Kurokusari

Thanks and glad to help. Rin was much easier to work in since I found a render easy and the quality was great so it was done quickly. There are some characters where you can't find any render at all. Maybe those obscure light novels or visual novels but LB is popular in both of its mediums so this was an easy find.

Yeah I never finish any work without using any gradient maps. I used to have more than 10 layers of them and I found out that it was an overkill. I was accidentally neutralizing colors so it went that far. Now I stick to around 3-5. Color lookup isn't really used that much in my works. I usually use the 3rd option only because the other 2 have an overblown effect. Yeah I can adjust it but playing with gradient maps is easier for me.

Also this track called " Find the Way Out" is it on the sound list on the VN? I don't think I've seen it before I wasn't a fan of those kind of endings so I was quite surprised for me to actually like it. That means something. For some reason I have a complete OST of Comyu here in my laptop and I have no idea where it came from. It has all the tracks and I saw one that has that title. If we're talking about favorite bgm mine would be Our Chance of Success is High.

I don't really know what you define as a 'good' protagonist so I'll just throw in the ones that I thought that were 'good'. Yuuji from Grisaia Trilogy Kenichi from Sharin no Kuni Hakuoro from Utawarerumono Yuuto from Dracu-riot! and many more! Yeah as you can see I define good protagonists as people who can actually think and/or be decisive about it. I don't like those who keeps wavering whenever they need to choose. And a personal preference of mine is him to have a sense of humor. Not really a requirement for me but it's a plus in my book.

Yeah no prob. And scratch that in about an hour. I unexpectedly made it real quick. Hope you'll like this one: Really? I always stabilize my colors by using that and I actually loved it's 'neutralizing' effect. I mostly go with the warming filter since majority of my works uses a color near red/orange.

Yeah I used to make my own backgrounds too by throwing fractals everywhere. Now I'm just too lazy to make it and just blur it to oblivion. Btw going a little heavier on gradient maps or photo filters might help in blending. Well that's just my personal preference tho. I'll take it up. I'm free right now so expect it in just about an hour.

Welcome to le forums! I haven't read Muv-luv yet so idk what's the hype all about

Also, a special shout out to the soundtrack song "Find a Way Out!" (the high-tension, oh-shit-run-away one with the really repetitive synth string high notes), for which I could not find a youtube link to save my life. I like this song more every time I hear it. The BGM in this game is truly excellent. No need to go with the others' paces, really. We can all enjoy the story at our own pace. Well you could try extracting the data with the OST included. I think I saw a Data Extraction thread here in the forums.

Is it really that bad? I'm not a fan of SAO but I didn't exactly hate it when I watched it. So does that mean that the protag is also ridiculously OP and dense?

Not really the best idea imo. I get it that you should get them to do something since just letting them go after one simple apology will kinda get you a bad rep to those affected by the cheaters and maybe a loss of playerbase since they'll be thinking that "so that's what it only takes to get forgiven". But you know, Internet is a place where people can be quite stupid. Make a youtube video of them apologizing and the people who got affected will start bashing the person. It wouldn't be that bad if it stopped there since they were affected after all in their gaming experience but it will probably escalate. The people who weren't even affected or weren't affected that much would also start bashing just because other people are doing it. That crazy bandwagon effect is kinda harsh in this kind of things. Just sayin' that they should get what they deserve, not more, not less. I don't really know the game but giving them a massive disadvantage in-game should be enough.

Lilith is the only reason I kept watching it. There were people who got annoyed because it deviated from the light novel but it wasn't really that bad imo. Currently trying to squeeze in DanMachi in my schedule to find out what the hype about Hestia is all about. I have to say, I'm really interested in how are they gonna mix up the different mythologies since the only mix up I know is Greek + Roman in Heroes of Olympus.

Yeah 2k fonts, it's not an exaggeration but I wasn't able to use it all anyway so I redid all my fonts selection Thanks. Yeah I would've loved to put the lights more on the background but it was a CG edit. So yeah no layers Gawd I just realized something. I was wondering why it didn't occur to you that I might've been using a CG. How in the world did Major put the splatter behind Mitsuki? @.@ Manually erasing the excess would've been quite a chore, personally. Kosaki, join the dark side Edit: Yeah here's a giveaway. Anyone can take it and if you want to add some text or something, let me know. Yeah tried to go with the same one as Roach's but I added some personal touches. I was gonna add some of those glowy lines but that's a bit overboard for this one. Gonna give your eyes cancer~

Thanks! I'll try to make one later and maybe throw it in here as a free sig anyone can take. By the way do you have a deviantart account? I'd like to see some more variants of this style from you that I can use for reference. You can just PM it to me if you mind posting it here.

Glad to help. By the way mind sharing where you got those flower stuff in the sig? You could just link me to the source since distributing it without the creator's consent might be bad. I'm kinda interested in the style you used and I want to try it a bit. Yeah I agree that having 2000+ fonts is both stupid and too much to scan through hahaha. I've long deleted all of it and redownloaded what I just needed after it. So far so good.

I second this. Having knowledge in these subjects could be really helpful to make things more realistic. Although writing things that are too technical for the 'normal' readers might not be a good idea. The synopsis looks good to me. It feels like this will be a battle of brains with tons of scheming. Maybe something like Death Note. Considering this is about hacking, the UI should be somewhere around the sci-fi territory and I have a few ideas on what to make it look like. Ugh I REALLY want to participate in this project only if school didn't happen. Well, not really, I need to finish my degree but ugh.

Yeah I also forget the very same things when I'm finishing up. By the way how do you sharpen stuff? I mean, there are many ways to go about it but I'm kinda curious as to how you do it. Maybe I can pick up a thing or two. Well for a first time attempt it turned out quite well. Yeah I get it when not wanting to add some text. The text makes or breaks the sig imo so I try to stick with the simple ones. Same here with using PS. I actually started out with GIMP but switched to PS after a while since the UI is not really user friendly for me.

Not sure if it looks good. I ended up experimenting with a lot of stuff rather than doing the usual things I do. Please tell me if you are not satisfied/want something to be changed. Looks really good imo. Although the final verdict is the one who requested it but I really think it looks good. The text is better than mine where I only make things glow and that's it lol. The style looks great too. Those flowers are a really nice touch and the simple feel it has is really wonderful. The only thing that I think that could be improved would be the blending. That and maybe a bit of sharpening and blurring could also do a nice touch of giving focus a bit on the render. Overall, nice Sig! *thumbs up* By the way, do you use photoshop or GIMP? Or something altogether? I don't think it's too late to learn tho. With so many materials in the internet, you could easily learn by yourself. It does take a bit of time and effort tho. And if you do decide to learn, we could teach each other here in this thread by throwing in CnC.

Hmm come to think of it I might have something I can help with. Depending on what you're exactly planning to go with the VN, I could help with the GUI design. I've made some programs with GUI for school stuff but most of them are for formal stuff, like designing for a payroll/database/etc but I did have one experience where I needed to design for a game. The main idea was rock-paper-scissors but my partner and I made it into something like a turn-based game with elemental skills or something. I'm not making any promises but I might be able to help in making buttons or something if time allows it and if I can actually do it. Please don't count me in or something yet. If I'm sure that I can participate in this, I'll let you know. And those are some seriously good achievements in writing. The farthest I got in writing was essays and reaction papers lol