Aino Mega Menu Mod Preview

Aino's Mod is finally here! And with it some new features I've been working on that I'm very excited to show to y'all :]

But before that, a bit housekeeping:

I've been banned on Gamebanana, because of what mods I upload here. Usually you should be save if you follow the guidelines any websites you are on, but I didn't know gamebanana is different and also wants you to conform to their opinions and tastes on all other places on the internet. So I won't be able to upload or update anything there from now on. Instead, you can find new SFW mods and updates from older ones on DEGMods and AyakaMods going forward. (Will gradually reupload everything there)

DEGMods is and interesting, relatively new Modding website that uses new technology to be censorship-resistant and permissionless, meaning the mods I upload there can't be taken down by an admin and you don't need anyones permission to create an account. Due to the nature of that tech (Nostr), the way you create an account is quite different than what you are used to. If you want to learn more about DEGMods, feel free to take a look in here:

https://degmods.com/blog

But you don't need an account to download mods, so if you don't want to deal with any of it, thats cool too. I personally quite like the concept of it amidst the age of censorship and virtue signaling we have entered, so even if the website is new and "dead" right now, I want to give it a shot and see what it will become.

AyakaMods might not be censorship-resistant, but I've talked with the admin himself and he assured me that the site's moderation isn't as retarded as the one on GB, so there is that. The only issue is that you need an account to download any mods on AyakaMods (if thats bothersome for you, can use DEGMods instead)

The next and last bad news is: my twitter account has been suspended :[

I guess I'll try to be more careful about what I post from now on, but anyway.. here is my new Twitter account for anyone interested:

https://x.com/4rakayaya

The last thing I wanted to say before going balls deep into aino, is that I'm sorry for letting you all wait for so long again. I know at this rate you are probably used to it by now and I'm soundling like a broken record for apologizing each time, but until now I still haven't managed to restrain myself with certain sub-projects during development, instead of hurrying and focusing on completing the main ones. Sure, the scale of them are many mods in 1 and probably amongst the most complex you can find out there, but it still doesn't feel good when there are such big gaps between my uploads.

Here is how I plan to fix my upload schedule a bit:

As you might have seen in my last Iansan post already, I teased lolification mods. I actually would love to create lolification mods for a bunch of characters that are past their expiration date. But it wouldn't be realistic to create mods for all of them on a scale I usually do without obliterating my upload schedule even more. So my idea is to decide the scale of future lolification mods on a character-by-character basis. Some characters will only get a very simple lolification mod, with not a lot of customization possible, other characters might get one or two pages of parts, and others might get more.

This way I will hopefully be able to at least post once a month going forward, while still being able to work on the bigger projects.

I don't know if you feel the same, but now that I have aquired the know-how of how to force-lolify characters, it would feel like a waste if I wouldn't use this holy magic to my heart's content, don't you agree? owo

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Aino Mega Menu Mod Preview

✨NEW FEATURE✨ SHAPEKEY ANIMATIONS:

I'm really proud and satisfied with this new feature >//<

They are a bit resource hungry since they need to be calculated each frame. If you have an averagely-capable PC, it shouldn't be a problem, but if you notice severe frame drops, you can disable the animations. You can learn how to in the menu mods manual (Menu Features section).

I didn't want to go too overboard with this feature to limit performance-impact, so for now only 3 parts have them: Nekomimi, Eye Highlights and Binky (look, her squishy cheeks are moving too! >\\\<)

✨NEW PAGE✨ FACIAL EXPRESSIONS:

Oh boy, words can not describe how much I've come to love this addition >w<

Want to make her look more cheerful? Depressed? Pouting? Smug? ... hypnotised? (,,¬﹏¬,,)

Everything's possible now!

I spend a lot of time brainstorming and remaking this page, in the pursuit of maximising freedom while not using more than one page of the menu - and thinking back of how restrictive it was in the early WIPs, I'm really happy how it turned out. You basically have close-to-blender level of freedom of how you can combine different shapekeys together to accomplish the facial expression you want ദ്ദി(ᵔᗜᵔ)

Using this page might be a bit confusing at first, but I think you will get the hang of it pretty quickly. Here is a short explaination:

Most buttons have a corresponding slider:

The Buttons, to the right of the respective sliders cycle through the expressions shown on them. The Sliders to the left of each button control the shapekey value, so for example, you can decide how much she closes her eyes.

The other 4 buttons without a slider simply cycle through the expressions, with each shapekey value always being 1/maximum (if toggled). I refrained from giving those expressions sliders either because an in-between state of the shapekey woudn't make much sense, or the in-between states looked bad (due to clipping).

In general, I tried clusting shapekeys together into a single button that you usually wouldn't want to combine anyway (like the 3 different ways to close her eyes for example)

Also last thing I want you to note about these facial expressions:

1. they "add" to whatever expression aino is making, so for example if you close her eyes using the menu, whenever she blinks, her eyelids will go down anyway (causing clipping). Not much we can do about it unfortunatly.

2. You have a lot of Freedom combining different shapekeys, so you certainly can make something cursed, whether on purpose or accidentally owo (just a heads up)

✨NEW FEATURE✨ DYNAMIC OUTLINE COLOR

This is a subtle one, but the outline color now also dynamically changes according to the color you set with the color wheel~ So now there shouldn't be any clashing outline colors anymore, like having bright outlines for dark objects :]

Menu's Pages

✨NEW PAGE✨ Demon Maid!

Back when Duet Night Abyss was launching, I gave it a try for a day and met a cute npc loli with this outfit. I really liked the mix of demonic elements and a maid's outfit, so I decided to port it over since I always wanted to have a maid outfit in my mods anyway~ Also I think Aino suits the maid aesthetic perfectly >^<

I decided to add escoffier's gater belt to this page cause it fits to the outfit and also to have a more sexy alternative to the bloomers :>

Time for some pics~

As you can see, I added other undies for Kindergarten panties (as well as for the panties on the onimai page). They are basically just Iansan's shorts, with added frills and retextured. They will be used for the sfw version, but they will be included in the nsfw version too. I made them for the sfw versions so the two pages will finally have matching parts, instead of having to wear something from a different page that might clash with the vibe you wanted to go for~

Enjoy! ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡

The mod's requirements and other important infos can be viewed here ⬅️

Mod download:

https://arakayaya.fanbox.cc/posts/11314006

Free SFW Aino Mega Menu Mod download:

DEGMods || AyakaMods

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