Progress Update
Added 2023-09-14 13:00:00 +0000 UTCWell, got another couple hundred done this week, plus a few animations. After this weekend I'll finally be started on that major free roam event. I did want to get started on it a little earlier, but one of the scenes ended up being quite a bit larger than I had anticipated.
I'm going to take a few days off from working on renders though before that - I have quite a decent sized queue built at the moment, so I'll work on some other stuff that needs to get done first, while I let the queue get lower to a more manageable number. (In other words, less than triple digits!)
In the mean time, I'll be working on some coding tasks, as well as something... potentially major. Over the past week I've been in possible discussions with a new music provider. It is NOT by any means cheap, so I want to take some time and really dig into what they have available before I commit to it. What I've heard so far though, is very good. If I decide to go through with it, you'll see the overall quality of the music go WAY up in future chapters. It definitely requires at least a couple of days work though just combing through everything they have before I commit - since like I said, it is on the expensive side of things.
While I was mostly happy with the music in Chapter 1, only a few tracks really stood out to me as *GOOD*. The rest, were mostly just sort of there. Having the opportunity to put some really good music to the game is something I'm going to have to strongly consider.
Music aside like I said, there's a handful of coding tasks that need to get done, so I'll do those as well, and then some time next week get back to rendering, and working on the free roam. After that, I have quite a bit of writing to do. Since the free roam itself is going to build up quite a decent render queue itself, I'll probably work on writing while the majority of that renders out.
That's all for now - I'll have another update next week, as always - plus I'll let you guys know my final decision on the music once I've made up my mind on that front. Until then, have a great week!