Progress Report #4

Hi everyone!

I will try to keep this update short, as I know I tend to ramble.

This week I have spent most of my time trying to make the textures work in Blender, but I failed brilliantly. I’m not gonna lie, spending three days working for hours on something for it to fail each time was pretty demoralising. All the more because November is getting closer and closer, and it stressed me out to think that I don’t have the animations ready for Update 1 yet. I don’t even know how to make them ready.

Thankfully, the animator we are now working with is really good, and even if they work in Maya, they took the time to help me with Blender, and we are (hopefully) finally making progress.

The animator has done two animations, and they look awesome. I shared the WIP of one of them in Discord (7realmschat channel), but the second one is really a big step up. I think it’s where people would be able to see why it was important for us to have an animator in the team.

This animator is also used to animation for non-adult games, so hopefully, if we have the time, they will also work on other animations like fight scenes, character introductions etc.

I really hope to make the move from DAZ to Blender at some point to improve the quality of the VN, but also because I will have more control over the assets I use if I do.

But here I am, rambling.

Apart from that, I continued to do some test renders. Trying to see if the lighting works or not with the assets I bought or previous assets I used. That’s a pain, all the more because I’m still not used to the new technic I’m using.

Jay has been busy with our developer, trying to get Realm 1 finalised for Steam. We have had to rebuild the game from the ground up due to various issues that were present in the code. They also made some changes to the design of the gallery in the Extras menu to hopefully make it feel a little more dynamic. He has also been working on getting translations for various new languages implemented, which has proved to be a very time-consuming task, but hopefully, it will be very worth it in the long run. We both want to extend a massive thank you to those who have helped us out with the translations so far!

We also launched a Seven Realms subreddit that we will be posting content to, and members of the community can use it to post about the game. You can join the community here.

The rewards for all of October's supporters will be emailed out tomorrow. As long as you pledge before the end of the day tomorrow, you will receive these rewards. This includes the two poll images of Leyala & Gina.

Thanks for reading. Have a great day, everyone!

Tae