[RELEASE] Cock Hero French Touch

[Frantzo]

Excellent lords, you done a masterpiece, in future I'd really like a anal based video, with your knowledge, your taste for good music, your excellent quality of the video it would be really incredible!

thank you for using the word "masterpiece"

For the anal based video, i don't particularly like this stuff but who knows maybe in the future i will change my mind.

My main disappointment was, I was seeing a video, that was one hour and 20 minutes long, but it turned out to have 10 minutes of intro and outro. It just was not long enough Not a real criticism

Frantzo! We should've kept in the original round 1 all along!

hahahaha it seems indeed. But you worked enough

Another mind-blowing instant classic. You guys are the undisputed kings of content creation.

I can’t say whether this is better or Lust Dream, they are both perfect works of art. Thank you for taking the CH genre into a wonderful new era and keep up the amazing work, Lust Nightmare looks incredible!!

Thank you ! Indeed, we focus on the creativity aspect in all our projects.



Back to the discussion about the "beatmeter" : Nimiera in the prelude said that player "can follow or ignore instructions"

[Frantzo]

I forgot to mention that high_octane will not work on Lust Nightmare : don't worry we are BF he has use his precious free time for his own stuff. I "over use" him and his talents
French Touch will not be our last project !

So actually, i'm looking for a genius "beat maker" !

I'm trying to learn how to make a beat meter on a mac this is tedious. But i don't give up !

if you have some helping informations, or you want work for Lust Nightmare PM me

[Alex69]

Hello!

I haven't played it yet, because... I had to do my business just before it was released. But I have downloaded it, watched the first 10 minutes, and I have a minor concern. Please don't take this as a criticism or anything like that, it is my geek side that cannot refrain from pointing something out.

I don't know what software you used to compress those 50GB of data to 4,5GB, but maybe it wasn't the awesome handbrake software? Look, this is what happens. From the start I'm watching compression artifacts. I mean, it is pretty obvious from the beginning, those squares of different shades of color, etc. Hopefully you'll know what I'm talking about.

I'm not sure if there's a way to solve this issue that comes with big compression ratios, but it affects to the video quality both of the 720p and the 1080p. And I think I've played CHs based on high resolution source videos, and didn't suffer from this "artifacts" and the drop in the image quality, like Canto I and II. Maybe an encode with HEVC video codec from the source would solve this, or maybe not, because I've played with small files and the quality gain is not huge.

The truth is I'm not into video editing so I don't know how could you have solved this quality drop when you compress the file, maybe it is the software used to render, I have no idea. I'm just posting here in case that there's any expert on video compression that could give us some answers. Otherwise, I'll play it as is. It's not bad quality mind you, just a noticeable compression noise.

[high_octane]

[...] I have a minor concern. [...]

Those artifacts are present in the lossless encoding as well. I was going to put screenshots side by side to show you the differences between my encode and the lossless version, but the differences were so minute that it would've looked nearly like duplicate images.

I don't know what software you used to compress those 50GB of data to 4,5GB, but maybe it wasn't the awesome handbrake software?

I used FFmpeg. Handbrake is essentially a GUI for FFmpeg, since it uses it under the hood. The command that I used can be found here. I cannot remove artifacts that are already present in the source that I received from Frantzo, unfortunately.

[high_octane]

I forgot to mention that high_octane will not work on Lust Nightmare

Yes. I will be going on hiatus soon. This might come as a nasty surprise to some, but there are things that I need to work on in real life and I won't have the time to dedicate in order to help creators out.

If anyone wants to help Frantzo expedite Lust Nightmare, do not hesitate to send him a PM. Just as a heads up, it is a lot of work to put in the amount of polish that I do and it requires intimate knowledge of video rendering and audio engineering and good spell checking / rephrasing skills. I do much more than just the beat meter. (Maybe the beat meter will finally be simple in my absence! )

...Otherwise, maybe I'll be the one who works on it after I put my hiatus on hiatus!

Well, goodbye for now, everyone!

[Alex69]

[...] I have a minor concern. [...]

Those artifacts are present in the lossless encoding as well. I was going to put screenshots side by side to show you the differences between my encode and the lossless version, but the differences were so minute that it would've looked nearly like duplicate images. I cannot remove artifacts that are already present in the source that I received from Frantzo, unfortunately.

Ok, it makes sense now, it’s an issue with the source material, not with the compression. Mystery solved, I guess. There’s little that can be done to fix this, like you already said, so I will play it as it is, I’m sure your work will be worth it. Thank you!!

[Haxed11]

Very few times do I log-in here, but this one deserves it.

What an absolute MASTERPIECE!

Congratulations on making such a fantastic video! It can not have been easy!

Just wanted to say thank you and wish you good luck on anything else you might work on in the future!

[Frantzo]

Just wanted to say thank you and wish you good luck on anything else you might work on in the future!

Your comment makes me want to finish Lust Nightmare ! Thank you

[memma]

I liked it enough to immediately make a funscript...

https://realtouchscripts.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=9826

[Frantzo]

I liked it enough to immediately make a funscript...

https://realtouchscripts.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=9826

Thank you ! i will put your link in the description

[memma]

I liked it enough to immediately make a funscript...

https://realtouchscripts.com/viewtopic.php?f=55&t=9826

Thank you ! i will put your link in the description

You're very welcome.

And for actual feedback on the video:

Spoiler: show

There's been a lot of discussion about the complicated beats. I have to say, if you're a perfectionist and you're not a natural/trained musician, then you will need to concentrate a lot on the beats to get it right - enough that it will distract from the girls.
Now there's a funscript, so you don't have to worry about that, but only if you have some hardware that can use it.

That said, I really love the 'complicated' beats - I say set the beats however feels right. If someone doesn't like it, there are plenty of other CHs out there to play. I think Cock Hero Max 2 does it really, really well - complex and really hard beats, but not so long that they require continued concentration away from the girls.

I did notice that only a quarter of one of the beat patterns was actually highlighted in yellow, which threw me a bit, and the "dotted quavers" (in round 4 I think) were tricky, but to me it's a challenge. The first challenge was working out the beats, the second one was actually following them.

I thought the intro tease was maybe 5 minutes too long, but that's a matter of preference. When playing again, I will just start from where the beats start.

My favourite part of the breathplay round was where I realised you were applying the LPF whenever the camera was underwater. Towards the end, even just one or two frames at a time! When you were doing it, you were probably asking yourself if it was worth it just for those few frames. Well, I really appreciated that attention to detail. I think you could have just given the instructions: whenever you're underwater, you must hold your breath - then the player has the suspense of not knowing when you'll cut to an underwater scene. If they're playing strictly, the won't even be able to breath in once they're underwater, so they'll always need to be ready with a lungful of air.
I would love to hear the original audio you talked about - I imagine it would make the beat hard to hear, but you could replace the beat sound with a bubble noise for the beats when the player should be holding their breath (and with a funscript, it's not so important to be able to hear the beats).

So glad Melena got her own 'round'. She's my favourite. Like, ever.

If porn is going to be hardcore (not my preference), then I prefer it POV, so at least I can pretend it's me - also eye contact is great. There was very little POV content in the hardcore rounds, so that was a little boring for me, but then I also didn't need to play that bit at all, I'd already had my cum round! I decided to edge instead of cum, but then the beats at the end of the round were too much so soon after an edge, so I came anyway.

[high_octane]

Thank you for your feedback, memma! Very detailed!

Spoiler: show

I did notice that only a quarter of one of the beat patterns was actually highlighted in yellow, which threw me a bit

Yeah, the round 2 animation error. I wasn't being careful enough when I realized that I forgot to input the color information during the creation of the beat MIDI files, and I haphazardly input them at a later time and didn't notice that the end of the 4th measure was different.

My bad!

My favourite part of the breathplay round was where I realised you were applying the LPF whenever the camera was underwater. Towards the end, even just one or two frames at a time! When you were doing it, you were probably asking yourself if it was worth it just for those few frames. Well, I really appreciated that attention to detail.

Frantzo originally only wanted a LPF applied during the breath-holding sections. I suggested that the LPF be applied any time the camera was submerged, because I thought it would be awkward for there to be underwater scenes where the player was not asked to hold their breath and for the audio to be normal. So, I went and meticulously timestamped all the instances of "above water" and "under water" that I found and applied the effect in REAPER. I'm really glad that you enjoyed that detail!

I think you could have just given the instructions: whenever you're underwater, you must hold your breath - then the player has the suspense of not knowing when you'll cut to an underwater scene. If they're playing strictly, the won't even be able to breath in once they're underwater, so they'll always need to be ready with a lungful of air.

Great idea!

I would love to hear the original audio you talked about - I imagine it would make the beat hard to hear, but you could replace the beat sound with a bubble noise for the beats when the player should be holding their breath (and with a funscript, it's not so important to be able to hear the beats).

My original "distorted" audio for round 3. Here is the low-res round 3 aquatic demo that I sent to Frantzo. There's no beat meter applied here:

https://mega.nz/file/nssGzSzZ#i6wB2IRwu ... Ns9nj7flCA

I love your idea for the bubble beat sound!

[john.henry.144]

I finally got a chance to play French Touch and it did not disappoint. I was so impressed at how you extended the French Riviera aesthetic to hardcore. I thought the choice of models was excellent, lots of sexy girls that I wasn't familiar with, which was very exciting. The pacing was just right, the breaks came right when I wanted them. I wanted to watch the whole video the first time through, so I didn't masturbate through the softcore portion, but my interest didn't wander at all. You did not quite beat Beautiful Asses 2 to become my all time favorite but it was damn close. Thank you so much. This was a remarkable experience and that is what I am looking for.

[high_octane]

Thanks for your kind words, john.henry.144!

[Frantzo]

You did not quite beat Beautiful Asses 2 to become my all time favorite but it was damn close. Thank you so much. This was a remarkable experience and that is what I am looking for.

hahahaha Beautiful Ass is an amazing series indeed ! i hope our next project will be your all time favourite CH i'm kidding.

Than you for your comment