Progress Report/Poll Results

I'm alive! Sorry it's been like six days since I last posted. I've been somewhat sick and, added to dealing with complications in development, I sort of lost track of how long it had been since I posted. Time got kinda...blurry for a few days there. I'll get to the complications in a bit. First, poll results! 

Trix's Kink Poll

Thanks to everyone who voted in the first of this series of polls! The results were pretty interesting and...fairly unambiguous. I legitimately wasn't sure exactly which direction it would go. Though the winner was actually the very first possibility I originally built Trix's personality with the sort of...'idea of' I suppose one could say? These secondary kinks aren't set in stone until the polls, but when I first envisioned each of the characters, I had to imagine what sort of things would work well with them. That was necessary to ensure I got a fairly broad spectrum of possibilities with just four characters. And I have to admit that Pet Play was one of the things that I envisioned as a major possibility for Trix, whereas some of the other options were much later thoughts on possibly compatible kinks. If that makes sense. Of course, I have no idea if that is relevant or not. It's just as likely, or more likely, that it simply won because Pet Play is an extremely common/popular type of submissive/dominant play. It will be interesting to see how the other girls play out, though. 

And on that note, expect to see another poll pop up in a couple of days. 

I'm going to have to sort out all four girls' secondary kinks before the next build. So I'm intending to do one more poll this month, for Arianna I think. There is farther information about Revina and Talia in the current build that I want people to have before voting on them. I'll likely run their polls next month, while working on Haven's Port. That way people will have had a chance to play that additional content for them. 

Getting back to the point! Pet Play did win Trix's Poll, taking exactly 50% of the vote all by itself. And so...pet play it is! I intend to sneak at least a small element of it into her content for this update. Though, as I'm trying to actually develop these relationships in a vaguely realistic manner, expect it to creep in over the course of a few updates, rather than all at once! Final results, for those curious but not curious enough to go look at the poll itself:

Pet Play - 50%

Latex/Encasement/Sensory Deprivation - 21%

Compulsion/Arousal Control - 16%

No Additional Specific Kink - 13%

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Now! Onto progress reports! 

Left Hand Magic

So...this is where the complications were. Ugh. The good news is that I'm done with renders for the Weekend content for all 4 girls. The bad news is that Arianna's content took significantly longer than it should have. I actually expected hers to be the troublesome one, as a matter of fact. And there were two reasons for that. 

First, the major asset for her content was not a Daz3D store asset. Instead, it was an asset purchases from Render Erotica. While some assets purchased from RE are amazing...the overall quality is wildly more erratic than what you get from the official Daz store. And there are virtually always more issues with them. Non-Iray textures, strange choices in posing functions, wildly erratic lighting rigs. Etc. Even just the general materials quality is lower on average from what amount to off-brand stores like RE or Renderosity. At least some of the time. Unfortunately, it's also the only way to get a lot of adult oriented content, as the Daz store itself is tone-deaf and has resisted allowing adult content onto it's market. Given that adult creators make up a HUGE percentage of their users, that's...stupid. But, whatever. Not worth ranting about that here. The second issue, which made the first worse, was that I knew Arianna's content was going to be the most complex, setup-wise. Revina's comes close, but there I used almost entirely Daz-store assets, limiting the possible issues. 

I expected all of this to result in an extra day needed for Arianna's content. That...proved to be overly optimistic. By a lot. It cost me an extra two and a half days, effectively three really, instead of the extra one I thought it would. This was/is made worse by the fact that I'm still not actually happy with the result. Meaning I'm going to have to spend a lot more time trying to improve said result in post-processing than usual. Which succccks. Unfortunately, there's no help for it. I couldn't afford to spend even more time on it. 

All of this, of course, means one thing. That I'm behind where I should be. By enough to start having...concerns...about my time table. Coding for Left Hand Magic is time consuming, and I have overhauls I need to do to one of the base systems this time. I'm...not at all happy that I'm this far behind, since every single build, coding has taken longer than I thought it would. I genuinely don't know what this means right now, but I'll try to keep you all posted. 

Short Story

Unfortunately, the issues with Left Hand Magic, plus the fact that I was fairly sick for a few days, means that I've gotten absolutely nothing done with the second short story for the month. Hell, I haven't even decided which story to work on. And, frankly, right now I'm putting it completely on the backburner, due to concerns about the time table with LHM slipping so much. This might be a case where I just flat out don't do it this month, instead squeezing a third short into July, since I really really don't want to fall behind again. And squeezing another short into a Haven's Port month might be the better choice. Everything is really going to depend on just how bad the coding for Left Hand Magic is this time :-(. Again, I'll try to keep everyone updated.

Mixed Media Short (Silas Station)

Thankfully, this is good news. I've finished all the renders for Silas Station:Consequences (Part1). I'm doing the post-processing work on them this evening, as well as tackling the post-processing for the Wallpapers. I'm going to try to hammer out the writing for it in the next day or two. It's on the shorter size for this particular series, so it shouldn't be too bad. Hopefully, I'll have it out by the 21st or 22nd. Oh, and don't worry too much about it being 'on the shorter side.' It's still a solid 16 renders and I'm quite happy with how well they've come out! 

Wallpapers

Honestly, these only slipped because of me falling ill. I'll do the post processing on them tonight and post them tomorrow. Unless something outside by ability to predict interferes.