It's the "Still just about Tuesday" update...

Hello!

A slightly rambly update from me this week. If only because there's been a lot done on a lot of things but generally all quite small scale. By that I mean, I suppose, I've ended up doing a lot of little things but nothing that I feel I can go "Ta-Dah!" over. All important of course, just nothing spectacular.

So the progress update this week will be a bit more bullet-pointy than usual.

The bullet-pointy bit

• Bobes win for VR in Five was tidied up and the final animations files (21 of them!) sent off to the voice actress with guidance notes for four minutes of custom work.
• Sarah's "adventure" in Five was polished and extended a bit with a new series of animations and relit to a better quality.
• Mr Biscuits the cat now has a purpose, meaning that killing him or keeping him alive does too :)
• The girls VR loss in Four has been getting some extra polish with some stills changed into animations, and some original animations having been extended or modified.
• Trishas' scene in Four had a minor polish and extension along with a new graphical mechanic that will be rolled out across all of the "real life" interactions. This is now ready for VA work.
• Auditions and discussions with a VA in respect of Trisha (she's also really good!)
• Some general file tidying and, most importantly of all, some critical path analysis done in respect of the work to be completed now I have to consider the VA availability.
• I actually started shifting the backlog of commissions.

And that's sort of it. You see what I mean when I say, a lot done but nothing to get the pom-poms out for. 

Chapter Four

Some progress of  course (see above) but at this point the main sticking points are coming down to finalising and voicing the lewds. Not insurmountable for this month given this is a priority for me. 

Chapter Five

Again, it's all been lewd focussed at the moment, mainly as I need to get any work to my three actresses to give them plenty of time, but also because it all needs finalising before I do. By that I mean I can't do a set of animations and then want to change it later, not without re-engaging the actress for new/more work. So it has to be the finished article before it goes to them. So a little bit of work order shuffling to avoid having everything done, except the VA by the end of January.

The incredibly dumb, stupid, amazing idea - part the first

I had an idea.

So on the character sheet there is now a defunct space at the bottom as I've dropped the extra achievements log.

I was thinking.....Character audio log.

That way if the player wants to know what the character sounds like - they can. Equally, if they don't, they don't have to click on the button.

What the log be? Well I was thinking have Chris do the hotel report say or Annie do her Court Martial. That sort of thing,

The nice thing is it wouldn't take me really any time. Money, yes as naturally it would be VA'd by the actress concerned (or actor). Time, not so much.

As Sarah would say "Isn't it brill?!". But...is it? I'm not sure. Certainly not something I have to make a decision on right now as it's something that can be retrofitted and we can discuss it post Five.

The incredibly dumb, stupid, amazing idea - part the second

Well more of an extension of an idea I was talking/hinting about earlier.

I am seriously thinking, troop funds permitting, to get Mrs Chadwick's module voiced. Not in the main game. The file size would be a killer. But as a downloadable standalone. Have all the modules together, and perhaps not only voiced.  Some of you may have seen this. Given that the room scene is not powah intensive and the 2070 is sat there largely gathering dust...I could well animate her saying the lines as well.

This of course is again for us to discuss post Five. 

Christmas

Just a quick heads up, that I won't be doing anything hugely special for this Chrimbo unlike the past couple of years. Timing is a bit tight this time around and my focus is very much on getting Five out in January. I trust you'll understand.

General fluff

Christ, I'd forgotten how much bloody fun this could be. I mean it. Spending the better part of a year just going through your old work and going "Well, that's pants (rubbish)" and having to re-do it really doesn't do much for your morale or confidence (neither of course does wiping out two months work and having to redo it again...). But with all that in the rear view mirror, I'm having a ball.

Oh! And no car crash this month. That's two months in a row!

That's it for now.

Hope the rest of your week is beyond good and stay lucky.

Notty