Greetings,
it's finally done. Took way longer than I expected it to be, especially on the last few bits, but here it is and I hope you can enjoy the new content. I just want to mention I had too change quite a lot in back-end and hope I didn't break anything while doing so. So please let me know if you encounter any problems. Another little down-side, I didn't manage to add the music to the free-roam mode and to the older chapter. I'll try to put them in a new build sometime next week.<...
2022-03-10 21:10:32 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
it's nearly done. Just a few things here and there. The Alpha-Build should be ready within the next few days. Only a few additional images are left and some scripting in the background. I took some time to enhance my development tools / scripts. I forgot how complicated it was to add a new location in the network.
The Alpha-Build will be probably missing some tracks and the secrets as I haven't had time to get them done yet. But they are the immediate next task and will...
2022-03-06 17:16:17 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'm still not fully recovered. Not sure why its stretching so long this time but anyway, I keep going, even if it's a bit slower.
Anyway, I finished all smaller scenes and work on the last images for the last big scene. I hope I'll finish this scene this week. While working on the scene I finished another animation and will render at least one more this week. I retouched a few older shots and finished most of the script. Only the last scene is missing and a few flow com...
2022-02-27 18:45:26 +0000 UTC
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I've got a few ideas for the render reward and would like to give you the choice which one of them I should create. The 3 Ideas I had would be the following:
Star Wars
A image in the style of the star wars movie posters. The "baddies" as Sith's with red light sabers and Stelle and Selene as Jedi's. MC would be either a bounty hunter or he get's a violet light saber like Samuel L. Jackson had, because perhaps MC turns out as a 'motherfucker' too ;)
Po...
2022-02-24 09:35:28 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'll keep it short this time as I've caught a cold (no covid). Progress was okay this week despite being ill. Anyway, good news! Just 3 more smaller scenes to render and finishing the big scene of the update together with a few more animations. So the completion of the update is getting closer. However, I'm not sure how far I will stretch the last bigger scene so I won't give any estimation on a release date- Once I'm done with all the major scenes I'll release an alpha build...
2022-02-20 17:48:29 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
this week came with more progress than I initially expected to. So that's a good thing I guess. This time I'll talk about a bit of the current state of the scripting and about the flow of some scenes, more music and a few other things.
Scripting and flow of scenes
The first half of the episode is completely written, rendered and mostly scripted. Just a few minor tasks like setting time is missing. To most complex scenes of the second half and some...
2022-02-13 18:04:53 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
The pool scene is finished and I'm pretty happy with it. There are a few shading issues that I will try to fix in post but for the moment I'll keep focusing on rendering the other scenes.
Sketching and writing dialogues for update after episode 'Deneb'
I've started writing the first dialogue sequences for the update after the one that currently is in development. This doesn't mean I'm close to the finish with this update. I just had time bet...
2022-02-06 17:18:17 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'm currently working on the scene in the pool as can be seen above. So, progress is running smoothly and I hope to finish this scene in the coming week.
For those who are interested I'll write a bit more about some technical aspects of the scene, like water and caustics and a short talk about image-processing and file-formats. The current status of the update will be at the bottom as always.
Water and caustics
I really wanted to...
2022-01-30 17:14:22 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'll keep it short again. Got the booster shot last week and got pretty much knocked out. I'm still feeling not well, but it should pass the coming days. Anyway, I finished another track specially composed for the club scene and I'm kinda happy with how the track turned out. The track can be listened to in the higher Patreon tier discord channel. Render-wise I try to finish this scene today and will start working on another big scene next week.
Current status
2022-01-23 18:36:22 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'll keep it short again. I worked on the scene in the club only, but managed to get quite a few renders done. However, the scene isn't finished yet so I'll continue to work on this scene.
Current status
~ 270 rendered and edited images
- 1 animation
~ 25% of scripting done
2022-01-16 18:48:47 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'll keep it short this time.
Past week I kept trying to resolve the problem with rendering animations but it didn't work out as I hoped for, instead I finished rendering 1 animation frame by frame... Not a good approach.
I worked on a few smaller scenes and could even reuse some renders from the past episode too be able to script some scenes without rendering many new images.
Also, I had a look into after effects scripting to automate some daily tasks...
2022-01-09 19:06:17 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
happy new year to everyone. After that's done. Let's start the new year with frustration...
Animation
I posed a few animations which I tried to render as I always did before. Anyway, I can't render them. I try to spare the technical details. However, I spent a good amount of time last week to figure out why and how to fix it without success. I optimized my characters and textures to go without geo-shells to be more resourceful. I can render image ...
2022-01-02 18:50:32 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
today it will be a somewhat longer post. Talk-topics are editing, rendering scenes, workflow, music, next tasks and of course the current status.
Editing
The first iteration of the editing of the dialogue is pretty much finished thanks to osanaiko. He even spent time on the project over the holidays. I really appreciate that! The next iteration(s) should happen when I'm done with rendering and scripting which usually impacts the d...
2021-12-26 18:24:41 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I've finished the environment and some extra assets for this scene. I think most assets turned out great and the location has it's charm. I maybe need to tweak some of the colors, but at the moment I think it works.
Render-wise this week was a bit slower. Real-life kept me pretty busy and the creation of the environment took some time too.
Editing is going well and scripting has also progressed a decent bit.
The upcoming week I'll focus on rendering again.
2021-12-19 19:16:23 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
talk-topics today are episode content creation, environment modeling, 'paranoia' and next tasks.
Episode content creation
Last week I started rendering and have finished the first scenes already. I've setup the event, triggers, hints, tasks and all that stuff surrounding a new episode to be able to test the script. Therefor, the first few scenes are also scripted already.
Environment
I've started creating the dance-clu...
2021-12-12 18:05:19 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I'll keep it a bit shorter this time. I've completed the writing of all dialogues and scenes for the next update. So the dialogues and written scenes are now up for review and will be edited by osanaiko. This usually will take some time as we take a few iterations over everything till everything is in place. However, since I've sketched all scenes I can start rendering the scenes that are necessary anyway and don't rely to much on changes in the dialogue.
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2021-12-05 18:16:33 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
sorry, no image today, rendering hasn't started yet.
Anyway, with this post a new series of progress updates for the next episode is starting. Next episode will go by the name Deneb. Got a few points to tackle, so this might be a bit more text than usually.
Writing
The story / timeline for the next episode is sketched out and even some dialogues are sketched too, so I'll be focusing on writing the dialogues next.
Language...
2021-11-28 19:02:09 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
like every Sunday a quick progress update. This weekend the episode 'Canopus' got released. Currently I'm collecting issues with the update and will release a hotfix soon. Currently it's nothing really game-breaking for the PC version, but the mac version seems not to be working.
Next tasks
- update unity version
- fix PC version
- think of a way to debug / test mac version
- try to create a build for android
- star...
2021-11-21 19:22:16 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
in case someone want's to create a translation on it's own, here is the compact file of the default language file. It's a json file, so it should be easy to adjust. If you place your name in the node "translator" your name will be automatically added to the credits and the language will be available under settings.
Put the file in the following folder and it will be loaded at run-time:
%userprofile%\appdata\locallow\Marvellous Lunatic\A Long Journey\userData\Langu...
2021-11-20 16:48:44 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
as an addition to the regular render reward I also added the full high resolution vertical scroll images from the last episode (Betelgeuse). The render reward for the next build (Daneb) will then feature the vertical scroll images of the recent released episode (Canopus) beside the regular 4K render reward of course.
2021-11-20 16:15:22 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
episode 'Canopus' is finally done and I'm pretty happy with it. This episode is very story driven. There is a lot of character development going on and more attention is paid to the backstories and emotions of the current main characters. Elios (MC) and Selene get to know each other better and better and are working on plans to remedy their situation.
As both move forward with their plans and get closer to each other, you will get a glimpse of the other side of the stor...
2021-11-20 15:52:29 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
The scripting and most of the rendering for the main story of this episode is done. The 2 lewd animations I rendered this weekend have to be rendered again, because they are too noise and have flickering.
There won't be much to-do in the free-roam after this episode has finished. I will add a scene where some of the non-lewd animations can be re-watched and a few secrets.
Just as a reminder, till act 2 there won't ever be much to-do in the free-roam mode, because ...
2021-11-14 19:06:32 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
nothing much to say this week, other than the usual. Rendering and scripting progressed quite well this week. I managed to complete the bigger scene I targeted this week. For this scene I created 5 animations as well, all non lewd.
Upcoming tasks
Two more scenes left to render for the main story. If they are rendered I will finalize the script for the main story. I will render some images and animations that are left. I will add the achievem...
2021-11-07 19:24:24 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
other than rendering more images and scripting I did some feature enhancements to the engine and included another environment.
Location 'Observation'
I could already start working on the scenes in the "new" location. I had this environment for quite a while and did some minor adjustments to make it fit the game. Working on this scene will keep me fairly busy over the next time as it will feature quite a few shots.
Mini-game<...
2021-10-31 19:19:56 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
I've finished the gym scene and a few other smaller scenes. One particular gave me a few headaches and cost me a lot of time, more on that below. Did some more scripting as well and things come along quite good I think.
Coming week I'll focus on some more fill in scenes but another bigger scene is coming as well. Not sure if I can tackle it next week already, but I hope so. It's a scene I'm looking forward to create as it will feature a bit more vfx shots.
2021-10-24 17:29:56 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
nothing too much too tell this week. Been working on rendering and posing mostly. The gym scene is nearly finished, either today or tomorrow. After that I will continue rendering other dialogue scenes.
For a few shower shots I created a new wet shader because I wasn't satisfied with the one from the last episode. I think it looks much better now, at least I'm pretty happy with how the shots turned out.
As can be seen above I also created vertical scroll images wit...
2021-10-17 17:09:36 +0000 UTC
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Greetings,
this week I worked on a new location, a new engine feature, some bug-fixes, more renders and osanaiko helped me with the script-editing.
New Location
For a scene in the next update I needed a gym. I was thinking about modeling my own, but I already need long enough for the update anyway. So I decided to look around for some assets I could use to speed up the process. Too my surprise I found a nice sci-fi gym environment for Daz th...
2021-10-10 19:12:01 +0000 UTC
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A little shorter update this week. I focused on rendering and scripting too see how the current images fit together. At the moment everything seems fine. With a few images I'm not really happy but I'm not redoing them right now. If I have time in the test phase, I may change them a bit. However, for now I will keep continue to focus on rendering story scenes.
Current Status
~ 45% of the script is finished
~ 285 rendered and edited images
2021-10-03 18:34:23 +0000 UTC
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Currently I'm working on the lewd scene with the additional character. For the moment she goes by the name Sanchari Mehta. I tend to use names with fitting meaning. At some point I will release a character sheet where all the names of the characters are explained. In this case Sanchari is a hindi name meaning 'A traveller in motion' which I think fits well and Mehta is a Indian surname meaning 'Great', 'Highly praised' or 'Teacher or Accountant' which fits her also quite good. At least those ...
2021-09-26 19:12:10 +0000 UTC
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Hi, I'm back from vacation and will continue to give regular updates again.
Vote result for additional character in episode Canopus
The 'tall oriental' has won and her story and dialogues / monologues / scenes is already written as well. I haven't decided for a default name yet. Maybe I'll look some up and create another vote for it.
Progress Update
While being on vacation I tried to write as much as I could and got pretty far with it. Be...
2021-09-19 18:56:34 +0000 UTC
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