So I've been trying to understand lighting. Turns out it's important. I saw some things other guys were doing and thought that you'd have to get mega texture packs and do crazy things with photoshop and create color correction curves and install things called LRE and Image Based Lighting, but no. It's not that hard. It's just a plugin. It's this plugin:
HS Studio Addon Plugin (v1.1.0 - IK animation etc. - 05/03) - HongFire.com | Anime | Manga | Games | MMORPG | Friendly Community
How important is lighting? Well, imagine this scene.
You grab the sentry so quick she's swept off her feet, ponytail brushing your face. You smell her strawberry shampoo and lavender perfume as you press a syringe of sedatives into her thigh. Her breath is hot against your hand as you muffle her cries and pull her back, away from the light. You can't let the other two see, and they're too close for comfort. She squirms and looks back, fear in her eyes. She doesn't have the strength to break your hold, and she's only getting weaker.
A moody scene. One that depends on it looking like you can sneak. It shouldn't have any distractions, just 3 characters. It's not that hard, let's make it!
Hmm. That isn't... that isn't really what I was going for.
What's going on? Well, Honey Select isn't a rendering studio, it's an H game. It's actual gameplay is designing characters, making sex scenes, and doing a little bit of management and leveling up. It doesn't want the lights to get too dark, and it only renders so many light sources because it doesn't really want or need complex lighting. You're just in rooms with some ladies. Well, luckily for us, dudes have been modding this thing. They have their own reasons to make their scenes look different, but it works for us. Let's try setting the lighting to flat(since it's nighttime), making it dark(since it's nighttime), and then adding light sources and reasons for there to be those light sources in the scene.
There we go! That's more of what I was going for! You don't need no fancy color curve or mods I don't actually know how to install to make it dark and moody! You just need a simple plugin, and you can change the way things are lit
wildly.