

“FK”, or “forward kinematics”, allows you to rotate joints to create poses “IK”, or “inverse kinematics”, is the opposite, allowing you to move end points such as hands and feet, and the appropriate joints moving accordingly. You can then develop these poses further using the two “kinematics” modes.

By making creative use of the “freeze” feature, you can find good starting points for poses. Once triggered, these can be sped up, slowed down, looped and even frozen in place. While the original Honey Unlimited Studio mostly confined you to animations that were in the main game, Studio Neo features some unique animations. You’ve got a lot of control over animations in Studio Neo - and there are a lot more of them, too. Here we see localiser Fakku’s mascot splashing some water on Maon Nagase, making use of a “shower” particle effect to create the illusion of splashing water. Objects can be the characters themselves, but they can also be additional props, special effects, animations and even ambient sound effects. There’s a much stronger emphasis on using “objects” in the scene, for one thing.

That’s not to say it’s difficult to use, mind - there’s just a lot more you can do with it, and many of the things you could do in the old Studio software are now found in different places.

Studio Neo takes a little adjusting to if you’re accustomed to the original Honey Unlimited Studio software, because it’s much more complex and flexible. The Hundred Honeys Project, meanwhile, is my ongoing attempt to break the Honey Select Unlimited studio applications by ramming as many characters as possible into a single scene without my computer exploding. (Its filthy content is very good too, mind.) Honey Select Unlimited Extendis an expansion pack for it, and part of that expansion is an all-new photo studio app to complement and/or replace the original Honey Unlimited Studio application. No time like the present, eh?įor those just joining us, Honey Select Unlimitedis a legendary hentai game from developer Illusion that is most well-known for its excellent character creation tools rather than its filthy content. It’s been a good while since I’ve done one of these, and I’ve been meaning to have a proper full-on play with Honey Select Unlimited Extend’s Studio Neo for a while.
