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Check In 04/20/2023

Added 2023-04-20 18:00:03 +0000 UTC

Another lovely lady is gracing our title screen this week, those who followed the Julia path in our last update, or hang around discord probably have an idea who she is. For the rest I suppose you'll find out.

Renders are 2200 finished of the 2267 posed. So this scene has been about as much of a nightmare to pose as I suspected it was going to be, just kidding it's worse. Discord folks already saw me bitch about this, but when every possible choice is tallied in this scene I ended up without about 70 potential branches. Exciting as that is, it's just unacceptably complicated in creating enough renders to cover them all. So along with render posing I have to simplify and figure out how to shrink the branches without losing the thread of the scene. Managed to tighten it down to about 49 so far, but I'd like to tighten it further before my mind breaks and I end up in a rubber room. Jokes aside, as complicated as it's been it has at least been moving, slowly, but at least progress is being made.

Animations are at 20. Finished the "crown jewel" scene. I'm really happy with how this turned out. I have one more full scene of animations to have these mostly wrapped up, I'll still need to make timing adjustments and lighting tweaks and typical post work, but looking like these will be mostly wrapped pretty soon.

Nothing else super exciting at the moment, I've informed my testers when I expect to have my first Alpha build to them, and we're just going to work from there.

Thank you as always for the support and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your week.

Sláinte!