothing but hairstyles, accessories, and changing the colors of various textures. In other words: for the past 25 months, I’ve been severely limited in how I could modify the characters.
My original vision for the game was to make almost every student in school look completely unique by allowing each character to wear their school uniform differently. Some boys would open their coats, some boys would leave their coats closed. Some girls would wear jackets over their uniforms, some girls would wear cardigans. Unfortunately, I was never able to implement this feature, because I was never able to figure out how to make a new article of clothing follow a character’s animations.
…until today.
Yesterday, a talented gentleman named Gabe Labadie contacted me. He mentioned that he had several years of experience using the same game engine that Yandere Simulator runs on, and offered to help me out. I asked him to help me get skinned meshes to follow along with a character’s animations.
Within 24 hours, the task was complete!
It is now possible for me to add new articles of clothing to Yandere-chan’s body, and have the clothing move properly as she performs various animations!
He actually did it! The absolute madman!
I didn’t want to get too excited, so I decided to confirm that his code worked by testing it on two articles of clothing that Druelbozo has modeled. Both the Rolling Girl uniform and this black sweater worked perfectly! There’s no reason why this outfit shouldn’t work, either!
This opens up tons of possibilities! Now it’s possible to make some students wear their school uniforms differently. Now it’s possible to give long skirts to the delinquents, like I originally wanted. Now it’s possible to give Yandere-chan even crazier easter egg outfits, instead of just re-coloring whatever outfits were already available. If you commission Druelbozo to model clothing, there’s a strong possibility you could actually see your commission appear in Yandere Simulator. (And, hopefully, now it should be possible to implement the school uniform that I always wanted for Yandere Simulator: a uniform similar to Kotonoha’s uniform from School Days!)
Oka Ruto’s official design featured a turtleneck worn underneath a blazer. This design was scrapped because I had no way to have two layers of clothing simultaneously following a character’s animations. But thanks to Gabe’s help, now it’s finally possible!
Of course, this new ability won’t just be used for aesthetic purposes; this opens up new gameplay options, too!
Try to think of an outfit that would benefit a serial killer who is constantly being splattered with blood. Are you thinking what I’m thinking?
The possibilities are endless!
gah the animation clips wont load ;w;
oh my gosh mine too /w\
SAME!!!!
Flobbing same here
That might be because he deleted them.
SAME!!!!!
It won’t load for me either 😦 I’m so sad!
ME TOO *screaming*
Mine too.. I used 3 different web browsers to open them, but it didn’t work
it was working earlier. :<
“Error loading this resource” 😦
Did I read now It is posible to implement Owaris uniform??????YAYYYYYYY
Congrats Yanderev!!!!
Who is Owari?
Owari is a series. The full title is Owari no Seraph.
Owari no Seraph. Thats the name of an anime ^^
Wow this looks so awesome, congrats on finally getting it to work! You should possibly publish the next build in.. June or so, because you need to take your time! I’ll wait. c: [Btw, Oka looks NOICE in this outfit. The Kotonaha outfit tho… 10/10 would always wear since she’s my favorite character.]
why the clips wont load /W\
The download file links keep taking me to a page that says 404 not found.
http://www.mediafire.com/download/90wqj6d0n86h7z1/YandereSimMay7th.rar
kanbaru suruga?
Kappa
The video clips don’t work for me, either.
But this is a pretty big milestone!
I hope we can get various skirt lengths throughout the game. Like in Hibike! Euphonium http://i.imgur.com/w9hbhob.png (and just in time! Season 2 is right around the corner!)
Rainy Devil?
Ahhhhhhh finally! We all know how long you’ve wanted to customise uniforms, so this is super sUPER awesome! I can’t wait to see new things implemented >.<
I CANT SEE THE VIDEO
Me too
It might be because he deleted them.
yay
This is exciting news! Looking forward to seeing more variety with the uniforms and costumes (Seriel killer suit? Awesome!)
I just wish I could see the videos, damn you internet!
the images or vids don’t work but i would love to customize outfits of rivals,boys,myself,teachers etc
WOO
This game is so American ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
I want the build now :c
Great progress but do you think you can re-upload the animations clips?
Gabe-kun you’re awesome! Thank you very much, yandere dev, why don’t you implement him on the game?
Can’t watch animations.
I want this update so hard!!! >-<
I can’t see the videos too but the update stills look awsome to me
The download files won’t work with me. Anyone got a YouTube link of them??
http://www.mediafire.com/download/90wqj6d0n86h7z1/YandereSimMay7th.rar
I meant for the preview
No I meant for the preview
well then
Omfg I’m soooo excited for this new build!
Even though you probably won’t read this, but
Semangat Yanderedev!
(Good luck, Yanderedev!)
-from an Indonesian fan ^_^
I have a suggestion.. (I didn’t email YandereDev for suggestions and ideas.)
I think if you compliment a student..They should response differently base on their personality..
For Example:
If you compliment a Coward Personality, they should response :: “Not really, but thanks anyway.”
Note:
I didn’t email YandereDev!!!! STOP COMPLAINING!
Noone does he speciffically wrote not to do that on his youtube channel but that is a really good suggestion 🙂
I actually had the same thoughts..
agreed good suggestion
OMG OKA IS SO KAWAII IN THAT PICTURE
The Monogatari seires has made an apperance
That is amazing. I’m so happy for you,Yandere Dev. Congratulations. And thank you, good Sir, for helping Yandere Dev
Some of the pictures aren’t showing up for me, and I can’t even see the video screen. What!??!
im able to see the clips and photos ….
wanna see yanderedevs face
I didn’t believe when I saw it but it was real
watch that video
2:12 holy crap that fucking scared the crap out of me
Someone else commented that in the last video.
His voice is still killing everything! xD
People, please respect his privacy.
I agree. Seeing these face reveal videos everywhere is getting pretty annoying.
Kanbaru Suruga? That means there has to be an Araragi-SENPAI (emphasis on the “senpai”)!! lel
Small but important I’m I right?
THIS NEW UPDATE IS GONNA BE SO FREAKIN LIT HOLY FUCK
I hope Yandere Chan’s design won’t change though. It’s icon now. :0 and I don’t wanna change my cosplay XD
Great! Keep up the good work.
HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE HYPE SOOO MUCH HYPE THIS NEW BUILD IS GONNA BE AWESOME PLUS WE WILL BE ABLE TO HAVE MORE AWESOME ESTER ESGG ACCESORIES IN THE FUTURE
HYPE HYPE HYPE
Cool!
Im glad you can now change the uniforms as you want.
Wait you mean that yandere chan will be completely changed?
no… i was fond of her
Oh my god Oka with that pretty turtleneck look though
Been playing too much Arkham Horror. First thought when I saw the rain coat image was Hastur, The King in Yellow. XD
UM… I WAS LISTENING TO ROLLING GIRL AND THEN I SAW “ROLLING GIRL UNIFORM” AND SPIT OUT MY COFFEE!
Yass Yandere Dev! We have now a really good process! Finally! I cant wati to see the new Update ❤
We will all worship Gabe now.
That’s so great, YandereDev! Finally, we get to see more personality quirks details of the students just from the details for their clothes.
Thanks, Gabe!
so yandere dev, will yandere-Chan be changed drastically or just the clothes? i hope she dosent i like her
That’s Awesome!
OH YES
The Game is looking better and better with each update:) congrats Yanderedev, looking forward to the new build keep up the good work!
FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAH! FINALLY !!!PROGREESSS YANDEREDEV YOU GET IT BOI 😀 CANT WAIT NOW!!!!!!CEEEELEBRATION TIME COMEON!!!ta ta tata taaa taa taaa taaam!!!!! 😀
Hooray for School Days uniform.