Heartache 101 ~Sour into Sweet~

Marrend is being good enough to help me with creating my custom tachie set for Noriko. For whatever reason, it's been very tricky to get the eyebrows right.

Oh, that's very good. Very VERY good. I believe we can call the eyebrow issue closed, officially. Also, loving the behind-the-back arms, officially.

Just two minor things. First, I think we need the crossed arms back on the "Friendly" and pose. Crossed-arms is DEFINITELY Noriko's default state, and there has to be at least one crossed-arms-plus-sly-smile pose. Perhaps that should be an OTHER2 tachie instead?

The other one is a bit more bothersome. When in the process did she acquire that little pointy nose? I'm not sure how I feel about that. It makes her look a little too...I was originally thinking "elfin" (not Elven, which would be even worse), but that's not quite right...rodent-like, maybe?

Update on Noriko from my end: I didn't do a new upload last night because I wanted to see if Dozen had had a chance to play her through. Work is slowing down, as I am once again becoming confident that the end is in sight, at least until Nipponlander II: The Dozening has been premiered. I do have two new events since last upload, plus other tweaks, so either way there will be a new upload tonight.

I didn't say you did anything, I just noted that I didn't know when it got in there :-D . But you're right: looking back at your original image post, it appears it's been there all along. However, if you compare that image:



to the image I uploaded a week or so ago:



...you'll note that your image has a little point at the end of its nose that mine does not. I'm not sure how you or I got that. I do notice that of the built-in tachie, only Miki's and Keika's have a nose like the original Noriko, while all the others have noses like your Noriko. Any ideas how this happened?

If I may. Here's the fix for a coloring error in Noriko's eyelashes (which none of you moles noticed:P) and cut corners to reduce size. I've also taken the liberty to compress a semi-protected set for the actual release, in case no further changes are planned. Use both as needed.

Probably not. Nice of you to focus on the catachresis instead of my efforts, by the way. And some people are surprised I'm grumpy...

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Fine. Heartache devs are hereby demoted to ganges river dolphins. Happy, you Kenji ripoff?

It isn't so much 'perfunctory' as it is 'fittingly compact'. Now shut it before some idiot comes crying how we steal buzz from other games with short pointless messages while conveniently ignoring the fact most everyone on this site communicates through short pointless messages. We're on the main page again...

Dozen: Took a really close look at the tachie, and I think I see what you mean. On Marrend's "unfriendly" tachie, it looks like there was an extra line or something above the eyelashes on her right eye, which is not there on yours. Now that I know what to appreciate, I can appreciate it.

Oh, and you get the Medal of Basic Competence for knowing how to spell "surprised". I'd pin it on you, but I'd probably hit a major artery.

You're better off getting the hand of a few editor programs and creating one yourself. Like I did! I've made tremendous progress! Uh, over the past three years...

Garbears

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