Update: Loud and clear. AI asset submissions will be rejected. I am sorry and do feel a bit bad for not using your animations that took a while to render, but eh, it doesn’t feel right.

Hi, here is another poll since it is pretty divisive. I wish for you to vote on it here: https://strawpoll.com/poy9kNOeDgJ. I wish to gauge the room and take the temperature of the audience.

I have experimented a bit with training an AI model on my own artworks for Pony and Illustrious. I have received a few animations for Allie and Emmie’s groping based on this model. In the past, I have been open to asset submissions.

Here are some rough mockups on a test map of how it would look like along with my old animations:

These would have a random chance to play when fully nude.

The issue now is that it clashes quite significantly with the older animations I’ve created around 2016-2017 and is more refined in its rendering than would really be humanly possible.

My personal opinion on the matter of AI slop ( even trained on my own artworks ) is that it lacks a human touch that I think will be pretty off-putting and it is very inconsistent. It is able to do things quickly, however.

As a tool, I see the utility in fundamentally being able to create an assistant which can handle tasks. On the other hand, I am giving up some of my creative vision of the project as I am not completely in control of it. I have valued keeping my specific vision of the project, but I’ve also allowed other people to submit assets in the past and have compromised on this consistency before. It also feels a little ungrateful to snub my nose at what probably took a long while to render.

Would you like me to use such assets? Would you want me to maintain a strict policy to exclude them? Make sure to vote and feel free to leave a comment with your feelings on the matter.

Holly City, a town nestled between the mountains.

Holly City Gym. As you may be aware, each Gym has its own unique version of the Gym theme.

Atop the location of a meteorite impact, what lurks beneath Argent City?

The encounter theme of the male Swimmer.

The encounter theme of the female Swimmer.

Considering the feedback, you’ll be able to switch between these settings.

I’ve been asked for some more examples and a better explanation. Each character would have a voice clip to utilize similar to Pokemon cries.

I am currently considering adding voice clips to the default scene handler. At the moment of writing this, every human character has a voice.

Now, here’s the question for you guys. Is this a bit jarring? That’s why I would like to weigh your opinions on the matter with a poll here.

Update: As a sizeable chunk were not fond of the voices, there will be an option to enable/disable them.

Haven’t really had too many scenes like this.

An additional scene to encounter in the Marigold Inn in Marigold City.

An additional scene to encounter in the Fighting Dojo in Cliffshore City.

There were plans for Argent City to have a Raticate Racetrack facility which the player could bet on different Raticate which would possess different names and odds of winning. As for why Raticate was chosen; this is Rei’s main Pokemon and it provides alliteration with the word “race”. It would have been similar to God Hand’s Chihuahua Races.

Of course, the Raticate Racetrack already had its own music prepared.

An additional facility I wish to revisit at some point will be an underground battle arena in Argent City which the player can either participate in or place bets on competitors while watching their fights. This necessitated changes to the script which would allow for AI vs. AI battles and is already implemented in the engine.

I have reached RMXP’s tileset height limit for the overworld tiles and will need a clean workaround. In the meanwhile, Holly City will use some familiar assets until I come up with a good solution. After this, I will give Holly City its own unique identity as I’ve done when spriting each towns’ architecture.