Naturalis: Public Roadmap Trello, Plan for v1.1

On the Trello board, it should be easy to see the current status of development towards the next version, what kinds of things are waiting for implementation, and what needs further investigation. I'll be keeping it reasonably up-to-date.

The board replaces the need to write up lengthy and easily outdated roadmap posts every few months, and it makes the status of development more transparent and accessible. 🙂

Naturalis Public Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/AcnDeqFr/naturalis-public-roadmap

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The poll received many answers in just one day, and I am very happy about that. Since I wasn't really sure what to expect, this was a pleasant surprise. Because of the number of votes already given, the overall result isn't going to change, statistically speaking. Therefore, I decided to move ahead with a (somewhat tentative) plan for Naturalis v1.1.

For anyone who didn't yet answer the poll - please do! It's still useful to get more votes and increase the accuracy of the results, and comments on the various options are still very welcome.

Naturalis v1.1 goals

The major goals for the next version are clothing support and a set of morphing related improvements. This list (or that on the Trello board) isn't meant to be set in stone, it's more of an overall picture that sets some sensible boundaries and priorities on the features for the next version. It's likely to evolve as development progresses.

Clothing support

• automatic physics and morph adjustments (push up, squeeze etc)
• configuration options
• possible local clothing contact physics per soft joint

All of these need investigation and planning. That's the next step.

Morphing improvements

I left this out of the poll because it's a mix of different morphing related things which are relevant to many of the poll options that have something to do with morphing. This is partially groundwork for making use of custom breast morphs eventually, but should also improve the way that current morphs are used and how the system can be configured by the user.

• granular control (multipliers) per category: rotation, movement, shape
• configurable smoother morph amounts
• morphs UI overhaul to support the above
• lower back smoother morph (something I wanted to do in v1.0 but decided to leave for later)
• technical morphing system improvements

Other

• Support for bone/joint angle based adjustments
• Glute or thigh angle based fat distance limit

Being able to adjust parameters and morphs based on the joint angle is needed in order to improve the behavior and appearance of glutes in different poses. In v1.1, I'm aiming to have some JointCorrect-like system in place that supports this, and to implement fat distance limit to be dependent on the glute or thigh angle.

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It'll take time until there's a playable alpha. I'll keep you posted about progress. For now, the next Naturalis-related thing that you can expect is v1.0 official documentation!

-everlaster