#mass effect love

[baggesa]

[hatboyproject]

Now here, we have some pretty significant advances, I think you will agree!

More of the custom lines have had their lip-sync worked into now, though only a few are what I will consider complete at this stage. Most need tweaking, but several are passable even with minimal editing, I feel. ME3′s phonemes are pretty forgiving. There is also something I have twigged onto in the editor that, if it works, may revolutionise the process? But, that’s if it works like I suspect it does, and that particular if is big enough to squash Harbinger. I’ll be experimenting with it though.

Many thanks to the legendary Exkywor for doing these camera edits and showing me the process behind them so it will be easier for me to do them in future myself as well!

Stuff-You’ll-Actually-See To Do:

 Finish lipflaps, RIP me

 Smooth out animation transitions (The “I don’t have much experience with this” line has him snapping into position a little bit and I don’t like it)

A few new dialogue nodes containing things to help set the mood a bit more?

Adjust where Jeff is standing a little bit

Adjust Shepard’s eye placement in the final shot

Under-the-Hood To Do:

Completely overhaul all existing nodes to use custom TLK numbers so the subtitles show up in the editor as well as in-game. If others are going to be helping me with this, legibility is a concern now so it’s time to get off my ass and sort that out

PlotBools/Conditionals, RIP me

Once that’s done... then this is 1/2 major scenes. Everything else is minor by comparison. Mostly bridge dialogues, ambient dialogues, tweaking existing lines, and some other low-impact ideas I have that should serve to really sell the whole thing. I figure Jeff might very occasionally say something to you via the earpiece if you are dating him and you are on an away mission. I like this idea a lot, but I don’t want it to be annoying or overbearing, so I need to pick where it happens carefully. I would have a lot of freedom to make those lines very “intelligent,” as he could have something to say about pretty much any variant of a situation vis checks and conditionals. It’d “cost me” a lot less to implement those as well because no lipflaps, so, it’s an idea to consider.

[shadowrun-effect]

The Roekaar who fell in love with an alien

[ilikalite]

Okay... Let me just leave it here and slowly back away to squeal and melt quietly to myself...

[baggesa]

[shadowrun-effect]

"I'm nothing without my powers. I'm...not good enough." Samuel said in a bitter tone.

"You don't need your powers to be effective and deadly. Or to be anyone." Varius said softly. "If someone can't see how amazing you are, that person's not good enough.  Your are always good enough." He leaned in, put a clawed hand to his cheek and whispered, "and you're good enough for me."

Those words went deeper than Samuel had expected and he looked up, a burning in his chest. Nothing organic, he knew that for sure. He saw the gentleness in his chief engineer's gaze and felt that uncertainty, that confusion inside him that seemed to have grown even deeper.

His heart beat faster. Damn it, why did Varius have to do this? Confuse him even more?

From the upcoming chapter. I can't get away from these two. In the end, they do get together. Or a terrible tragedy happens, we'll see. 

Background belongs to Bioware

[shadowrun-effect]

That look...that smile....

When a former Roekaar falls in love with an alien.

[shadowrun-effect]

No, I’m not obsessed with them... <.< xD

Those two are also very cute together I think.