[ILLUSION] Koikatu! - Questions & General Discussion Thread

[buruuburu]

I have chara studio drop frames in a lot of scenes and some even lag the whole computer for me while it's loading, and when it loads it goes to 5fps or something. Most ettole scenes for example are very laggy and I don't know how to fix it. I don't have a bad pc since I can run new games comfortably. Any way to make this better? I like ettole but the scenes are way too laggy...

 

[Guardian]

Dont know if anyone knows what happen, i assume is because i'm running this scene in KK and not in KKS but this happen in a sugardust scene. When i play it in KK, this happen with the dick but in KKS, this problem is not happen. Is there any way to to solve this problem and running it on KK?
first image is in KK, second in KKS

Bit off topic, but mind if I know which scene that is?
(Also, I'd try looking at the nodes to see if they are properly working/turning off and on.)

 

[Guardian]

Tried asking in the discord, but havn't quite found a solution yet so I might as well ask here.

Does anyone know how to change colors on loaded textures? The ones I'm using as of now are being forced to be certain colors and after going a bit on the discord, they said to import a red texture to the color mask, but I can't seem to find which one I'm supposed to import it too, the closest I got was with the emission mask but it caused the texture to only change colors between black and red (the color I imported).

 

[White_Runner]

Tried asking in the discord, but havn't quite found a solution yet so I might as well ask here.

Does anyone know how to change colors on loaded textures? The ones I'm using as of now are being forced to be certain colors and after going a bit on the discord, they said to import a red texture to the color mask, but I can't seem to find which one I'm supposed to import it too, the closest I got was with the emission mask but it caused the texture to only change colors between black and red (the color I imported).

What Im going to do works for hair accesories, but might help you get a feel of how things work in the koikatsu editor for clothes and hair too.
You are going to need an image editor but for this test case ill use Photopea (which is free).
First, load the character and identify the item you want to change. (Accessory/clothes).
1) Identify the accesory you want to change textures. In this case I want to change Seele´s hair.

2) To identify the accesory, hover your mouse over the accesory in the list, the accesory will turn green.

3) Click on Material Editor, take note on the multiple sub-accesories. You can toggle them.

4) Then, you must find the Main texture of whatever you want to change, and export said texture. The texture will be saved to your game folder.

5) Modify the texture, save it, load it.

Final examples where I:
-Replaced eye overlays (some eyes bug and you have to manually change their textures).
-Added tesselation for skin (KKUTS) and KKUTS hair for its nails.
-Added blush overlay over the face (when it doesnt work, you must change the main texture and place overlay over it lol [Znany cards]), etc.

 

[henman7569]

Does the timeline vmd sync plugin not work for anyone? It used to work on my old version but the new one(RX22) I downloaded doesn't seem to work despite the plugin being there.

 

[bkbrst]

Hi, how can I fix things like these?

 

[gustavo40]

Does anyone know why the self shadow looks like this?

 

[White_Runner]

Does anyone know why the self shadow looks like this?

Not completely sure but its probably a configuration of the skin of your character.
Ill make an example on what you have to do, however, Its not a certain fix cause there are too many variables on each character.

1) Learn about Material Editor (Face/Body):

2) Click on Material Editor (Body/Face)

3)Then scroll down on material editor (Body/Face), find the bugged option and change it to fix the character, this might take a while (for you).

Final result:

 

[White_Runner]

I have chara studio drop frames in a lot of scenes and some even lag the whole computer for me while it's loading, and when it loads it goes to 5fps or something. Most ettole scenes for example are very laggy and I don't know how to fix it. I don't have a bad pc since I can run new games comfortably. Any way to make this better? I like ettole but the scenes are way too laggy...

Things that lower fps on Koikatsu editor:
Lights.
Reflections.
Lots of objects.
Tesselation of characters.

How to fix:
1) Buy Nasa PC.

2) Remove objects, lights, characters, effects from your scene.

3) Change antialising settings.

4) If you can, try Lossless Scaling and X5 framegen the fuck out of it.
For this, either set the fps target to your monitor max refresh rate or just try to guess which multiplier to use. 2X, 3X are good.
This are good for animated scenes.

I recommend this app because while it introduces input lag, Koikatsu isnt a competitive game lmao (for now) so you will not feel it that much.
Dont forget to disable discord overlay, that kills framegen.
Yes, its compatible with koikatsu on windowed mode (ALT+ENTER)

5) Try to change Nvidia/AMD Panel settings for Koikatsu, personally I set the option "Energy Mode" to "Prefer Maximum Performance".

6) You can try ReShade too, yes its compatible with Koikatsu (PRESS START BUTTON), but personally I didnt find an improvement on AA.
Might want to search for an specific shader, but this needs testing. Its a working idea tho.

 

[gawk1580]

Hey folks, I'm having trouble with a YOurWaifu NTR-ed scene. For this particular scene, I have yet to encounter issues with others, as soon as I start the scene via timeline objects disappears and the animations for males stop working with only female movement. However, if I reload the scene and maintain the same timestamp in timeline, the scene is just fine until I start the timeline again. Any input will help.
Here is the SD:

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Here is what happens when you play the timeline.

Here is before starting the timeline

 

[amaoto]

I have chara studio drop frames in a lot of scenes and some even lag the whole computer for me while it's loading, and when it loads it goes to 5fps or something. Most ettole scenes for example are very laggy and I don't know how to fix it. I don't have a bad pc since I can run new games comfortably. Any way to make this better? I like ettole but the scenes are way too laggy...

As someone who had somewhat meh gpu (RX 560) compared to those running KK Studio in their RTX4090s, from my experience, the heavy stuff are these things:

• Textures having tessellation (usually the body or head). My RX 560 simply cannot handle these scenes, causing my GPU to crash, probably from out of VRAM.
• Water objects
• mirror objects or any reflection objects
• The fking 4K FOV cameras or any FOV cameras. Why the fk are they using 4K FOV60 connected on a tiny monitor like phone objects.
• Depth of field
• character accessories (Pecorine hair and Rapi hair are among the memorable ones, though having too many acc is also a fault)
• Too many character accessories or them having having 4K textures on every damn thing.
• Scenes using 50MB+ characters.
• Scene makers making items that cause the scene size to go out of whack.
• Or just simply having too many characters in a scene.

One I know is a Poison scene as I have found 2 spheres, when removed, cleans 100MB off the scene. Then another 50MB off after I changed the textures of 2 penis7 objects. Hoyoverse ports tend to have a lot of unneccessary stuff that card makers just dont bother cutting off. Sure 2.5MB hair tex might not seem much, but since its an accessory theyre usually used 7 times on the different clothing.


For me, ettole scenes are perf heavy and take a long time to load due to the amount of characters. Though there are times that are caused by mirrors or depth of field objects present, so look out for those.
I feel bad for ranting and the huge block of text, so here's what I have from aakana as their pixiv account seems to have been gone. Its a mix of stuff that works mostly in KKS so if it doesnt show up in KK, use a KKCharConverter.
If anyone has more from aakana please share with us.

 

[notcreativename]

So, i want to recreate this new Mori design in KK, but i'm having trouble with finding a similar shirt. Anyone has any idea what the name of this type of shirt is? And if there's any mod that looks like it. I'm trying to edit the textures but it's too hard for my small brain

 

[gustavo40]

Not completely sure but its probably a configuration of the skin of your character.
Ill make an example on what you have to do, however, Its not a certain fix cause there are too many variables on each character.

Thanks for the reply.
For some reason the KK_SofterSelfShadowing plugin was causing this issue.

scene by EROカツ

 

[White_Runner]

Hey folks, I'm having trouble with a YOurWaifu NTR-ed scene. For this particular scene, I have yet to encounter issues with others, as soon as I start the scene via

Hey folks, I'm having trouble with a YOurWaifu NTR-ed scene. For this particular scene, I have yet to encounter issues with others, as soon as I start the scene via timeline objects disappears and the animations for males stop working with only female movement. However, if I reload the scene and maintain the same timestamp in timeline, the scene is just fine until I start the timeline again. Any input will help.
Here is the SD:

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Here is what happens when you play the timeline.

Here is before starting the timeline

My take is that said scene might be incomplete or corrupted. Sometimes it just happens...

 

[cesarnator]

If anyone has more from aakana please share with us.

aakana

 

[sisu]

Help! I deleted all my data in KoikatsuSunshine\abdata\studio and now my animations don't work. I forgot to back it up and I'm in despair. Can someone give me the data from the studio folder?

 

[Soowl]

Hi! I recently mixed several Koikatsu/CharaStudio modpacks, and I noticed that a specific plugin I used to have is now missing — the one that allows setting autotargeting for the male genitalia in H-scenes (e.g. to automatically target mouth, vagina, or anus).
Previously, this option was available in the character settings during scenes, but now it's completely gone.
Would you happen to know which .dll file or plugin name is responsible for this functionality? If possible, could you please share the file or point me in the right direction?

Thanks a lot in advance!

 

[buruuburu]

Thanks for the help! I tried disabling AA from graphics settings, that didn't change any fps. I tried lossless scaling as well but that didn't do anything either. It made my cursor disappear from my character studio window though, and yes, I did try to hide cursor and all the other cursor settings to fix that, it didn't do anything. only thing I didn't try is the reshade, maybe ill try it later. Lossless scaling kinda feels like framegen wasn't really doing anything, not a single fps better. maybe I was doing something wrong, I had the same settings as the picture in the post.

 

[Lezz]

I installed the treenoordering plugin and this message appeared, what do I do?

 

[MorumoMerry]

I installed the treenoordering plugin and this message appeared, what do I do?

You also need to update BepInEx and BepisPlugins.
Make sure to back up your files.

 

[Catiolo Guapo]

Anyone interested in sponsoring/buying scenes together?

I’d like to know if anyone here would be interested in teaming up to sponsor, buy, and share Koikatsu scenes.
The idea is simple: pool resources, split the costs fairly, and gain access to more content.

The main authors I have in mind are:

• Cue / Gue
• Sixpluswan
• Poison
• DeliruimNTR (DeliriumBear)
  and possibly
• Releo (rleoool)

If anyone already has the latest scenes from these creators (Except Sixpluswan, since it was shared a few days ago in the main thread) or would like to collaborate in acquiring them, we could set up a fair sharing system.
What do you think? Anyone interested in forming a group for this?

 

[Cloua]

Anyone interested in sponsoring/buying scenes together?

I’d like to know if anyone here would be interested in teaming up to sponsor, buy, and share Koikatsu scenes.
The idea is simple: pool resources, split the costs fairly, and gain access to more content.

The main authors I have in mind are:

• Cue / Gue
• Sixpluswan
• Poison
• DeliruimNTR (DeliriumBear)
  and possibly
• Releo (rleoool)

If anyone already has the latest scenes from these creators (Except Sixpluswan, since it was shared a few days ago in the main thread) or would like to collaborate in acquiring them, we could set up a fair sharing system.
What do you think? Anyone interested in forming a group for this?

Im in for Releo (rleoool), does he have a sane purchase policy?
Might as well add some rerely shared scene authors like
Simple Life https://simple-life.fanbox.cc/posts
KK https://www.pixiv.net/en/users/89854664

 

[tytyty2999]

guys I keep getting error like this for all DeliriumBear SD, does anyone know how to fix? I updated to RX22 and can't use his SD anymore

 

[sososo]

In the yurabe scene, it loads with the penis bent, what is the reason???

 

[Eixa]

Does anyone know what's causing this to happen?

 

[pinakabakod]

Does anyone know whats causing the head to have a different color than the body

 

[White_Runner]

Does anyone know whats causing the head to have a different color than the body

Fix 1: Replace the neck shader with Material Editor make it coincide with the face shader and the skin shader.

 

[paUnsal99]

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Hey gentlemen, how do I fix this Lanzfh scene?
The kk version is RX22.

 

[White_Runner]

Does anyone know whats causing the head to have a different color than the body

If the Fix 1 didnt work, it might be an skin overlay problem:
You can clear them here:

If you remove the skin overlay and then save/load the character and that overlay its still there, then its a texture placed on the Material Editor of the face and you need to change it.

Search the main texture on Material editor, find it, change it.

 

[White_Runner]

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Hey gentlemen, how do I fix this Lanzfh scene?
The kk version is RX22.

First: Press Backspace [<-] to get unstuck out of pov.

To move the camera inside timeline do the following:

 

[White_Runner]

Does anyone know what's causing this to happen?

Need more info on that.

 

[paUnsal99]

First: Press Backspace [<-] to get unstuck out of pov.

To move the camera inside timeline do the following:

My question might not be very precise. I'm trying to figure out how to fix the bending of a male character's penis during penetration.
I've tried several times to figure this out but haven't been able to. So, here I am asking.

 

[pouseylova6]

has anyone having problem like when u guys load a card on chara editor and after loading it make the game like a softlock or like the game still run but the game screen just freezing?

 

[kazekami kageryu]

how do you change Body Map in ME

 

[kazekami kageryu]

which is plugin is not needed anymore

 

[paUnsal99]

has anyone having problem like when u guys load a card on chara editor and after loading it make the game like a softlock or like the game still run but the game screen just freezing?

The information you provided is too limited to determine if it's a hardware issue.
If it's a software issue, please provide the BepInEx console messages to see where the error is occurring.
Otherwise, it's difficult to determine the problem.

 

[Eixa]

Need more info on that.

It happens when I load the character card no errors or missing mods show.

 

[White_Runner]

My question might not be very precise. I'm trying to figure out how to fix the bending of a male character's penis during penetration.
I've tried several times to figure this out but haven't been able to. So, here I am asking.

Aaaah, thats BP "better penetration". Its a pain to fix since every character has different bones.
You should start by watching some tutorials on it.

Like this one:

https://attachments.f95zone.to/2024/01/3290849_Better_Penetration_Studio_Instructions.pdf

Or this one:

Better Penetration Plugin & hooh’s dick Example scene | 55b55.net

www.55b55.net

 

[White_Runner]

It happens when I load the character card no errors or missing mods show.

Can you send me the card, Ill try to fix it.

 

[Eixa]

Can you send me the card, Ill try to fix it.

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